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  • The Futures of Medieval French

    Essays in Honour of Sarah Kay

    de Jane Gilbert, Zrinka Stahuljak, Susan Boynton, Joseph R. Johnson, Virginie Greene, Stephen G. Nichols, Christine Bourgeois, Deborah McGrady, Sophie Marnette, Emily Kate Price0, Simone Ventura1, Miranda Griffin3, James R. Simpson4, Elizabeth Eva Leach5, Profesor Sharon Kinoshita6, Simon Gaunt7, Peggy McCracken8, William Burgwinkle9, Miriam Cabre0, Helen J. Swift1, Charlie Samuelson2, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne3 ...
    Sarah Kay is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty years, making vital, theoretically informed interventions on material from early medieval chansons de geste, through troubadour lyric, to late medieval philosophy and poetry, in French, Occitan, Latin, and Italian. This volume in her honour is organised around her six major monographs, published between 1990 and 2017. Its ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Technological Change In Japan's Beef Industry

    de James R Simpson, Tadashi Yoshida, Akira Miyazaki, Ryohei Kada ...
    The Japanese Cattle industry has been undergoing major changes for the past three decades. During the 1950's and 1960's mechanized power rapidly. The process of beef industry structure change accelerated in the 1970's as medium scale feedlots came into being, regional packing plants were established, and the beef marketing system matured. Economic forces, both within and external to the industry. ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The Economics Of Livestock Systems In Developing Countries

    Farm And Project Level Analysis

    de James R Simpson ...
    Improvement of the world's livestock industry necessitates input from many directions. Planning by a host of national and international agencies is required in order to provide optimal stimulus in very diverse areas ranging from formulation of laws and incentives that stimulate competition yet prevent undue competition, to the optimal provision of credit. Planning is needed to carry out a complex ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Livestock Development In Subsaharan Africa

    Constraints, Prospects, Policy

    de James R Simpson ...
    The nations of Subsaharan Africa experienced declining levels of food production per capita throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, particularly in the area of livestock production. Addressing that problem, the authors of this book assess in a systems context the environmental, biological, and social constraints on future African livestock development and consider prospects for improving ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Heresy and the Making of European Culture

    Medieval and Modern Perspectives

    de Andrew P. Roach, James R. Simpson ...
    Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and their afterlives have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy. The papers collected here - reflecting the disciplines of history, literature, theology, philosophy, economics and law - examine the intellectual and social investments characteristic of ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love

    de R. Howard Bloch ...
    Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the ... Leer más

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  • One Billion Hungry

    Can We Feed the World?

    de Gordon Conway ...
    Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices, climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population, the future holds further ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cult of the Saints

    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

    de Peter Brown ...
    A new edition of the "brilliantly original and highly sophisticated" study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire ( Library Journal).In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly ... Leer más

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  • The Art of Conversation

    de Peter Burke ...
    The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... Leer más

    $21.00 USD

  • Status of the World's Soil Resources. Technical Summary

    de FAOoftheUN ...
    This document presents a summary of the first Status of the World's Soil Resources report, the goal of which is to make clear the essential connections between human well-being and the soil. The report provides a benchmark against which our collective progress to conserve this essential resource can be measured. The report synthesizes the work of some 200 soil scientists from 60 countries. It ... Leer más

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  • Trans Historical

    Gender Plurality before the Modern

    Edición de Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, Anna Klosowska ...
    Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston.Refuting arguments that transgender people, experiences, and identities were non-existent or even impossible prior to the twentieth century, this volume focuses on archives ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Down the Drain

    How We Are Failing to Protect Our Water Resources

    de Chris Wood, Ralph Pentland ...
    An incisive critique of Canada’s drinking water gatekeepers.Canada is celebrated for its abundance of fresh water, and few Canadians question the safety of the water that comes from our taps. But is this trust justified? One study estimates that contamination of drinking water causes 90,000 cases of illness and ninety deaths every year.In this authoritative review of decades of legislation, ... Leer más

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