why cant we clone food on a massive scale?

If the theory of cloning is correct and we have already cloned a sheep (Aka Dolly1), why cant we produce food like vegatables on a massive scale to be able to clone a mammal we must have tested it on plant type organisms first so my question is why cant we do that, i mean it would solve world hunger abolish monney, get rid of poverty and humanity would take one giant leap to peace.

Cloning doesn’t create matter from nothing or produce “adult” copies any faster than nature.

If you were to clone a plant like they did with Dolly you’d have to isolate the DNA, place it in a pollinated cell, get REALLY lucky and have it survive the DNA transplant, place the cell back into a plant, and then let it divide and grow into a seed/fruit. You’d then have to go and plant that seed, wait for it to turn into an “adult” plant (which then itself might have to be pollinated so it could produce fruit, assuming you were talking about apples, corn, or the like, and not carrots, potatoes, or other tubers).

Now, the one good thing that cloning CAN do, is if you encounter a rare/mutant strain that has useful traits but is seedless, has underdeveloped seeds, or has trouble producing seeds, then you might be able to produce more of it through cloning. Instead, grafting part the mutant plant onto a normal counterpart is probably a far easier solution. This is where seedless navel oranges come from, for example.

Still, in most cases cloning would be a bad idea because it reduces the genetic diversity of the crop. This means that if a bacteria, virus, or fungus evolves a way to attack the cloned crop, then the entire crop will die, because they all have the exact same defenses and weaknesses, unlike the diversity you’ll normally find in nature.

In short: cloning is more expensive, difficult, and slower than normal pollination, and it doesn’t get you around the problem of growing the result into food anyways.

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Agriculture in Angola $58.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Agriculture in Angola has a tremendous potential. Angola is a potentially rich agricultural country, with fertile soils, a favourable climate, and about 57.4 million ha of agricultural land, including more than 5.0 million ha of arable land. Before independence from Portugal in 1975, Angola had a flourishing tradition of family-based farming and was self-sufficient in all major food crops except wheat. The country exported coffee and maize, as well as crops such as sisal, bananas, tobacco and cassava. By the 1990s Angola was producing less than 1 per cent of the volume of coffee it had produced in the early 1970s, while production of cotton, tobacco and sugar cane had ceased almost entirely. Poor global market prices and lack of investment have severely limited the sector after independence. The Angolan Civil War and the consequent deterioration of the rural economy and neglect of the farming sector dealt the final blow to the country’s agricultural productivity. During the civil war, most small-scale farmers have reverted to subsistence farming.

Agriculture in Chad: Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men’s 100 Metres $9.43 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: In 1986 approximately 83% of the active population of Chad were farmers or herders. This sector of the economy accounted for almost half of the GDP. With the exception of cotton production, some small-scale sugar cane production, and a portion of the peanut crop, Chad’s agriculture consisted of subsistence food production. The types of crops that were grown and the locations of herds were determined by considerable variations in Chad’s climate. The soudanian zone comprises those areas with an average annual rainfall of 800 millimeters or more. This region, which accounts for about 10% of the total land area, contains the nation’s most fertile croplands. Settled agricultural communities growing a wide variety of food crops are its main features. Fishing is important in the rivers, and families raise goats, chickens, and, in some cases, oxen for plowing. In 1983 about 72% of all land under cultivation in Chad was in the soudanian zone. Crop rotation in the soudanian zone traditionally begins with sorghum or millet in the first year. Mixed crops of sorghum and-or millet, with peanuts, legumes, or tubers, are then cultivated for approximately three years. Farmers then return the land to fallow for periods up to fifteen years, turning to different fields for the next cycle. Preparation of a field begins with cutting heavy brush and unwanted low trees or branches that are then laid on the ground. Collectively owned lands are parceled out during the dry season, and the fields are burned just before the onset of the first rains, usually around March. Farmers work most intensively during the rains between May and October, planting, weeding and protecting the crops from birds and animals. Harvesting begins in September and October with the early vari… More:

Agriculture in Zimbabwe: Tongaat Hulett $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Tongaat Hulett, Hippo Valley Estate, Border Timbers, Tanganda Tea, Ministry of Agriculture, Zimplow Limited, Cotton Company of Zimbabwe, Agriculture in Zimbabwe, Dairibord, Chomolia, Ministry of Water Resources and Development. Excerpt: Agriculture in Zimbabwe is overseen by the Ministry of Agriculture . In addition to food production , principal products include tobacco , cotton and wool . Agricultural vocational education Agriculture colleges in Zimbabwe include: Chibero Agricultural College, Esigodini Agricultural College, Gwebi Agricultural College, Kushinga Phikelela National Farmer Training Centre, Mazowe Veterinary College, Mlezu Agricultural College, and Rio Tino Agricultural College. See also (online edition) References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Border Timbers is a forestry and sawmilling company of Zimbabwe . The company operates 5 forest estates and 3 sawmills. Principal products include pine and eucalyptus . Border’s stock is listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and its stock index, the Zimbabwe Industrial Index .Operations Rough sawn timber is either sold directly to customers or processed at one of two Border factories, both located in Mutare :Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Chomolia is a vegetable widely farmed in Zimbabwe . It’s usually prepared as a relish to pap/thick porridge (sadza ). Chomolia is green in colour and households grow it in their domestic gardens, watering them at least once a week. On a rainy season there is hardly any watering necessary if it rains every week. It can also be farmed on a large scale and resold in vegetable market.Chomolia can be prepared the same way as cabbage is prepare. It doesn’t take more than 10 minutes to prepare.A

Agromedicine: Selected Papers from the First Ten Years of The Journal of Agromedicine $9.99 Quality articles from the one-of-a-kind journal that blends agriculture and medicine!Agromedicine: Selected Papers from the First Ten Years of The Journal of Agromedicine is a thorough compendium of the best selections from the first decade of the Journal of Agromedicine. Recognized by Index Medicus and MEDLINE, this authoritative international journal is dedicated to promoting rural health in the United States and abroad, blending the essential sciences of agriculture and medicine in a format that is not only informative, but also reader-friendly. Well-respected former editor Dr. Stanley Schuman has carefully chosen the highest quality contributions from ten years of groundbreaking research and superb articles by international leaders and experts in the field.This valuable reference uses a distinguished expert’s reflective judgment to choose and spotlight the most influential articles from ten years of innovation and research. Each article selection was based on several criteria, including the merging of the sciences of agriculture and medicine, a focus that allows a full understanding of the entire world’s health problems, and of course, the quality of the writing. Chapters are separated according to issue volume and number, while the articles discuss crucial case studies, important policy issues, incisive publication reviews, and more information of keen interest to researchers and medical professionals. Agromedicine explores:• acute and chronic pesticide poisonings• chemophobia• food safety around the world• health and safety issues in Maine’s fishing industry• child labor used in family-based farming• the revival of herbalism• nutrition• a summary of a conference on the health effects of exposure to odor wastes from large-scale livestock operations• the prevention of farm-related trauma• the role of primary care

Aid Of Support-Services For The Development Of Bangladesh Agriculture $67.99 Bangladesh is an agricultural country. The total cultivable land is around 8.44 hectares and 62% of manpower is engaged in agriculture. Major agricultural products are rice, jute, wheat, potato, pulses, sugarcane, tea, tobacco etc. Tea, leather and frozen shrimp are also major foreign exchange earners. Agriculture, to a large degree based on subsistence farming, is still the most important sector with a share in the GDP of 23.5%. Agriculture is crucial for attaining overall growth, adjustment and poverty alleviation in the country. The sources of this growth are productivity gains, and more inputs, which are MV seeds, fertilizers, irrigation and training of human resources through extension systems, particularly for food crops. The recent expansion of small and medium scale commercial dairy and poultry farms as well as pond and inland fish culture have added a new dimension to non-crop agricultural sector progress. Attempts made to examine the aids that have been taking place in the organization, and how the aids are integrated in the synergistic manner to yield greater benefit to the farm households and rural community as a whole.

Alcohol Fuel: A Guide to Making and Using Ethanol as a Renewable Fuel $26.95 Dwindling petroleum supplies and growing environmental concerns are significantly impacting the cost of petro-fuel and its infrastructure. The search for alternative fuel sources has led to ethanol, a gasoline substitute that is already in the marketplace as Gasohol and E-85. But large-scale production of corn-based ethanol is controversial as it threatens the world’s food supply. There are alternatives, however: Brazil uses sugar cane, which is up to six times more productive in energy conversion.After the energy crisis of the 1970s, there was a lot of misinformation about the cost of individual ethanol production. In order to achieve energy independence from gasoline, ethanol lends itself to small-scale production, and especially to cooperative ventures in rural communities, often using “waste” feedstock.Alcohol Fuel is a practical, grassroots book that will give readers all the information they need, covering every aspect of making and using ethanol for fuel, including:Permitting and planningBudgeting and setupSourcing feedstocksFinding and building distillation equipmentStorage and safetyPractical applications for converting motor vehicles, farm equipment, and space-heating systemsThe practical, user-friendly information on basic equipment needs, fermentation recipes, and distillation designs will be of interest to readers looking for information, as well as to those ready to make the switch.Richard Freudenberger was research director of Mother Earth News, where he managed the Alcohol Fuel Program and developed solar and renewable solar and energy projects. He is publisher and technicaleditor of BackHome magazine and lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Alice’s Cookbook $19.95 Alice Hart is an exciting and authoritative new young voice on food who loves to share her culinary knowledge with friends. In this book she encourages her generation of 20- and 30-somethings to cook the original, modern food they enjoy to fit the lifestyles they lead. Dip into Alice’s Cookbook in January to find an inspirational New Year brunch, or during August for a vibrant and memorable summer kitchen supper. Each recipe is designed to fit into busy social lives: Hands-on cooking times are provided for each dish, menus are adaptable to seasons and availability, and advice is given to scale quantities up or down to feed a crowd (or not).

All Flesh Is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming $7.02 Gene Logsdon believes pastoral farming is the solution for a stressed agricultural system. In All Flesh Is Grass, he explains historically effective practices and new techniques that have blossomed in recent years for the sustainable care of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, and poultry. Logsdon’s warm profiles of successful grass farmers offer inspiration and ideas. His narrative is enriched by his experience as a “contrary farmer” on his own artisan-scale farm.The culmination of a lifetime’s experience, this book is vital for owners of small acreages, home food producers, horse enthusiasts, and sustainable commercial farmers.

All Flesh Is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming $35.99 Gene Logsdon believes pastoral farming is the solution for a stressed agricultural system. In All Flesh Is Grass, he explains historically effective practices and new techniques that have blossomed in recent years for the sustainable care of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, and poultry. Logsdon’s warm profiles of successful grass farmers offer inspiration and ideas. His narrative is enriched by his experience as a “contrary farmer” on his own artisan-scale farm.The culmination of a lifetime’s experience, this book is vital for owners of small acreages, home food producers, horse enthusiasts, and sustainable commercial farmers.

American Artisanal: Finding the Country’s Best Real Food, from Cheese to Chocolate $0.99 We have a growing hunger to know where our food comes from. In our increasingly corporate world, we are looking to get back in touch with our roots to the land. American Artisanal feeds this hunger as no book has before. The book celebrates eighteen of America’s leading food artisans–from Wood Prairie Farms potatoes in Maine to L. L. Lanier Honey in Florida, from Reed’s Ginger Brew in California to Earthy Delights mushrooms in Michigan. These are folks who are returning to the basics of sustainable, small-scale, or just plain high quality production. Food is a second career for many of these producers, who decided to drop out of the office rat race and pursue their real passion, literally in the field. In their inspirational stories we also can see the emergence of a true national cuisine. Also, woven throughout each chapter is the engaging history behind our foods–their natural origins and long journeys to cultivation. Recipes and ordering information are provided so you can enjoy these culinary delights at home.

Amusement Parks In South Korea $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Roller Coasters in South Korea, Everland, Universal Studios South Korea, T Express, Caribbean Bay, Comet Express, Paramount Movie Park Korea. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Everland Resort is a theme park in Yongin, a city in Gyeonggi-do province, South Korea. Everland is South Korea’s largest theme park. In 2007, Everland ranked tenth in the world for amusement park attendance. Along with its main attractions, Everland also includes a zoo and a water park known as Caribbean Bay. Everland is operated by Samsung Everland, which is a subsidiary of the Samsung Group. Everland is often compared to Disneyland by those who have visited both parks, as some consider the architecture, scale, themes and general atmosphere to be very similar. The name of the park is of note, as the name is “Everland” of English origin. In Korean, the name is approximated as “Ebeoraendeu” – in other words, there is no authentic Korean name for the park. This park was formerly called “Ja Yeon Nong Won” which loosely means “Nature Farm”. Its former English name was “Farmland”. The T Express, debuted in 2006, is the first wooden roller coaster and the largest of any kind in South Korea. The T Express is the 6th longest wooden coaster in the world at 5,838 feet long. It is also the steepest, with the first drop inclined at 77 degrees. Its name comes from the logo of conglomerate SK Corporation’s SK Telecom service. Everland is divided into 5 distinct zones; Global Fair, Zoo-Topia, European Adventure, Magic Land and American Adventure. Global Fair is primarily a place for food, souvenirs and pictures as visitors make their way into and out of the park. There are many shops, and restaurants as well as special services such as stroller rental and lockers. Zoo-Topia is an animal t… More:

An Economic Blueprint For Ghana $9.7 Ghana imports $100 million rice a year, mainly from Thailand and the US, which represents an unsustainable burden on the country’s trade and exchange balances; and primary cause of devastation to the national economy. This book first provides an account of economic developments in the country since 1920, arguing that this is a period largely characterised by over-dependency on cocoa. It examines the extent to which past Ghanaian governments have succeeded in providing citizens with basic needs: food, water, clothing and shelter; and compares Ghana’s economic performance with countries which were in comparable or worse economic positions in the 1960s and 1970s, such as Malaysia, whose economic growth and sustainability have surpassed the performance of Ghana. The author then presents a blueprint or ‘Kufuor Plan’ addressed directly to the President. The plan, designed for immediate implementation, calls for active, official encouragement for a nation-wide industrial policy based on small-scale agriculture, and which uses local resources to generate profits for the country.

An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days $24.95 From Eudora Welty’s memoir of childhood to May Sarton’s reflections on her seventieth year, writers’ journals offer an irresistible opportunity to join a creative thinker in musing on the events–whether in daily life or on a global scale–that shape our lives. In An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days, best-selling mystery novelist Susan Wittig Albert invites us to revisit one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, 2008, through the lens of 365 ordinary days in which her reading, writing, and thinking about issues in the wider world–from wars and economic recession to climate change–caused her to reconsider and reshape daily practices in her personal life.Albert’s journal provides an engaging account of how the business of being a successful working writer blends with her rural life in the Texas Hill Country and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. As her eclectic daily reading ranges across topics from economics, food production, and oil and energy policy to poetry, place, and the writing life, Albert becomes increasingly concerned about the natural world and the threats facing it, especially climate change and resource depletion. Asking herself, “What does it mean? And what ought I do about it?”, she determines practical steps to take, such as growing more food in her garden, and also helps us as readers make sense of these issues and consider what our own responses might be.

An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days $14.94 From Eudora Welty’s memoir of childhood to May Sarton’s reflections on her seventieth year, writers’ journals offer an irresistible opportunity to join a creative thinker in musing on the events–whether in daily life or on a global scale–that shape our lives. In An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days, best-selling mystery novelist Susan Wittig Albert invites us to revisit one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, 2008, through the lens of 365 ordinary days in which her reading, writing, and thinking about issues in the wider world–from wars and economic recession to climate change–caused her to reconsider and reshape daily practices in her personal life.Albert’s journal provides an engaging account of how the business of being a successful working writer blends with her rural life in the Texas Hill Country and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. As her eclectic daily reading ranges across topics from economics, food production, and oil and energy policy to poetry, place, and the writing life, Albert becomes increasingly concerned about the natural world and the threats facing it, especially climate change and resource depletion. Asking herself, “What does it mean? And what ought I do about it?”, she determines practical steps to take, such as growing more food in her garden, and also helps us as readers make sense of these issues and consider what our own responses might be.

An Introduction to Economics: Concepts for Students of Agriculture and the Rural Sector $75 An Introduction to Economics, 3rd Edition provides a careful and clear explanation of universal economic principles that are illustrated primarily by examples drawn from agriculture, rural areas and the food industry. Since the first and second editions, agriculture has increasingly been viewed in a global context. International trade agreements have influenced domestic agriculture everywhere and many countries have seen growth in processing and the role of large-scale retailers. There is also evidence that the main rural land-users (farming and forestry) form only a part of the total economic activity going on in the countryside of developed countries. This third edition has been updated using examples that cover this wider range of circumstances. Other updates include the section on policy, which has been expanded to reflect that agriculture plays an increasing role in policies directed at the countryside in general, especially those aimed at conserving the environment. A new section has also been added to reflect the important advances in production technology. The text is further enhanced by the inclusion of more exercises, a revised list of essay questions and updated suggested further reading.

An investigation of the theory of reasoned action concerning consumer acceptance of food irradiation. $49.99 This research examined how attitudes and subjective norms influence behavioral intentions to eat irradiated food. This inquiry is important because, food irradiation is controversial and the public’s attitude toward it can influence the extent to which it is eventually adopted.;The data received from the first, large-scale commercially funded market test of irradiated food in supermarkets located throughout Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been used for statistical analysis. The test was conducted by Huisken’s Meats, Inc. on spring of 2000. The data includes questionnaire responses of 225 participants.;The data analysis of consumers’ opinions, concerning food irradiation, confirms the theory of reasoned action. However, the results show that subjective norms have a weak effect on intentions to eat irradiated food. Suggestions are offered for future research based upon the findings of this study.

An investigation of the theory of reasoned action concerning consumer acceptance of food irradiation. $49.99 This research examined how attitudes and subjective norms influence behavioral intentions to eat irradiated food. This inquiry is important because, food irradiation is controversial and the public’s attitude toward it can influence the extent to which it is eventually adopted.;The data received from the first, large-scale commercially funded market test of irradiated food in supermarkets located throughout Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been used for statistical analysis. The test was conducted by Huisken’s Meats, Inc. on spring of 2000. The data includes questionnaire responses of 225 participants.;The data analysis of consumers’ opinions, concerning food irradiation, confirms the theory of reasoned action. However, the results show that subjective norms have a weak effect on intentions to eat irradiated food. Suggestions are offered for future research based upon the findings of this study.

Animal Dyes: Cochineal $9.53 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Coccus cacti Linnaeus, 1758Pseudococcus cacti Burmeister, 1839 Chemical structure of carminic acid, the predator-deterring substance found in high concentration in cochineal insects. The insoluble aluminum and calcium salts of this acid form red and purple dyes called carmine.The Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the crimson-coloured dye carmine is derived. A primarily sessile parasite native to tropical and subtropical South America and Mexico, this insect lives on cacti from the genus Opuntia, feeding on plant moisture and nutrients. The insect produces carminic acid that deters predation by other insects. Carminic acid, which occurs as 17-24% of the weight of the dry insects, can be extracted from the insect’s body and eggs and mixed with aluminum or calcium salts to make carmine dye (also known as cochineal). Carmine is today primarily used as a food colouring and for cosmetics. The carmine dye was used in Central America in the 15th century for coloring fabrics and became an important export good during the colonial period. After synthetic pigments and dyes such as alizarin were invented in the late 19th century, natural-dye production gradually diminished. Health fears over artificial food additives, however, have renewed the popularity of cochineal dyes, and the increased demand has made cultivation of the insect profitable again, with Peru being the largest exporter. There are other species in the genus Dactylopius that can be used to produce cochineal extract, but they are extremely difficult to distinguish from D. coccus, even for expert taxonomists, and the latter scientific name (and the vernacular “cochineal insect”) is therefore commonly used when one is actually referr… More:

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment $17.99 Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that contaminates our air, land, water, and food. In this thoroughly-researched book, Kirby follows three families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by immense neighboring animal farms. These farms (known as “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations,” or CAFOs), confine thousands of pigs, dairy cattle, and poultry in small spaces, often under horrifying conditions, and generate enormous volumes of fecal and biological waste as well as other toxins. Weaving science, politics, law, big business, and everyday life, Kirby accompanies these families in their struggles against animal factories. A North Carolina fisherman takes on pig farms upstream to preserve his river, his family’s life, and his home. A mother in a small Illinois town pushes back against an outsized dairy farm and its devastating impact. And, a Washington state grandmother becomes an unlikely activist when her home is covered with soot and her water supply is compromised by runoff from leaking lagoons of cattle waste. Animal Factory is an important book about our American food system gone terribly wrong—and the people who are fighting to restore sustainable farming practices and save our limited natural resources.

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment $39.95 Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that contaminates our air, land, water, and food. In this thoroughly-researched book, Kirby follows three families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by immense neighboring animal farms. These farms (known as “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations,” or CAFOs), confine thousands of pigs, dairy cattle, and poultry in small spaces, often under horrifying conditions, and generate enormous volumes of fecal and biological waste as well as other toxins. Weaving science, politics, law, big business, and everyday life, Kirby accompanies these families in their struggles against animal factories. A North Carolina fisherman takes on pig farms upstream to preserve his river, his family’s life, and his home. A mother in a small Illinois town pushes back against an outsized dairy farm and its devastating impact. And, a Washington state grandmother becomes an unlikely activist when her home is covered with soot and her water supply is compromised by runoff from leaking lagoons of cattle waste. Animal Factory is an important book about our American food system gone terribly wrong—and the people who are fighting to restore sustainable farming practices and save our limited natural resources.

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment $9.99 Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that contaminates our air, land, water, and food. In this thoroughly-researched book, Kirby follows three families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by immense neighboring animal farms. These farms (known as “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations,” or CAFOs), confine thousands of pigs, dairy cattle, and poultry in small spaces, often under horrifying conditions, and generate enormous volumes of fecal and biological waste as well as other toxins. Weaving science, politics, law, big business, and everyday life, Kirby accompanies these families in their struggles against animal factories. A North Carolina fisherman takes on pig farms upstream to preserve his river, his family’s life, and his home. A mother in a small Illinois town pushes back against an outsized dairy farm and its devastating impact. And, a Washington state grandmother becomes an unlikely activist when her home is covered with soot and her water supply is compromised by runoff from leaking lagoons of cattle waste. Animal Factory is an important book about our American food system gone terribly wrong—and the people who are fighting to restore sustainable farming practices and save our limited natural resources.

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment $29.83 Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that contaminates our air, land, water, and food. In this thoroughly-researched book, Kirby follows three families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by immense neighboring animal farms. These farms (known as “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations,” or CAFOs), confine thousands of pigs, dairy cattle, and poultry in small spaces, often under horrifying conditions, and generate enormous volumes of fecal and biological waste as well as other toxins. Weaving science, politics, law, big business, and everyday life, Kirby accompanies these families in their struggles against animal factories. A North Carolina fisherman takes on pig farms upstream to preserve his river, his family’s life, and his home. A mother in a small Illinois town pushes back against an outsized dairy farm and its devastating impact. And, a Washington state grandmother becomes an unlikely activist when her home is covered with soot and her water supply is compromised by runoff from leaking lagoons of cattle waste. Animal Factory is an important book about our American food system gone terribly wrong—and the people who are fighting to restore sustainable farming practices and save our limited natural resources.

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment $123 Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that contaminates our air, land, water, and food. In this thoroughly-researched book, Kirby follows three families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by immense neighboring animal farms. These farms (known as “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations,” or CAFOs), confine thousands of pigs, dairy cattle, and poultry in small spaces, often under horrifying conditions, and generate enormous volumes of fecal and biological waste as well as other toxins. Weaving science, politics, law, big business, and everyday life, Kirby accompanies these families in their struggles against animal factories. A North Carolina fisherman takes on pig farms upstream to preserve his river, his family’s life, and his home. A mother in a small Illinois town pushes back against an outsized dairy farm and its devastating impact. And, a Washington state grandmother becomes an unlikely activist when her home is covered with soot and her water supply is compromised by runoff from leaking lagoons of cattle waste. Animal Factory is an important book about our American food system gone terribly wrong—and the people who are fighting to restore sustainable farming practices and save our limited natural resources.

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment $4.05 Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that contaminates our air, land, water, and food. In this thoroughly-researched book, Kirby follows three families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by immense neighboring animal farms. These farms (known as “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations,” or CAFOs), confine thousands of pigs, dairy cattle, and poultry in small spaces, often under horrifying conditions, and generate enormous volumes of fecal and biological waste as well as other toxins. Weaving science, politics, law, big business, and everyday life, Kirby accompanies these families in their struggles against animal factories. A North Carolina fisherman takes on pig farms upstream to preserve his river, his family’s life, and his home. A mother in a small Illinois town pushes back against an outsized dairy farm and its devastating impact. And, a Washington state grandmother becomes an unlikely activist when her home is covered with soot and her water supply is compromised by runoff from leaking lagoons of cattle waste. Animal Factory is an important book about our American food system gone terribly wrong—and the people who are fighting to restore sustainable farming practices and save our limited natural resources.

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment $68.7 Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that contaminates our air, land, water, and food. In this thoroughly-researched book, Kirby follows three families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by immense neighboring animal farms. These farms (known as “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations,” or CAFOs), confine thousands of pigs, dairy cattle, and poultry in small spaces, often under horrifying conditions, and generate enormous volumes of fecal and biological waste as well as other toxins. Weaving science, politics, law, big business, and everyday life, Kirby accompanies these families in their struggles against animal factories. A North Carolina fisherman takes on pig farms upstream to preserve his river, his family’s life, and his home. A mother in a small Illinois town pushes back against an outsized dairy farm and its devastating impact. And, a Washington state grandmother becomes an unlikely activist when her home is covered with soot and her water supply is compromised by runoff from leaking lagoons of cattle waste. Animal Factory is an important book about our American food system gone terribly wrong—and the people who are fighting to restore sustainable farming practices and save our limited natural resources.

Anti-Fat Nutrients $20.99 Weight Loss Is Easy, Fat Loss Is Not A successful diet does much more than simply take off unwanted pounds – it helps you feel good and look good. And it is permanent. This is because it includes making changes in body composition and metabolism that increase the body's ability to burn calories. These changes do not depend upon a large reduction in the calories consumed, but upon minor modifications in the foods eaten and upon the addition of a small number of supplements to the diet. The result is a decrease in fatty tissue and an increase in the ratio of lean muscle tissue to adipose (fat) tissue in the body. Such a change is psychologically satisfying because lean tissue not only burns calories, but also gives women their shapely figures and men their muscle tone. In any successful weight-loss program, you should be able to judge yourself by your mirror rather than by your bathroom scale! Anti-Fat Nutrients provides do-it-yourself alternatives to empower dieters to achieve their ideal weight on their own. Using scientifically supported research, Anti-Fat Nutrients: Explains how and why the body gains and loses weight, and the critical role fat plays in the process.; Explores new directions in the study of weight control, and details the important contributions that vitamins, herbs, amino acids, enzymes, and other nutrients can make to dieters' lives.; Provides in-depth information on key nutritional supplements and the ways in which they facilitate weight loss and at what potencies.; Contains the ''Core Anti-Fat Nutrient Weight-Loss Program,'' a simple food-based approach to weight loss that can be used in combination with anti-fat supplements to maximize results, or as a template for designing your own anti-fat weight-loss plan.; Covers the basic elements of food and sound nutrition and offers dietary guidelines to help accelerate the weight-loss process.

Anti-Fat Nutrients: Safe and Effective Strategies for Increasing Metabolism, Controlling Appetite, and Losing Fat in 15 Days (EasyRead Large Edition) $9.99 Weight Loss Is Easy, Fat Loss Is Not A successful diet does much more than simply take off unwanted pounds – it helps you feel good and look good. And it is permanent. This is because it includes making changes in body composition and metabolism that increase the body’s ability to burn calories. These changes do not depend upon a large reduction in the calories consumed, but upon minor modifications in the foods eaten and upon the addition of a small number of supplements to the diet. The result is a decrease in fatty tissue and an increase in the ratio of lean muscle tissue to adipose (fat) tissue in the body. Such a change is psychologically satisfying because lean tissue not only burns calories, but also gives women their shapely figures and men their muscle tone. In any successful weight-loss program, you should be able to judge yourself by your mirror rather than by your bathroom scale! Anti-Fat Nutrients provides do-it-yourself alternatives to empower dieters to achieve their ideal weight on their own. Using scientifically supported research, Anti-Fat Nutrients: Explains how and why the body gains and loses weight, and the critical role fat plays in the process.; Explores new directions in the study of weight control, and details the important contributions that vitamins, herbs, amino acids, enzymes, and other nutrients can make to dieters’ lives.; Provides in-depth information on key nutritional supplements and the ways in which they facilitate weight loss and at what potencies.; Contains the ”Core Anti-Fat Nutrient Weight-Loss Program,” a simple food-based approach to weight loss that can be used in combination with anti-fat supplements to maximize results, or as a template for designing your own anti-fat weight-loss plan.; Covers the basic elements of food and sound nutrition and offers dietary guidelines to help accelerate the weight-loss process.

Apples and Pears: The Body Shape Solution for Weight Loss and Wellness $0.99 A revolutionary approach to the challenges of body shape, apples & pears presents weight loss and wellness solutions that are practical…and, above all, possible.Understand what body shape means, how it is formed, how it changes, and how it relates to your health.Learn why all fat is not created equal.Discover the Elite foods that help protect against disease, promote general wellness, and improve your odds of shedding fat.Find out why the human body is not designed to give up weight easily — and learn what you can do to lose more weight with less effort.Change the way you relate to your body forever.Acquire the tools you need to make conscious, informed, healthy choices about food while still living in the real world.Throw away your scale and get out of the cycle of diet failure. No more fads. No more confusion.When it comes to your health, body shape really does matter!Chances are you already know if you’re an apple or a pear. If you tend to gain weight in your belly and back, you’re an apple. If your thighs and derriere are the canvas on which your snack food sins are written, then you’re a pear. But what does it matter? Gut or butt, too much is too much, right? Wrong!Whether you are an apple-shaped or pear-shaped woman determines far more than whether you select a swimsuit with a waist-whittling pattern or a thigh-hiding skirt. According to medical pioneer Marie Savard, M.D., your body shape is the single most powerful predictor of future health. It is connected to differences in your physical chemistry, hormone production, and metabo-lism and directly affects your likelihood for obesity, heart disease, osteoporosis, the metabolic syndrome, diabetes, stroke, varicose veins, and certain cancers.Your body shape may be putting your health in danger through no fault of your own. But there is good news: There are things you can do to prevent or even reverse the risks of body shape. Apples & Pears: The Body Shape

Apples and Pears: The Body Shape Solution for Weight Loss and Wellness $13.99 A revolutionary approach to the challenges of body shape, apples & pears presents weight loss and wellness solutions that are practical…and, above all, possible.Understand what body shape means, how it is formed, how it changes, and how it relates to your health.Learn why all fat is not created equal.Discover the Elite foods that help protect against disease, promote general wellness, and improve your odds of shedding fat.Find out why the human body is not designed to give up weight easily — and learn what you can do to lose more weight with less effort.Change the way you relate to your body forever.Acquire the tools you need to make conscious, informed, healthy choices about food while still living in the real world.Throw away your scale and get out of the cycle of diet failure. No more fads. No more confusion.When it comes to your health, body shape really does matter!Chances are you already know if you’re an apple or a pear. If you tend to gain weight in your belly and back, you’re an apple. If your thighs and derriere are the canvas on which your snack food sins are written, then you’re a pear. But what does it matter? Gut or butt, too much is too much, right? Wrong!Whether you are an apple-shaped or pear-shaped woman determines far more than whether you select a swimsuit with a waist-whittling pattern or a thigh-hiding skirt. According to medical pioneer Marie Savard, M.D., your body shape is the single most powerful predictor of future health. It is connected to differences in your physical chemistry, hormone production, and metabo-lism and directly affects your likelihood for obesity, heart disease, osteoporosis, the metabolic syndrome, diabetes, stroke, varicose veins, and certain cancers.Your body shape may be putting your health in danger through no fault of your own. But there is good news: There are things you can do to prevent or even reverse the risks of body shape. Apples & Pears: The Body Shape

Appropriate Food Packaging $35.95 Food manufacturers operating on a small to medium scale face direct competition from the large-scale food sector whose economies of scale, better presentation and powerful marketing can endanger the future of smaller businesses. High quality packaging not only helps to keep products in good condition it lies at the very heart of food presentation and customer appeal. It is thus an area of vital importance for any small to medium scale food manufacturer competing in today’s marketplace. “Appropriate Food Packaging” is a compendium of packaging materials and cost-effective methods that can be applied at a small to medium scale in developing countries. This book helps manufacturers to face the challenges that improving their packaging systems present, including assessing whether increased sales will justify the investment costs, and the very real difficulties faced in many developing countries of sourcing suitable packaging materials. The economic, operational and human resource implications of changes in packaging methods are considered, as too are the potentially negative environmental effects of modern food packaging.

Area-Wide Control of Insect Pests: From Research to Field Implementation $230.3 “If major advances are to be made in coping with most of the major arthropod pest problems, then the tactics and strategies for managing such insects, ticks and mites must change. They must change from the current, limited scale, reactive, broad-spectrum measures to preventive measures that are target-pest specific and rigidly applied on an area-wide basis.”E.F. Knipling on the occasion of receiving the World Food Prize on 12 October 1992.

Arthropod Diversity and Conservation $146.48 Despite their enormous bulk and complexity of architecture, plants make up only around a quarter of a million of the 8 million or so species on Earth. The major components of biodiversity, instead, are the smaller, largely unseen, silent majority of invertebrates – most of which are arthropods. Vertebrates, a mere blip on the biotic horizon, are elevated in importance in the bigger scheme of things only by the human psyche.This collection of more than 30 peer-reviewed papers focuses on the diversity and conservation of arthropods, whose species inhabit virtually every recess and plane – and feature somewhere in virtually every food web – on the planet. Highlighting issues ranging from large-scale disturbance to local management, and from spatial heterogeneity to temporal patterns, these papers reflect some of the most exciting new research taking place today – and in some of the most biodiverse corners of the planet.Edited by David Hawksworth and Alan Bull, with a preface by Michael J Samways, this book will provide a valuable reference to anyone interested in the diversity and conservation of arthropods.Reprinted from Biodiversity and Conservation 15:1 (2006), excluding the paper by R. O’Malley et al., The diversity and distribution of the fruit bat fauna (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Megachiroptera) of Danjugan Island, Cauayan, Negros Occidental, Philippines (with notes on the Microchiroptera), pp. 43-56.

Asian Noodles: Science, Technology, and Processing $153.12 A thorough reference on developing and manufacturing Asian noodlesOne of Asia’s oldest and most highly valued forms of processed food, Asian noodles account for nearly half of all the continent’s flour consumption. Now a commodity enjoyed worldwide, these noodles appear in many varieties thanks to, among other reasons, the international influences of culture, climate, and region. The massive global appeal of Asian noodles demands that their processing and manufacturing methods stay current with new technologies to deliver and maintain an elevated standard of quality. By combining the latest theory with real-world applications, Asian Noodles offers cutting-edge coverage of this versatile food by enlisting the help of experts from all corners of the world. This book:Combines the latest science and theory with applied technology and skillsIncludes theories on wheat breeding and genes, lab-scale noodle processing and evaluation, commercial noodle manufacturing plant setup, and first-rate quality assurance programsDetails wheat and flour specifications, the formulation and processing of noodles, and noodle quality attributesAids readers in developing new wheat varieties for noodle products, producing superior flour for specific noodles, and designing noodle production facilities This one-of-a-kind book provides a depth of insight unmatched in any other work on the topic of Asian noodles. Geneticists, research scientists, manufacturers, suppliers, and a host of other professions with a stake in the Asian noodle market are sure to find the solutions they are seeking in this comprehensive reference.

Asian Noodles: Science, Technology, and Processing $195 A thorough reference on developing and manufacturing Asian noodlesOne of Asia’s oldest and most highly valued forms of processed food, Asian noodles account for nearly half of all the continent’s flour consumption. Now a commodity enjoyed worldwide, these noodles appear in many varieties thanks to, among other reasons, the international influences of culture, climate, and region. The massive global appeal of Asian noodles demands that their processing and manufacturing methods stay current with new technologies to deliver and maintain an elevated standard of quality. By combining the latest theory with real-world applications, Asian Noodles offers cutting-edge coverage of this versatile food by enlisting the help of experts from all corners of the world. This book:Combines the latest science and theory with applied technology and skillsIncludes theories on wheat breeding and genes, lab-scale noodle processing and evaluation, commercial noodle manufacturing plant setup, and first-rate quality assurance programsDetails wheat and flour specifications, the formulation and processing of noodles, and noodle quality attributesAids readers in developing new wheat varieties for noodle products, producing superior flour for specific noodles, and designing noodle production facilities This one-of-a-kind book provides a depth of insight unmatched in any other work on the topic of Asian noodles. Geneticists, research scientists, manufacturers, suppliers, and a host of other professions with a stake in the Asian noodle market are sure to find the solutions they are seeking in this comprehensive reference.

Assessing construct validity of African American acculturation and racial identity scales for use in clinical populations. $49.99 Purpose. The purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate the construct validity of the African American Acculturation Scale – Short Form (AAAS-33), which is a leading scale to measure African American Acculturation and the Black Racial Identity Attitudes Survey (RIAS-B), which is a leading scale to measure African American racial identity development. These scales were normed using college and community samples. The current study examined these measures to determine if they are valid when considering African American mental health consumers.;Method. A series of confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine the construct validity of the AAAS-33 and RIAS-B using an archival sample of 88 African American mental health consumers (38 male and 50 female, M = 39.6 years, SD = 10.60). The variables that were assessed included the 10 subscales of the AAAS-33 (Preference for Things African American, Religious Beliefs/Practices, Traditional Foods, Traditional Childhood, Superstitions, Interracial Attitudes, Falling Out, Traditional Games, Family Values, and Family Practices) and the 4 subscales of the RIAS-B (Pre-encounter, Encounter, Immersion/Emersion, and Internalization). Subsequent exploratory factor analyses were conducted in cases where the existing factor structure could not be confirmed.;Results. The confirmatory factor analyses were unable to support the existing models for neither the AAAS-33 nor the RIAS-B even after models were re-specified. Subsequent exploratory factor analyses revealed a 7-factor structure with 23 items for the AAAS with the following factors: Preference for Things African American, Cultural Mistrust, Religious Beliefs/Practices, Childhood Experiences, Food, Superstitions, and Falling Out. Exploratory factor analyses revealed a 3-factor structure with 12 items for the RIAS-B with the following factors: Pre-encounter, Encounter and Immersion/Emersion.;Discussion. Results indicated that the AAAS-33 and RIAS-B may not be applicable in

Assessing construct validity of African American acculturation and racial identity scales for use in clinical populations. $49.99 Purpose. The purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate the construct validity of the African American Acculturation Scale – Short Form (AAAS-33), which is a leading scale to measure African American Acculturation and the Black Racial Identity Attitudes Survey (RIAS-B), which is a leading scale to measure African American racial identity development. These scales were normed using college and community samples. The current study examined these measures to determine if they are valid when considering African American mental health consumers.;Method. A series of confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine the construct validity of the AAAS-33 and RIAS-B using an archival sample of 88 African American mental health consumers (38 male and 50 female, M = 39.6 years, SD = 10.60). The variables that were assessed included the 10 subscales of the AAAS-33 (Preference for Things African American, Religious Beliefs/Practices, Traditional Foods, Traditional Childhood, Superstitions, Interracial Attitudes, Falling Out, Traditional Games, Family Values, and Family Practices) and the 4 subscales of the RIAS-B (Pre-encounter, Encounter, Immersion/Emersion, and Internalization). Subsequent exploratory factor analyses were conducted in cases where the existing factor structure could not be confirmed.;Results. The confirmatory factor analyses were unable to support the existing models for neither the AAAS-33 nor the RIAS-B even after models were re-specified. Subsequent exploratory factor analyses revealed a 7-factor structure with 23 items for the AAAS with the following factors: Preference for Things African American, Cultural Mistrust, Religious Beliefs/Practices, Childhood Experiences, Food, Superstitions, and Falling Out. Exploratory factor analyses revealed a 3-factor structure with 12 items for the RIAS-B with the following factors: Pre-encounter, Encounter and Immersion/Emersion.;Discussion. Results indicated that the AAAS-33 and RIAS-B may not be applicable in

Atlas of American Artisan Cheese $35 The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese is the first reference book of its kind and a must-have for even the most casual foodie library. Jeffrey P. Roberts lavishes loving attention on the growing local food and farmstead movement in what is fast becoming a national trend. This fully illustrated encyclopedia of contemporary artisan cheeses and cheesemakers will not only be a mainstay in any cookery and cuisine library—guiding consumers, retailers, restaurateurs, and food professionals to the full breadth and unparalleled quality of American artisan foods—it will be the source of many a fabulous food adventure. Organized by region and state, the Atlas highlights more than 350 of the best small-scale cheeses produced from cow, sheep, and goat milk in the United States today. It provides the most complete overview of what’s to be had nationwide—shippable, attainable, delectable. Each entry describes a cheesemaker, its products, availability, location, and even details on the cheesemaking processes. The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese captures America’s local genius for artisan cheese: its capacity for adaptation, experimentation, and innovation, while following old-world artisanship. It is destined to become a classic resource and reference.

Bacterial Biogeochemistry $130 During most of the Earth’s existence, bacteria were almost exclusively responsible for the biogeochemical cycling of elements. In the extant biosphere, biological transformations of matter are still dominated by bacterial activity and many important biogeochemical processes (including methane production and consumption, and nitrogen fixation) are exclusively carried out by bacteria.Bacterial Biogeochemistry is the expanded and revised Second Edition of Bacteria and Mineral Cycling. It is the new definitive treatment of this subject, written by world-renowned experts.The new edition provides a detailed treatment of:• Microbial processes in different types of habitat• Element cycling on a global scale• Bacterial metabolism in the environment• Microbial symbiosis• Decomposition of soil• Food chains• Nitrogen fixation• Assimilation and reduction of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur• Bioenergetic processes• Characteristics of microbial communities• Spacial heterogeneity• Transport mechanisms• Microbial biofilms• Extreme environments• Evolution of biogeochemical cycles• Interactions between microbial processes• Atmospheric composition• the Earth’s greenhouse properties.This book is the essential reference for all those studying or actively involved in the fields of microbiology, ecology, limnology, soil science, geochemistry, plant nutrition, marine microbiology, microbial metabolism, bioremediation, environmental restoration communities and for those pursuing global change.

Balancing Water for Humans and Nature: The New Approach in Ecohydrology $45 This book exposes how water flow links nature and society through water’s many parallel functions as the ‘blood stream’ of both the biosphere and the imbedded anthroposphere, and the resulting conflicts that arise. The authors argue that a sustainable future depends fundamentally on our ability to manage these trade-offs.They advocate an ecological approach to land/water/environmental problems and argue for viewing precipitation as the gross water resource. Distinguishing between terrestrial aquatic ecosystems they show how an ecological approach can be expressed in water-related trade-offs, incorporating criteria for long-term resilience. Based on per capita needs for an acceptable nutritional diet, the authors analyze the amounts of water needed for global food production by 2050 and identify potential sources. Drawing on small-scale experiences in Africa and Asia, they also cover the vulnerability of the semi-arid tropics, disentangling it into green and blue water scarcity components.

Beat Until Stiff $6.99 Experienced pastry chef Johnson whips up an insider look at San Francisco’s cut-throat restaurant trade. Cranky Mary Ryan has sunk a lot of time and talent into the in-vogue American Fare, the town’s hottest spot, while grieving over her broken marriage. At work very early one morning, she steps on a laundry bag stuffed with the dead body of one of her employees. The investigation soon exposes all the dirty secrets that the food business would like to keep secret: the philandering chefs, the silly whims of the dining public, the hiring of illegal aliens, and the subsistence-living pay scale. Events begin to spiral that in time take out the restaurant’s celebrity chef and force Mary to use her unique skills to uncover a poisonous scheme…. Beat Until Stiff gives a frank view of the cooking/restaurant scene and explores why food has become theater, with all the waiters, the busboys, the chefs, and the dining public on stage, each with their own parts to learn and perform. Dessert is the last word, the amen of a meal. And Mary Ryan always has to have the last word. Hard edged, filled richly with restaurant lore, sharply characterized, this is a debut to savor.

Beat Until Stiff $14.95 Experienced pastry chef Johnson whips up an insider look at San Francisco’s cut-throat restaurant trade. Cranky Mary Ryan has sunk a lot of time and talent into the in-vogue American Fare, the town’s hottest spot, while grieving over her broken marriage. At work very early one morning, she steps on a laundry bag stuffed with the dead body of one of her employees. The investigation soon exposes all the dirty secrets that the food business would like to keep secret: the philandering chefs, the silly whims of the dining public, the hiring of illegal aliens, and the subsistence-living pay scale. Events begin to spiral that in time take out the restaurant’s celebrity chef and force Mary to use her unique skills to uncover a poisonous scheme…. Beat Until Stiff gives a frank view of the cooking/restaurant scene and explores why food has become theater, with all the waiters, the busboys, the chefs, and the dining public on stage, each with their own parts to learn and perform. Dessert is the last word, the amen of a meal. And Mary Ryan always has to have the last word. Hard edged, filled richly with restaurant lore, sharply characterized, this is a debut to savor.

Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home $32.5 Mark Bittman’s food philosophy can be summarized in four words: “Shop locally; cook globally.” Now, after teaching readers How to Cook Everything, he applies his wisdom on an equally grand scale in this giant, 760-plus-page cookbook. The Best Recipes in the World showcases more than a thousand meals from every corner of the world. In fact, 44 countries from Mexico to Japan are represented in this culinary United Nations.

Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home $16.99 Mark Bittman’s food philosophy can be summarized in four words: “Shop locally; cook globally.” Now, after teaching readers How to Cook Everything, he applies his wisdom on an equally grand scale in this giant, 760-plus-page cookbook. The Best Recipes in the World showcases more than a thousand meals from every corner of the world. In fact, 44 countries from Mexico to Japan are represented in this culinary United Nations.

Better Homes & Gardens Vegetable, Fruit & Herb Gardening $19.95 Make your backyard a farmer’s market with Vegetable, Fruit, & Herb GardeningIf you want the freshest fruits, vegetables, and herbs around, why not grow them yourself? Home gardens are a great way to slash your grocery budget and eat great food throughout the year. Vegetable, Fruit, & Herb Gardening from Better Homes and Gardens is packed with simple step-by-step guidance on starting your own easy and affordable kitchen garden.The book includes explanatory diagrams, photographs and charts, and clear instructions that make planting, feeding, and harvesting your garden a breeze. This easy-to-follow guide covers it all-from container gardens, to large-scale garden projects, to a little herb garden on the balcony.Features more than 150 encyclopedia entries of vegetables, fruits, and herbs with step-by-step instructions on planting, growing, and harvestingIllustrated with more than 450 beautiful full-color photographs that offer helpful guidance and plenty of inspirationIncludes special sections on storing your harvested foods as well as tips on composting and helpful seasonality chartsOffers garden projects and planting plans with shopping lists for tools and plants.Whether you want to start a major new edible garden project or just add a little fresh produce to your pantry, Vegetable, Fruit, & Herb Gardeningis the easy-to-understand, comprehensive guide you need.

Better Meal-Planning With The Glycemic Index Health Tool: Basic Health Information About The Glycemic Index Which Includes A Glycemic Index Food Chart With A Listing Of Low Glycemic Index Foods And High Glycemic Index Foods To Help You With Meal-Plannin $3.99 What is the glycemic index? How can it help in managing weight loss, diabetes and heart disease?The glycemic index, or the GI as it is commonly known, is a health tool that’s used to measure the effects of carbohydrates in blood sugar levels. It is a table that consists of a list of different foods and their equivalent rating as to how fast and how slow they can raise blood sugar levels. The rating scale is from 0 to 100 with high glycemic foods rating high numbers. So, glucose, for instance, which is the fastest carbohydrate, has the highest rating of 100. What this health tool indicates then is that foods with a high glycemic index will increase the blood sugar levels rapidly and foods with a low glycemic index will raise blood sugar levels slowly.It is a very helpful tool especially for people who are managing diabetes and heart disease. It is used as a guide to help measure carb count and calorie count in order to formulate a diet plan which will correspond to the person’s physical activity, diet restrictions and overall lifestyle. This is critical for people with heart disease because measuring carb count and calorie count is essential for fat metabolism and weight control. This is also critical for people with diabetes because measuring carb count in the diet will help monitor and maintain blood sugar levels more effectively. This book has information that will explain how the glycemic index tool can be used correctly.

Biodiesel: Growning a New Energy Economy: Growing a New Energy Economy $19.95 For anyone who is trying to keep up with the extremely rapid developments in the biodiesel industry, the second edition of Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy is an invaluable aid. The breathtaking speed with which biodiesel has gained acceptance in the marketplace in the past few years has been exceeded only by the proliferation of biodiesel production facilities around the United States–and the world–only to confront new social and environmental challenges and criticisms.The international survey of the biodiesel industry has been expanded from 40 to more than 80 countries, reflecting the spectacular growth of the industry around the world. This section also tracks the dramatic shifts in the fortunes of the industry that have taken place in some of these nations. The detailed chapters that cover the industry in the United States have also been substantially rewritten to keep abreast of its many new developments and explosive domestic growth. An expanded section on small-scale, local biodiesel production has been added to better represent this small but growing part of the industry. Another new section has been added to more fully explore the increasingly controversial issues of deforestation and food versus fuel, as well as GMO crops. The second edition concludes with updated views on where the industry is headed in the years to come from some of its key players.

Biofuel Impacts on Food Crisis $60 From April 2008, many developing countries faced food shortage and this led to massive public protest. In some cases the food is used for biofuel or land is used for biofuel feedstocks. Jatropha curcas tends to be promising and grows in arid and humid regions. Nevertheless, cultivating it blindly has impacts on food in Cameroon and anywhere. By integrated assessment, it is possible to manage J. curcas cultivation in Cameroon through a characterization of forest and grass lands differentiating small and large scale system. The questionnaires coupled with interviews helped to understand the interaction of stakeholders involved in biofuel system and food crisis through land use. Some maps obtained through GIS and GPS help to understand some impacts. The biofuel policy system was assessed. More than 90% of rice in Cameroon is imported whereas soils appropriate for its cultivation are used for biofuel production. It is demonstrated that small scale cultivation do not have impacts on lands and food crisis thus is profitable but the large scale has direct impact on fertile lands, food crisis and deforestation. The management policy should include government, CEMAC, WTO and African Union.

Biofuels and Rural Poverty $79.95 Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes a unique contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences that large-scale production of transport fuel substitutes can have on rural areas, principally in developing countries but also in some poor rural areas of developed countries. Three key concerns are examined with a North-South perspective: ecological issues (related to land use and biodiversity), pro-poor policies (related to food and land security, gender and income generation) and equity of benefits within the global value chain. Can biofuels be pro-poor? Can smallholder farmers be equitably integrated in the biofuels global supply chain? Is the biofuels supply chain detrimental to biodiversity? Most other books available on biofuels take a technical approach and are aimed at addressing energy security or climate change issues. Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes a particularly original contribution by looking at the production of biofuels from another perspective: the role of biofuels in reducing rural poverty.

Biofuels for Transport: Global Potential and Implications for Energy and Agriculture $95 * A unique global assessment of the potential opportunities and risks of biofuels* A comprehensive analysis, that takes the reader from an introduction to specific biofuels, through the prospects for technology and agriculture, to the economic, social and environmental implications* Explores and analyzes the debates surrounding biofuels, offering authoritative conclusionsThe world is on the verge of an unprecedented increase in the production and use of biofuels for transport. The combination of rising oil prices, issues of security, climate instability and pollution, deepening poverty in rural and agricultural areas, and a host of improved technologies, is propelling governments to enact powerful incentives for the use of these fuels, which is in turn sparking investment.Biofuels for Transport is a unique and comprehensive assessment of the opportunities and risks of the large-scale production of biofuels, which demystifies complex questions and concerns, such as the “food v. fuel” debate. Global in scope, it is further informed by five country studies from Brazil, China, Germany, India and Tanzania. The authors conclude that biofuels will play a significant role in our energy future, but warn that the large-scale use of biofuels carries risks that require focused and immediate policy initiatives.

Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa $39.95 Energy crises and climate change have generated global demands for alternative non-fossil fuel sources. This has led to a rapid increase of investments in production of liquid biofuels based on agricultural feed stocks such as sugar cane. Most African governments see biofuels as a potential for increasing agricultural productivity and export incomes and thus strengthening their national economies, improving energy balances and rural employment. At the same time climate change may be addressed through reduction of green house gas emissions. There are, however, a number of uncertainties mounting that challenge this scenario. Using in-depth African case studies — with Brazil as a comparative reference — this book addresses this knowledge gap by examining the impacts of large-scale biofuel production on African agriculture, particularly with regard to vital land outsourcing and food security issues. The surge for African biofuels has also opened space for private investors — both domestic and external — to multiply and network “independently” of the state. The biofuel expansion thus generates new economic alliances and production relations, resulting in new forms of inclusions and exclusions within the rural population. This is an essential book for anyone wishing to understand the startling impact of biofuels on Africa.

Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa $85.31 Energy crises and climate change have generated global demands for alternative non-fossil fuel sources. This has led to a rapid increase of investments in production of liquid biofuels based on agricultural feed stocks such as sugar cane. Most African governments see biofuels as a potential for increasing agricultural productivity and export incomes and thus strengthening their national economies, improving energy balances and rural employment. At the same time climate change may be addressed through reduction of green house gas emissions. There are, however, a number of uncertainties mounting that challenge this scenario. Using in-depth African case studies — with Brazil as a comparative reference — this book addresses this knowledge gap by examining the impacts of large-scale biofuel production on African agriculture, particularly with regard to vital land outsourcing and food security issues. The surge for African biofuels has also opened space for private investors — both domestic and external — to multiply and network “independently” of the state. The biofuel expansion thus generates new economic alliances and production relations, resulting in new forms of inclusions and exclusions within the rural population. This is an essential book for anyone wishing to understand the startling impact of biofuels on Africa.

Biomethane $29.98 The production of biomethane, the renewable version of natural gas, from the biological conversion of organic matter at an industrial scale is fast advancing in several areas of the world. A confluence of factors is fueling the rapid expansion: cost-reducing continuous advances in the technology that make biomethane competitive to fossil natural gas, the emerging concerns over global warming and the need for developing renewable energy resources, and the looming “peak oil” consequences on the international political-economic stability and in particular the national security of the United States and several major energy importing nations. All types of organic wastes generated by our advanced society, as well as dedicated energy cash crops, can be and are employed separately or combined to produce this renewable fuel. Unlike other biofuels derived from limited food crops, biomethane is a universal natural fuel that is produced in a sustainable fashion because organic fertilizer as a coproduct of the conversion process is used to grow optimally the employed energy crops. Biomethane can be most effectively utilized as a replacement of gasoline and diesel in the transportation sector and is the only practical solution to do so in the foreseeable future. A biomethane-based road transportation system in the United States can generate over 1 trillion dollars in economic output and support 10 million direct and indirect “green” jobs in manufacturing, engineering, construction, farming, and services. Vision and political will are sufficient to mobilize the vast American natural resources, know-how and economy in order to effect full transition from oil dependency to an indigenous biomethane economy within twenty years.

Biomethane $17.19 The production of biomethane, the renewable version of natural gas, from the biological conversion of organic matter at an industrial scale is fast advancing in several areas of the world. A confluence of factors is fueling the rapid expansion: cost-reducing continuous advances in the technology that make biomethane competitive to fossil natural gas, the emerging concerns over global warming and the need for developing renewable energy resources, and the looming “peak oil” consequences on the international political-economic stability and in particular the national security of the United States and several major energy importing nations. All types of organic wastes generated by our advanced society, as well as dedicated energy cash crops, can be and are employed separately or combined to produce this renewable fuel. Unlike other biofuels derived from limited food crops, biomethane is a universal natural fuel that is produced in a sustainable fashion because organic fertilizer as a coproduct of the conversion process is used to grow optimally the employed energy crops. Biomethane can be most effectively utilized as a replacement of gasoline and diesel in the transportation sector and is the only practical solution to do so in the foreseeable future. A biomethane-based road transportation system in the United States can generate over 1 trillion dollars in economic output and support 10 million direct and indirect “green” jobs in manufacturing, engineering, construction, farming, and services. Vision and political will are sufficient to mobilize the vast American natural resources, know-how and economy in order to effect full transition from oil dependency to an indigenous biomethane economy within twenty years.

Biosafety $37.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Biosafety prevention of large-scale loss of biological integrity, focusing both on ecology and human health. Biosafety is related to several fields in ecology (referring to imported life forms from beyond ecoregion borders), in agriculture (reducing the risk of alien viral or transgenic genes, or prions such as BSE/”MadCow”, reducing the risk of food bacterial contamination) in medicine (referring to organs or tissues from biological origin, or genetic therapy products, virus; levels of lab containment protocols measured as 1, 2, 3, 4 in rising order of danger), in chemistry (i.e., nitrates in water, PCB levels affecting fertility) and in exobiology (i.e., NASA’s policy for containing alien microbes that may exist on space samples – sometimes called “biosafety level 5″). The international Biosafety Protocol deals primarily with the agricultural definition but many advocacy groups seek to expand it to include post-genetic threats: new molecules, artificial life forms, and even robots which may compete directly in the natural food chain.

Biotransformations And Bioprocesses $229.95 From the laboratory to full-scale commercial production, this reference provides a clear and in-depth analysis of bioreactor design and operation and encompasses critical aspects of the biocatalytic manufacturing process. It clarifies principles in reaction and biochemical engineering, synthetic and biotransformation chemistry, and biocell and enzyme kinetics for successful applications of biocatalysis and bioprocess technologies in the food, chiral drug, vitamin, pharmaceutical, and animal feed industries. Studying reactions from small to supramolecules, this reference provides an abundant display of end-of-chapter problems to sharpen understanding of key concepts presented in the text.

Biotransformations And Bioprocesses $199.95 From the laboratory to full-scale commercial production, this reference provides a clear and in-depth analysis of bioreactor design and operation and encompasses critical aspects of the biocatalytic manufacturing process. It clarifies principles in reaction and biochemical engineering, synthetic and biotransformation chemistry, and biocell and enzyme kinetics for successful applications of biocatalysis and bioprocess technologies in the food, chiral drug, vitamin, pharmaceutical, and animal feed industries. Studying reactions from small to supramolecules, this reference provides an abundant display of end-of-chapter problems to sharpen understanding of key concepts presented in the text.

Bowlker’s Art Of Angling $21.95 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:The ALPINE TEOUT, or GILT CHAEE, abounds in the lakes of Ulswater and Winander- mere, in Westmoreland, and in the lakes of Llyn Quellyn, near the foot of Snowdon, in North Wales; it is in length about twelve inches; its colour silvery, with the back strongly tinged with olive- green, and the sides thickly freckled with very minute bright-red and blackish specks; its head very large, and scales very small: on the whole it ia similar to the common Trout, only rather broader. Those which inhabit the clearest and coldest waters are observed to be of the richest colours. It is a fish of great delicacy of flavour, and much esteemed as food. The Alpine Trout may be successfully angled for with any of the Trout baits, but more particularly with the fly. The GFWINIAD inhabits the same lakes as the Alpine Trout, and is to be found in some of the northern rivers; it resembles the common Trout in shape, but is thicker in proportion; its length is from ten to twelve inches; the head is small and very taper in front, the upper lip extending considerably beyond the lower, so that the mouth, which is small, appears placed beneath; the general colour of it is a silvery grey, with a dusky tinge on the upper parts, and the base of each scale marked by a dusky speck; the fins are pale brown, the tail forked; and the scales large. In rivers, at the time of spawning, which is in December, it forces its way up the most violent streams, generally advancing in two ranges, and forming in front an acute angle, the whole being conducted by a single fish. The flesh of the Gwiniad has an insipid taste, and must be eaten soon after it is caught. This fish is to be angled for with the same baits, and tackle, as directed for Trout or Greyling. GEEYLINGk The Grey ling is of a very elegant form, a..

Bowlker’s Art Of Angling; Containing Directions For Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Making Artficial Flies, &C. $14.53 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:The ALPINE TEOUT, or GILT CHAEE, abounds in the lakes of Ulswater and Winander- mere, in Westmoreland, and in the lakes of Llyn Quellyn, near the foot of Snowdon, in North Wales; it is in length about twelve inches; its colour silvery, with the back strongly tinged with olive- green, and the sides thickly freckled with very minute bright-red and blackish specks; its head very large, and scales very small: on the whole it ia similar to the common Trout, only rather broader. Those which inhabit the clearest and coldest waters are observed to be of the richest colours. It is a fish of great delicacy of flavour, and much esteemed as food. The Alpine Trout may be successfully angled for with any of the Trout baits, but more particularly with the fly. The GFWINIAD inhabits the same lakes as the Alpine Trout, and is to be found in some of the northern rivers; it resembles the common Trout in shape, but is thicker in proportion; its length is from ten to twelve inches; the head is small and very taper in front, the upper lip extending considerably beyond the lower, so that the mouth, which is small, appears placed beneath; the general colour of it is a silvery grey, with a dusky tinge on the upper parts, and the base of each scale marked by a dusky speck; the fins are pale brown, the tail forked; and the scales large. In rivers, at the time of spawning, which is in December, it forces its way up the most violent streams, generally advancing in two ranges, and forming in front an acute angle, the whole being conducted by a single fish. The flesh of the Gwiniad has an insipid taste, and must be eaten soon after it is caught. This fish is to be angled for with the same baits, and tackle, as directed for Trout or Greyling. GEEYLINGk The Grey ling is of a very elegant form, a..

Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens $35 Alan and Daniel have teamed up to write this thoughtful, entertaining, and authoritative book that shows you how to bake superb healthful bread and build your own masonry oven. The first half of The Bread Builders talks about grains and flours, leavens and doughs, the chemistry of bread, and the physics of baking. The second half provides a step-by-step guide to constructing a masonry oven, in typical Chelsea Green style. The authors also profile more than a dozen small-scale bakers around the U.S. whose practices embody the holistic principles of community-oriented baking based on whole grains and natural leavens.The Bread Builders will appeal, to a broad range of readers, including: — Connoisseurs of good bread and good food.– Home bakers interested in taking their bread and pizza to the next level of excellence.– Passionate bakers who fantasize about making a living by starting their own small bakery.– Do-it-yourselfers looking for the next small construction project.– Small-scale commercial bakers seeking inspiration, the most up-to-date about the entire bread-baking process and a marketing edge.

Bulk Solids Handling: Equipment Selection and Operation $190 Handling of powders and bulk solids is a critical industrial technology across a broad spectrum of industries, from minerals processing to bulk and fine chemicals, and the food and pharmaceutical industries.Bulk Solids Handling: Equipment Selection and Operation provides an overview of the major technologies involved in the storage and handling of particulate materials from large grains to fine cohesive materials. Topics covered include characterisation of individual particles and bulk particulate materials, silo design for strength and flow, pneumatic conveying systems, mechanical conveying, and small scale operations. Guidance is given on appropriate equipment choices depending on the type of material to be handled, and applications and limitations of current bulk solids handling equipment are discussed. The reader will then be in a better position to diagnose solids handling and processing problems in industry, and to deal with experts and equipment suppliers from an informed standpoint. With contributions from leading academic and industry experts, the book is essential for anyone who has responsibility for handling, storage, processing or production involving particulate materials. It is designed to be equally applicable to engineers, scientists and technologists, working in for example agriculture, construction, food, bulk and fine chemicals industries, minerals and metals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and waste handling.

Bycatch in Small-Scale Tuna Fisheries: A Global Study $25.98 Robert Gillett,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FA

Caring for Your Pet Bird: A Practical Handbook $8.99 This handbook is the complete reference guide for anyone who is interested in keeping birds, regardless of the scale of their project. It offers useful advice for the setting up and maintaining of all caged bird environments; from a small cage to a highly populated aviary. All the key areas related to caring for birds are covered, including accommodation, food, health and breeding.

Celebrating community and cuisine: Tradition and change in the Sagre Festival in Italy. $49.99 Studies of festival in Italy have tended to focus on the expression of group identity. This identity is often linked with the preparation and presentation of traditional foods. Although the community effort involved to organize and participate in large scale festivals is notable, few works have centered on the meanings and symbolism associated with the individuals involved in these events. This study examines a particular festival, the Sagre, in the northern region of Piedmont, Italy and the complexities of the communities and individuals that participate in it. The Sagre is a fair for some forty villages neighboring the city of Asti to bring their traditions, both gastronomic and agricultural, to the city. It includes the serving of food in addition to a live exhibit of the past: a pageant re-creating the traditional life ways of la campagna, the countryside. The two main attractions of the event, the food and the pageant, both function in expressing and strengthening regional identity in various ways, not to mention the preservation of a nostalgic relationship with the past. Moreover, the festival provides participants with feelings of personal satisfaction, opportunities for social bonding and emotional benefits. The study of the Sagre also offers insight into the great appeal of the festival and its themes associated with a romanticized presentation of the past. Issues of re-creating the past within the liminal boundaries of festival and the preservation and creation of community identity are examined in a backdrop of globalization and tourism. In an area that is associated with industry, fashion and technology, the Sagre provides a class-bending display of the regional identity while allowing for the individuals involved a connection to the past and a means of expression. Through the use of ethnographic research, the complexities of both group and individual participation emerge in the analysis of this annual event.

Celebrating community and cuisine: Tradition and change in the Sagre Festival in Italy. $49.99 Studies of festival in Italy have tended to focus on the expression of group identity. This identity is often linked with the preparation and presentation of traditional foods. Although the community effort involved to organize and participate in large scale festivals is notable, few works have centered on the meanings and symbolism associated with the individuals involved in these events. This study examines a particular festival, the Sagre, in the northern region of Piedmont, Italy and the complexities of the communities and individuals that participate in it. The Sagre is a fair for some forty villages neighboring the city of Asti to bring their traditions, both gastronomic and agricultural, to the city. It includes the serving of food in addition to a live exhibit of the past: a pageant re-creating the traditional life ways of la campagna, the countryside. The two main attractions of the event, the food and the pageant, both function in expressing and strengthening regional identity in various ways, not to mention the preservation of a nostalgic relationship with the past. Moreover, the festival provides participants with feelings of personal satisfaction, opportunities for social bonding and emotional benefits. The study of the Sagre also offers insight into the great appeal of the festival and its themes associated with a romanticized presentation of the past. Issues of re-creating the past within the liminal boundaries of festival and the preservation and creation of community identity are examined in a backdrop of globalization and tourism. In an area that is associated with industry, fashion and technology, the Sagre provides a class-bending display of the regional identity while allowing for the individuals involved a connection to the past and a means of expression. Through the use of ethnographic research, the complexities of both group and individual participation emerge in the analysis of this annual event.

Cereals $14.13 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cereal, Oat, Millet, Rye, Teff, Sorghum, Buckwheat, Triticale, Thatching, Avena, Triticeae, Commercial Sorghum, Thinopyrum Intermedium, Cereal Germ, Whole Grain, Semolina, Job’s Tears, Bran, Zadoks Scale, Sweet Sorghum, Rolled Oats, Refined Grains, Canary Grass, Distichlis Palmeri, Grist, Steel-Cut Oats, Whole Grain Stamp, Freekeh, Farro, Grit, Bombay Rava, Sudan Grass, Durra, Brose, Groat, Winter Cereals, Canjica, Rye Flakes. Excerpt: × Triticale Tscherm.-Seys. ex Müntzing Triticale (× Triticosecale) is a hybrid of wheat (Triticum) and rye (Secale) first bred in laboratories during the late 19th century. The grain was originally bred in Scotland and Sweden. Commercially available triticale is almost always a 2nd generation hybrid, i.e. a cross between two kinds of triticale (primary triticales). As a rule, triticale combines the high yield potential and good grain quality of wheat with the disease and environmental tolerance (including soil conditions) of rye. Only recently has it been developed into a commercially viable crop. Depending on the cultivar, triticale can more or less resemble either of its parents. It is grown mostly for forage or fodder although some triticale-based foods can be purchased at health food stores or are to be found in some breakfast cereals. When crossing wheat and rye, wheat is used as the female parent and rye as the male parent (pollen donor). The resulting hybrid is sterile and has to be treated with colchicine to induce polyploidy and thus the ability to reproduce itself. The primary producers of triticale are Poland, Australia, Germany, France, China and Belarus. In 2005, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 13.5 million tons were harvested in 28 countries across the world. The tritical… More:

Certifiably Sustainable?: The Role of Third-Party Certification Systems: Report of a Workshop $32.78 Consumption of goods and services represents a growing share of global economic activity. In the United States, consumption accounts for more than two-thirds of gross domestic product. This trend of increasing consumption has brought with it negative consequences for the environment and human well-being. Global demand for energy, food, and all manner of goods is on the rise, putting strains on the natural and human capital required to produce them. Extractive industries and production processes are prominent causes of species endangerment. Modern economies are underpinned by substantial energy consumption, a primary contributor to the current climate crisis. Expanding international trade has led to many economic opportunities, but has also contributed to unfair labor practices and wealth disparities. While certain processes have improved or become more efficient, and certain practices have been outlawed or amended, the sheer scale of global consumption and its attendant impacts continue to be major challenges we face in the transition to sustainability. Third-party certification systems have emerged over the last 15 years as a tool with some promise. There has been anecdotal evidence of success, but to date the overall impact of certified goods and services has been small. Moreover, definitions of sustainable vary across sectors and markets, and rigorous assessments of these programs have been few and far between. In order to take a step in learning from this field of practice, the National Academies’ Science and Technology for Sustainability Program held a workshop to illuminate the decision making process of those who purchase and produce certified goods and services. It was also intended to help clarify the scope and limitations of the scientific knowledge that might contribute to the economic success of certified products. The workshop, summarized in this volume, involved presentations and discussions with approximately 40 invited experts

Chemical Plant $59.99 A chemical plant is an industrial process plant that manufactures chemicals, usually on a large scale. The general objective of a chemical plant is to create new material wealth via the chemical or biological transformation and or separation of materials. Chemical plants use special equipment, units, and technology in the processes. Other kinds of plants, such as polymer, pharmaceutical, food, and some beverage production facilities, power plants, oil refineries or other refineries, natural gas processing and biochemical plants, water and wastewater treatment, and pollution control equipment use many technologies which have similarities to chemical plant technology such as fluid systems. Some would consider an oil refinery or a pharmaceutical or polymer manufacturer to be effectively a chemical plant.

Chemical and Biological Microsensors: Applications in Fluid Media $150 This book reviews the state of art in the field of chemical sensors for analyses of ionic or molecular species dissolved in liquid media, mainly in aqueous solutions. The transduction of such devices is based on chemical, biological and physical phenomena. The fundamental phenomena involved in these sensors are described in the different chapters by specialists having a good expertise in the field. Numerous recent bibliographic references are given. Most of the devices could be miniaturised using modern technologies allowing a fabrication on a large scale, for a mass production at low cost. Moreover, such devices could open the field of applications in a near future (environmental, biomedical, food industries, domotic and automotive applications etc.).

Chicken Soup for the Dieter’s Soul Daily Inspirations $1.99 The Inspiration You Need to Make Healthy Habits Stick—for LifeMonday is for dieting. Tuesday is for cravings. Wednesday is for getting on the scale. And Thursday is for reflecting. Between struggling with cravings, deciphering nutrition labels, facing the scale, controlling portions, and setting realistic goals, it’s no wondermost diets fail . . . until now.With a dose of Chicken Soup (low-fat, of course!), you can: Control cravings Get back on track after straying Eat out—and enjoy it Set—and achieve—your weight-loss goals With tips, motivational messages, and an exercise, food, and mood tracking system, Chicken Soup for the Dieter’s Soul Daily Inspirations will help you tackle the issues on the way to a healthier you.

Chicken Soup for the Dieter’s Soul Daily Inspirations $14.95 The Inspiration You Need to Make Healthy Habits Stick—for LifeMonday is for dieting. Tuesday is for cravings. Wednesday is for getting on the scale. And Thursday is for reflecting. Between struggling with cravings, deciphering nutrition labels, facing the scale, controlling portions, and setting realistic goals, it’s no wondermost diets fail . . . until now.With a dose of Chicken Soup (low-fat, of course!), you can: Control cravings Get back on track after straying Eat out—and enjoy it Set—and achieve—your weight-loss goals With tips, motivational messages, and an exercise, food, and mood tracking system, Chicken Soup for the Dieter’s Soul Daily Inspirations will help you tackle the issues on the way to a healthier you.

Child cognitive development as examined using the Family Stress Model. $49.99 This study used the Family Stress Model to investigate the relationship between economic distress and child cognitive development. A number of family and community processes have been theorized to mediate the relationship between income and child cognitive functioning. Warm parenting, parental stress, and punitive parenting practices were examined as possible mediators in a sample of 12,440 kindergarten children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study — Kindergarten (ECLS-K). Cognitive development was evaluated by reading and mathematical standardized tests, and economic distress was measured using the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Insecurity Scale. The results of this study found support for the link between economic distress and all three described parenting practices. However, this study was not able to validate the idea behind the Family Stress Model which proposes that the link between financial distress and child cognitive development is mediated by parenting practices. In addition, further results did not support the notion that financial problems have a longitudinal influence on child cognitive development.

Child cognitive development as examined using the Family Stress Model. $49.99 This study used the Family Stress Model to investigate the relationship between economic distress and child cognitive development. A number of family and community processes have been theorized to mediate the relationship between income and child cognitive functioning. Warm parenting, parental stress, and punitive parenting practices were examined as possible mediators in a sample of 12,440 kindergarten children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study — Kindergarten (ECLS-K). Cognitive development was evaluated by reading and mathematical standardized tests, and economic distress was measured using the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Insecurity Scale. The results of this study found support for the link between economic distress and all three described parenting practices. However, this study was not able to validate the idea behind the Family Stress Model which proposes that the link between financial distress and child cognitive development is mediated by parenting practices. In addition, further results did not support the notion that financial problems have a longitudinal influence on child cognitive development.

Chiral Separation Techniques: A Practical Approach $259 Chirality describes the fact that a particular molecule can have a “right-hand” structure or its mirrored “left-hand” structure, both of which may display very different characteristics. For example, a “right-hand” structure can be an important active substance for a drug while its “left-hand” variation is highly toxic. For this reason, chiral separation techniques are indispensable for production and safety testing in biotechnology, food and pharmaceutical industries.Thoroughly revised, with either entirely new or completely updated contents, this is a practical manual for the small and large-scale preparation of enantiomerically pure products. The result is a vital resource for meeting the highest purity standards in the manufacture of chiral pharmaceuticals, food additives and related compounds. All the approaches covered here are highly relevant to modern manufacturing and quality control schemes in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, addressing the increasingly important issue of drug safety in view of tougher regulatory standards worldwide.

Chirality in Industry II: Developments in the Manufacture and Applications of Optically Active Compounds $339 This second volume of Chirality in Industry contains new case histories from a wide range of contributors from industry or with strong industrial connections. While it is intended that the new volume will stand on its own, Volumes I and II taken together present an up-to-date and comprehensive picture of the technologies required to produce optically active compounds on a multi-kilogramme to high tonnage scale as well as illustrating the breadth of application of these technologies; the pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, electronics, food, flavour and fragrance industries are all represented. Chirality in Industry IIAll new case historiesUnique industrial perspective on chiral technologyEmphasis on scale-up and process developmentComparison of biocatalysis, asymmetric synthesis and classical resolution approachesThe ‘chiral infrastructure’ is now largely in place and there is no reason why large-scale production should not be possible for even moderately priced single enantiomer products. The successful industrial application of ‘chiral chemistry’ depends on the integration of a range of supporting technologies and there are many examples in this volume of how widely the industrial practitioner must cast the net to achieve practical production methods. As with Volume I, this new volume is of particular interest to those professionally involved in the scale-up processes for single enantiomers. However, students and researchers involved in a more academic pursuit of optical activity will also benefit from some of the facets of "large-scale" thinking. An economic solution is still most likely to be a simple, elegant solution.

Choosing and Keeping Pigs $1.99 Everything you need to know about small-scale pig keeping, either for food or as a pet.

Climate Change And Agriculture $95.1 Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale. Global warming is projected to have significant impacts on conditions affecting agriculture, including temperature, carbon dioxide, glacial run-off, precipitation and the interaction of these elements. These conditions determine the carrying capacity of the biosphere to produce enough food for the human population and domesticated animals. The overall effect of climate change on agriculture will depend on the balance of these effects. Assessment of the effects of global climate changes on agriculture might help to properly anticipate and adapt farming to maximize agricultural production. At the same time, agriculture has been shown to produce significant effects on climate change, primarily through the production and release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, but also by altering the Earth’s land cover, which can change its ability to absorb or reflect heat and light, thus contributing to radiative forcing.

Cloud Peak $9.99 The year is 2028. Two doctors from Kalamazoo, Michigan, husband and wife are caught up in an unimaginable holocaust engulfing the world—the Nazi Third Reich revived and ruled by the Fuehrer on a planetary scale. For years Ethan and Elizabeth had sensed that these troubles were coming and had done all they could to prepare, storing guns and ammo, food and clothing, medicines, survival gear of all kinds in a cave in the Big Horn Mountains on the slopes of Cloud Peak in Wyoming. Both of them pilots, they had purchased an airplane, believing they would escape in it together and fly to Cloud Peak. But they had to separate that hot, humid August night when they made their grand get-away.Is this the time predicted by the Hebrew prophets? Is this the time predicted by the New Testament apostles? Is this the Apocalypse? Is this how it will look when it happens?And how would you handle things if you found yourself and your loved ones also caught up in a tragedy of this magnitude? How would I handle it? These are difficult questions to ask and even more difficult, perhaps, to answer. Truth be told, there are no easy answers.Come and see what happened to Ethan and Elizabeth, the two doctors from Kalamazoo in the year 2028 and beyond. Come and live through it with them,come and suffer with them, weep with them, be joyful with them, be sad, be weary, be hopeful, be glad and thankful with them; come and lose everything with them, come and triumph with them. Come and see…Frank Willard is my pen name for CLOUD PEAK, my first venture into the suspense-thriller genre. And what better scenario could there be for this genre than the end of the world as we know it? Admittedly, I had always wanted to address the subject of the Apocalypse and finally I have via this novel and its sequel which I hope to begin soon. Perhaps there will be sequels after sequels, the theme of the Apocalypse being vast and endless and the possibilities for more suspense-thrillers being vast

Cloud Peak $27.53 The year is 2028. Two doctors from Kalamazoo, Michigan, husband and wife are caught up in an unimaginable holocaust engulfing the world—the Nazi Third Reich revived and ruled by the Fuehrer on a planetary scale. For years Ethan and Elizabeth had sensed that these troubles were coming and had done all they could to prepare, storing guns and ammo, food and clothing, medicines, survival gear of all kinds in a cave in the Big Horn Mountains on the slopes of Cloud Peak in Wyoming. Both of them pilots, they had purchased an airplane, believing they would escape in it together and fly to Cloud Peak. But they had to separate that hot, humid August night when they made their grand get-away.Is this the time predicted by the Hebrew prophets? Is this the time predicted by the New Testament apostles? Is this the Apocalypse? Is this how it will look when it happens?And how would you handle things if you found yourself and your loved ones also caught up in a tragedy of this magnitude? How would I handle it? These are difficult questions to ask and even more difficult, perhaps, to answer. Truth be told, there are no easy answers.Come and see what happened to Ethan and Elizabeth, the two doctors from Kalamazoo in the year 2028 and beyond. Come and live through it with them,come and suffer with them, weep with them, be joyful with them, be sad, be weary, be hopeful, be glad and thankful with them; come and lose everything with them, come and triumph with them. Come and see…Frank Willard is my pen name for CLOUD PEAK, my first venture into the suspense-thriller genre. And what better scenario could there be for this genre than the end of the world as we know it? Admittedly, I had always wanted to address the subject of the Apocalypse and finally I have via this novel and its sequel which I hope to begin soon. Perhaps there will be sequels after sequels, the theme of the Apocalypse being vast and endless and the possibilities for more suspense-thrillers being vast

Confectionery and Chocolate Engineering: Principles and Applications $259.95 Confectionery and chocolate manufacture has been dominated by large-scale industrial processing for several decades. It is often the case, though, that a trial and error approach is applied to the development of new products and processes, rather than verified scientific principles.The purpose of this book is to describe the features of unit operations used in confectionary manufacturing. In contrast to the common technology-focused approach to this subject, this volume offers a scientific, theoretical account of confectionery manufacture, building on the scientific background of chemical engineering. The large diversity of both raw materials and end products in the confectionery industry makes it beneficial to approach the subject in this way. The industry deals with a variety of vegetable based raw materials as well as milk products, eggs, gelatin, and other animal-based raw materials. A study of confectionery and chocolate engineering must therefore examine the physical and chemical, as well as the biochemical and microbiological properties of the processed materials. By characterizing the unit operations of confectionery manufacture the author, who has over 40 years’ experience in confectionery manufacture, aims to open up new possibilities for improvement relating to increased efficiency of operations, the use of new materials, and new applications for traditional raw materials.The book is aimed at food engineers, scientists, technologists in research and industry, as well as graduate students on relevant food and chemical engineering-related courses.

Confectionery and Chocolate Engineering: Principles and Applications $201.45 Confectionery and chocolate manufacture has been dominated by large-scale industrial processing for several decades. It is often the case, though, that a trial and error approach is applied to the development of new products and processes, rather than verified scientific principles.The purpose of this book is to describe the features of unit operations used in confectionary manufacturing. In contrast to the common technology-focused approach to this subject, this volume offers a scientific, theoretical account of confectionery manufacture, building on the scientific background of chemical engineering. The large diversity of both raw materials and end products in the confectionery industry makes it beneficial to approach the subject in this way. The industry deals with a variety of vegetable based raw materials as well as milk products, eggs, gelatin, and other animal-based raw materials. A study of confectionery and chocolate engineering must therefore examine the physical and chemical, as well as the biochemical and microbiological properties of the processed materials. By characterizing the unit operations of confectionery manufacture the author, who has over 40 years’ experience in confectionery manufacture, aims to open up new possibilities for improvement relating to increased efficiency of operations, the use of new materials, and new applications for traditional raw materials.The book is aimed at food engineers, scientists, technologists in research and industry, as well as graduate students on relevant food and chemical engineering-related courses.

Consuming Geographies $135 Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives, yet the ways we think about shopping, cooking and eating are actually intensely reflexive. The daily pick and mix of our eating habits is one way we experience spatial scale. From the relationship of our food intake to our body-shape, to the impact of our tastes upon global food-production regimes, we all read food consumption as a practice which impacts on our sense of place.Drawing on anthropological, sociological and cultural readings of food consumption, as well as empirical material on shopping, cooking, food technology and the food media, this book demonstrates the importance of space and place in identity formation. We all think place (and) identity through food – we are where we eat!

Consumption, Space and Identity: We Are Where We Eat $67.95 Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives, yet the ways we think about shopping, cooking and eating are actually intensely reflexive. The daily pick and mix of our eating habits is one way we experience spatial scale. From the relationship of our food intake to our body-shape, to the impact of our tastes upon global food-production regimes, we all read food consumption as a practice which impacts on our sense of place.Drawing on anthropological, sociological and cultural readings of food consumption, as well as empirical material on shopping, cooking, food technology and the food media, this book demonstrates the importance of space and place in identity formation. We all think place (and) identity through food – we are where we eat!