Agroforestry – the practice of growing trees and crops in interacting combinations – is recognized the world over as an integrated approach to sustainable land-use. Agroforestry systems, being multifunctional, facilitate not only the production of food and wood products but also provide a variety of ecosystem services such as climate-change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and soil quality improvement. Agroforestry research has made rapid strides since organized efforts started in the late 1970s. Today, a vast body of scientific knowledge and an impressive array of publications on agroforestry are available. Four World Congresses on Agroforestry conducted once every five years since 2004 have brought together the global community of agroforestry professionals and practitioners to share and discuss the emerging trends and paradigm shifts in this field. The fifth Congress is scheduled to be held in Québec, Canada. However, a comprehensive college-level textbook incorporating these research findings did not exist until this book was first published. The first edition of this book in 1993 (Nair, P. K. R., 1993) is out of print and somewhat dated. This revised edition, with emphasis on the scientific developments during the past more than four decades, addresses this long-felt need.
From the dawn of civilization to date, almost all thinkers, intellectuals, philosophers and visionaries were skeptics, agnostics or non-believers. God and religion is an intellectual bankruptcy, erupted out of ignorance and fear, the earlier we get rid of it, the better it would be for human beings on this planet. It has already done enormous damage to our lives and spirit of universal brotherhood and enquiry and promoted and practiced revenge and hatred. Let us stop bloodshed in its name. But for that you would have to free the world of this man-made evil.
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of complex issues, constructs, and interventions that deal with human-social problems with global implications. It posits social development theory and practice in a critically important context challenging the scientific orthodoxy of our times.
The book is The Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson - A Thematic Study explores Sherwood Anderson as a prolific, profound, provocative and perceptive writer of short stories. Some of the more pronounced themes of Sherwood Anderson are human loneliness and isolation, inarticulateness and failure of communication, thwarted potential, frustrated, defeated, unfulfilled and unlived lives, longing for and loss of love, sex and repression because of taboos, grotesques, outmoded conventions and false notions, breakdown of human relationships, the dichotomy between appearance and reality, confusion of value, search for enduring values in a materialistic world, goal and purpose of life, adolescents growth and maturity, artist's sense of alienation in a commercial setup etc.
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