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Principles of Plant Nutrition

By: Konrad Mengel,Ernest A. Kirkby

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This is the 5th edition of a well-established book Principles of Plant Nutrition which was first published in 1978. The same format is maintained as in previous editions with the primary aim of the authors to consider major processes in soils and plants that are of relevance to plant nutrition.This new edition gives an up-to-date account of the scientific advances of the subject by making reference to about 2000 publications. An outstanding feature of the book, which distinguishes it from others, is its wide approach encompassing not only basic nutrition and physiology, but also practical aspects of plant nutrition involving fertilizer usage and crop production of direct importance to human nutrition. Recognizing the international readership of the book, the authors, as in previous editions, have attempted to write in a clear concise style of English for the benefit of the many readers for whom English is not their mother tongue. The book will be of use to undergraduates and postgraduates in Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry and Ecology as well as those researching in Plant Nutrition.

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9401010099

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Principles of Plant Nutrition

By: Konrad Mengel (etc),Ernest A. Kirkby

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Principles of Plant Nutrition

By: Konrad Mengel (etc),Ernest A. Kirkby

Plant nutrition; The soil as a plant nutrient medium; Nutrient uptake and assimilation; Plant water relationships; Plant growth and crop production; Fertilizer application; Nitrogen; Sulphur; Phosphorus; Potassium; Calcium; Magnesium; Iron; Manganese; Zinc; Copper; Molybdenum; Boron; Further elements of importance; Elements with more toxic effects.

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1402000081

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Engineering Hydrology for Natural Resources Engineers

By: Ernest W. Tollner

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Engineering Hydrology for Natural Resources Engineers

By: Ernest W. Tollner

This fully revised edition provides a modern overview of the intersection of hydrology, water quality, and water management at the rural-urban interface. The book explores the ecosystem services available in wetlands, natural channels and ponds/lakes. As in the first edition, Part I examines the hydrologic cycle by providing strategies for quantifying each component: rainfall (with NOAH 14), infiltration, evapotranspiration and runoff. Part II examines field and farm scale water quality with an introduction to erosion prediction and water quality. Part III provides a concise examination of water management on the field and farm scale, emphasizing channel design, field control structures, measurement structures, groundwater processes and irrigation principles. Part IV then concludes the text with a treatment of basin-scale processes. A comprehensive suite of software tools is available for download, consisting of Excel spreadsheets, with some public domain models such as HY-8 culvert design, and software with public domain readers such as Mathematica, Maple and TK solver.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118928725

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9781118928721

Comparative Development Experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia

An Institutional Approach

By: Ernest Aryeetey

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Comparative Development Experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia

An Institutional Approach

By: Ernest Aryeetey

Title first publishedin 2003. This comprehensive book focuses on the prevailing conditions in Asia and Africa under various macroeconomic and sectoral themes in order to provide in depth explanations for the divergent development experiences of the two regions. Seeking to go further than the simple comparison of policies, the book carefully examines the institutional context for policy implementation within which growth and development have proceeded in the regions.

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Routledge

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1351773682

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A First French Reading Book. Containing Fables, Anecdotes, Inventions, Discoveries, Natural History, French History, with Grammatical Questions and Notes and a Copious Etymological Dictionary

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By: William Smith,Philip Ernest Brette

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A First French Reading Book. Containing Fables, Anecdotes, Inventions, Discoveries, Natural History, French History, with Grammatical Questions and Notes and a Copious Etymological Dictionary

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By: William Smith,Philip Ernest Brette

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385499704

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Top 100 Exotic Food Plants

By: Ernest Small

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Top 100 Exotic Food Plants

By: Ernest Small

Many edible plants considered exotic in the Western world are actually quite mainstream in other cultures. While some of these plants are only encountered in ethnic food markets or during travels to foreign lands, many are now finding their way onto supermarket shelves. Top 100 Exotic Food Plants provides comprehensive coverage of tropical and semi

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CRC Press

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1439856885

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A Case for Shareholders' Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia

By: Ernest Lim

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A Case for Shareholders' Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia

By: Ernest Lim

Reconceptualises the general meeting, controlling shareholders and institutional investors as fiduciaries in four leading common law Asian jurisdictions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108426581

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The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912-1920

By: George Ernest Morrison

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The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912-1920

By: George Ernest Morrison

Originally published in 1978, this is the second of two volumes of the selected letters of George Ernest Morrison, The Times correspondent in China in the late Imperial and early Republican period. Few people were in a better position to observe and comment on the events of those years. The first volume of Correspondence ends with the revolution and the collapse of the Manchu dynasty in 1912. The second volume covers Morrison's career as political advisor to the first President of the Republic of China until his death in 1920.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521215617

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9780521215619

Ecclesiastical Colony

China's Catholic Church and the French Religious Protectorate

By: Ernest P. Young

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Ecclesiastical Colony

China's Catholic Church and the French Religious Protectorate

By: Ernest P. Young

The French Religious Protectorate was an institutionalized and enduring policy of the French government, based on a claim by the French state to be guardian of all Catholics in China. The expansive nature of the Protectorate's claim across nationalities elicited opposition from official and ordinary Chinese, other foreign countries, and even the pope. Yet French authorities believed their Protectorate was essential to their political prominence in the country. This book examines the dynamics of the French policy, the supporting role played in it by ecclesiastical authority, and its function in embittering Sino-foreign relations. In the 1910s, the dissidence of some missionaries and Chinese Catholics introduced turmoil inside the church itself. The rebels viewed the link between French power and the foreign-run church as prejudicial to the evangelistic project. The issue came into the open in 1916, when French authorities seized territory in the city of Tianjin on the grounds of protecting Catholics. In response, many Catholics joined in a campaign of patriotic protest, which became linked to a movement to end the subordination of the Chinese Catholic clergy to foreign missionaries and to appoint Chinese bishops. With new leadership in the Vatican sympathetic to reforms, serious steps were taken from the late 1910s to establish a Chinese-led church, but foreign bishops, their missionary societies, and the French government fought back. During the 1930s, the effort to create an indigenous church stalled. It was less than halfway to realization when the Chinese Communist Party took power in 1949. Ecclesiastical Colony reveals the powerful personalities, major debates, and complex series of events behind the turmoil that characterized the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century experience of the Catholic church in China.

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Oxford University Press

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0199924627

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An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Vol. 2

By: Ernest Weekley

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An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Vol. 2

By: Ernest Weekley

The compiler of this dictionary of word and phrase origins and history was not only a linguist and a philologist but also a man of culture and wit. When he turned his attention, therefore, to the creation of an etymological dictionary for both specialists and non-specialists, the result was easily the finest such work ever prepared. Weekley's Dictionary is a work of thorough scholarship. It contains one of the largest lists of words and phrases to be found in any singly etymological dictionary — and considerably more material than in the standard concise edition, with fuller quotes and historical discussions. Included are most of the more common words used in English as well as slang, archaic words, such formulas as "I. O. U.," made-up words (such as Carroll's "Jabberwock"), words coined from proper nouns, and so on. In each case, roots in Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Greek or Latin, Old and modern French, Anglo-Indian, etc., are identified; in hundreds of cases, especially odd or amusing listings, earliest known usage is mentioned and sense is indicated in quotations from Dickens, Shakespeare, Chaucer, "Piers Plowman," Defoe, O. Henry, Spenser, Byron, Kipling, and so on, and from contemporary newspapers, translations of the Bible, and dozens of foreign-language authors.

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0486122867

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In Defense of the World’s Most Despised Species

Why we love some species but hate most, and why it matters

By: Ernest Small

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In Defense of the World’s Most Despised Species

Why we love some species but hate most, and why it matters

By: Ernest Small

Some animals and plants injure or kill millions of people annually, others cause trillions of dollars in property damage and loss. Such harmful species are understandably hated. However, the vast majority of the planet’s millions of species are disliked simply because of how they look and act. This bias is endangering numerous species that play important roles in maintaining both the natural ecosystems and the human economies of the world. In Defense of the World’s Most Despised Species examines the psychological motivations that lead people to make judgments about the attractiveness of species, noting the overwhelming importance of visual cues. It describes in considerable detail the physical and behavioral traits of species that lead us to love or hate them. Full color illustrations throughout present beautiful, charming animals and plants, species that seem loathsome, behavior of people in relation to such divergent species and their characteristics, and numerous explanatory diagrams of relevant biological and psychological phenomena. The aim of this book is to give readers insights into how we humans arrive at biased judgments and to promote the welfare of valuable, albeit sometimes unlovable animals and plants that consequently suffer from discrimination. Many of the ugliest, most disgusting, and feared species, such as vultures, toads, hyenas, sharks, spiders, and even the vast majority of cockroaches, in reality are some of our most valuable friends. Features Theme of the book – human preferences for and against species – is novel, scarcely examined to date. Multidisciplinary analysis, especially psychology, biological conservation science, and ecology, as well as philosophy, agriculture, urban planning, human health, and law. Text is accessible, user-friendly, concise, and well-organized, making numerous complex topics comprehensible, readable not only by specialists, but also by students and the educated layperson. Includes over 2,000 high-quality, entertaining, and informative color figures.

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Comparative Development Experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia

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A First French Reading Book. Containing Fables, Anecdotes, Inventions, Discoveries, Natural History, French History, with Grammatical Questions and Notes and a Copious Etymological Dictionary

A First French Reading Book. Containing Fables, Anecdotes, Inventions, Discoveries, Natural History, French History, with Grammatical Questions and Notes and a Copious Etymological Dictionary

Top 100 Exotic Food Plants

Top 100 Exotic Food Plants

A Case for Shareholders' Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia

A Case for Shareholders' Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia

The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912-1920

The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912-1920

Ecclesiastical Colony

Ecclesiastical Colony

An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Vol. 2

An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Vol. 2

In Defense of the World’s Most Despised Species

In Defense of the World’s Most Despised Species

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