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Olive Production Manual for Oil

By: Selina C Wang,Louise Ferguson

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Olive Production Manual for Oil

By: Selina C Wang,Louise Ferguson

The olive oil industry in California has undergone a sea change over the last decade, with acreage of oil olives surpassing that of table olives. Now UC researchers and industry leaders turn their expertise to this important market. This extensive manual covers all aspects of olive production for oil, from orchard site selection to processing of virgin olive oil. Changes fueling the growth in production are covered, including establishing high-density and super high-density orchards, the latest methods of irrigation management, and harvesting methods. The concepts presented in the book are scalable, benefiting large and niche growers alike. Topics covered include: · International and California standards for olive oil grades · Soil and nutrient management · Canopy management · Anthropod pests, including the invasive olive fruit fly and the olive psyllid · Nematode pests · Diseases · Weed management · Spray application techniques · Harvesting efficiency Written in the easy-to-use style you’ve come to expect from UC ANR and accompanied by color photos, tables, and worksheets. Each chapter leads with a bullet list of key concepts covered in the chapter. This is a “must-have” manual for everyone in the olive oil industry.

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UCANR Publications

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1627111697

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9781627111690

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Management, Performance, and Applications

By: Jing (Selina) He,Mr. Shouling Ji,Yingshu Li,Yi Pan

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Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Management, Performance, and Applications

By: Jing (Selina) He,Mr. Shouling Ji,Yingshu Li,Yi Pan

Although wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been employed across a range of applications, there are few books available that cover the required algorithms, performance analysis, and applications of network management techniques in WSNs. Filling this need, this book presents new network management techniques that can address many of the shortcomings of traditional techniques. It summarizes traditional and classical network management techniques as well as state-of-the-art methods.

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370

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CRC Press

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1466556951

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9781466556959

And Man Created God

A History of the World at the Time of Jesus

By: Selina O'Grady

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And Man Created God

A History of the World at the Time of Jesus

By: Selina O'Grady

At the time of Jesus' birth , the world was full of gods. Thousands of them jostled, competed and merged with one another. In Syria ecstatic devotees castrated themselves in the streets to become priests of Atargatis In Galilee, holy men turned oil into wine, healed the sick, drove out devils, and claimed to be the Messiah. Every day thousands of people were leaving their family and tribes behind them and flocking into brand new multi-ethnic cities. The ancient world was in ferment as it underwent the first phase of globalisation, and in this ferment rulers and ruled turned to religion as a source of order and stability. Augustus, the first emperor of Rome (though he never dared officially to call himself so) was maneuvering his way to becoming worshipped as a god – it was one of the most brilliant makeovers ever undertaken by a ruler and his spin doctors. In North Africa, Amanirenas the warrior queen exploited her god-like status to inspire her armies to face and defeat Rome. In China the usurper Wang Mang won and lost his throne because of his obsession with Confucianism. To explore the power that religious belief has had over societies through the ages, Selina O'Grady takes the reader on a dazzling journey across the empires of the ancient world and introduces us to rulers, merchants, messiahs, priests and holy men. Throughout, she seeks to answer why, amongst the countless religious options available, the empires at the time of Jesus ‘chose' the religions they did? Why did China's rulers hitch their fate to Confucianism, a philosophy more than a religion? And why was a tiny Jewish cult led by Jesus eventually adopted by Rome's emperors rather than the cult of Isis which was far more popular and widespread? The Jesus cult , followed by no more than 100 people at the time of his death, should, by rights, have disappeared in a few generations. Instead it became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Why did Christianity grow so quickly to become the predominant world religion? What was it about its teachings that so appealed to people? And Man Created God looks at why and how religions have had such an immense impact on human history and in doing so uncovers the ineradicable connection between politics and religion - a connection which still defines us in our own age. This is an important, thrilling and necessary new work of history.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1250016827

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9781250016829

Thirsty Cities

Social Contracts and Public Goods Provision in China and India

By: Selina Ho

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Thirsty Cities

Social Contracts and Public Goods Provision in China and India

By: Selina Ho

Provides the answer to the enduring puzzle why India lags behind China in offering public goods to its people.

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313

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Cambridge University Press

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1108427820

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9781108427821

Building Temples in China

Memories, Tourism and Identities

By: Selina Ching Chan,Graeme Lang

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Building Temples in China

Memories, Tourism and Identities

By: Selina Ching Chan,Graeme Lang

Much has been written on how temples are constructed or reconstructed for reviving local religious and communal life or for recycling tradition after the market reforms in China. The dynamics between the state and society that lie behind the revival of temples and religious practices initiated by the locals have been well-analysed. However, there is a gap in the literature when it comes to understanding religious revivals that were instead led by local governments. This book examines the revival of worship of the Chinese Deity Huang Daxian and the building of many new temples to the god in mainland China over the last 20 years. It analyses the role of local governments in initiating temple construction projects in China, and how development-oriented temple-building activities in Mainland China reveal the forces of transnational ties, capital, markets and identities, as temples were built with the hope of developing tourism, boosting the local economy, and enhancing Chinese identities for Hong Kong worshippers and Taiwanese in response to the reunification of Hong Kong to China. Including chapters on local religious memory awakening, pilgrimage as a form of tourism, women temple managers, entrepreneurialism and the religious economy, and based on extensive fieldwork, Chan and Lang have produced a truly interdisciplinary follow up to The Rise of a Refugee God which will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese religion, Chinese culture, Asian anthropology, cultural heritage and Daoism alike.

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190

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Routledge

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1136171053

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9781136171055

Mark Twain in China

By: Selina Lai-Henderson

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Mark Twain in China

By: Selina Lai-Henderson

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a significant role in speaking for the Chinese people both at home and abroad. After his death, his Chinese adventures did not come to an end, for his body of works continued to travel through China in translation throughout the twentieth century. Were Twain alive today, he would be elated to know that he is widely studied and admired there, and that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn alone has gone through no less than ninety different Chinese translations, traversing China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Looking at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to events involving the American Chinese community and to the Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through translation, and China's reception of the author and his work, Mark Twain in China points to the repercussions of Twain in a global theater. It highlights the cultural specificity of concepts such as "race," "nation," and "empire," and helps us rethink their alternative legacies in countries with dramatically different racial and cultural dynamics from the United States.

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Stanford University Press

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0804794758

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9780804794756

Niche Evolution and Phylogenetic Community Paleoecology of Late Ordovician Crinoids

By: Selina R. Cole,David F. Wright

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Niche Evolution and Phylogenetic Community Paleoecology of Late Ordovician Crinoids

By: Selina R. Cole,David F. Wright

Fossil crinoids are exceptionally suited to deep-time studies of community paleoecology and niche partitioning. By merging ecomorphological trait and phylogenetic data, this Element summarizes niche occupation and community paleoecology of crinoids from the Bromide fauna of Oklahoma (Sandbian, Upper Ordovician). Patterns of community structure and niche evolution are evaluated over a ~5 million-year period through comparison with the Brechin Lagerstätte (Katian, Upper Ordovician). The authors establish filtration fan density, food size selectivity, and body size as major axes defining niche differentiation, and niche occupation is strongly controlled by phylogeny. Ecological strategies were relatively static over the study interval at high taxonomic scales, but niche differentiation and specialization increased in most subclades. Changes in disparity and species richness indicate the transition between the early-middle Paleozoic Crinoid Evolutionary Faunas was already underway by the Katian due to ecological drivers and was not triggered by the Late Ordovician mass extinction.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108898947

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9781108898942

The Handbook of Salmon Farming

By: Selina M. Stead,Lindsay Laird

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The Handbook of Salmon Farming

By: Selina M. Stead,Lindsay Laird

Over the past few years, there has been significant growth and development in the salmon farming industry. In order to be successful, practitioners not only need to know how the salmon lives and survives in the wild but, amongst other things have knowledge of disease, production processes, economics and marketing. The Handbook of Salmon Farming is a practical guide that covers everything the practitioner needs to know, and will also be of great use to academics and students of aquaculture and fish biology. The editors have invited contributions from experts in academia, the fish industry and government to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive handbook.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1852331194

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9781852331191

The Ophthalmic Office Procedures Handbook

By: Leonid Skorin,Nathan R Lighthizer,Richard Castillo,Selina McGee,Karl Stonecipher

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The Ophthalmic Office Procedures Handbook

By: Leonid Skorin,Nathan R Lighthizer,Richard Castillo,Selina McGee,Karl Stonecipher

Offering practical guidance to those who are learning or already performing office-based ophthalmic procedures, The Ophthalmic Office Procedures Handbook reviews all current procedural and surgical techniques routinely performed in an office or minor-surgery suite. Written by Leonid Skorin, Nate Lighthizer, Selina McGee, Richard Castillo, and Karl Stonecipher, this unique handbook is an excellent resource for all eye care providers—both those performing the procedures as well as those who are co-managing pre- and post-operative visits.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975222059

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9781975222055

Rivers of Iron

Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia

By: David M. Lampton,Selina Ho,Cheng-Chwee Kuik

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Rivers of Iron

Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia

By: David M. Lampton,Selina Ho,Cheng-Chwee Kuik

In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled what would come to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—a global development strategy involving infrastructure projects and associated financing throughout the world, including Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. While the Chinese government has framed the plan as one promoting transnational connectivity, critics and security experts see it as part of a larger strategy to achieve global dominance. Rivers of Iron examines one aspect of President Xi Jinping’s “New Era”: China’s effort to create an intercountry railway system connecting China and its seven Southeast Asian neighbors (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). This book illuminates the political strengths and weaknesses of the plan, as well as the capacity of the impacted countries to resist, shape, and even take advantage of China’s wide-reaching actions. Using frameworks from the fields of international relations and comparative politics, the authors of Rivers of Iron seek to explain how domestic politics in these eight Asian nations shaped their varying external responses and behaviors. How does China wield power using infrastructure? Do smaller states have agency? How should we understand the role of infrastructure in broader development? Does industrial policy work? And crucially, how should competing global powers respond?

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University of California Press

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0520372999

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9780520372993

Book's by Selina C Wang

Olive Production Manual for Oil

Olive Production Manual for Oil

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

And Man Created God

And Man Created God

Thirsty Cities

Thirsty Cities

Building Temples in China

Building Temples in China

Mark Twain in China

Mark Twain in China

Niche Evolution and Phylogenetic Community Paleoecology of Late Ordovician Crinoids

Niche Evolution and Phylogenetic Community Paleoecology of Late Ordovician Crinoids

The Handbook of Salmon Farming

The Handbook of Salmon Farming

The Ophthalmic Office Procedures Handbook

The Ophthalmic Office Procedures Handbook

Rivers of Iron

Rivers of Iron

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