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Barnyards and Birkenstocks

Why Farmers and Environmentalists Need Each Other

By: Don Stuart

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Barnyards and Birkenstocks

Why Farmers and Environmentalists Need Each Other

By: Don Stuart

Rural America is struggling. The average farmer is now 57 years old. Family agriculture is gradually fading, and prime farmland is often converted into environmentally harmful applications. But food cultivation has ecological consequences, too. Farms consume 80 percent of the nation’s water. Although they often prevent sprawling development, improve water quality, or provide wildlife habitat, they also pollute rivers, drain wetlands, or emit destructive greenhouse gasses. Don Stuart believes two dangerous trends--the loss of farms and damage to ecosystems--are connected, and that a major cause is the political deadlock between farmers and environmental activists. He offers a radical proposal: collaboration. To promote empathy and point out the costs of continued political impasse, he presents opposing perspectives. Topics include incentives, regulations, government spending, environmental markets, growth management, climate change, public lands grazing, and the federal farm bill. Drawing from multiple case studies and a lifetime spent settling conflicts, the author identifies characteristics of successful community programs to suggest a model for a prosperous, healthy future.

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Washington State University Press

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1636820735

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9781636820736

Scaredy the Scarecrow

By: Michael Stuart

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Scaredy the Scarecrow

By: Michael Stuart

This book was written to help children read and enjoy the subject of a scarecrow having adventures around his farm. Scaredy has a few friends in the animals on the farm with a lovely friendly farmer and his wife. As you will see Scaredy gets about helping others in their daily lives. Having fun and trying to solve a few problems on the way. Scaredy is a character of good intentions and always works hard. This book contains fifteen stories that will bring joy, laughter, thrills, and entertainment for children. I hope you’ll enjoy reading them

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1728390699

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9781728390697

The King of Vinland's Saga

A Novel of Vikings and Indians in Pre-Columbian North America

By: Stuart W. Mirsky

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The King of Vinland's Saga

A Novel of Vikings and Indians in Pre-Columbian North America

By: Stuart W. Mirsky

Revised and Updated Edition Fleeing the ice clad fjords of his native Greenland just ahead of greedy kinsman who would keep his inheritance from him, Sigtrygg Thorgilsson, half-breed grandson of the storied explorer Leif Eiriksson, seeks his fortune on the shores of North America, last glimpsed by his grandfather some forty years before. Making his way across uncharted waters with a hastily assembled crew of untried men, he quickly learns that the inhabitants of the new land are less than pleased by their presence and that their survival will depend on their ability to carve a place for themselves in the midst of their skeptical hosts. But risking life and limb in a desperate gamble to prove their worth will not be enough as Sigtrygg’s angry kinsmen unexpectedly arrive on the coast to dispute what he has won. Then only the shrewd counsel of an aged viking, and the passion of the woman Sigtrygg left behind, offer a way out of the burgeoning blood feud that threatens to engulf them all—as storm clouds gather in the distance and a defeated enemy prepares to take his revenge. A novel of Vikings and Indians in pre-Columbian North America, The King of Vinland’s Saga reprises the failed settlement history of the Norse on the edge of the North Atlantic in the eleventh century—as Europe lay mired in medieval darkness, its inhabitants still ignorant of the places and peoples that lay just beyond their reach. Book Review: Just put down the above book. If this was your first endeavor, then I am eagerly anticipating your second. The book was fantastic! It was as enjoyable to me as “The Golden Warrior”, “Musashi”, and “With Fire and Sword” and other historical fiction novels that grace my bookshelves (many of which purchased through your recommendation on Amazon). It is nice to read a book and get mad, frustrated, etc. at the characters. Thanks again for a pleasurable read! Pete Giorgianni

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664154442

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9781664154445

No Farms, No Food

Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture

By: Don Stuart

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No Farms, No Food

Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture

By: Don Stuart

America’s farms are key to the preservation of vital ecosystems and a stable climate. Yet farmers and environmentalists have not always seen eye-to-eye about the best ways to manage agricultural landscapes. Since 1980, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has been bringing people together to work for healthy land and a healthy food system. No Farms, No Food traces the development of this powerful coalition responsible for landmark achievements in farmland preservation and conservation practices. It all began with Peggy Rockefeller’s determination to stop the inexorable urban sprawl that was threatening the nation’s agriculture. From this humble start grew a small but astute organization, and more importantly, a formidable constituency of farmers and environmentalists united around a common cause. With leadership from AFT, that constituency drove through Congress the first “Conservation Title” in the history of the U.S. Farm Bill; oversaw the development of agriculture conservation easement programs throughout the country; and continues to develop innovative approaches to sustainable agriculture. No Farms, No Food takes readers inside the political and policy battles that determine the fate of our nation’s farmland. And it illustrates the tactics needed to unify fractured interest groups for the common good. No Farms, No Food is both an inspiring history of agricultural conservation and a practical guide to creating an effective advocacy organization. This is an essential read for everyone who cares about the future of our food, farms, and environment.

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Island Press

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1642832324

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9781642832327

When Antidepressants Aren’t Enough

Harnessing the Power of Mindfulness to Alleviate Depression

By: Stuart J. Eisendrath

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When Antidepressants Aren’t Enough

Harnessing the Power of Mindfulness to Alleviate Depression

By: Stuart J. Eisendrath

For nearly two decades, Dr. Stuart Eisendrath has been researching and teaching the therapeutic effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) with people experiencing clinical depression. By helping them recognize that they can find relief by changing how they relate to their thoughts, Eisendrath has seen dramatic improvements in people’s quality of life, as well as actual, measurable brain changes. Easily practiced breath exercises, meditations, and innovative visualizations release readers from what can often feel like the tyranny of their thoughts. Freedom of thought, feeling, and action is the life-altering result.

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New World Library

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1608685985

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9781608685981

Making Sense of Construction Improvement

By: Stuart Green

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Making Sense of Construction Improvement

By: Stuart Green

Making Sense of Construction Improvement provides a critical evaluation of the construction improvement debate from the end of the Second World War through to the modern era. The book offers unique insights into the way the UK construction sector is continuously shaped and re-shaped in accordance with changes in the prevailing political economy. This second edition brings the book up to date by including coverage of key trends from 2010–2023. The book has been substantially revised and reworked to include new material relating to the ‘age of austerity’ and the subsequent period of political uncertainty initiated by the Brexit referendum. Changes in the political economy are positioned alongside the rise of the sustainability agenda and the advent of ‘zero carbon’. Particular attention is paid to the ongoing skills crisis and the over-hyped advocacy of modern methods of construction (MMC) as the latest supposed panacea of industry improvement. Coverage includes the Farmer (2016) report Modernise or Die and the Construction Playbook (HM Government, 2020). However, perhaps the most important addition is a focus on the Grenfell Disaster (2017) and the subsequent revelations from the public enquiry. Further intermediate milestones include Building a Safer Future (Hackitt, 2018) and the Construction Sector Deal (HM Government, 2018). The emerging consensus points towards a systemic failure involving not only the construction sector but also the entire system of regulation and compliance. Tracing the failings back over time and scrutinising the role played by previous generations of policymakers, Stuart Green ultimately argues that Grenfell was a disaster entirely foretold. The insightful and critical analysis of the industry contained within these pages is essential and timely reading for anyone who wants to understand how the construction sector arrived at where it is today, and with that knowledge, give further thought to where it might go next.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003812295

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9781003812296

The Morganza, 1967

Life in a Legendary Reform School

By: David E. Stuart

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The Morganza, 1967

Life in a Legendary Reform School

By: David E. Stuart

Fresh out of college, David Stuart put off graduate school to take a job close to his West Virginia home as a counselor at the Youth Development Center at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Known locally as the Morganza, the facility was founded in the nineteenth century as a farm for orphaned boys. By the 1960s, the Morganza had long been burdened with a sinister reputation when it was converted into a detention center for Allegheny County youth convicted of crimes ranging from petty theft to armed robbery, rape, and murder. Reporting for duty during the racially turbulent and riot-torn summer of 1967, Stuart describes the life of students and staff in what was, in reality, a youth prison camp. Confronted with the glaring shortcomings of the reform school's methods of rehabilitation, Stuart irritated the bureaucracy, advocating for detainees whose only crimes were a lack of education and belonging to the wrong race or economic class. He confronted an establishment that refused to distinguish between hardened criminals and those who would benefit from actual reform. In The Morganza, 1967 Stuart offers a brutally honest--at times touching--insider's view of a juvenile justice system that was badly in need of fixing.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826346421

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9780826346421

The Investor's Guidebook to Derivatives

Demystifying Derivatives and Their Applications

By: Stuart R. Veale

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The Investor's Guidebook to Derivatives

Demystifying Derivatives and Their Applications

By: Stuart R. Veale

A concise yet comprehensive guidebook that addresses the practical aspects of investing in derivatives. Written for the professional market but accessible enough for individual investors, The Investor’s Guidebook to Derivatives includes all the information needed to succeed in today’s complex derivatives market, including: • What constitutes a “derivative instrument” • The difference between forward and forecast prices • Pricing and using forward contracts • Swaps: pricing and applications • Option vocabulary • Pricing options—a framework • Implementing directional and volatility strategies • Exotic options: pricing and applications • Options on natural occurrences: rain, snow, and wind The Investor’s Guidebook series presents investment vehicles and strategies from both the issuers’ and the investors’ perspectives. Starting with basic concepts and then building to state-of-the-art pricing models, strategies, and tactics, these succinct handbooks will be useful for everyone from new hires through experienced professionals. Unlike most books, which are read once and sit on the shelf, professionals will refer to these books repeatedly throughout their careers.

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Penguin

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0735205299

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9780735205291

National Development

Being More Effective and More Efficient

By: Stuart S. Nagel

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National Development

Being More Effective and More Efficient

By: Stuart S. Nagel

This title was first published in 2000. Super-optimizing analysis deals with public policy problems by finding an alternative that enables conservatives, liberals and other viewpoints to come out ahead of their expectations simultaneously. This text explores the ideas and seeks to make super-optimum solutions a matter of routine.

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280

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Routledge

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1351730142

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9781351730143

Enterprise

The Dynamic Economy of a Free People

By: Stuart Weems Bruchey

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Enterprise

The Dynamic Economy of a Free People

By: Stuart Weems Bruchey

An economic history of the United States.

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Harvard University Press

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0674257464

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9780674257467

A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India

A.K. Ramanujan ; Edited with a Preface by Stuart Blackburn and Alan Dundes

By: A. K. Ramanujan,Stuart H. Blackburn,Alan Dundes

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A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India

A.K. Ramanujan ; Edited with a Preface by Stuart Blackburn and Alan Dundes

By: A. K. Ramanujan,Stuart H. Blackburn,Alan Dundes

This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time a wealth of folktales from a region that has not yet been adequately represented in world literature. Ramanujan's skill as a translator, his graceful writing style, and his profound love and understanding of the subject enrich the tales that he collected, translated, and interpreted. With a written literature recorded from about 800 A.D., Kannada is rich in mythology, devotional and secular poetry, and more recently novels and plays. Ramanujan, born in Mysore in 1929, had an intimate knowledge of the language. In the 1950s, when working as a college lecturer, he began collecting these tales from everyone he could--servants, aunts, schoolteachers, children, carpenters, tailors. In 1970 he began translating and interpreting the tales, a project that absorbed him for the next three decades. When Ramanujan died in 1993, the translations were complete and he had written notes for about half of the tales. With its unsentimental sympathies, its laughter, and its delightfully vivid sense of detail, the collection stands as a significant and moving monument to Ramanujan's memory as a scholar and writer.

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Univ of California Press

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0520203992

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9780520203990

Irrigation With Reclaimed Municipal Wastewater - A Guidance Manual

By: G.Stuart Pettygrove

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Irrigation With Reclaimed Municipal Wastewater - A Guidance Manual

By: G.Stuart Pettygrove

Irrigation with Reclaimed Municipal Wastewater - A Guidance Manual is for use in the planning, design, and operation of agricultural and landscape irrigation systems using reclaimed municipal wastewater. It is written for civil and sanitary engineers, agricultural engineers, and agricultural extension workers and consultants. The manual is also useful as a reference for public works officials, municipal wastewater treatment plant operators, and students at colleges and universities. The text emphasizes irrigation for the purpose of optimizing crop production; therefore, it includes detailed instruction in the calculation of crop water requirements. Furthermore, the benefits and limitations of using reclaimed municipal wastewater for agricultural and landscape irrigation are discussed, as are other topics of special interest, including water management for salinity and sodicity control, and economic and legal aspects of reclaimed wastewater irrigation.

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CRC Press

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1351090801

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9781351090803

Book's by Stuart Farmer

Barnyards and Birkenstocks

Barnyards and Birkenstocks

Scaredy the Scarecrow

Scaredy the Scarecrow

The King of Vinland's Saga

The King of Vinland's Saga

No Farms, No Food

No Farms, No Food

When Antidepressants Aren’t Enough

When Antidepressants Aren’t Enough

Making Sense of Construction Improvement

Making Sense of Construction Improvement

The Morganza, 1967

The Morganza, 1967

The Investor's Guidebook to Derivatives

The Investor's Guidebook to Derivatives

National Development

National Development

Enterprise

Enterprise

A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India

A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India

Irrigation With Reclaimed Municipal Wastewater - A Guidance Manual

Irrigation With Reclaimed Municipal Wastewater - A Guidance Manual

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