* The Joy of Keeping Farm Animals

The Joy of Keeping Farm Animals: Raising Chickens, Goats, Pigs, Sheep, and Cows by Laura Childs

When the going gets tough, the tough . . . start raising their own food.

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269 - The Alchemy of Herbs

The Alchemy of Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use by Adidas Wilson (Author, Publisher)

Select herbs can grow extraordinary well indoors or outdoors, in containers or the ground, it all boils down to what you want to do. If the space receives less than five hours of sunlight in a day, you might be better off going indoors for easier accessibility especially for watering and cooking.

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298 - Soil Science Simplified

Soil Science Simplified by Neal S. Eash (Author), Thomas J. Sauer (Author), Deb O'Dell (Author), Evah Odoi (Author), Mary C. Bratz (Illustrator)

Already renowned as a user-friendly beginners’ guide to soil science, Soil Science Simplified, 6th Edition is an updated version of the beloved textbook that includes even more thorough applications of soil science to interdisciplinary fields.

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307 - Mobile Microspies

Mobile Microspies: Particles for Sensing and Communication by Michael Köhler (Author)

On the one hand, particle-based sensing techniques are driven by new technologies for preparing and measuring micro- and nanoparticles and by a fascination of the possibilities for design and functionalization of all specificities in structure shapes and behavior of these tiny objects ...

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313 - Renewable Resources for Biorefineries

Renewable Resources for Biorefineries: RSC (Green Chemistry Series) by Carol Lin (Editor), Rafael Luque (Editor), James H Clark (Editor), George Kraus (Series Editor), Andrzej Stankiewicz (Series Editor), Peter Seidl (Series Editor), Yuan Kou (Series Editor), Ing Nathalie Berezina (Contributor), Silvia Martelli (Contributor), Tom Desmet (Contributor), Zheng Sun (Contributor), King Ming Chan (Contributor), Chenyu Du (Contributor), Jie Chang (Contributor), Koon Fung Lam (Contributor), Isabel Lopez (Contributor), Ir Chun-Ping (Contributor)

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* 101 Chicken Keeping Hacks from Fresh Eggs Daily

101 Chicken Keeping Hacks from Fresh Eggs Daily: Tips, Tricks, and Ideas for You and your Hens by Lisa Steele (Author)

Spoil your chickens and beautify your coop with 101 Chicken Keeping Hacks from Fresh Eggs Daily.

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337 - Carrots Don't Grow on Trees

Carrots Don't Grow on Trees: Building Sustainable and Resilient Communities by Robert Turner (Author)

Twelve years after Michael Pollan first opened our eyes to the modern problems of the industrial food complex, organic farmer and successful businessman Robert Turner explores what has changed in our food culture and how the current 'grow local' and 'farm to table' movement is now determining where and how we live.

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346 - Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food

Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food by Pamela C. Ronald (Author), Raoul W. Adamchak (Author)

'Tomorrow's Table' argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture-genetic engineering and organic farming-is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner.

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348 - Legumes under Environmental Stress

Legumes under Environmental Stress: Yield, Improvement and Adaptations by Parvaiz Ahmad (Editor)

Leguminous crops have been found to contribute almost 27% of the world's primary crop production. However, due to environmental fluctuations, legumes are often exposed to different environmental stresses, leading to problems with growth and development, and ultimately, decreased yield.

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349 - Research Progress in Oligosaccharins

Research Progress in Oligosaccharins 1st ed. 2016 Edition by Heng Yin (Editor), Yuguang Du (Editor)

"Research Progress in Oligosaccharins" is a valuable tool for students and researchers who want to learn about this unique class of bioactive compounds.

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350 - The Fruit Tree Handbook by Ben Pike

The Fruit Tree Handbook is a clear, practical guide for both amateur and expert. It explains all you need to know in order to grow delicious fruit, from designing your orchard and planting your trees to harvesting your produce. Apples, pears, plums, cherries, apricots, peaches and nectarines, as well as less common fruits such as mulberries, medlars and figs, are covered in detail, with recommended varieties of each.

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356 - North American Crop Wild Relatives, Volume 1

North American Crop Wild Relatives, Volume 1: Conservation Strategies by Stephanie L. Greene (Editor), Karen A. Williams (Editor), Colin K. Khoury (Editor), Michael B. Kantar (Editor), Laura F. Marek (Editor)

The plant species that humans rely upon have an extended family of wild counterparts that are an important source of genetic diversity used to breed productive crops. These wild and weedy cousins are valuable as a resource for adapting our food, forage, industrial and other crops to climate change.

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388 - Transgenic Cotton: Methods and Protocols

Transgenic Cotton: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology) by Baohong Zhang (Editor)

This second edition provides a comprehensive collection of the cutting-edge methods for creating and monitoring transgenic cotton and its application on agricultural and basic research.

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400 - Cumulative Index of Heterocyclic Systems

Cumulative Index of Heterocyclic Systems (Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds: A Series Of Monographs) by Desmond J. Brown (Editor), Edward C. Taylor (Editor), Jonathan A. Ellman (Editor)

The Cumulative Index of Systems Reviewed in the Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds is a collection of data for the approximately 2700 systems reviewed therein that serves as a useful guide to locating information in this well established and reputable series.

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420 - Pine Wilt Disease

Pine Wilt Disease, Edited By: BG Zhao, K Futai, JR Sutherland and Y Takeuchi

Pine forests face a global threat of pine wilt disease, which is being spread by vector beetles carrying pathogenic nematodes from dead trees to healthy ones. Among the host pines there are varying degrees of susceptibility, and nematode strains also contain a variety of virulences, both of which factors help to determine whether infected host trees will die or survive.

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441 - Exploring the Realms of Nature for Nanosynthesis

Exploring the Realms of Nature for Nanosynthesis by Ram Prasad (Editor), Anal K. Jha (Editor), Kamal Prasad (Editor)

Nature, by dint of its constitution, harbors many unassuming mysteries broadly manifested by its constituent cohorts. If physics is the pivot that holds nature and chemistry provides reasons for its existence, then the rest is just manifestation. Nanoscience and technology harbor the congruence of these two core subjects, whereby many phenomenon may be studied in the same perspective.

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A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture

One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture by Stephanie Anderson (Author)

Stephanie Anderson argues that in order to provide nutrient-rich food and fight climate change, we need to move beyond sustainable to regenerative agriculture, a practice that is highly tailored to local environments and renews resources.

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Vegetation of Central Asia and Environs

Vegetation of Central Asia and Environs by Dilfuza Egamberdieva (Editor), Münir Öztürk (Editor)

This region is faced with adverse conditions, as much of the land is too dry or rugged for farming. Additionally, the rich specific and intraspecific diversity of fruit trees and medicinal plants is threatened by overgrazing, oil and mineral extraction, and poaching. Countless species from the approximately 20 ecosystems and 6000 plant taxa are now rare and endangered.

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Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Sustainable Agriculture of North America: Vol.2

Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Sustainable Agriculture of North America: Vol.2 - Northeastern, Midwestern and Southern USA by Sergei A. Subbotin (Editor), John J. Chitambar (Editor)

Plant-parasitic nematodes are recognized as one of the greatest threats to crop production throughout the world. Estimated annual crop losses of $8 billion in the United States and $78 billion worldwide are attributed to plant parasitic nematodes.

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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 32

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 32: Waste Recycling and Fertilisation by Eric Lichtfouse (Editor)

This book summarise advanced knowledge and methods to recycle waste and fertilise soils in agriculture. In the near future, waste recycling will no longer be an option because natural resources become rare and costly, urbanisation is blooming and population is growing.

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