Seeds Of The Earth

Author : Michael Cobley
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748125639
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeds Of Earth written by Michael Cobley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Proper galaxy-spanning space opera' Iain M. Banks on Seeds of Earth The first intelligent species to encounter mankind attacked without warning. Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable. With little hope of halting the invasion, Earth's last roll of the dice was to dispatch three colony ships, seeds of Earth, to different parts of the galaxy. The human race would live on . . . somewhere. 150 years later, the planet Darien hosts a thriving human settlement, which enjoys a peaceful relationship with an indigenous race, the scholarly Uvovo. But there are secrets buried on Darien's forest moon. Secrets that go back to an apocalyptic battle fought between ancient races at the dawn of galactic civilisation. Unknown to its colonists Darien is about to become the focus of an intergalactic power struggle, where the true stakes are beyond their comprehension. And what choices will the Uvovo make when their true nature is revealed and the skies grow dark with the enemy? For more epic space opera action from Michael Cobley, check out: Humanity's Fire Trilogy: Seeds of Earth The Orphaned Worlds The Ascendant Stars Standalone novels in the Humanity's Fire universe: Ancestral Machines Splintered Suns Also look out for Cobley's epic fantasy trilogy, Shadowkings!

Author : Courtney Fullilove
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645486X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Profit of the Earth written by Courtney Fullilove and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is enormous public interest in biodiversity, food sourcing, and sustainable agriculture, romantic attachments to heirloom seeds and family farms have provoked misleading fantasies of an unrecoverable agrarian past. The reality, as Courtney Fullilove shows, is that seeds are inherently political objects transformed by the ways they are gathered, preserved, distributed, regenerated, and improved. In The Profit of the Earth, Fullilove unearths the history of American agricultural development and of seeds as tools and talismans put in its service. Organized into three thematic parts, The Profit of the Earth is a narrative history of the collection, circulation, and preservation of seeds. Fullilove begins with the political economy of agricultural improvement, recovering the efforts of the US Patent Office and the nascent US Department of Agriculture to import seeds and cuttings for free distribution to American farmers. She then turns to immigrant agricultural knowledge, exploring how public and private institutions attempting to boost midwestern wheat yields drew on the resources of willing and unwilling settlers. Last, she explores the impact of these cereal monocultures on biocultural diversity, chronicling a fin-de-siècle Ohio pharmacist’s attempt to source Purple Coneflower from the diminishing prairie. Through these captivating narratives of improvisation, appropriation, and loss, Fullilove explores contradictions between ideologies of property rights and common use that persist in national and international development—ultimately challenging readers to rethink fantasies of global agriculture’s past and future.

Author : Patrick R. Mooney
Publisher : Inter Pares for the Canadian Council for International Co-operation and the International Coalition for Development Action
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeds of the Earth written by Patrick R. Mooney and published by Inter Pares for the Canadian Council for International Co-operation and the International Coalition for Development Action. This book was released on 1980 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Gene-Rich' and the 'Gene-Poor'. Genetic Erosin. Genetic Conservation. The Green Revolution. The Seed Revolution. The New Seedsmen. The Implications of Restrictive Varietal Legislation. Biases in Corporate Breeding. Learing form Corporate Experience.

Author : Cris Peterson
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 1629792209
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seed, Soil, Sun written by Cris Peterson and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seed, Soil, Sun. With these simple ingredients, nature creates our food. Once again, noted author Cris Peterson brings both wonder and clarity to the subject of agriculture, celebrating the cycle of growth, harvest, and renewal. Using the corn plant as an example, she takes the reader through the story of germination and growth of a tiny corn seed into a giant plant reaching high into the air, with roots extending over six feet into the ground. This American Farm Bureau Foundation's Agriculture Book of the Year also discusses the make-up of soil and the amazing creatures who live there—from microscopic one-celled bacteria to moles, amoebas, and earthworms. David Lundquist's stunning photographs bring an immediacy and vibrancy to the seemingly miraculous process.

Author : P. R. Mooney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeds of the Earth written by P. R. Mooney and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Cobley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeds of Earth written by Michael Cobley and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First contact was not supposed to be like this. The first intelligent species to encounter Mankind attacked without warning and swarmed locust-like through the solar system. Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable. With little hope of halting the savage invasion, Earth's last, desperate roll of the dice was to send out three colony ships, seeds of Earth, to different parts of the galaxy. Earth may perish but the human race would live on . . . somewhere. 150 years later, the human colony on the planet Darien has established a new world for Humanity and forged a peaceful relationship with the planet's indigenous race, the scholarly, enigmatic Uvovo. But there are secrets buried beneath the surface of Darien's forest moon. Secrets that go back to an apocalyptic battle fought between ancient forerunner races at the dawn of galactic civilisation. . .

Author : Patrick R. Mooney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780969014911
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeds of the Earth written by Patrick R. Mooney and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick R. Mooney
Publisher : Publicado por Inter Pares para el Canadian Council for International Co-operation y la International Coalition for Development Action
ISBN 13 : 9780969014928
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeds of the Earth written by Patrick R. Mooney and published by Publicado por Inter Pares para el Canadian Council for International Co-operation y la International Coalition for Development Action. This book was released on 1979 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mario del Curto
Publisher : Actes Sud Editions
ISBN 13 : 9782330079055
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Les graines du monde written by Mario del Curto and published by Actes Sud Editions. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His knowledge, tenacity and eloquence still resound in the corridors of the Saint Petersburg institute that bears his name, and his spirit continues to inspire the hundreds of researchers pursuing his work. Nikolai Vavilov anticipated the disappearance of plant diversity and within the space of a few decades through study and travel all over the world he found the means of saving it. For political and ideological reasons, Vavilov was condemned to death and left to starve in the dungeon of a Soviet prison. Gradually, on both sides of the iron curtain, his memory began to fade. One hundred years after Vavilov's first expedition, the photographer Mario Del Curto retraced his footsteps. For four years he met with those who, despite overwhelming obstacles, perpetuate Vavilov's seed prospecting, selection and conservation work in order to save the planet's staple food crops. This book is the unprecedented story of his journey to the heart of the Vavilov Institute and its twelve research stations. International specialists bring light the huge scope of the work undertaken by Vavilov and his successors.

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Ace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780441758760
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seed of Earth written by Robert Silverberg and published by Ace Books. This book was released on 1982-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: