The Seed Of Earth

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575105976
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seed of Earth written by Robert Silverberg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The computer had chosen them - a small cross-section of humanity to serve Mankind's Destiny. Out of seven billion people on Earth mechanical chance had selected them as involuntary colonists on an unknown planet. In seven days they would be on their way, on a sink-or-swim mission to a lonely world beyond the limits of the Solar System. It was a summons each had privately dreaded, yet always been prepared for. But no one had prepared them for the vicious attacks of sinister aliens . . .

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:

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 : 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 : Richard Hall
Publisher : Mountain Arbor Press
ISBN 13 : 9781631832963
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth Spawn of Kalpeon written by Richard Hall and published by Mountain Arbor Press. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cary Fowler
Publisher : Prospecta Press
ISBN 13 : 9781632261397
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault written by Cary Fowler and published by Prospecta Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the Global Seed Vault--and the valiant effort to save the past and the future of agriculture: Now updated with a new chapter by the author and photos from recent improvements in the facilities. Closer to the North Pole than to the Arctic Circle, on an island in a remote Norwegian archipelago, lies a vast global seed bank buried within a frozen mountain. At the end of a 130-meter long tunnel chiseled out of solid stone is a room filled with humanity's precious treasure, the largest and most diverse seed collection ever assembled: more than a half billion seeds containing the world's most prized crops, a safeguard against catastrophic starvation. The Global Seed Vault, a visionary model of international collaboration, is the brainchild of Cary Fowler, renowned scientist, conservationist, and biodiversity advocate. In SEEDS ON ICE, Fowler tells for the first time the comprehensive inside story of how the "doomsday seed vault" came to be, while the breathtaking photographs offer a stunning guided tour not only of the private vault, but of the windswept beauty and majesty of Svalbard and the enchanting community of people in Longyearbyen. With growing evidence that unchecked climate change will seriously undermine food production and threaten the diversity of crops around the world, SEEDS ON ICE offers a personal and passionate reminder that we shouldn't take our reliance on the world of plants for granted--and that, in a very real sense, the future of the human race rides on this frozen and indispensable biodiversity.

Author : Billings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780800638849
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seed that in Earth is Dying written by Billings and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : 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. . .