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Achieving sustainable cultivation of potatoes Volume 2

Contributions by Dr Ilkka Leinonen, Hongyan Chen, James A. Taylor, Dr Vijay Kumar Dua, Dr Sanjay Rawal, Dr Sukhwinder Singh, Dr Jagdev Sharma, Prof. Philip J. White, Dr Jerry Knox, Tim Hess, Dr Adrian Briddon, Dr Adrian Cunnington, Dr Glyn Harper, Prof. Bruno De Meulenaer, Raquel Medeiros Vinci, Frédéric Mestdagh, Dr A. Lees, M. Jennifer Sjölund, Rachel Kelly, Prof. Gerry S. Saddler, David M. Kenyon, Colin Jeffries, Dr Christophe Lacomme, Dr Andrew P. Robinson, Dr Kim Davie, Dr Jon Pickup, Prof. Stuart Reitz, Dr Thomas F. Döring, Derek H. Lynch Edited by Dr Stuart Wale

The second of this two-volume collection discusses ways of improving cultivation across the supply chain from seed selection and planting to post-harvest storage. It also reviews research on the better understanding and management of key pests and diseases. View details
Publication date: 10 September 2018
Hardback: £160.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £160.00

Instant Insights: Environmental impact of livestock production

By (author) Dr Taro Takahashi, Dr Graham A. McAuliffe, Prof. Michael R. F. Lee, Dr Julie Wolf, Prof. G. J. Thoma, Dr Ilkka Leinonen, Dr S. F. Ledgard

This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on the environmental impact of livestock production. View details
Publication date: 26 January 2021
Paperback: £37.99

Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 1

Contributions by Lisa K. Williams, Prof. Tom J. Humphrey, Dr Sabrina Vandeplas, Aishwarya Pradeep Rao, Jungsoo Joo, Dr Debabrata Biswas, Isaac P. Kashoma, Yosra A. Helmy, Issmat I. Kassem, Dr Gireesh Rajashekara, Navam S. Hettiarachchy, A. V. S. Perumalla, Prof. Steven C. Ricke, Estefania Novoa Rama, Dr Manpreet Singh, Dr Janne Lundén, Ana Luisa Renteria-Monterrubio, Dr Alma Delia Alarcon-Rojo, Prof. Ivar Vågsholm, Jun Lin, Sandra Diaz-Sanchez, Xiang Liu, Dr Irene Hanning, Prof. Michael A. Grashorn, Prof. M. S. Lilburn, Cheorun Jo, Dr Dinesh Jayasena, KiChang Nam, Eun Joo Lee, Prof. Dong Ahn, Yuan H. Brad Kim, Dr Iksoon Kang, Dr Arthur Hinton, Dr Ilkka Leinonen, Hector E. Leyva-Jimenez, Prof. Christopher A. Bailey, E. J. Van Loo, R. Morawicki, D. Luján-Rhenals, Dr R. Michael Hulet, Robyn Alders, Prof. Robert Pym Edited by Prof. Steven C. Ricke

Poultry production faces many challenges. This collection starts by reviewing safety, including detection, prevention and control of zoonoses in poultry flocks. It also discusses key aspects of quality such as meat flavour as well wider issues such as the environmental impact of poultry production. View details
Publication date: 31 December 2016
Hardback: £180.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £180.00

Bewnans Ke / The Life of St Kea

By (author) Mr Graham Thomas, Dr Nicholas Williams

In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a previously unknown play in Middle Cornish was discovered among papers bequeathed to the National Library of Wales. This eagerly awaited edition of the play offers a text with a facing-page translation, and a reproduction of the original text at the foot of the page.

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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Mining in a Medieval Landscape

By (author) Professor Steve Rippon, Peter Claughton, Dr Christopher Smart


This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history of mining nationally, but is long forgotten: the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in the Tamar Valley.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

A New Life Of Dante

By (author) Dr Stephen Bemrose


This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. The aim is to make an account of Dante's life accessible to students and to the curious and intelligent but non-specialist reader. All quotations are fully translated.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £60.00

The Maritime History of Cornwall

By (author) Philip Payton, Dr Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe Contributions by John C. Appleby, John Armstrong, G.H. and R. Bennett, Terry Chapman, Wendy R. Childs, Dr Janet Cusack, Bernard Deacon, Helen Doe, Roy Fenton, Dr Alston Kennerley, Maryanne Kowaleski, Tony Pawlyn, Philip Payton, Cathryn Pearce, Caradoc Peters, N.A.M. Rodger, John Rule, W.B. Stephens, Mark Stoyle, John Symons, Dr Simon Trezise, Adrian James Webb, Paul Willerton


The first study of its kind. The book explores the rich, complex maritime inheritance of Cornwall on a national and international scale, considering the importance of the different historical periods from the medieval to the twentieth century.


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Publication date: 01 May 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £70.00

Legitimate Cinema

By (author) Dr. Jon Burrows


This is the first new book-length study of British cinema of the 1910s to be published for over fifty years, and it focuses on the close relationship between the British film industry and the Edwardian theatre.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Making Theatre in Northern Ireland

By (author) Dr. Tom Maguire


This book examines the relationships between theatre and the turbulent political and social context of Northern Ireland since 1969. It explores key theatrical performances which deal directly with this context. The book is aimed at a student readership: it is largely play-text-based, and it contains useful contextualising material.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

John Mcgrath - Plays For England

By (author) John McGrath Introduction by Dr. Nadine Holdsworth


This is an edition of nine of McGrath's plays for the English 7:84 theatre company. It covers McGrath's work for the company spanning four decades, from the 1960s through to the 1990s. The book has a substantial contextualising introduction and commentary on the plays by Nadine Holdsworth, one of the leading specialists in the work of John McGrath.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £52.50

Green Screen

By (author) Dr David Ingram


This book combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by 'green' thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely perpetuated romantic attitudes to nature and has played an important ideological role in the 'greenwashing' of ecological discourses.

 

 

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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Marketing Modernity

By (author) Dr. Joe Kember


In this study of early film exhibition, Joe Kember demonstrates that prior to the emergence of a specific discipline of screen acting and the arrival of picture personalities, the early cinema inherited its human dimensions from diverse earlier traditions of performance, from the magic lantern lecture to the fairground and variety theatre.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Water management for sustainable agriculture

Contributions by Dr Gretchen R. Miller, Dr K. Rajkai, Dr F. Ács, Dr B. Tóth, Dr A. Makó, Dr Luis Garrote, Prof. N. Jovanovic, Dr S. Dzikiti, Dr M. Gush, Professor T. Shah, Dr Asad Qureshi, Prof. Dieter Prinz, Dr Alfieri Pollice, Dr Ramy Saliba, Dr Antonio Lonigro, Dr Z. Gao, Prof. Taffa Tulu, Prof. Megh Goyal, Dr Andrea Dührkoop, Prof. Oliver Hensel, Professor Munir J. Mohammad Rusan, Professor L. S. Pereira, Dr P. Paredes, Dr John Gowing, Dr Suhas P. Wani, Dr Kaushal K. Garg, Dr Girish Chander, Dr K. H. Anantha, Dr Susan A. OShaughnessy, Dr Manuel A. Andrade, Dr Henk Ritzema, Prof. Wayne S. Meyer, Dr Mladen Todorovic, Dr Pasquale Steduto, Dr Chris Perry, Roberto Roson Edited by Prof. T. Oweis

There is increasing competition for water resources with declining aquifer reserves and lower rainfall in some areas due to climate change. This volume reviews research into topics such as more sustainable use of groundwater, more efficient irrigation techniques and water management. View details
Publication date: 09 July 2018
Hardback: £190.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £190.00

The Great Art Of Light And Shadow

By (author) Laurent Mannoni Edited by Dr Richard Crangle Translated by Dr Richard Crangle

Widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the best work yet published on pre-cinema, The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema throws light on a fascinating range of optical media from the twelfth century to the turn of the twentieth.

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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £30.00

Global tea science

Contributions by Jian-Qiang Ma, Prof. Liang Chen, Dr Xinchao Wang, Xinyuan Hao, Lu Wang, Yajun Yang, Dr Mainaak Mukhopadhaya, Dr Tapan Kumar Mondal, Dr M. A. Wijeratne, Prof. P. Okinda Owuor, Shipra Singh, Dr Anita Pandey, Lok Man S. Palni, Dr P. N. Bhattacharyya, S. R. Sarmah, Dr G. D. Sinniah, Dr Nalini C. Gnanapragasam, Dr A.K Barooah, Ting Zhang, Xiaojian Lv, Yin Xu, Lanying Xu, Tao Long, Prof. Chi-Tang Ho, Dr Shiming Li, Prof. Chung S. Yang, Dr Wenyan Han, Xin Li, Peng Yan, Liping Zhang, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Dr Thushari Lakmini Wijeratne, Dr Nikhil Ghosh Hajra, Dr Atik Dharmadi Edited by Dr VS Sharma, Dr Kumudini Gunasekare

Tea is the most widely-consumed beverage in the world. Tea cultivation faces a range of challenges in improving yields. The various parts of the book review ways of addressing these challenges, from breeding and cultivation to plant protection and improving sustainability. View details
Publication date: 20 February 2018
Hardback: £180.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £180.00

Les Mains Jointes Et Autres Poèmes (1905-1923)

By (author) François Mauriac Edited by Dr Paul Cooke


Les Mains Jointes (1909) was the collection of poetry that launched the long career of Nobel Prize-winning author François Mauriac (1885-1970). This critical edition provides the first ever overview of the volume’s complex textual history (spanning four decades).


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £60.00

Achieving sustainable cultivation of coffee

Contributions by Dr Philippe Lashermes, Marie-Christine Coombes, Prof. Fábio M. DaMatta, Dr Thierry Joët, Stéphane Dussert, Dr Sarada Krishnan, Dr Herbert A.M. van der Vossen, Dr N. Surya Prakash, Dr Alan Carvalho Andrade, Dr Chifumi Nagai, Jean-Jacques Rakotomalala, Dr Charles Lambot, Juan Carlos Herrera, Michael N. Clifford, Iziar A. Ludwig, Prof. Alan Crozier, Ningjian Liang, Kaiwen Mu, Dr David Kitts, Dr Claudine Campa, Arnaud Petitvallet, Prof. Adriana Farah, Dr Robert Buffo, Dr Noël Durand, Angélique Fontana, Dr Mario R. Fernández-Alduenda, Sastia P. Putri, Prof. Eiichiro Fukusaki, Dr Louis Bockel, Laure-Sophie Schiettecatte Edited by Dr Philippe Lashermes

Coffee is one of the most widely-traded commodities in the world. This volume summarises research addressing key challenges in coffee cultivation, including genetic diversity and breeding improved varieties. Other chapters discuss how to measure and improve quality traits. View details
Publication date: 09 January 2018
Hardback: £170.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £170.00

The Big Show

By (author) Dr. Michael Hammond


The Big Show looks at the role played by cinema in British cultural life during World War One. Hammond shows how the British film industry and British audiences responded to the traumatic effects of the War, and contends that the War’s significant effect was to expedite the cultural acceptance of cinema into the fabric of British social life.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Theatre Workshop

By (author) Dr. Robert Leach


Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain’s most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the elements which made its success so important.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Theatres of the Troubles

By (author) Dr. Bill McDonnell


The first book to document grass roots popular theatres which developed from within the working class Republican and Loyalist communities of Belfast and Derry during the latest phase of the four hundred year conflict between Ireland and Britain.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 3

Contributions by Dr Alejandro Ramirez, Dr Carla Correia-Gomes, Prof. Mick Bailey, Emily Porter, Ore Francis, Prof. Dominiek Maes, Jeroen Dewulf, Filip Boyen, Freddy Haesebrouck, Dr Simon P. Turner, Richard B. D'Eath, Prof. Paul H. Hemsworth, Dr Silvana Pietrosemoli, James T. Green, Prof. Sandra Edwards, Dr Arlene Garcia, Prof. John J. McGlone, Dr Jonathan Amory, Nina Wainwright, Dr Jennifer M. Young, Dr Susanne Støier, Dr Leif Lykke, Dr Lars O. Blaabjerg Edited by Prof. Julian Wiseman

Maintaining animal health and high standards of animal welfare are seen as key to sustainable livestock production. This volume reviews the effective management of diseases affecting pigs as well as ways of defining and promoting animal welfare in pig production. View details
Publication date: 12 March 2018
Hardback: £140.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £140.00

Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 2

Contributions by Dr Tan Joon Sheong, Lee Yang Ping, Sharifah Shahrul Rabiah Syed Alwee, Létizia Camus-Kulandaivelu, Maxime Mercière, Alba Zaremski, Frédéric Breton, Christophe Klopp, Dr Elizabeth Alvarez, Dr Laurence Beaudoin-Ollivier, Dr Edgar Clive Turner, Julie Hinsch, Gerardo Martínez, José I. Sanz, Gabriel Torres, Greicy Sarria, Diana Velez, Franky Zuñiga, Yuri Mestizo, Francia Varón, Dr Tristan Durand-Gasselin, Dr Benoît Cochard, Hubert de Franqueville, Dr Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi, Ng Mei Han, Dr Choo Yuen May, Dr Jean-Michel Lecerf, Dr Hélène Delisle, Dr Cecile Bessou, Heinz Stichnothe, Amir Abdul-Manan, Shabbir Gheewala, Dr Vijaya Subramaniam, H. Zulkifli, Halimah Muhamad, Dr Paul Nelson, Neil Huth, Marcus Sheaves, Lénaïc Pardon, Han She Lim, Rai S. Kookana, Dr Marcel Djama, Dr Carl Traeholt, Mr Salman Zafar, Dr Pierre-Marie Bosc, Cédric Gaillard, M. Mosquera, J. A. Beltrán, Dr Sylvain Rafflegeau, Doris Nanda, Claude Genot Edited by Prof. Alain Rival

The second in this two-volume sequence discusses advances in understanding and managing pests and diseases. It also reviews ways of assessing its nutritional qualities as well as in measuring and minimising its environment impact. View details
Publication date: 19 March 2018
Hardback: £160.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £160.00

Achieving sustainable cultivation of potatoes Volume 1

Contributions by Curtis M. Frederick, Masahiko Mori, Dr Paul Bethke, Prof. Paul C. Struik, Prof. John Bamberg, Shelley H. Jansky, Alfonso del Rio, Dave Ellis, Dr Jai Gopal, Dr Pim Lindhout, Michiel de Vries, Menno ter Maat, Su Ying, Marcela Viquez-Zamora, Sjaak van Heusden, Dr Ankush Prashar, Filipe de Jesus Colwell, Csaba Hornyik, Glenn J. Bryan, Dr Prashant G. Kawar, Hemant B. Kardile, S. Raja, Som Dutt, Raj Kumar, P. Manivel, Vinay Bhardwaj, B. P. Singh, P. M. Govindakrishnan, S. K. Chakrabarti, Prof. P. Zhang, Weijuan Fan, Hongxia Wang, Yinliang Wu, Wenzhi Zhou, Jun Yang, Prof. Duroy A. Navarre, Dr M. Moehninsi, Dr Sen Lin, Dr Hanjo Hellmann, Dr Putri Ernawati Abidin, Edward Carey, Dr Liping Jin, Dr Moses Nyongesa, Nancy Ng'ang'a, Dr Linley Chiwona-Karltun, Dr Maryanne Wamahiu, Dr Chikondi Chabvuta, Dr Dianah Ngonyama, Dr Paul Demo Edited by Prof. Gefu Wang-Pruski

Potatoes have long been one of the world’s most important crops. The first volume in this two-volume sequence reviews advances in understanding plant physiology, genetics and breeding. It also discusses ways of understanding the nutritional and sensory properties of potatoes. View details
Publication date: 09 August 2018
Hardback: £150.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £150.00

Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 2

Contributions by Prof. Arun Kumar Joshi, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Simanchal Sahu, Prof. Peter J. Gregory, Christina K. Clarke, Dr Vijesh Krishna, Alwin Keil, Sreejith Aravindakshan, Mukesh Meena, Dr Q. Xue, J. Rudd, J. Bell, T. Marek, S. Liu, Tadesse Dessalegn, Tesfaye Solomon, Tesfaye Gebre Kristos, Abiy Solomon, Shure Seboka, Yazie Chane, Dr Bhadriraju Subramanyam, Kamala A. Roberts, Fetien Abay, Rizana Mahroof, J. R. Guarin, Prof. Senthold Asseng, Dr Brian L. Beres, Reem Aboukhaddour, Haley Catton, Dr Thomas F. Döring, J. M. Clarke, K. Nilsen, D. Khitiri, X. Lin, Prof. C. J. Pozniak, K. Ammar, Dr Tinashe Chiurugwi, Simon Kerr, Ian Midgley, L. A. Boyd, Johnson Kamwaga, Peter Njau, Terry van Gevelt, Claudia Canales, Max Marcheselli, Dr Rajiv Kumar  Sharma, Dr W. Tadesse, A Amri, M Sanchez-Garcia, M El-Bouhssini, M Karrou, S Patil, F Bassi, Dr M. Baum, Prof. T. Oweis Edited by Prof. Peter Langridge

Volume 2 discusses ways of improving cultivation from variety selection to post-harvest storage. It reviews trends in integrated crop management, sustainable intensification and organic cultivation before concluding by looking at ways of supporting smallholders in the developing world. View details
Publication date: 31 July 2017
Hardback: £130.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £130.00

The Voice Of A Giant

Contributions by A. D. P. Briggs, Dr Roger Cockrell, Malcolm V. Jones, W. J. Leatherbarrow, R. A. Peace, David Richards Edited by David Richards, Dr Roger Cockrell


The Voice of a Giant looks at seven masterpieces of Russian nineteenth-century prose fiction. Each chapter concentrates primarily on a detailed analysis of one of these works but reference is also made to historical background, the seven author’s general attitudes and the distinguishing characteristics of Russian literature.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £52.50

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