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Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 3

Contributions by Dr Brian Jordan, Prof. B. M. Hargis, Prof G. Tellez, L. R. Bielke, Prof. Venugopal Nair, Prof. Larry McDougald, Dr Peter Groves, Dr Rami A. Dalloul, Dr Carita Schneitz, Martin Wierup, Prof. Robert F Wideman, Dr M. M. Makagon, R. A. Blatchford, Dr T. B. Rodenburg, Dr Ingrid De Jong, Rick A. van Emous, Prof. M. S. Lilburn, R. Shanmugasundaram, Prof Inma Estevez, Ruth C. Newberry, Prof. Brian Fairchild, Dr K. Schwean-Lardner, T. G. Crowe, Dr Andrew Butterworth Edited by Prof. Todd Applegate

Health and welfare are major issues in poultry production. This collection reviews our understanding of bacterial, viral and other diseases affecting poultry and their effective management. It also discusses ways of managing poultry flocks to optimise their welfare from hatching to slaughter. View details
Publication date: 31 August 2017
Hardback: £160.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £160.00

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

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

The Gothic Ideology

By (author) Diane Long Hoeveler

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Publication date: 15 May 2014
Hardback: £70.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £29.16

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

Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 2

Contributions by Xiping Yang, Ramkrishna Kandel, Jian Song, Qian You, Mengjuan Wang, Dr Jianping Wang, Dr Frederick C. Botha, Dr Anna L. Hale, Dr Phillip Jackson, James R. Todd, Dr Per McCord, Prof. Fredy Alpeter, Ratna Karan, Dr Nicole Thompson, Dr Philippe Roumagnac, Jean-Heinrich Daugrois, Denis Filloux, Dimitre Mollov, Dr Rasappa Viswanathan, A. Ramesh Sundar, R. Selvakumar, P. Malathi, Dr Claudia Monteiro-Vitorello, Patricia Dayane Carvalho Schaker, Juliana Benevenuto, Natália de Sousa Teixeira e Silva, Sintia Silva de Almeida, R. Stuart Rutherford, Dr Kathy Braithwaite, Dr Monique Royer, Isabelle Pieretti, Stéphane Cociancich, Prof. Philippe Rott, Dr Graham R. Stirling, Dr Francois-Regis Goebel, Julien M. Beuzelin, Mike J. Way, Dr Jack C. Comstock, Sushma G. Sood, Dr Calvin Odero Edited by Prof. Philippe Rott

Sugarcane cultivation faces a range of challenges to improve yields sustainably. This volumes reviews how these challenges can be addressed through developments in breeding as well as better management of pests and diseases. View details
Publication date: 05 March 2018
Hardback: £170.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £170.00

Reading the Cinematograph

Contributions by Stephen Bottomore, Dr. Jon Burrows, Stacy Gillis, Tom Gunning, Andrew Higson, Chris O'Rourke, Lise Shapiro Sanders, Dr Andrew Shail, David Trotter Edited by Dr Andrew Shail


The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
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Anaerobic Reactors

By (author) Carlos Augusto de Lemos Chernicharo

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Publication date: 30 March 2007
Ebook (VitalSource): £37.50

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

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
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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

Community Based Water Management and Social Capital

By (author) Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Ismu Rini Dwi Ari, Andrea Schaefer, Hayeong Jeong Edited by Ibnu Syabri

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Publication date: 14 April 2014
Ebook (VitalSource): £103.00

Precision agriculture for sustainability

Contributions by Prof Richard B. Ferguson, Dr R. Gebbers, Dr Chenghai Yang, Dr Chunhua Zhang, Dr John M. Kovacs, Dr Dan Walters, Dr Spyros Fountas, Dr Evangelos Anastasiou, Dr Zisis Tsiropoulos, Dr Aristotelis Tagarakis, Dr Athanasios Balafoutis, Dr Nicolas Tremblay, Dr Kenneth A. Sudduth, Dr Aaron J. Franzen, Dr Heping Zhu, Dr Scott T. Drummond, Dr Paul Miller, Dr Qin Zhang, Dr Joseph Dvorak, Dr Timo Oksanen, Dr Diogenes Antille, Dr Tim Chamen, Dr Jeff N. Tullberg, Dr Bindi Isbister, T. A. Jensen, Dr Craig P. Baillie, Dr John K. Schueller, Prof. Pedro Andrade-Sanchez, Dr Shrinivasa K. Upadhyaya, Prof. John Fulton, Dr Dan S. Long, Dr Amir Haghverdi, Dr Brian G. Leib, Dr E. C. Oerke, Prof. Roland Gerhards, Dr Mark Trotter, Prof Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer, Dr Guangnan Chen Edited by Dr John Stafford

By using resources more efficiently, precision agriculture can make farming more productive and sustainable. This collection reviews current research on key technologies in precision agriculture and its applications. View details
Publication date: 06 November 2018
Hardback: £180.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £180.00

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

Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens

Contributions by Dr Dominic Wright, Dr Rie Henriksen, Dr Birte L. Nielsen, Emeritus Prof Ian J. H. Duncan, Dr Rafael Freire, Prof Inma Estevez, Dr Dana L. M. Campbell, Dr Marisa A. Erasmus, Prof Marian Dawkins, Dr Elizabeth Rowe, Prof Linda Keeling, Dr Anja Brinch Riber, Dr Elske N. de Haas, Dr Ingrid De Jong, Dr Victoria Sandilands, Prof Lars Schrader, Dr Julia Malchow, Dr Leonie Jacobs, Dr Frank A. M. Tuyttens, Dr Dorothy McKeegan, Dr Jessica Martin, Dr Nienke van Staaveren, Dr Alexandra Harlander, Dr Christina Rufener, Dr Michael J. Toscano, Dr Gina Caplen Edited by Professor Christine Nicol

Part 1 of this volume reviews advances in research on key aspects of poultry behaviour and welfare monitoring. Part 2 discusses particular welfare issues affecting broilers and layers such as housing and environmental enrichment as well as problems such as injurious pecking and bone health. View details
Publication date: 29 September 2020
Hardback: £170.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £170.00

Achieving sustainable cultivation of cassava Volume 1

Contributions by Prof. Doyle McKey, Marc Delêtre, Dr Aurélie Bechoff, Kuakoon Piyachomkwan, Sittichoke Wanlapatit, Prof. Klanarong Sriroth, Dr Keith Tomlins, Ben Bennett, Dr Tin Maung Aye, Dr Dunstan S. C. Spencer, Chuma Ezedinma, Olivier F. Vilpoux, Denilson de Oliveira Guilherme, Prof. Marney Pascoli Cereda, Dr Clair H. Hershey, Dr Kolawole Adebayo, Dr Claude M. Fauquet, Joe Tohme, Dr Reinhardt Howeler, Dr James George, Sarojini Amma Sunitha, Dr Thomas W. Kuyper, Prof. Samuel Adjei-Nsiah, Mr George Marechera, Grace Muinga Edited by Dr Clair H. Hershey

This collection begins by reviewing the current state of cassava cultivation, before going on to review the range of techniques enabling sustainable intensification, from seed systems management to intercropping and post-harvest management. View details
Publication date: 31 July 2017
Hardback: £160.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £160.00

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

Italian Cityscapes

Contributions by Halldóra Arnardóttir, Enrica Capussotti, Pippo Ciorra, Nicholas Dines, Dr John Foot, Mary Louise Lobsinger, Abele Longo, Prof. Robert Lumley, Laura Maritano, Claudia Nocentini, Sergio Pace, Gianfranco Petrillo, Giuliana Pieri, Sandra Ponzanesi Edited by Prof. Robert Lumley, Dr John Foot


This book examines the transformation of the Italian city from the 1950s to the present with particular attention to questions of identity, migration and changes in urban culture. It shows how major demographic movements and cultural shifts threw into relief new conceptions of the city in which old boundaries had become problematic.

 

 

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

Achieving sustainable cultivation of rice Volume 1

Contributions by Jennifer Spindel, Prof. Susan McCouch, R. B. Angeles-Shim, Prof. M. Ashikari, G. Ramkumar, K. K. Jena, Tadashi Hirasawa, Shunsuke Adachi, Prof. R. F. Sage, J. Ali, Prof. Z. Li, Venkategowda Ramegowda, Supratim Basu, Anuj Kumar, Prof. Andy Pereira, Julie Pua Ferraz, Adoracion Resurreccion, Prof. Melissa Fitzgerald, Mengyi Dong, Margaret Slavin, Prof. Lu Yu, Dr Adrian Dubock, Dr Navreet K Bhullar, Dr Rachelle Ward, Chuan Tong, Prof. Jinsong Bao Edited by Prof. Takuji Sasaki

This collection reviews advances in breeding techniques as well as improving traits such as flood or drought resistance. It also discusses advances in understanding the nutritional role of rice and ways this can be enhanced to feed a growing population. View details
Publication date: 22 May 2017
Hardback: £140.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £140.00

Unity And Variety

Contributions by Dr Jonathan Barry, B. I. Coleman, Professor Christopher Holdsworth, Professor Nicholas Orme, J. A. Thurmer, M. Winter Edited by Professor Nicholas Orme


A collaborative history of the Church in a large, diverse and interesting region of England by six historians, ranging from Celtic and Saxon times, through the middle ages, Reformation, rise of Nonconformity and the Victorian era, down to the present day and encompassing all the main Christian denominations.


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

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

Ourika

By (author) Madame de Duras Edited by Prof. Roger Little


Ourika is the story of an African girl growing up in France: based on a true story, it was a runaway bestseller following its first publication in Paris in 1823. This is a corrected and updated reprint of the 1998 second edition of this text.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
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Toussaint Louverture

By (author) Alphonse de Lamartine Edited by Mr Léon-François Hoffman

This is a new critical edition of an unjustly forgotten drama by Alphonse de Lamartine, written in the early 1840s. It draws a compelling image of Toussaint Louverture, the father of Haitian Independence.

 

 

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Publication date: 02 March 2015
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Symbolism, Decadence And The Fin De Siècle

Contributions by Scott Ashley, Jennifer Birkett, Richard A. Cardwell, Ian Christie, Peter Cooke, Peter Dayan, Alison Finch, Michael Holland, Patrick Laude, Dr Patrick McGuinness, Dee Reynolds, Prof. Clive Scott, Jeremy Stubbs, Robert Vilain, Shirley W. Vinall Edited by Dr Patrick McGuinness

This is a comparative and interdisciplinary book exploring a variety of perspectives on the artistic culture of France, and its neighbours, in the period 1870-1914.

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Publication date: 01 April 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Multimedia Histories

By (author) James Lyons, Dr. John Plunkett Contributions by Isobel Armstrong, Kaveh Askari, Patrizia Di Bello, James Bennett, William Boddy, Jonathan Bollen, Ian Christie, Charlie Gere, Richard Grusin, Michelle Henning, James Lyons, Laura Mulvey, Dan North, Dr. John Plunkett, Dr Andrew Shail, Damian Sutton, Andrea Zapp


Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early film to the DVD and the internet.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £22.50

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