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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

Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2

Contributions by Alam Sher, Xiaoli Liu, Jincai Li, Dr Youhong Song, Prof. Charles Wortmann, Patricio Grassini, Roger W. Elmore, Dr Peter S. Setimela, Dr Alpha Y. Kamara, Dr Wade E. Thomason, Bee Khim Chim, Mark S. Reiter, Dr Bram Govaerts, Isabelle François, Nele Verhulst, Louis Longchamps, Dr Rajiv Khosla, Dr Kaushik Majumdar, Shamie Zingore, Fernando García, Adrian Correndo, Dr Jagadish Timsina, Adrian M. Johnston, Dr Bao-Luo Ma, Zhigang Wang, Mr Abeya Temesgen, Shu Fakai, Dr Daniel Rodriguez, Caspar Roxburgh, Claire Fansworth, Ariel Ferrante, Joseph Eyre, Stuart Irvine-Brown, James McLean, Martin Bielich, Dr Tadele Tefera, Prof. William D. Hutchinson, Theresa M. Cira, Prof. T. L. Niblack, Dr Loth S. Mulunga, Dr George Mahuku, Dr P. Lava Kumar, Dr Amaere Ayalew, Martin Kimanya, Limbikani Matumba, Dr Ranajit Bandyopadhayay, A. Menkir, Dr Peter J. Cotty, Khawar Jabran, Mubshar Hussain, Dr Bhagirath Singh Chauhan, Vasileios P. Vasileiadis, Maurizio Sattin, Dr Per Kudsk Edited by Dr Dave Watson

Volume 2 covers methods for improving maize cultivation, from seed selection to nutrition, irrigation and techniques such as intercropping. It also reviews research on key pests and diseases and methods for their control in making cultivation more efficient and sustainable. View details
Publication date: 31 July 2017
Hardback: £170.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £170.00

Computational Systems Pharmacology and Toxicology

Edited by Rudy J Richardson, Dale E Johnson

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Publication date: 01 March 2017
Ebook (VitalSource): £159.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury

By (author) Jonathan M. Silver MD, Thomas W. McAllister MD, Stuart C. Yudofsky MD

This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the exponential expansion of research and clinical data amassed in the intervening years. Each chapter was written and reviewed by authorities in neuropsychiatry, neurology, rehabilitation medicine, and the other specialties who assess, diagnose, and treat these patients.

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Publication date: 25 April 2011
Hardback: £139.00

From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage

By (author) Stuart Nishan Green

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Publication date: 31 May 2011
Hardback: £35.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £29.17

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 production of pig meat Volume 2

Contributions by Dr David S. Buchanan, Prof. Jack C. M. Dekkers, Prof. Glen W. Almond, Emily Mahan-Riggs, Dr M. L. W. J. Broekhuijse, Duy Ngoc Do, Prof. Haja N. Kadarmideen, Prof. R. J. van Barneveld, R. J. E. Hewitt, D. N. D'Souza, Prof. J. F. Patience, Dr Sung Woo Kim, Charlotte Lauridsen, Dr J. Jacques Matte, Dr Ludovic Brossard, Jean-Yves Dourmad, Florence Garcia-Launay, Jaap van Milgen, Dr M. R. Bedford, C. L. Walk, Dr John M. Brameld, David M. Brown, Tim Parr, Ms Ingunn Stensland, John R. Pluske, Dr Candido Pomar, Ines Andretta, Luciano Hauschild Edited by Prof. Julian Wiseman

Pig production faces many hurdles in meeting increasing global demand sustainably. This volume discusses advances in breeding to improve both productivity and quality. It also reviews key developments in improving animal nutrition. View details
Publication date: 09 October 2017
Hardback: £160.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £160.00

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
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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

Going to the Movies

Contributions by Richard Abel, Charles R. Acland, Professor Robert C. Allen, Charles Ambler, Daniel Biltereyst, Richard Butsch, Thomas Doherty, Jane M. Gaines, Mark Glancy, Ahmet Gürata, Mark Jancovich, Barbara Kilinger, Jeffery Klenotic, Annette Kuhn, Terry Lindvall, Richard Maltby, Christopher J. McKenna, Anne Morey, Dr John Sedgwick, Dr Melvyn Stokes, Judith Thissen, Gregory A. Waller, Haidee Wasson Edited by Richard Maltby, Dr Melvyn Stokes, Professor Robert C. Allen


This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South Africa.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £20.83

An American in Victorian Cambridge

Edited by Dr. Christopher Stray


"An American in Victorian Cambridge" is a richly detailed account of student life in the Cambridge of the 1840s. The rationale for the book, which is as appealing today as it was then, is that this is pre-eminently a book about an American student at an English university. In this new edition, some substantial additions have been made.


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

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

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

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