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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2017Occupational health and social estrangement in China
by Wing-Chung Ho, Alexander Smith
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FictionSeptember 2023Perlas de araña (Spider pearls)
by Valentina Winocur
Nona and Catalina, grandmother and granddaughter, have to flee to Mexico because of the Argentine dictatorship. The two land in a new place where they will have to reconfigure themselves in many ways. To begin with, as happens in exile, families are reorganized in unique sizes and structures. Catalina is just a child, she understands it at her own pace. Her seemingly innocent gaze observes a Chilean city that opens into a country with a life of its own. La Nona, who wields a singular wisdom, is an identity star. Questions about history and the present, arrive in time. Mexico and Argentina are distant countries on the map, but space-time merges them in a notion made of pain but also a lot of love, the argenmex, which throbs and has taken root in the south and north of the continent. This book does not stop there, but develops, reaching other geographies as well. As if it were a spider's web, it is carefully woven, captures and, above all, crosses threads of multiple meanings, from the historical, political and national, to those of childhood, the family and the individual.
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Botany & plant sciencesJune 2009Manual of Leaf Architecture
by Beth Ellis, Douglas C. Daly, Leo J. Hickey, Kirk R. Johnson, John D. Mitchell, Peter Wilf, Scott Wing
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Rural communitiesMay 2002Contracting for Agricultural Extension
International Case Studies and Emerging Practices
by Edited by William M Rivera, Willem Zijp
In many countries of the world agricultural extension services are shifting from the public to the private sector. Services are thus being contracted out, to improve the financing and delivery of agricultural knowledge.The book presents a range of case studies from Australia, Bangladesh, Chile, China, Germany, Mozambique, USA and others, that are presented to demonstrate the range of approaches. Topics covered include off-loading public sector extension delivery services, contracting to improve environmental services and farmers contracting for commercial advisory services.This volume presents work developed by the Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems (AKIS) Thematic Group of the World Bank, in collaboration with the University of Maryland, to examine contracting for extension services.
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Rural communitiesApril 2005Innovations in Rural Extension
Case Studies from Bangladesh
by Edited by Paul Van Mele, A Salahuddin, Noel P Magor
During the past five years, the PETRRA (Poverty Elimination Through Rice Research Assistance) project has explored the development of innovative extension mechanisms through a learning-by-doing process with multiple service providers. Partnerships linked government, non-government and private sectors as appropriate. Topics addressed by the project include seed production and distribution systems, crop and soil fertility management, postharvest technologies, mobile pumps, aromatic rice and integrated rice-duck farming. The methods used include women-led group extension, whole family approach, participatory video, Going Public and picture songs. This book examines these approaches to extension and assesses their potential for replicability and scaling-up. It includes four thematic sections with people-centred case studies and a conclusion with practical applications of the transaction cost theory.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureMay 2017Building Agricultural Extension Capacity in Post-Conflict Settings
Case Studies
by Paul McNamara, Austen Moore
This book (a) investigates the experiences and issues involved with rebuilding extension systems (including public sector, private sector, and non-governmental organization (NGO) extension) in post-conflict settings, (b) evaluates the impact of different extension policy approaches and practice in such settings, and (c) identifies the key elements needed to effectively rebuild agricultural extension systems and programs in post-conflict contexts. The chapters include country-specific case studies that provide a descriptive account but also analyze strategies, successes and failures, and lessons learned. A synthesis chapter examines insights and lessons learned across post-conflict settings, and identifies the elements and investments needed to rebuild extension systems and programmes in these contexts. ; This book investigates the experiences and issues involved with rebuilding extension systems n post-conflict settings. It evaluates the impact of different extension policy approaches and practice in such settings, and identifes the key elements needed to effectively rebuild agricultural extension systems and programs in post-conflict contexts
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September 1996Extension. Entspannung, Vitalität, Regeneration
Das tägliche 20-Minuten-Programm
by Dworkis, Sam
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2022Tabu Subjects
Caught between the duty of confidentiality and the duty to speak
by Almut Roth
Why is a subject regarded as off-limits and how does one handle it? What is better kept to yourself and what is essential that you say to the person affected? Countless people are ashamed of their diseases and do not dare to talk about them in public. But how can you find out what is meant, even though it is not openly stated? This calls for sensitivity and professional expertise! Only if someone has sufficient background knowledge about a disease and its possible treatments can emerging worries and anxieties be confronted, preconceptions dispelled and existing myths refuted. This book sheds clear and concise light on 50 supposedly taboo subjects, as well as providing appropriate phrases for difficult consultations in the pharmacy!
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Science & MathematicsSeptember 2022Companion Animal Behaviour Problems
Prevention and Management of Behaviour Problems in Veterinary Practice
by Rachel Casey, Sarah Heath, Helen Zulch, David Ryan, Jon Bowen, Emma Lightfoot, Anne McBride, Clare Wilson, Caroline Bower, Francesca Riccomini, Claire Hargrave, David Appleby, Emily Blackwell, Julie Bedford, Caroline Warnes, Trudi Atkinson, Emma Brown, Amanda Roshier, Stephanie Hedges
Behaviour problems are a significant cause of companion animal relinquishment and euthanasia. This book provides up to date information about animal behaviour as well as practical advice on how veterinary practice professionals can manage undesirable animal behaviour and give down to earth, appropriate and trusted advice to owners. This book: · Covers the important aspects of behaviour in dogs, cats, rabbits and rodents, parrots and birds, as well as how this behaviour has adapted to the domestic environment. · Discusses the role of the veterinary practice in improving the emotional experience of animals attending the veterinary practice, including practice design, socialisation classes for young animals and effective communication with owners. · Covers the clinical decision-making process in managing the signs of undesirable behaviour, appropriately handling pets in the practice to minimise distress, as well as: behavioural first aid, referral to a specialist, medical influences on behaviour and decisions about euthanasia. This practical and accessible book gives all the essential information needed by veterinary professionals in order to advise clients on the behaviour and well-being of animals in their care.
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July 2025
Advances in Organic Farming
by L. P. Awasthi, John Paull, Uygun Aksoy, Muazzez Cömert Acar, Fabio Caporali, Ehsan Ebrahimi, Adnan Sisic, Raffaele Zanoli, Francesco Solfanelli, Ryoichi Komiya, Helga Willer, Jan Travnicek, Bernhard Schlatter, Victor Olowe, Jude Obi, Olabisi Somefun, Leonard Pollara, Raya J. Amara, Wilson C. Wilson, Lucas T. Manda, Nyandula S. Mwaijande, Janet F. Maro, Yohana C. Haule, Abdul Shango, David Frost, Othmane Merah, Ashoka Gamage, Bernhard Freyer, Kandiah Pakeerathan, Stefanie Christmann, Youssef Bencharki, Hamdi Özaktan, Gheorghe Cristian Popescu, Mehmet Yaman, Wing K.P. Ng, Adrian Crew, Day Teixeira, Pete Maxfield, Matt J. Bell, Sito-Obong Udofia, Lisa Williams, Alison Wills, Hector Valenzuela, Amjad Ahmad, Maria Eugenia Ortiz Escobar, N.V. Hue, Mary Cole, Rachel Cavallo, Jochen Mayer, S. Folaranmi G. Yusuf, Eyinade Gabriel Adewunmi, A Mushunje, Roberto Mancinelli, Mariam Atait, Mohamed Allam, Emanuele Radicetti, Yves Theoneste Murindangabo, Marek Kopecky, Petr Konvalina, Thangapandian Dha
This book describes critically reviewed key aspects of organic farming and provides a unique and timely science-based resource for researchers, teachers and extension workers, undergraduates, postgraduate students, primary producers and others interested in organic farming. The first section of the book provides an overview of organic farming: a general introduction followed by the origins of organic farming, the principles of organic farming, challenges for organic farming, crop protection in organic farming and environmental impacts of organic farming. The next section deals with the management of various crop diseases through botanical biopesticides and Integrated Pest Management practices, followed by overarching regulatory and management concerns. The book is written by a range of specialists with direct experience of organic farming over many years. Authors from over a dozen countries in several continents have contributed to this unique and indispensable resource that offers a diverse range of valuable information, data and perspectives on organic farming, at a time when the world community is increasingly aware of the problems of our current agricultural practices and the importance of creating sustainable agricultural and systems for the long-term health of humankind and the biosphere as a whole.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2017Men in reserve
by Juliette Pattinson, Arthur McIvor, Linsey Robb, Penny Summerfield
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