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View Rights PortalThe European or Mediterranean cultivated olive (Olea europaea L., subsp. europaea, var. europaea) is one of the most ancient cultivated fruit tree crops. Today, hundreds of olive varieties are grown to produce high-quality fruit for oil and for table olives consumption. The olive industry has undergone profound innovations in the past 30 years, due to scientific and technical advances, particularly in genomics, breeding, orchard management, mechanization and agro-ecology, although not all these developments are yet available to smaller producers. Olive cultivation has also spread to many countries outside the Mediterranean Basin, where it ihas been traditionally present for over 6,000 years. These new olive-growing countries are experiencing further expansion of the industry, due to increased awareness of the nutritional and health properties of extra virgin olive oil. This book is a much-needed update on olive biology and cultivation, with contributions from leading international experts, and includes: Biology Genetics and breeding Olive propagation and nursery Planting new olive orchards Horticultural management of olive orchards Plant protection Olive by-products (wood, leaves) Multifunctionality of olive groves and ecosystem services The Olive: Botany and Production is invaluable for researchers and students in horticulture and agriculture, as well as producers involved in olive orchard management.
Beyond the Great Wall, immersed among the Hunan Province hills, there is Puwei village.Here, the memory of the past is still alive, nourishing the lives of the present days. Puweifigures as an oasis of quietness and traditions. A long time ago, challenging to say exactly when, a group of women started a culture: a unique, precious, deep and rich of values custom.The huge gap between man and women, along with their immense wisdom, were the driving force to the creation of the Nushu, the only language in the world created and used exclusively by women. It is a code made of rhomboid characters, having a willowy and graceful shape.Men would not pay attention to it, and this codecould permit the girls to express their thoughts and their torments freely. Nushu settled in apatriarchal society as a way of communication among women incredibly intimate.They used to gather in a room where to needle, sing and talk. These moments were, for them, a sigh of relief from an oppressing routine.
Living like an hermit in his luxurious family mansion, Giorgio is a former lawyer in his forties. His mother died in a car accident, his father committed suicide, and the only connection he has with the real world is Agnese, the housemaid that raised him up.Everything changes when Giorgio runs into Giulia, and the two get tangled-up in a very hot, ambiguous relationship.The day that Agnese goes missing, the net begins to close in around Giulia and her lies. But Giorgio is hiding some unimaginable, dark secrets of his own...
A baby book with a HOLE THROUGHOUT where to insert your hand to interact with the scene and complete the shape of the various animals.
Giulia Florio, the last descendant of the family at the center of the international best-seller “I leoni di Sicilia”, is remembered by her daughter, Costanza, who writes her true and riveting story revealing a wealth of never-before published details on her Sicilian dynasty.The first ever book authored by a member of the Florio family. “The Florio dynasty died out with my mother Giulia, but I still feel their name imprinted on my skin. And I want to make their story known to the world, along with the beauty of my island, a region I consider peerless in the whole of Italy”. COSTANZA AFAN DE RIVERA “Giulia Florio was an extraordinary mother, for both she had both personal kindness and the strength of character that was the hallmark of the Florio’s. Determination was a family trait.” Costanza’s voice is gentle and yet it betrays the pride and fierceness that spring from the awareness of one’s roots. From their homeland in Sicily, at the turn of the last century, the Florio family had reached the very top of European economic power. But with the First World War its empire began to topple. Born and raised in luxury, Giulia found herself in Rome, having to make do and find a living for herself. Her life, lasting a span of eighty years, is the stuff of novels – full of disappointments and triumphs, joys and sorrow.Set in the saga of a dynasty of genteel entrepreneurs, the story of an unconventional and deeply free woman who personally lived the most dramatic events of an entire century. As told in the engaging and moving voice of an eyewitness – her daughter.A unique perspective to discover the story, the protagonists and their best-guarded secrets.