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mikrotext / Nikola Richter

mikrotext is a publisher for texts with attitude and for new narratives, founded in 2013 in Berlin by Nikola Richter The independent publishing house focusses on new literary texts that comment on contemporary questions and allow insights into tomorrow. The texts are inspired by discussions on social media platformes and reflect today’s global debates. All titles are published digital first. A selection is available in English. In 2020 and 2019, mikrotext was awarded the German Publisher Award by the Federal Ministry of Culture and Media.
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Richard Griffin (1820) Ltd t/a Tarquin

Tarquin produces books for recreational mathematics, and for students and teachers in schools. We have a near 50 year history of enriching mathematics as well as papercraft and origami titles. Many of our 240 titles have been translated into all the major languages of the world. But as a small publisher, we understand other small publishers and can tailor rights deals appropriately and economically. We have 12 titles that are new in 2020 and where rights are available.
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Hybrid Rice Feeding the World

Little-Known Stories of Yuan Longping

by Mao Changxiang

Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, who had developed the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". This book records in a realistic and plain style some little-known stories of Yuan Longping in the past 30 years from the early 1980s, when China’s hybrid rice research became successful and began to be widely used in production, and gradually spread to the world and benefit people all over the globe.

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July 2016

Rice

by Su Tong

Rice is a collection of fictional works by Su Tong, which includes Rice, Three Lamps and Fish of the People. Rice, a tale of desire, agony, existence and destruction, is a novel Su Tong wrote in the early 1990s. It depicts the samsara-like life of a man who migrated to the city by train to run away from famine and who eventually returns to his hometown also by train. The wandering life in a strange place is the basic generalization of his life and his death on the way home marks the climax of the whole story. Rice is the most noteworthy one among the few novels Su Tong has written so far.

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July 2025

Japan's Rice Problem

by Masayuki Ogawa

In recent years there has been much debate in Japan over rice, which is considered the "staple food" of the Japanese people. Certain agricultural policies and traditional attitudes, the aging of farming communities and the lack of successors have become major problems, leading to the overproduction of rice and falling prices. Agricultural policy has been forced to respond to these problems. This book summarizes the changing relationship between the Japanese people and rice over the past half century, pointing out four turning points. The book then discusses in detail the "rice paddy glut" as the most recent rice problem in Japan. The book also points out that a "fifth tipping point " will come in the near future, when there will be an excess of farmland, and suggests ways to deal with this problem. Similar problems could be on the horizon in the future for developing countries that have invested heavily in increasing rice production.

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Agricultural science

August 2002

Rice Almanac

by G P Hettel, Jay L Maclean, D C Dawe, Bill Hardy

As a result of editions published in 1993 and 1997, the Rice Almanac has become a standard handbook that brings together general information about rice and data about rice production worldwide. The third edition has been fully updated and expanded to include more countries, and is the result of collaboration between the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United States.

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Cultural Journey with Elena (4 volumes): Elena in the Rice Kingdom

by Ding Ding(text), Liang Kun(illustration)

Cultural Journey with Elena (4 volumes) includes Elena in the Porcelain Capital, Elena in the Rice Kingdom, Elena in the Tea Garden, and Elena in the Silk Town. The series tells the story of Elena’s magical adventures in each of those places. Elena and her friends lead young readers to learn about Chinese cultural symbols such as porcelain, rice, tea, and silk, exploring the mysteries and charms of Chinese culture. Alongside, they help young readers learn Tang poetry and English, while also guiding them to develop good traits such as gratitude, cherishing food, valuing friendship, daring to face challenges, and protecting the environment.

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Agricultural science

July 1996

Rice Research in Asia

Progress and Priorities

by Edited by Robert E Evenson, R W Herdt, Mahabub Hossain

This work discusses the latest work in Rice Research in Asian countries and makes suggestions on future progression and rice research priorities.

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Agronomy & crop production

April 1997

Sustainability of Rice Farming

by Edited by D J Greenland

Rice has supported a greater number of people for a longer period of time than any other crop. Nearly half of the global population is dependent on rice as its major staple food. While Asia remains the main centre of production and consumption of rice, the importance of rice is increasing rapidly in Africa and Latin America, and exports of rice from the United States and Australia are of major importance to the world rice trade. This book explores the factors which have contributed to the sustainability of rice production over the eight or nine thousand years for which rice has been produced. Sustainability is defined as the maintenance or improvement of production levels and protection of natural resources, within the context of economic viability and social acceptability. The author covers a wide range of issues, including soil fertility, plant breeding, pest management, irrigation, land degradation and social and economic factors. Greatest emphasis is placed on the special features of wetland rice production, and the importance of the nutrient balance. It is also shown that without the Green Revolution there would have been a period of mass starvation in Asia, a problem which continues to threaten and which will be unavoidable unless the successes of the Green Revolution can be sustained. The book provides a unique review of the sustainability of the production of the world’s most important crop, and should be of interest to students, research workers and policy makers in agriculture, soil science, and agricultural economics and food policies, as well as all interested in development in the third world.

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December 2020

Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups·She: The Black Rice Festival

by Yan Xiangjun, Liao Zhenghua

This book mainly introduces the origin of the She ethnic group's Black Rice Festival. While areas of the She ethnic group suffered from pests, the land owners increased rents and fees. As a result, the She people were in shortage of food. Lan Tianfeng led people to the land owner's house to steal food. After being found out, Lan Tianfeng stepped forward to protect others and was imprisoned on March 3rd. There was no food in the prison for him. Later, some She people used black rice leaves to cook rice. The jailers did not dare to eat the black rice and passed the rice to Tianfeng. Over time, Lan Tianfeng slowly recovered. Three years later, again on March 3rd, Lan Tianfeng was rescued. In order for future generations to commemorate the feat of Lan Tianfeng and remember how hard to have rice, the Black Rice Festival is celebrated every year.

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Children's & YA

June 2016

The Moon: A Glutinous Rice Cake in the Sky

by Cai Gao

The Moon: a Glutinous Rice Cake in the Sky is a classic nursery rhyme of Cai Gao’s hometown — the Changsha city of China , until now it is still sung by children. This nursery rhyme compares the moon to a round-shaped glutinous rice cake, and then launches a series of interesting associations. If singing this in the dialect of Changsha, a kind of lingering charm would come out.

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Agriculture & related industries

February 1997

Asian Rice Bowls: The Returning Crisis?

by Prabhu L Pingali, Mahabub Hossain, Roberta V Gerpacio

Less than two decades ago, the world was focusing on the impending food crisis across Asia, which was given little hope of ever being able to meet its rapidly growing food demand. Since then, Asia has made a quantum leap in food production. Technological innovations and policies that promoted intensive rice production systems helped achieve this. The authors of this book argue that there is a growing sense of complacency about future food supplies in Asia and that such complacency is not warranted. While rice productivity may increase, this will be limited by a number of factors: withdrawal of land and labor from agriculture to other uses, increased competition for resources, and land degradation. It is unlikely to match the increase in demand for rice because of population growth. The book provides a thorough assessment of the opportunities for increasing land productivity, including crop diversification. It evaluates the successes and limitations of the Green Revolution for rice in Asia and projects economic and technological trends forward over the next three decades.

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Mycology, fungi (non-medical)

January 1989

Seed-borne Diseases of Rice

by P C Agarwal

paper on seed-borne diseases of rice

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June 2020

Family Farm Ecological Planting Series: Family Farm Ecological Planting Series: New Technology of Ecological Planting and Raising of Meat Duck Rice Field

by Fu Zhiqiang

This year, our country has promoted three-dimensional rice farming. Among them, raising ducks and fish in paddy fields is currently a project with great promotion. This book mainly introduces the common meat duck varieties in rice fields, meat duck production process, duck house construction requirements, meat duck feeding management, breeding duck feeding management, artificial hatching of meat duck breeding eggs, and the prevention and control of meat duck common diseases.

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September 2018

New technology of ecological cultivation in rice field

by Huang Huang, Wang Xiaoqing

The ecological cultivation of rice fields with multiple cropping system is the improvement and development of the classical farming mode of China "rice field fish cultivation". The new technologies of rice field ecological cultivation introduced in this book include rice oil fish ecological cultivation mode, rice oil turtle ecological cultivation mode, rice loach ecological cultivation mode, rice oil crab ecological cultivation mode, rice oil frog ecological cultivation mode, rice oil shrimp ecological cultivation mode , rice eel ecological cultivation model, rice duck ecological cultivation model. On the basis of the previous large-scale business model, two patent technologies of "ladder cultivation" and "wedge cultivation" have been ingeniously added, which have successfully solved the bottleneck problems of escaping, overwintering in summer, ensuring feed, no tillage cultivation, directional fertilization and water-saving irrigation in the cultivation process, and initially formed a technical system of "narrow ridge, multiple maturity, close planting and sparse cultivation", and achieved good economic results Economic, ecological and social benefits.

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Literature & Literary Studies

October 2017

The Oral Autobiography of YUAN Longping

YUAN Longping

by 袁隆平

This book is the oral autobiography of YUAN Longping, a famous Chinese agricultural scientist widely known as the Father of Hybrid Rice. By the recall of little-known facts including YUAN’s family background, education experience, and scientific research experience, the book veritably reflects the development of Chinese society in the last hundred years, especially the hybrid rice.

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Letters from My Mentor Yuan Longping

by Mao Changxiang

This book embodies 20 letters professor Yuan Longping wrote to his student Dr. Mao Changxiang in the 1980s and 1990s. Professor Yuan Longping, internationally known as the “Father of Hybrid Rice”, had developed the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s and helped alleviate famine and poverty around the world. In the late 20th century, when the communication means were not yet developed enough, professor Yuan wrote a lot of letters to Dr. Mao Changxiang, the researcher of Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center at that time, to discuss about the development of hybrid rice research. These letters were written in Chinese or English, most of which are originals and have not been published before and therefore are very valuable documents in the history of hybrid rice research.

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June 2011

Der Duft des Sake

Roman

by Joyce Lebra, Ursula Gräfe

Japan im 19. Jahrhundert. Rie ist die Tochter eines angesehenen Sake-Brauers und einzige Erbin. Doch als Frau ist sie nicht dazu bestimmt, das Familienunternehmen zu leiten – allein die Nähe von Frauen, glaubt man, verdirbt den Sake. Statt dessen muß sie den Nichtsnutz Jihei heiraten, der zum Nachfolger ihres Vaters auserwählt worden ist. Dieser zeigt jedoch weder Fähigkeit noch Willen, diese Aufgabe zu erfüllen. Rie läßt sich nicht entmutigen: Mit Courage, großem Mut und leidenschaftlichem Willen kämpft sie dafür, die Brauerei Weißer Tiger, ihr familiäres Erbe, in ein florierendes Sake-Imperium zu verwandeln. Unverhofft trifft sie dabei auch ihre verloren geglaubte Jugendliebe wieder …

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Agriculture & related industries

October 2013

Realizing Africa's Rice Promise

by Edited by Marco C S Wopereis, David Johnson, Nourollah Ahmadi, Eric Tollens, Abdulai Jalloh

*Includes contributions from the key scientists working in the area *Provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research as well as making recommendations for how best to deal with future challenges *Has a wide and varied scope – covering policy, genetic diversity and improvement, sustainable productivity enhancement, innovations and value chains

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Agriculture & farming

January 2011

Information and Communication Technology for Agriculture and Rural Development

by R. Saravanan, C. Kathiresan & T. Indra Devi

The articles included in this book focuses on; Digital divide in rural India, e-Agriculture issues, Cyber extension, overview on Village Knowledge Centres (VKCs), Community Information Centre iniative in Orissa, SATCOM application in Karnataka State, Model e-Villages in Arunachal Pradesh State of North-East India, Nationwide InDG web portal initiative for rural development, Kisan Mobile Sandesh (KMS), Dynamic Market Information (DMI) by Web and Mobile in Tamil Nadu, Expert systems for pest and diseases diagnosis in rubber, Interactive Multimedia Compact Disc (IMCD), Village Information Centres among Dairy Farmers in Tamil Nadu, KISSAN initiative of Kerala State, Mobile Agricultural School and Services (MASS) in Jharkhand, Farmers Database creation in Darjeeling District of West Bengal, Village Resource Centres (VRCs) in Uttaranchal, Pest Surveillance of Rice using satellite data, Techmode Approach for Distance Learning Courses for Field Veterinarians in Maharastra, Information Retrieval System for Buffalo Reproduction, Web Portals and Digital Data base in Agroforestry, Watershed Modelling using GIS and Remote Sensing in Gujarat State, e-Readiness and Participation Level of Akshya and KISSAN Kerala Beneficiaries and VRC & CIC Network in Assam and Internet utilization pattern, evaluation of Kissan Call Centres (KCCs), ICT adoption level, impact, stakeholders feedback, policy implications and recommendations.

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Technology, Engineering & Agriculture

November 2025

Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECM) in Marine Capture Fisheries

Identification, Use and Performance Assessment

by Serge M Garcia, Jake Rice, Anthony Charles, Daniela Diz

With threats to global biodiversity growing, it is increasingly necessary to examine the frameworks we employ to ensure conservation is successful and effective. Conservation of the ocean and its biodiversity can thus take many forms and area-based fisheries management has been used for centuries to improve the performance of fisheries and reduce their ecological impact. Such measures have also developed and in 2010 the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) recognized the importance of protected areas and Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) in reversing biodiversity loss. Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) are thus geographically defined sites outside of protected areas that can achieve the sustained long-term conservation of biodiversity and they can be managed by government organisations, indigenous peoples or local communities. The book is an updated version of a report prepared by members of the IUCN Fisheries Expert Group in 2021, following their close involvement in the elaboration and adoption of the concept of OECMs, and subsequent developments at international and national levels. This book focuses on OECMs as applied in marine capture fisheries, referred to as "fishery-OECMs". Included in the book are: A detailed description of this new instrument for managing fisheries and conservation. A complete account of the background and development of the OECM concept. Identification of how OECMs can be used to further economic and conservation goals. This book describes the OECM concept in the context of marine capture fisheries to inform those working, interested or involved in fisheries, conservation and the environment. It also reviews the opportunities and challenges presented when identifying, using and maintaining effective long-term fishery-OECMs, thus ensuring the effective management of fisheries and the conservation of marine biodiversity.

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Agriculture & farming

January 2008

Underutilized and Underexploited Horticultural Crops: Vol 04

by K.V. Peter

There is Global concern on shrinking food base depending on a meager three crops-wheat, rice and maize-.New Crops are to be encouraged to fit into the changing food habits, life styles and above all climate change. Underutilized Horticultural Crops are getting attention world around. The High Impact Journal HortScience reviewed vol. II Underutilized and Underexploited Horticultural Crops and reported its global value. The series projects the nutritional values, ecological compatibility, fitness to ecological niches and above all optimum uses of natural resources like water, energy, space and time. Volume 4 deals with edible plant foods in Africa, African Leafy Vegetables, Amaranths, Chilies, Annual Drumstick, Clove bean, Cluster bean, Curry leaf, Ivy Gourd, Snap melon, Sweet Gourd, Teasles Gourd, Tree borne vegetables, Fruits of North Eastern Region, Dragon Fruit, Wood apple, Strobilanthes, Seed Spices, Yam bean and Trees for Energy. Twenty s in the 4th volume are compiled by the Eminent Scientists in the respective crops. The volume 4 envisages a world free from hunger and under nutrition and full of health and wellness.

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Little-Known Stories of Yuan Longping

by Mao Changxiang

by Su Tong

by Masayuki Ogawa

by G P Hettel, Jay L Maclean, D C Dawe, Bill Hardy

by Ding Ding(text), Liang Kun(illustration)

Progress and Priorities

by Edited by Robert E Evenson, R W Herdt, Mahabub Hossain

by Edited by D J Greenland

by Yan Xiangjun, Liao Zhenghua

by Cai Gao

by Prabhu L Pingali, Mahabub Hossain, Roberta V Gerpacio

by P C Agarwal

by Fu Zhiqiang

by Huang Huang, Wang Xiaoqing

YUAN Longping

by 袁隆平

by Mao Changxiang

Roman

by Joyce Lebra, Ursula Gräfe

by Edited by Marco C S Wopereis, David Johnson, Nourollah Ahmadi, Eric Tollens, Abdulai Jalloh

by R. Saravanan, C. Kathiresan & T. Indra Devi

Identification, Use and Performance Assessment

by Serge M Garcia, Jake Rice, Anthony Charles, Daniela Diz

by K.V. Peter

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