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Mini-Farming: A Starting Guide for Practical Farming at Your Very Own Home
Urban Gardening & Homesteading
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
If you are concerned about what is in the food that your family eats, this book is for you. If you have always wanted to take a chance at growing food for fun, nutrition and maybe a little extra spending money, this book is for you. Even if you only have a little space, even just a balcony or a patio,...
by Ramon Harris
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Even if you live in a city, you can compost indoors and create something from which your houseplants, bulbs, or container gardens will benefit. You will be using food scraps to enrich the plants’ soil, which means less trash you have to take out. The Japanese method of composting indoors, called...
Native Plants for the Short Season Yard
Best Picks for the Chinook and Canadian Prairie Zones
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This is the definitive guide to gardening with native plants on the prairies. Gardening with native plants has lots of advantages, not only for your yard, but also for the ecosystem. What could be better than a beautiful, low-maintenance yard that preserves biodiversity and withstands the prairie...
Farming with Native Beneficial Insects
Ecological Pest Control Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
Harness the power of beneficial insects to deter pests and reduce crop damage. This comprehensive guide to farming with insects will have you building beetle banks and native plant field borders as you reap a bountiful and pesticide-free harvest. With strategies for identifying the insects you’re...
Mycelial Mayhem
Growing Mushrooms for Fun, Profit and Companion Planting
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Most supermarket mushrooms are bland and boring; products of an industrial process which typically relies on expensive equipment and harmful pesticides. Many people would like to add more flavorful and diverse fungi to their diets, but lack the knowledge or confidence to gather or grow their own....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
First-Principles-Based Multiscale, Multiparadigm Molecular Mechanics and Dynamics Methods for Describing Complex Chemical Processes, by A. Jaramillo-Botero, R. Nielsen, R. Abrol, J. Su, T. Pascal, J. Mueller and W. A. Goddard.- Dynamic QM/MM: A Hybrid Approach to Simulating Gas–Liquid Interactions,...
Kentucky Heirloom Seeds
Growing, Eating, Saving
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Saving seeds to plant for next year's crop has been key to survival around the globe for millennia. However, the twentieth century witnessed a grand takeover of seed producers by multinational companies aiming to select varieties ideal for mechanical harvest, long-distance transportation, and long...
Environmental Calculations
A Multimedia Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Consolidates information and technical calculations for a wide variety of environmental factors
Operating a business facility of any size, especially a manufacturing location, requires environmental permits from a number of governmental regulatory agencies responsible for protecting human health...
Polymer Synthesis: Theory and Practice
Fundamentals, Methods, Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Emphasis is on a broad description of the general methods and processes for the synthesis, modification and characterization of macromolecules. These more fundamental chapters will be supplemented by selected and detailed experiments. In addition to the preparative aspects, the book also gives the...
by Russell N. Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Carboranes, Third Edition, by Russell Grimes, is the definitive resource on the subject. Completely updated with a wealth of research and review articles published in this active field since the previous volume was released in 2011, the book provides a readable and concise introduction to the basic...
by Gui-Juan Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
This thesis presents detailed mechanistic studies on a series of important C-H activation reactions using combined computational methods and mass spectrometry experiments. It also provides guidance on the design and improvement of catalysts and ligands. The reactions investigated include: (i) a nitrile-containing...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Molecularly Imprinted Polymers, by Karsten Haupt, Ana V. Linares, Marc Bompart und Bernadette Tse Sum Bui.- Physical Forms of MIPs, by Andrea Biffis, Gita Dvorakova und Aude Falcimaigne-Cordin.- Micro and Nanofabrication of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers, by Marc Bompart, Karsten Haupt und Cédric...
Reactions
An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The third book in Theodore Gray's bestselling Elements Trilogy, Reactions continues the journey through the world of chemistry that began with his two previous bestselling books The Elements and Molecules.
With The Elements, Gray gave us a never-before-seen, mesmerizing photographic view of...
by Hong-Wu He, Hao Peng, Xiao-Song Tan
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
This book presents essential research on a class of environmentally friendly alkylphosphonate herbicides. This class of herbicides acted as a competitive inhibitor of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHc) to control weeds. The bioreasoning and systematic approach, from basic research to field...