Author: Jonathan BINNS (Assistant Agricultural Commissioner on the Irish Poor Inquiry.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Notes on the Agriculture of Lancashire, with suggestions for its improvement
Author: Jonathan BINNS (Assistant Agricultural Commissioner on the Irish Poor Inquiry.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
An Improving Prospect? A History of Agricultural Change in Cumbria
Author: David Johnson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144565556X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Dr David Johnson explores the ways in which farming in Cumbria has changed and adapted over the centuries.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144565556X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Dr David Johnson explores the ways in which farming in Cumbria has changed and adapted over the centuries.
Information for Innovation
Author: Stuart Macdonald
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191584150
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Information is not taken seriously. Much is said about the information age, the information economy, the information society, and particularly about information technology, but little about information itself. If these are important, then so is information. But information is not as other goods: it has some peculiar characteristics. It cannot be displayed for sale without giving it away in the process. Sold, it goes to the buyer but still remains with the seller. Buying entails expressing demand in ignorance for buyers who do not know just what it is that they do not know. Such characteristics have long been recognised by economists, but it is not generally economists who have most to say about the importance of information. This privilege is exercised by senior managers, who speak passionately about knowledge-based, learning organizations; by politicians and public servants, anxious to compensate with policy and programme for the information failure of organization and market; and by specialists in telecommunications and information technology, bent on adding value to what they treat as just a commodity. All are particularly enthusiastic about the innovation which springs from information. Information usually requires new information. Finding, acquiring, and mixing this new information with that already in use presents problems, not least because complex information transactions are required rather than simple information transfer. Solutions can be devised, but only by accommodating the characteristics of information. This book contrasts the way innovation is normally regarded in a variety of areas from eighteenth-century agriculture to high technology, from technology transfer to industrial espionage, from corporate strategy to patents and independent inventors with how it appears from what is termed an 'information perspective', that is one that puts information first. The results are intriguing, suggesting that radically different approaches to innovation (and organization) should be considered.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191584150
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Information is not taken seriously. Much is said about the information age, the information economy, the information society, and particularly about information technology, but little about information itself. If these are important, then so is information. But information is not as other goods: it has some peculiar characteristics. It cannot be displayed for sale without giving it away in the process. Sold, it goes to the buyer but still remains with the seller. Buying entails expressing demand in ignorance for buyers who do not know just what it is that they do not know. Such characteristics have long been recognised by economists, but it is not generally economists who have most to say about the importance of information. This privilege is exercised by senior managers, who speak passionately about knowledge-based, learning organizations; by politicians and public servants, anxious to compensate with policy and programme for the information failure of organization and market; and by specialists in telecommunications and information technology, bent on adding value to what they treat as just a commodity. All are particularly enthusiastic about the innovation which springs from information. Information usually requires new information. Finding, acquiring, and mixing this new information with that already in use presents problems, not least because complex information transactions are required rather than simple information transfer. Solutions can be devised, but only by accommodating the characteristics of information. This book contrasts the way innovation is normally regarded in a variety of areas from eighteenth-century agriculture to high technology, from technology transfer to industrial espionage, from corporate strategy to patents and independent inventors with how it appears from what is termed an 'information perspective', that is one that puts information first. The results are intriguing, suggesting that radically different approaches to innovation (and organization) should be considered.
British Farming a Description of the Mixed Husbandry of Great Britain
Author: John Wilson (farmer at Edington Mains.)
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Reinventing the Wheel
Author: Bronwen Percival
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520964462
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In little more than a century, industrial practices have altered every aspect of the cheesemaking process, from the bodies of the animals that provide the milk to the microbial strains that ferment it. Reinventing the Wheel explores what has been lost as raw-milk, single-farm cheeses have given way to the juggernaut of factory production. In the process, distinctiveness and healthy rural landscapes have been exchanged for higher yields and monoculture. However, Bronwen and Francis Percival find reason for optimism. Around the world—not just in France, but also in the United States, England, and Australia—enterprising cheesemakers are exploring the techniques of their great-grandparents. At the same time, using sophisticated molecular methods, scientists are upending conventional wisdom about the role of microbes in every part of the world. Their research reveals the resilience and complexity of the indigenous microbial communities that contribute to the flavor and safety of cheese. One experiment at a time, these dynamic scientists, cheesemakers, and dairy farmers are reinventing the wheel.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520964462
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In little more than a century, industrial practices have altered every aspect of the cheesemaking process, from the bodies of the animals that provide the milk to the microbial strains that ferment it. Reinventing the Wheel explores what has been lost as raw-milk, single-farm cheeses have given way to the juggernaut of factory production. In the process, distinctiveness and healthy rural landscapes have been exchanged for higher yields and monoculture. However, Bronwen and Francis Percival find reason for optimism. Around the world—not just in France, but also in the United States, England, and Australia—enterprising cheesemakers are exploring the techniques of their great-grandparents. At the same time, using sophisticated molecular methods, scientists are upending conventional wisdom about the role of microbes in every part of the world. Their research reveals the resilience and complexity of the indigenous microbial communities that contribute to the flavor and safety of cheese. One experiment at a time, these dynamic scientists, cheesemakers, and dairy farmers are reinventing the wheel.
A Catalogue of the MSS. and Printed Books Bequeathed to Owens College ... by ... J. P. Lee ... Bishop of Manchester
Author: Owen's College (MANCHESTER)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A Dictionary of Political Economy
Author: Henry Dunning Macleod
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Feeding the Victorian City
Author: Roger Scola
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719030888
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719030888
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description