Author: Aberdeen city, univ, libr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Aberdeen city, univ, libr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Genesee Farmer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of Philadelphia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
The Farmer's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Captain Swing
Author: Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781682259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The classic social history of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830, from one of the greatest historians of our age. For generation upon generation, the English farm laborer lived in poverty and degradation. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, however, new forces came into play—and when capitalism swept from the cities into the countryside, tensions reached the breaking point. From 1830 on, a series of revolts, known as the “Swing,” shook England to its core. Here is the background of that upheaval, from its rise to its fall, and the people who tried to change their world. A masterpiece of British history.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781682259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The classic social history of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830, from one of the greatest historians of our age. For generation upon generation, the English farm laborer lived in poverty and degradation. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, however, new forces came into play—and when capitalism swept from the cities into the countryside, tensions reached the breaking point. From 1830 on, a series of revolts, known as the “Swing,” shook England to its core. Here is the background of that upheaval, from its rise to its fall, and the people who tried to change their world. A masterpiece of British history.
Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science
Author: Alan Longhurst
Publisher: Critical Science Press
ISBN: 8412586751
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In "Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science," well-known oceanographer Alan Longhurst offers a unique vision of climate change and its scientific study. His deep knowledge of oceanographic research, fishery productivity, and marine ecological changes over several centuries made him doubt some of the postulates of climate science by scientists working on computers with only a few decades of data. In this book, the author reviews what scientists know about climate change, the known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns that give rise to uncertainties about future climate change that is causing far-reaching social and political change. Longhurst provides an incisive critical review of numerous topics in climate change. Beginning with a review of some regional temperature measurements, he questions the robustness of the leading indicator of climate change, a global average of widely differing measurements of sea and land surface temperature. The book offers unique insights worthy of consideration by those seeking to understand climate change, particularly the important role of the oceans in climate.
Publisher: Critical Science Press
ISBN: 8412586751
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In "Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science," well-known oceanographer Alan Longhurst offers a unique vision of climate change and its scientific study. His deep knowledge of oceanographic research, fishery productivity, and marine ecological changes over several centuries made him doubt some of the postulates of climate science by scientists working on computers with only a few decades of data. In this book, the author reviews what scientists know about climate change, the known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns that give rise to uncertainties about future climate change that is causing far-reaching social and political change. Longhurst provides an incisive critical review of numerous topics in climate change. Beginning with a review of some regional temperature measurements, he questions the robustness of the leading indicator of climate change, a global average of widely differing measurements of sea and land surface temperature. The book offers unique insights worthy of consideration by those seeking to understand climate change, particularly the important role of the oceans in climate.
Alternative Agriculture: A History
Author: Joan Thirsk
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191586811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
People like to believe in a past golden age of traditional English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. However, that countryside may have looked both more and less familiar than we imagine. Take todays startling yellow fields of rapeseed, seemingly more suited to the landscape of Van Gogh than Constable. They were, in fact, thoroughly familiar to fieldworkers in seventeenth-century England. At the same time, some features that would have gone unremarked in the past now seem like oddities. In the fifteenth century, rabbit warrens were specially guarded to rear rabbits as a luxury food for rich mens tables; whilst houses had moats not only to defend them but to provide a source of fresh fish. In the 1500s we find Catherine of Aragon introducing the concept of a fresh salad to the court of Henry VIII; and in the 1600s, artichoke gardens became a fashion of the gentry in their hope of producing more male heirs. The common tomato, suspected of being poisonous in 1837, was transformed into a household vegetable by the end of the nineteenth century, thanks to cheaper glass-making methods and the resulting increase in glasshouses. In addition to these images of past lives, Joan Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive our current interest in alternative forms of agriculture a glut of meat and cereal crops, changing dietary habits, the needs of medicine have striking parallels with earlier periods in our history. She warns us that todays decisions should not be made in a historical vacuum: we can find solutions to our current problems in the experience of people in the past.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191586811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
People like to believe in a past golden age of traditional English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. However, that countryside may have looked both more and less familiar than we imagine. Take todays startling yellow fields of rapeseed, seemingly more suited to the landscape of Van Gogh than Constable. They were, in fact, thoroughly familiar to fieldworkers in seventeenth-century England. At the same time, some features that would have gone unremarked in the past now seem like oddities. In the fifteenth century, rabbit warrens were specially guarded to rear rabbits as a luxury food for rich mens tables; whilst houses had moats not only to defend them but to provide a source of fresh fish. In the 1500s we find Catherine of Aragon introducing the concept of a fresh salad to the court of Henry VIII; and in the 1600s, artichoke gardens became a fashion of the gentry in their hope of producing more male heirs. The common tomato, suspected of being poisonous in 1837, was transformed into a household vegetable by the end of the nineteenth century, thanks to cheaper glass-making methods and the resulting increase in glasshouses. In addition to these images of past lives, Joan Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive our current interest in alternative forms of agriculture a glut of meat and cereal crops, changing dietary habits, the needs of medicine have striking parallels with earlier periods in our history. She warns us that todays decisions should not be made in a historical vacuum: we can find solutions to our current problems in the experience of people in the past.
Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Years
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Limestone Industries of the Yorkshire Dales Second Edition
Author: David Johnson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445620405
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A revised edition of a classic text, bringing the story of the Yorkshire limestone industry fully up to date.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445620405
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A revised edition of a classic text, bringing the story of the Yorkshire limestone industry fully up to date.
The Potato, Its Diseases, Uses, Etc
Author: John Marius Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description