Soil survey and land evaluation

This book provides a concise and practical introduction to techniques and procedures, for professional surveyors, students and potential users of surveys. General concepts are introduced first, with an emphasis on the wide range of applications of surveys, and the consequent need for survey methods to be directed towards meeting the requirements of users. This book should be of interest to second and third year undergraduate students of geography, environmental science and soil science; environmental scientists, resource managers and engineers.

Science & Math

Dent, David

Earth Sciences

Allen& Unwin

This unique book focuses on natural resources surveys, and how their information is used in land-use planning, environmental impact assessment, strategic planning, and policy making. It offers numerous practical examples and up-to-date references.

Knowledge of the Land: Land Resources Information and Its Use in Rural Development

Business & Money

Dalal-Clayton, Barry

Economics

Oxford University Press

The volume offers a rich synthesis of political science research on Latin America over the past 30 years and offers a wealth of information to anyone interested in the area--from the beginning student to the area specialist. . . . The volume is an impressive achievement and will not outdate soon. Library Journal (starred review)
This handbook offers the reader a rich synthesis of the political science research on the Latin American region over the past thirty years. It reviews published books, articles, and government documents in addition to a few select doctoral dissertations. Sixteen contributors participated in the making of this volume, all of whom have lived and done field work in Latin America and the Caribbean and have studied and taught about Latin America. The starting date of 1960 was chosen because that year coincided with the rapid growth of research on Latin America, spurred by the Cuban Revolution and the Alliance for Progress.
The handbook is divided into two main sections: comparative politics and international relations. Within each section are chapters on specific countries of interest or on general topics or areas. Appendixes (which include a selected bibliography and a listing of major research centers in Latin America and the Caribbean) and indexes follow the main body of the book. This book should be of great value to anyone interested in the history and methodology of political science research on Latin America and the Caribbean. Specialists from other areas of study will also find this volume's information invaluable. Beginning students of Latin American history and politics will find this work a comprehensive review of the field over the past three decades.

Handbook of Political Science Research on Latin America: Trends from the 1960s to the 1990s

History

Greenwood

Ideal for student research and debate, this is the first single-volume reference work to examine, country by country, the history of U.S. involvement in 24 Latin American and Caribbean nations. It will help students to understand and debate the role of the United States in Latin America since the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 and whether in the long run U.S. intervention in the internal affairs of Latin American governments has been counterproductive. Each country and its relations with the United States is analyzed succinctly in an individual chapter. Dent, a noted expert on inter-American relations, organizes each chapter around major themes that illuminate both historical and contemporary issues, and shows how in recent years U.S. concerns have been transformed from issues of security and economic interests to drug trafficking, immigration, and trade pacts. Discussion of key events―wars, revolutions, and dictatorships―and lively accounts of the role of powerful individuals illustrate the causes and consequences of U.S. involvement.
Each chapter features a timeline of events in the history of U.S. involvement in that country and a list of suggested readings on the country and its relationship with the United States. A glossary explains key terms used throughout the book. A number of comparative tables and charts put inter-American relations in perspective. A selection of editorial cartoons from the 1980's offer biting commentary on U.S. relations with its Latin American neighbors. Designed to meet the information needs of high school and college students and the general public, this reference work will guide the user to an understanding of the richness and complexity of the inter-American relationship over the last two centuries and provide both historical perspective and timely analysis of current problems confronting the United States and its neighbors to the south.

The Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine: A Reference Guide to U.S. Involvement in Latin America and the Caribbean (Contributions in Economics and)

Americas

This book provides over 260 entries on U.S. presidents, Latin American politicians, covert operations, policies, and major events since the early 1800s that define the contentious relations between the United States and the Latin American and Caribbean region.
From the Monroe Doctrine to NAFTA, the tone of U.S.-Latin America relations has been set by the United States, and largely to its benefit. Dent compiles more than 260 A-to-Z entries that detail the key people, events, treaties, wars, and concepts that have gone into the making of the often contentious relations between the United States and the Latin American and Caribbean region. Entries conclude with suggested readings and are thoroughly cross-referenced. A thematic index guides users to related entries, and an extensive bibliography includes a list of key works central to the study of U.S.-Latin American relations. There is also a separate list of relevant online resources. The entire work is also thoroughly indexed.
Useful for students and researchers of international politics within the Western hemisphere, Dent's historical dictionary covers items ranging from pro-slavery filibusterers adventuring in Central America, Dollar Diplomacy, Anti-Americanism, Banana Wars, the Reagan Doctrine, Sandinistas, friendly Dictators, Che Guevara, to the impact of the events of September 11, 2001 on Latin America, among many others.

Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Latin American Relations

From border crime in Mexico to Chavez's revolution in Venezuela, this volume presents up-to-the-minute coverage of the key conflicts, corruption, and revolutionary movements simmering or raging in every region of Latin America. In-depth, comprehensive chapters explore drug wars, immigration issues, terrorism, youth gangs, government corruption, controversy over oil, and political instability, including: The Zapatista Rebellion, the Darien Gap controversy, Evo Morales, Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) and Tupac Amaru, the Falklands, and Guantanamo Bay.
From border crime in Mexico to Chavez's revolution in Venezuela, this volume presents up-to-the-minute coverage of the key conflicts, corruption, and revolutionary movements simmering or raging in every region of Latin America. In-depth, comprehensive chapters explore drug wars, imigration issues, terrorism, youth gangs, government corruption, controversy over oil, and political instability. This is a must-have source for current coverage of trouble spots in Latin America, their origins, and subsequent development.
 Over 30 security-based hot spots are analyzed within these geographical regions. They vary in severity, background, and degree of threat to the United States, the nation itself, or its regional neighbors. Hot spots covered include:
 • Zapatista Rebellion
 • Darien Gap controversy
 • Evo Morales
 • Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) and Tupac Amaru
 • Falklands
 • Guantanamo Bay

Hot Spot: Latin America (Hot Spot Histories)

Alex Webster and the Gods takes you on a mythical, mind-bending journey, as Jupiter, the superstar Roman God, decides the timing is right to emerge from retirement and attempt a comeback. Incarnated as a businessman with an MBA from Harvard, J.J. “Jupiter” Jones’s immediate goal is to acquire a global corporation that will help him establish a newworldly empire. As a result, J.J. needs an accomplished management consultant and finds one in Alex Webster. But problems soon emerge that prove J.J.’s comeback will be more challenging than he originally predicted. After 2000 years, J.J. and his fellow gods are a little rusty. Cupid becomes known at a Savannah dance club as Dr. Love, and authorities begin investigating him on suspicion of dispersing date-rape drugs. On the business front, the price of a successful merger is an uneasy alliance with Gerry Schilling, one of the most successful and ruthless CEOs of all time. Schilling wants only one thing—to get rid of J.J.  J.J.’s courtship with a voluptuous intern sets off a chain of events that threatens the very survival of his bold venture.

Alex Webster and the Gods

Literature & Fiction

iUniverse, Inc.

Insect Pest Management

This book is a major textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in applied entomology or crop protection. It provides in-depth coverage of the principles, research methodologies and practice for each component of the subject. The first two chapters describe how insect populations and their pest status can be assessed. Chapters then follow covering the main methods of pest management, using chemicals, host-plant resistance and biological control. Chapter 7 covers cultural control, that is manipulation of the environment to render it unfavourable to the host, such as hermetic storage system for crops post-harvest and intercropping for crops in the field. Chapter 8 covers interference methods, such as semiochemicals, the sterile insect technique and genetic engineering. The final two chapters then consider issues such as quarantine, legislation, modelling and systems analysis, decision making, social issues, farming systems and research management. Throughout, emphasis is placed on the need for socio-economic evaluation of integrated pest management techniques, and detailed examples are drawn from both temperate and tropical regions. Most relate to crop protection, but some examples from medical and veterinary entomology are also included.

Biological Sciences

This book is as a major textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in applied entomology or crop protection.

C.A.B. International

Biological pesticides based on pathogenic micro-organisms specific to a target pest offer an ecologically-sound and effective solution to pest problems. They pose less threat to the environment and to human health than do chemical pesticides. However, despite the enormous potential for biopesticides, their development, commercialization and use has been slow. The information reported in this book is based on a survey of more than 100 biopesticide research workers in developing countries. The results demonstrate that the main difficulties and constraints facing researchers relate to a lack of expertise in the crucial later stages of development. Biopesticide research is receiving mostly low investments, mainly from the public sector, and requires more multidisciplinary expertise. It is concluded that targeted assistance on a multinational and multi-disciplinary basis is required in developing countries in order to remove the constraints.

Priorities in Biopesticide Research and Development in Developing Countries

Harris, Jeremy

Research

CAB International

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Soil survey and land evaluation

Knowledge of the Land: Land Resources Information and Its Use in Rural Development

Handbook of Political Science Research on Latin America: Trends from the 1960s to the 1990s

The Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine: A Reference Guide to U.S. Involvement in Latin America and the Caribbean (Contributions in Economics and)

Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Latin American Relations

Hot Spot: Latin America (Hot Spot Histories)

Alex Webster and the Gods

Insect Pest Management

Insect Pest Management

Priorities in Biopesticide Research and Development in Developing Countries