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Sheep & Man
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Wool Growth
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Sheep and Man
Apart from the dog, the sheep was the first animal domesticated by man (in about 10,000 BC). This pioneering book on the history of our highly profitable relationship combines evidence from every possible source - anthropology, geography, folklore, linguistics, biology and agriculture. The interests of scientists, archaeologists, historians - and general readers - are all kept in view. Wool has been of prime importance throughout man's history, from ancient Babylonia ('Land of Wool') to modern Australia, and a major theme of this book is the author's own research in the variety of fleeces developed by selective breeding. Never before has the sheep, or indeed any domestic animal, been treated on such a wide chronological and geographical scale.
The Nature of the Future
The Nature of the Future plumbs the innovative, far-ranging, and sometimes downright strange agricultural schemes of nineteenth-century farms in the northern US. The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues and unrealistically separating them from markets, capitalism, and urban influences. The Nature of the Future dispels this mist, focusing on a place and period of enormous agricultural vitality—antebellum New York State—to examine the largest, most diverse, and most active scientific community in nineteenth-century America. Emily Pawley shows how “improving” farmers practiced a science where conflicting visions of the future landscape appeared and evaporated in quick succession. Drawing from US history, environmental history, and the history of science, and extensively mining a wealth of antebellum agricultural publications, The Nature of the Future reveals how improvers transformed American landscapes and American ideas of expertise, success, and exploitation from the ground up.
Parchment/vellum Conservation Survey and Bibliography
Written in a jargon-free style, this title assumes no prior knowledge of databases. It adopts a learn-by-doing approach and contains practical graded assignments taking the student from elementary level to advanced. The book Integrates both theory and practice but theory is supplied in manageable chunks while symbols are used throughout to indicate learning objectives, useful tips and important points. It is written specifically for Microsoft Office 2000 but assignments can also be completed using Office XP or Office 97. A glossary of database terms is also included, which can be used as a quick reference and solutions to the assignments will be available on the Gill & Macmillan website. An easy-to-use, step by step text to bring the learner right from the basics of databases to an advanced level.
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