Global Tea Science: Current Status and Future Needs
Liang Chen, Xin Chao Wang, Zeno Apostolides and Anita Pandey
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Tea is the most widely-consumed beverage in the world. Like other crops, tea cultivation faces a...
Global Investment Funds: A Practical Guide to Structuring, Raising and Managing Funds
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Private investment funds are currently investing more capital than ever and the funds themselves are...
Biofuels, Food Security and Developing Economies
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The last decade has witnessed major crises in both food and energy security across the world. One...
Framing Work: Unitary, Pluralist and Critical Perspectives in the 21st Century
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This book presents a broad-ranging survey of contemporary writing about work and employment. It...
Envisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation
William Macneil, Timothy J. Peters and Karen Crawley
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Envisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation is a path-breaking collection of some of the...
Strategic Planning and Decision-Making for Public and Non-Profit Organizations
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This book provides administrators in public and non-profit organizations with direction and a...
Yearbook on Space Policy: The Governance of Space: 2016
Blandina Baranes, Cenan Al-Ekabi, Peter Hulsroj and Arne Lahcen
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The Yearbook on Space Policy, edited by the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), is the reference...
Education in Times of Environmental Crises: Teaching Children to be Agents of Change
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The core assumption of this book is the interconnectedness of humans and nature, and that the future...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Day of the Triffids in Books
Sep 5, 2019
In some ways this is very much of its time, but in others it is a remarkably prescient book, touching on issues such as the weaponisation of satellites and genetically-modified foodstuffs. It is also a vehicle for Wyndham to explore some of the key issues of his novels - the moral decisions faced by survivors, and the conflict between the individual and the collective. The structure of the plot is somewhat idiosyncratic, and accusations that this is the kind of catastrophe where the really bad stuff just happens to other people may have some weight to them, but this is an immensely readable and thought-provoking book which still feels relevant today.
Climate Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth
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Earth's climate is always changing. As the debate over the Earth's climate has grown, the term...