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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
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In Every Home a Fortress, Thomas Bishop details the remarkable
cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of
Cold War masculinity -- the fallout shelter father, who, with spade
in hand and the canned goods he has amassed, sought to save his
family from atomic warfare. Putting policy documents and
presidential addresses into conversation with previously unmined
personal letters, diaries, local media coverage, and antinuclear
ephemera, Bishop demonstrates that the nuclear crisis years of 1957
to 1963 were not just pivotal for the history of international
relations but were also a transitional moment in the social
histories of the white middle class and American fatherhood. During
this era, public concerns surrounding civil defense shaped private
family conversations, and the fallout shelter emerged as a site at
which ideas of nationhood, national security, and masculinity
collided with the complex reality of trying to raise and protect a
family in the nuclear age.
Precision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies
and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation
associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to
improve crop performance and environmental quality. The focus of
this book is to introduce a non-specialist audience to the the role
of PA in food security, environmental protection, and sustainable
use of natural resources, as well as its economic benefits. The
technologies covered include yield monitors and remote sensing, and
the key agronomic principles addressed are the optimal delivery of
fertilizers, water and pesticides to crops only when and where
these are required. As a result, it is shown that both food
production and resource efficiency can be maximized, without waste
or damage to the environment, such as can occur from excessive
fertilizer or pesticide applications. The authors of necessity
describe some technicalities about PA, but the overall aim is to
introduce readers who are unfamiliar with PA to this very broad
subject and to demonstrate the potential impact of PA on the
environment and economy. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available
as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780415504409_oaChapter_3.pdf
Precision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies
and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation
associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to
improve crop performance and environmental quality. The focus of
this book is to introduce a non-specialist audience to the the role
of PA in food security, environmental protection, and sustainable
use of natural resources, as well as its economic benefits. The
technologies covered include yield monitors and remote sensing, and
the key agronomic principles addressed are the optimal delivery of
fertilizers, water and pesticides to crops only when and where
these are required. As a result, it is shown that both food
production and resource efficiency can be maximized, without waste
or damage to the environment, such as can occur from excessive
fertilizer or pesticide applications. The authors of necessity
describe some technicalities about PA, but the overall aim is to
introduce readers who are unfamiliar with PA to this very broad
subject and to demonstrate the potential impact of PA on the
environment and economy. The book shows how farmers can place
sustainability of the environment at the centre of their operations
and that this is improved with the application of PA. The range of
topics described includes sampling and mapping, weed and pest
control, proximal and remote sensing, spatio-temporal analysis for
improving management, management zones and water management. These
are illustrated with case studies on sampling and mapping, biofuels
from sugar cane and maize, paddy rice cultivation, and cotton
production. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a
downloadable Open Access PDF at
http://www.tandfebooks.com/page/openaccess It has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 3.0 license.
This textbook was written for undergraduate university students and
discusses the traditional and evolving roles of money, non-monetary
assets, banks and central banks in the financial system.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ The Book Of Governors: The Historia Monastica Of Thomas,
Bishop Of Marga, A.D. 840, Volume 2; The Book Of Governors: The
Historia Monastica Of Thomas, Bishop Of Marga, A.D. 840; Sir Ernest
Alfred Wallis Budge Thomas (Bishop of Marga), Sir Ernest Alfred
Wallis Budge K. Paul, Trench, Tr"ubner & co., 1893 History;
General; History / General; Nestorian Church; Nestorian church
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IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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