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Get cutting-edge agroforestry research and data Deforestation and
the rampant use of fossil fuels are major contributors to increases
in atmospheric carbon dioxide and are enormous influences on global
warming. Agroforestry systems and tree plantations can help
mitigate the resulting climate change and degradation of
biodiversity and accelerating climate change. Environmental
Services of Agroforestry Systems addresses these global concerns
with an essential collection of presentations on biodiversity and
climate change from the First World Congress in Agroforestry
(Orlando, Florida, 2004). Respected experts discuss the latest
research and data on how agroforestry systems can help solve
environmental problems through carbon sequestration and
biodiversity conservation. Years ago, agroforestry's environmental
benefits were mainly seen as being soil amelioration, erosion
control, microclimate control, and the alleviation of the effects
of drought in semiarid areas. Environmental Services of
Agroforestry Systems goes beyond the regional considerations of
years past to focus on the challenges of today's most pressing
global environmental concerns. The contributors describe the latest
research and concepts in agroforestry systems, reforestation
efforts, soils, vegetation, and agriculture while reviewing their
economic aspects. Incentives for reforestation and agroforestry are
explored in detail. Each chapter is carefully referenced and
includes tables to clarify ideas and data. Environmental Services
of Agroforestry Systems addresses: advantages of mixed-species
plantations tropical pasture and silvo-pastoral systems tropical
forest ecosystem management research on the economic feasibility of
various land-use systems socio-economic considerations of
coffee-growing ecosystems agroforestry systems in Costa Rica
Environmental Services of Agroforestry Systems is essential reading
for researchers and scientists, as well as professionals in
agroforestry, forestry, soils, global change, climate change, and
environmental studies, educators, and graduate and undergraduate
students.
"As might be expected from the caliber of the contributors, this is
a first-rate collection of essays.... Like I, Claudia, this book
will appeal to many others besides classicists. The two volumes
will be a must for anyone interested in social history or women's
history; the treatment, style, and illustrations make this volume
accessible to general readers." -- Karl Galinsky, Floyd A. Cailloux
Centennial Professor of Classics, University of Texas at Austin
I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome-- an exhibition and catalog
produced by the Yale University Art Gallery-- provided the first
comprehensive study of the lives of Roman women as revealed in
Roman art. Responding to the popular success of the exhibit and
catalog, Diana E. E. Kleiner and Susan B. Matheson here gather ten
additional essays by specialists in art history, history, and
papyrology to offer further reflections on women in Roman society
based on the material evidence provided by art, archaeology, and
ancient literary sources.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are Cornelius C.
Vermeule, Rolf Winkes, Mary T. Boatwright, Susan Wood, Eve D'Ambra,
Andrew Oliver, Diana Delia, and Ann Ellis Hanson. Their essays,
illustrated with black-and-white photos of the art under
discussion, treat such themes as mothers and sons, marriage and
widowhood, aging, adornment, imperial portraiture, and
patronage.
One of the most popular Latin texts on the market, Learn to Read
Latin focuses on helping school and university students to acquire
the skills to read and appreciate the great works of Latin
literature. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax
with clear explanations and examples, but also offers direct access
to original, unaltered Latin writings. As beginning students learn
basic forms and grammar, they also gain familiarity with patterns
of Latin word order and other features of style. This second
edition - which now combines the first and second parts into a
single textbook - improves upon an already strong foundation by
streamlining grammatical explanations, adding points about Latin
syntax, and offering an ancillary website with quizzes, texts and a
teacher's guide.
A tour through the Yale University Art Gallery’s holdings of
American art, one of the most exceptional museum collections of its
kind This volume presents an engaging selection of highlights and
introduces readers to the richness and diversity of the Yale
University Art Gallery’s holdings of American art. An
introductory essay outlines pivotal moments in the
three-hundred-year history of collecting, exhibiting, and teaching
with American art at Yale and commemorates the fiftieth anniversary
of the founding of the Friends of American Arts at Yale, whose
support continues to ensure the excellence of the collection. The
more than one hundred object entries that follow create a narrative
that charts the multiplicity of experiences and accomplishments of
artists and artisans living and working in North America—from the
earliest days of European settlement to the present. Among the
catalogued objects are works by some of the best-known names in
American art as well as recent acquisitions and masterpieces that
represent diverse American identities. A dazzling range of media is
displayed, including paintings and sculpture, medals, prints and
drawings, photographs, jewelry, furniture, and decorative arts.
Each object is illustrated with a full-page image and is
accompanied by a one-page discussion that focuses on its
contribution to the history of American art. Â Â
Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery
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King Lear (Paperback)
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King Lear (Hardcover)
Yale University., Oxford University
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Art and Religion (Hardcover)
Yale University Press, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Pr
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