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Drawing on a variety of perspectives, geographies and approaches, this book explores the opportunities that leisure in the outdoors provides for learning, development and challenge. The experiences explored range from suburban outdoors to wild places, children to seniors, surfing to mindful reflection, and trail walking to summer camps.

The focus of this book is on short presentations, three-minute talks, poster presentations and elevator pitches. It begins by looking at story structure, and best practices for lightning talks or Three Minute Thesis (3MT (R)). Later chapters address longer conference presentations, good poster design, consideration of your audience, and presentation skills.

This book describes the central role that these exotic luxuries - spices, scents and silks - played in the lives of the ancients, traces the development of the great international trade networks that delivered them, and explores how the demand for such luxuries shaped the world.

This study and revision guide for students provides a series of exercises of various types in matters of catchment and watershed management. The exercises are true/false, multiple choice, numeric, graphical, and analytical. Some of the exercises would be suited to being done in class as a type of assignment, others designed for home study.

International authors review achievements, new developments, trends and challenges in the field of plant mutation breeding, across the scientific community and the private sector. Chapters highlight specific challenges, such as emerging transboundary threats to crop production, and assess the overall importance of mutation breeding to food security.

This book provides a quick reference and practically relevant canine behaviour resource to meet the specific needs of the veterinary general practice and veterinary nurse or technician and indeed all those who love and care for dogs.

Greenland is now a critical territory in terms of tourism, climate change and competition for resource access. This book explores the dimensions of dynamic change in the Arctic, examining the three interrelationships specifically in the Greenland context but within a framework that emphasises the wider global implications.

Extensively illustrated with over 300 colour photographs, this book describes how to diagnose hemp and cannabis crop diseases. It is aimed as a practical guide for farmers and growers, as well as researchers in plant pathology.

This book describes the fundamental processes involved in the accumulation of biomass and the production of grain yield by agronomic crops and discusses how these processes underlie and influence management decisions.

This concise workbook is written as a guide for veterinary professionals to support owners through the many challenges they face before, during and after the death of their companion animal.

This book provides a synthesis of current research and international best practice, including practitioner perspectives and a range of case study examples. It covers types of creative tourist, trends, designing and implementing creative tourism products, embedding activities in a community and place, and addressing sustainability challenges.

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Plant parasitic nematodes are major pests of agricultural crops and cause huge monetary losses. There is a very high risk of spread from one country to another, with the movement of plants and planting materials e.g. seeds, bulbs, corms, suckers, tubers, rhizomes, rooted plants, nursery stock and cut flowers. In view of the large quantities and the wide variety of materials being imported and exported, it is important to assess the status of i...

Covering global production systems of insect protein, oil and chitin, as well as industry co-products, this book considers nutritional and safety aspects of insects for feed. It reviews the challenges of regulation and legislation, consumer acceptance, and commercialisation of insects, and sustainable practices such as waste valorisation"--

Bridging the gap between the science of animal welfare, the animals and their owners, this book gives essential advice to practitioners worldwide on how to improve the welfare of all animals.

Dioscorea species, commonly known as yam, are tuberous plants which constitute a major staple food in many parts of Africa, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. This book covers botany, taxonomy, composition and uses, cultivation, production, disessea and pests, and storage"--

The German cockroach continues to be one of the most important indoor urban pests in the world. They contaminate foods, transmit pathogens and produce allergens that trigger asthma. The last seminal publication dedicated to the German cockroach was published in 1995 by Rust, Owens and Reierson, and numerous advances in management technology, products, delivery system, basic and applied research have occurred over the last two-and-a-half decade...

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Conservation Agriculture (the use of no tillage systems) to preserve soil structure and integrity has become an increasingly important step towards sustainable farming. This book brings together conservation agriculture and climate smart decision making processes for the first time, focusing on Africa.

This fully updated new edition provides a comprehensive guide to enzyme-supplemented animal feeds. It explores using enzymes in fish and shrimp diets, new understanding of how phytases function, and NSPase research. It also includes new chapters on enzyme combinations, antibiotic free diets and measuring response in feed trials.