Wheat Improvement

This open-access textbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for students and practitioners wishing to access in a single volume the key disciplines and principles of wheat breeding. Wheat is a cornerstone of food security: it is the most widely grown of any crop and provides 20% of all human calories and protein. The authorship of this book includes world class researchers and breeders…

The Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century …

ABSTRACT What was "information" in the early eighteenth century, and what influence did the emergence of information, as potential physical and psychological threat, have on readers of the period? Recent scholarship in eighteenth-century print culture and in twenty-first-century media studies and theory offers a unique opportunity to reconsider how and why information is figuratively imagined …

Efficient Screening Techniques to Identify Mutants with TR4 Resistance in Banana

Bananas are a staple food for over 500 million people and are also an important cash crop. Fusarium wilt, caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, is one of the most destructive diseases of banana globally. Since the 1990s, an aggressive variant of this fungus, called Tropical Race 4 (TR4), severely affected banana plantations in Southeast Asia from where it spread to other contin…

The Palgrave Handbook of International Energy Economics

This open access handbook is distinguished by its emphasis on international energy, rather than domestic energy policies or international geopolitic aspects. Addressing key topics such as energy production and distribution, renewables and corporate energy structures, alongside global energy trends, regional case studies and emerging areas such as the digitalization of energy and energy transiti…

Whose Heritage? : Challenging Race and Identity in Stuart Hall’s Post-natio…

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Crowds : ethnographic encounters

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Co-Cities: innovative transitions toward just and self-sustaining communities

"A new framework for experimental and innovative "city-making" for urban resources and services to be developed and governed in a collaborative, socially, and economically inclusive ways"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Trust and Terror: Social Capital and the Use of Terrorism as a Tool of Resist…

Why do some individuals choose to protest political grievances via non-violent means, while others take up arms? What role does whom we trust play in how we collectively act? This book explores these questions by delving into the relationship between interpersonal trust and the nature of the political movements that individuals choose to join. Utilizing the examples of the Arab Spring uprising…

Pride Parades and LGBT Movements: Political Participation in an International…

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Today, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe, providing the most visible manifestations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex movements…

Nachhaltiges Personalmanagement als Schlüsselfaktor für erfolgreiches Wirts…

Mit diesem Open-Access-Buch liefert Elisabeth Geursen erstmals Erkenntnisse zum Nachhaltigkeitsbegriff im Personalmanagement, auf den mit „Human Capital“ oder „Human Ressource“ referiert wird, mithilfe primär linguistischer Methoden. Der Nachhaltigkeitsidee wird im deutschsprachigen und internationalen Kontext gesellschaftspolitische Relevanz zugewiesen. Geursen präsentiert im Bereich…