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        Botany & plant sciences
        June 2016

        Tropical Forage Legumes

        Harnessing the Potential of Desmanthus and Other Genera for Heavy Clay Soils

        by John R. Lazier, Nazeer Ahmad

        This book includes a detailed analysis of the forage germplasm available which is adapted to heavy clay soils and describes materials collected from sites in the Caribbean, South, Central and North America. It covers successful native and exotic forage legume species that have potential for Belizean soils, and the adaptation of a wide range of forages on Australian clay soils. This book provides an invaluable example of how a global search for adapted and productive forage germplasm can be undertaken and, covering over four decades of research, acts as a key resource for new scientists in the field.

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        Agricultural science
        December 1997

        Temperate Forage Legumes

        by J Frame. Edited by J F L Charlton, A S Laidlaw.

        The major temperate forage legumes are of global importance in the sustainable productivity of ruminant feed in the developed world. This book brings together in one volume all aspects of their basic biology and associated production practices. Emphasis is placed on the importance of understanding plant characteristics and their consequences in terms of forage output, quality and utilization by livestock. Recent research advances are reviewed and put into context and several recently commercialised species are also covered. The introduction considers the history, current extent, benefits and limits of temperate forage legume usage. Subsequent chapters are dedicated to a comprehensive examination of each forage species in turn, dealing with their origin, morphology, physiology, ecology, nitrogen-fixing capability, cultivars, seed production, nutritive value and productivity. The key factors for optimal management are identified and the prospects for the future outlined, including the potential arising from the use of biotechnology. This book is essential reading for degree and postgraduate students of plant science, agronomy and animal production. Additionally, students and researchers in ecology and environmental science will also find it a valuable resource. The management sections will be of particular value to grassland advisers, consultants and progressive land users.

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        Animal physiology
        November 1998

        Grass for Dairy Cattle

        by Edited by Jerome H Cherney, Debbie J R Cherney

        With the current interest in the environmental and economic sustainability of dairy farming, grass forage crops have emerged as a potential solution to some of the nutrient management problems now encountered on intensively managed dairy farms. The expansion and reintegration of grass-based systems into the mainstream of dairying systems will require a major paradigm shift involving economic, social and ecological, as well as biological factors.This book examines the role of grass in milk production in sustainable agricultural ecosystems. It provides a current summary of the role of grass in dairy cattle systems, including the breeding, management, storage, feeding and economics of grass for both lactating and dry dairy cows. Written by leading specialists from Australia, Europe, New Zealand, North and South America, this is an essential reference source for researchers, dairy industry professionals and advanced students of forage and dairy cattle nutrition.

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        March 2012

        Lebenslang

        Ausgewählte Gedichte. Mit einer Radierung von Günter Grass

        by Günter Grass

        »Am meisten liegt mir Lyrik«, hat der Autor der »Blechtrommel« bekannt. Die lyrischen Miniaturen des Literaturnobelpreisträgers aus dem Alltagsleben, Gelegenheitsgedichte im besten Wortsinne, heißen »Meine alte Tasche« oder »Ehe«, »Geöffneter Schrank« oder »Lamento bei Regen«. »Lebenslang« versammelt Günter Grass' schönste Gedichte aus sechs Jahrzehnten.

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        April 2005

        »Wir leben im Ei«

        Geschichten aus fünf Jahrzehnten

        by Günter Grass, Dieter Stolz, Dieter Stolz

        Persönliche Verlusterfahrungen und erkenntnistheoretisch fundierte Skepsis führten dazu, daß Grass den existentiell zu denkenden Zweifel zum Strukturprinzip seiner trotz allem durchaus sinnenfrohen Dichtung erhob. Der Band versammelt allerhand phantastischrealistische Lebensgeschichten aus der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, darunter wenig bekannte Kurzprosa und zwei in diesem Band erstmals abgedruckte Archivskizzen.

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        Medicine
        May 2023

        Evidence Based Equine Nutrition

        A Practical Approach For Professionals

        by Teresa Hollands, Lizzie Drury

        This book uniquely provides both the scientific basis of equine nutrition and the translation of that science into practical, day-to-day feeding advice. It summarises the latest research to provide readers with the evidence base needed to both confidently advise those who want to understand the science behind equine nutrition, and apply that evidence into practical advice for anyone who just wants to know how to feed horses. Both veterinary and animal science courses struggle to provide adequate nutrition training within their syllabuses. Much of the general information available is poorly explained and not evidence based. This book fills that gap, with the author team relaying over 50 cumulative years' experience teaching equine nutrition to both practising clinicians and students. Find answers to the most common queries and challenges encountered during nutritional consultations across 17 informative chapters, using typical case-based examples as experienced by the authors. Fully supported throughout with visual aids and photographic illustrations, they show how to easily increase compliance and understanding. Key topics covered include: How to take a diet history, including which forage and concentrates are most appropriate, and how to interpret the information on feed labels; How to take the horse's history, including workload, body weight and body fat scoring; Supporting achievable and sustainable fat loss in overweight horses; Appropriate rations across a range of performance disciplines and for breeding horses; Appropriate feeds and supplements for competition, including how to recognise potential hazards, signs of quality and issues of feed safety; How to use ration programmes, including a range of frequently asked questions for horses with specific nutritional requirements from allergies to obesity. A recommended resource to support the teaching of veterinary nutrition, this book should also be found on the bookshelf of all veterinarians, animal scientists, trainers, nutritionists, and nutritional advisors. This book includes forewords by Carl Lester, Honorary Fellow of the British Horse Society and recipient of an MBE for his services to Equestrianism, and Tim Mair, former President of the British Equine Veterinary Association.

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        1969

        Theologie und Kritik

        Gesammelte Aufsätze und Vorträge

        by Grass, Hans

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        1979

        Hochwasser

        Ein Stück in zwei Akten

        by Günter Grass

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        September 2000

        Katz und Maus

        Eine Novelle

        by Günter Grass

        Was Joachim Mahlke, der im Zweiten Weltkrieg in Danzig aufs Gymnasium geht, auszeichnet, ist ein Defekt. Sein übermäßig entwickelter Adamsapfel macht ihn zum Gespött der Schulkameraden. Mahlke, der Verlierer, ist sein kurzes Leben lang mit nichts anderem beschäftigt als damit, diesen Auswuchs zu verdecken, Fertigkeiten zu entwickeln, die ihn zum Sieger machen. Als Panzerkommandant erringt er das Ritterkreuz, das, um den Hals getragen, sehr gut zum Ablenken geeignet sein müßte. Aber selbst dieser Orden verwandelt die Maus nicht in eine Katze.

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        May 1981

        Begegnungen

        Eine Festschrift für Max Frisch zum siebzigsten Geburtstag

        by Siegfried Unseld, Günter Grass

        Der Autor Max Frisch setzt auf Verwandlung, das Werden sei köstlich, das Fertige irgendwie trostlos. Reicht unsere Kraft zum Möglichen nicht aus, um das berühmt gewordene »Ich stelle mir vor« als silbernen Hauch in unserem Dasein zu verwirklichen? Immer wieder zieht mich der Tagebucheintrag vom Neujahrstag 1949 magisch an. Max Frisch reflektiert hier über das Klima der Sympathie. Er sieht in der Sympathie - und nicht etwa in der Liebe - die Macht, die Flügel verleiht. Und er verleiht der Sympathie die Gestalt eines Schutzengels, mit dem wir aufgewachsen sind, auf den wir uns verlassen und der uns, obwohl er nur ein Hauch ist, vom Ungeheuerlichen trennt. Das Ungeheuerliche wäre demnach das Klima ohne Sympathie? Der skeptisch philosophierende Poet stellt die Frage, ob das unverzichtbare Klima vielleicht nichts als freundliche Täuscherei sei, dieses aber, das Klima mit Intoleranz und Haß das gültigere? Doch da wir ohne Sympathie nicht sein können, folgert er: »Verloren: ohne Schutzengel«. Der Doppelpunkt doppelt die Einsicht.Die Beiträge dieser Festschrift sind aus dem Klima der Sympathie entstanden, das die Autoren für ihren großen Schriftstellerkollegen empfinden. Die Beiträge zeigen, wie mannigfach die Reaktionen von Lesern auf den Autor Max Frisch sein können: Konfessionen und Diskussionen, Beschreibungen und Vermutungen, Erinnerungen als Vergegenwärtigung, Versuche des »Ich stelle mir vor« und » Wie wäre meine Biographie verlaufen, wenn ...«. Begegnungen mit dem Autor, Begegnungen mit seinen Figuren. (S. Unseldt)

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Travellers in Africa

        British travelogues, 1850-1900

        by Timothy Youngs

        Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.

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        March 2024

        Die Architektonik der Vernunft

        Zweckmäßigkeit und systematische Einheit in Kants »Kritik der reinen Vernunft«

        by Lea Ypi, Antonia Grunert

        Die Vernunft ist ein vielfältiges Vermögen. Ein vernünftiges Wesen erkennt, wie die Dinge sind; zugleich kann es sich vorstellen, was sein soll, und entsprechend handeln. Wie aber können zwei scheinbar so verschiedene Fähigkeiten – Erkennen und Handeln – als Teile desselben Vermögens begriffen werden? Lea Ypi geht der Einheit der Vernunft in einem oft vernachlässigten Kapitel von Kants Hauptwerk nach: der »Architektonik der reinen Vernunft«. Die Vernunft gleicht hier einem Bauwerk, dem ein Plan zugrunde liegt, der jedem Bestandteil seinen festen Platz zuweist. Doch ihr theoretischer und ihr praktischer Teil werden von einem fragilen Bindeglied zusammengehalten, an dem sich die Stabilität des Ganzen entscheidet. Diesem spürt dieses meisterhafte Buch nach.

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        Science & Mathematics
        November 2023

        Crop Pollination by Bees, Volume 2

        Individual Crops and their Bees

        by Keith S Delaplane

        Since the second half of the 20th Century, our agricultural bee pollinators have faced mounting threats from ecological disturbance and pan-global movement of pathogens and parasites. At the same time, the area of pollinator-dependent crops is increasing globally with no end in sight. Never before has so much been asked of our finite pool of bee pollinators. This book not only explores the evolutionary and ecologic bases of these dynamics, it translates this knowledge into practical research-based guidance for using bees to pollinate crops. It emphasizes conserving wild bee populations as well as culturing honey bees, bumble bees, and managed solitary bees. To cover such a range of biology, theory, and practice from the perspectives of both the pollinator and the crop, the book is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 focuses on bees, their biology, coevolution with flowering plants, foraging ecology and management, and gives practical ways to increase bee abundance and pollinating performance on the farm. Volume 2 (this volume) focuses on crops, with chapters addressing crop-specific requirements and bee pollination management recommendations. Both volumes are essential reading for farmers, horticulturists and gardeners, researchers and professionals working in insect ecology and conservation, and students of entomology and crop protection.

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        September 2003

        Briefe von einer imaginären Reise

        Roman

        by Lea Goldberg, Lydia Böhmer

        Eine junge Frau, Ruth, flieht im Herbst 1934 vor einer unglücklichen Liebe. Aus Berlin, Köln, Brüssel, Brügge, Ostende, Paris und Marseille schreibt sie an Immanuel, den Mann, den sie mehr liebt als er sie. Doch sie reist nur in der Phantasie in diese Städte, es sind Briefe von einer imaginären Reise. Die Stationen der Reise sind in diesen Schilderungen als reale wie als geistige Orte präsent, Beobachtungen aus dem nazistischen Berlin etwa mischen sich mit Gedanken zur Literatur und Kunst und vielem mehr. Die persönliche Liebesgeschichte verbindet sich mit scharfsichtigen Beschreibungen vom Europa Mitte der dreißiger Jahre – es ist auch der Herbst Europas vor der großen Katastrophe. So sprechen diese Briefe nicht nur von der unglücklichen Liebe Ruths zu Immanuel, sondern auch von der großen unglücklichen Liebe vieler Juden zur europäischen Kultur. Die Gewißheit des notwendigen Abschieds durchzieht diesen poetischen, klugen, melancholischen Roman in Briefen – zuerst veröffentlicht 1936/37, kurz nach Lea Goldbergs Einwanderung ins damalige Palästina.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        December 2005

        Graham Swift

        by Daniel Lea, Susan Williams

        This book offers an accessible critical introduction to the work of Graham Swift, one of Britain's most significant contemporary authors. Through detailed readings of his novels and short stories from 'The Sweet Shop Owner' (1980) to 'The Light of Day' (2003), Daniel Lea lucidly addresses the key themes of history, loss, masculinity and ethical redemption, to present a fresh approach to Swift. This study proposes that one of the side-effects of modernity has been the destruction of traditional pathways of self and collective belief, leading to a loss of understanding between individuals about their duties to each other and to society. Swift's writing returns repeatedly to the question of what we can believe in when all the established markers of identity - family, community, gender, profession, history - have become destabilised. Lea suggests that Swift increasingly moves towards a notion of redemption through a lived ethical practice as the only means of finding solace in a world lacking a central symbolic authority. ;

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