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      • Spring In Name Only

        by Todd Swift

        Spring In Name Only is Todd Swift’s first full collection since his 2014 ‘American Selected’ and marks the first with Black Spring Press. Responding to the age of Brexit and Covid-19, these are lyric modern poems that take their bearings from both Auden and Empson, F.T. Prince and Dylan Thomas – as such, they seek to explore the ‘40s style’ of heightened rhetoric, emotion and personal myth Swift has elsewhere celebrated, as in his edition of the Collected Tiller. Fusing irony and sincerity, confession and oratory, they build a bridge of eloquence, with which to address the key themes of Swift’s now-36-year career as a published poet of international stature: fear of death, anxiety in life, faith, despair, love, desire, empathy and critique. No other contemporary poet is as willing to push language to the pitch of perverse stylishness, in the services of poetic majesty. Here springs a restorative fluency that raises the bar.

      • Technology, Engineering & Agriculture
        May 2014

        Engineering optics

        by Gottfried Schröder, Hanskarl Treiber

        The text provides a solid foundation in technical optics including the use of optical components, equipment and techniques. Examples illustrate the broad applications spectrum. The latest standards and state-of-the art components such as diffractive optical elements and photonic crystals have been included in the 11th edition of this standard work. Contents extract: light and optical imaging radiation light sources and receivers interference and spectral devices colors gratings holography polarization and measurement of optical values Equations DIN standards

      • Travel & Transport
        September 2022

        Under the Aurora Australis in the Antarctic

        My fifteen winters at the South Pole

        by Robert Schwarz

        Not many people would find spending a winter in a research station at the South Pole – one of the most inhospitable environments in the world – an attractive prospect. In winter, temperatures can sink to -80°C/-112.0°F, and darkness reigns for six months. On the other hand, however, you can see the most spectacular displays of polar lights in the world there, hear the echo of the Big Bang and discover what comradeship and teamwork really mean. Robert Schwarz, who spent more than thirteen and a half years at the South Pole, takes us with him to the amazing and unique world of the Antarctic.

      • Agriculture & farming
        February 2023

        Plant Propagation and Nursery Management For Fruit Crops

        by Rakesh Kumar Jat & Mohan Lal Jat

        This book covers most of the areas of plant propagation including from traditional to recent advances. The emphasis has not only laid on plant propagation techniques and nursery management practices, but also on the ideas and their applications. The book will help the students to understand various techniques of plant propagation and nursery management and their utility in a very simple way.

      • Agricultural science
        August 2017

        Climate Resilient Animal Agriculture

        by GSLHV Prasada Rao

        Animal husbandry is strongly influenced by weather and climate. Climate change/variability imposes multiple stresses in animals and thus vital to understand the impact of environmental stress on livestock production and reproduction. Among the environmental variables affecting livestock, heat stress seems to be one of the more intriguing factors making difficult animal reproduction and production. Information and knowledge on animal responses to the environment continues to be in process, managing livestock to reduce the impact of adverse weather and climate remains a challenge. Responding to the challenges of global warming necessitate a paradigm shift in the practice of agriculture and in the role of livestock within the farming system. The key thematic issues on environment stress and livestock production includes: early warning system, multiple stress research, exploitation of genetic potential of native breeds, suitable breeding programme and nutritional intervention research. Livestock farmers should have key roles in determining what adaptation and mitigation strategies they support if these have to sustain livestock production in changing climate. The integration of new technologies into the research and technology transfer systems potentially offers many opportunities to further the development of climate change adaptation strategies. This publication is therefore a multi-authored attempt to present the scientific fraternity high quality resource material in the field of climate change and livestock production. Attempts were made to discuss the adaptive mechanism that the animal exhibits to counteract the adverse effects of heat stress. In addition to the adaptive mechanisms, several management and feeding practices have also been established as tested methods for reduction of stress effects in livestock. It also highlights the challenges the livestock industry faces in maintaining the delicate balance between animal welfare and production. This book is a comprehensive resource for the researchers, teachers and students to understand stress, stress management and livestock productivity so as to sustain animal production in the Country under projected climate change scenario.

      • June 2020

        Anaerobes and Anaerobic Processes

        by Om Prakash & Dilip R. Ranade

        Analysis of rumen liquor for fraction of VFAs enzymatic activity of various metabolites and estimation of rumen fluid volume and its flow rate are covered in depth. It was followed by estimation of anti-nutritional / toxic factors in various un-conventional feeds using HPLC / Spectrophotometer, detail analysis of milk and body condition scoring for dairy cattle are included as assessment of these parameters are important in Ruminant Nutrition Research. Necessary practical work is included; the exhaustive details have been avoided, since the manual is primarily meant for postgraduate scholars, teachers, scientists and feed industry personnel use.

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