Grace McCabe is een succesvolle thrillerschrijver. Na een drukke boektoernee besluit ze om haar zus Kathleen op te zoeken, die verwikkeld is in een nare scheiding. Kathleen woont nu in een achterbuurt en beunt bij als medewerker bij een sekslijn om haar advocaat te kunnen betalen.Volgens Kathleen garandeert Fantasy, Inc. volledige anonimiteit, maar Grace twijfelt daaraan als een van de medewerkers wordt vermoord. Grace wordt betrokken bij het moordonderzoek, dat regelrecht uit een ...

A major task of our time is to ensure adequate food supplies for the world's current population (now nearing 7 billion) in a sustainable way while protecting the vital functions and biological diversity of the global environment. The task of providing for a growing population is likely to be even more difficult in view of actual and potential changes in climatic conditions due to global warming, and as the population continues to grow. Current projections suggest that the world's temperatu...

Two major challenges to continued global food security are the ever increasing demand for food products, and the unprecedented abiotic stresses that crops face due to climate change.Wild relatives of domesticated crops serve as a reservoir of genetic material, with the potential to be used to develop new, improved varieties of crops. Crop Wild Relative and Climate Change integrates crop evolution, breeding technologies and biotechnologies, improved practices and sustainable approa...

This book looks at the current state of food security and climate change, discusses the issues that are affecting them, and the actions required to ensure there will be enough food for the future. By casting a much wider net than most previously published books—to include select novel approaches, techniques, genes from crop diverse genetic resources or relatives—it shows how agriculture may still be able to triumph over the very real threat of climate change.Food Security and Climat...

This book covers all aspect of legume production management technologies, plant ecological response, nutrients management, biological nitrogen fixation, molecular approaches, potential cultivars, biodiversity management under climate change. Also covered are various aspects of legume management under climate change such as, production management technology, ecology & adaptation, diseases, and international trade; physiology and crops response to nutrients, drought, salinity, and water use ...