This book presents an ecological how-to approach to polyculture gardening organized around a core set of design and production principles that maximize the potential for growing healthy plants, primarily edible, in small spaces. The reader will explore garden design, techniques of soil-building, composting, making backyard no-soil or minimum soil mixes, learn more about integrated organic pest management (IOPM) and what plants to grow to reduce the expense of fertilizer and pesticide purch...

The introduction of "Black" studies programs into institutions of higher education was a direct response to the mandate for change at all levels that characterized the civil rights movement and the social rebellions of the 1950s and 1960s. In Out of the Revolution, Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene Young collect thirty-one of the nation's top scholars to provide a complete reference for understanding the impetus for, the development of, and future considerations for the discipline o...