The focus of this book is future global climate change and its implications for agricultural systems which are the main sources of agricultural goods and services provided to society. These systems are either based on crop or livestock production, or on combinations of the two, with characteristics that differ between regions and between levels of management intensity. In turn, they also differ in their sensitivity to projected future changes in climate, and improvements to increase climat...

A unique journey into the Arctic world, its myths and changesFinland’s leading expert on Arctic affairs, Markku Heikkilä shares insights from 25 years of travel, from the northern parts of Canada to the Ob River in Siberia and from Iceland to Alaska. During his journeys, Heikkilä shatters myths and preconceptions about life in the Arctic. He highlights stories that few people know, such as the Last War of the Khanty People, Alaskan Sámi reindeer and the ballerina i...

A unique journey into the Arctic world, its myths and changesFinland’s leading expert on Arctic affairs, Markku Heikkilä shares insights from 25 years of travel, from the northern parts of Canada to the Ob River and from Iceland to Alaska.During his journeys, Heikkilä shatters myths and preconceptions about life in the Arctic. He highlights stories that few people know, such as the Last War of the Khanty People, Alaskan Sámi reindeer and the ballerina in Sv...

Did you know that increasing wind speeds are not toppling trees - but fierce competition is? Or that deforesting without a bulldozer is difficult in many climates? Here we explore the world's trees and forests, challenging established perspectives on fundamental questions: why do trees grow to the sizes they do? How much forest cover we should aim for? Efforts to better understand the use and management of the world's forests are hindered by intentionally ambiguous terms that make analytic...

The Journey to Product Wellbeing Turn Your Business into a Market-Driven Value Monster The Journey to Product Wellbeing offers a fresh, practical perspective on how organizations can build stronger product capabilities in the face of growing complexity. Drawing on decades of real-world experience, the authors present a holistic framework that connects People, Process, Data, and Technology to drive lasting improvements in productivity, profitability, scalability, and quality. This is not a ...

In this book, which belongs to the field of Information Systems Research, work informatics refers extensively to information technology and information systems. Its point of departure, however, is work itself, while technology must settle for playing the role of being a tool. The goal of an information system thus lies outside itself - in the goal-oriented activities of an organization. In work informatics, work takes on three faces: individual work, collaboration, and services. For its pa...

The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism responds to a need to expand and refine the connections among nonhuman studies and American literary naturalism and to productively expand the scholarly discourse surrounding this vital movement in American literary history. This collection focuses on that which becomes visible when the human subject is skirted, or moved off-center: in other words, the representation of nonhuman animals and other vital or inert species, things, entities...

Did you know that the original message of forgiveness of sins has been dropped from Christian theology?RETURNING TO GRACE brings to light a shocking change in early Christian doctrine. It reveals how the original, biblical message of the cross was replaced with a familiar-looking but fundamentally different gospel already in the fifth century—without anyone realizing what had happened.Once recognized, this simple error becomes surprisingly clear. I...

For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy. The best-known and most influential of the fundamentalist radio broadcasters and anticommunists of the Cold War era, his many enemies depicted him as a dangerous far rightist, a racist, or a "McCarthyite" opportunist engaged in red-baiting for personal profit. Despised and hounded by liberals, revered by fundamentalists, and distrusted by the center, he became a lightning rod in the early days o...

“This was real life, not a practice. If Christianity were eventually all about devout feelings and hopes, if God weren’t real, we would soon be crushed.”CHILDREN OF GOD is a thrilling true story about miracles and God’s provision in a completely dead-end situation—a captivating journal exploring the themes of faith, fear, and surrender. The events occurred mainly in Ontario, Canada, where Markku and Johanna Sarento lived with their three young children.

David Livingstone’s Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians. This book explores these entangled histories by placing medicine in the frameworks of mobilities and networks that extended across Southern Africa and beyond. It provides a new approach to the study of medicine and empire.Drawing on a range of written and oral sources, the book argues that mobility was a crucial aspect of intertwined medical cultu...

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