Seeds of Sustainability is a groundbreaking analysis of agricultural development and transitions toward more sustainable management in one region. An invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, and students alike, it examines new approaches to make agricultural landscapes healthier for both the environment and people.The Yaqui Valley is the birthplace of the Green Revolution and one of the most intensive agricultural regions of the world, using irrigation, fertilize...

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles are reproduced in their entirety to pres...

FAMILY MATTERS is a generations long reckoning with family myth, loss and transformation from the end of the Civil War into the 1970s, showing how family suffering metamorphosized into comedy on an abiding public, cultural scale in the original The Addams Familytelevision series of 1964-1966 created by the author's father, David Levy, from the original Charles Addams New Yorker cartoons. It is also the story of how the author's parents though drawn from widely di...

This is the story of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by opening up her house as a community center.Ever since she was a little girl, Jane Addams hoped to help people in need. She wanted to live right in the middle of the roughest, poorest communities and create a place where people could go to find food, work, and help. In 1889, she bought a house in a run-down Chicago neighborho...

Blaze Walker: Notorious bad boy. Star of the hockey team. He spends more time in bed with sorority girls or passed out on frat house floors than he does in classrooms. Which is why he's about to get kicked off the team unless he passes his finals.Me: Girl genius who started college so young that I've just turned eighteen my senior year. Which has made dating while in college, well, pretty much impossible.Hence, the v-card.Blaze and I both have something the other wa...

The most profound and important speeches ever delivered are here collected in this anthology, featuring some of the most influential figures in world history.From ancient times to the American Revolution to as recently as this past century, Fort Raphael Publishing has here collected seven of the most important and iconic speeches of all time. Featuring such disparate historical characters as Cicero, St. Francis of Assisi, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Emmet, Jane Addams, Mohandas K. Ga...

Bri Welch likes to play it safe.I don't. She's wound tight, and I'm all about a good party. But there's something about her that makes me want to pull those uptight layers away one-by-delicious-one.But the worst thing is she makes me want more . . .

He's a cocky hockey player. I'm a bookish figure skater.We've hated each other for most of our lives—so why did I just wake up in his bed?Hunter Landry has always been a thorn in my side. Not to mention cocky, obnoxious, and way too gorgeous for his ego's own good. But it turns out that he was a perfect gentleman last night, taking care of me and putting me to bed when I'd had way too much to drink.It also turns out that I blabbed a...

She's the coach's daughter. Totally off limits. But for her, I'll break any rule.The night I meet Zoey is a night I'll never forget. Not only do we have a hookup more intense than I even thought possible, but for the first time in my no-strings-attached life, I actually find myself thinking that there might be something more than purely physical between us . . .Until I learn she's my coach's daughter.Not only that, but now she has an intern...

Kissing the guy I hate was a mistake. Falling in love with him will be a catastrophe.Since the first day of class, it was hate at first sight with Tristan River, uber-conceited hockey superstar of Ridley University. Our "meet cute" was anything but; and when we become co-workers, things only go downhill—fast.The backhanded remarks, condescending attitude, and cocky smirks are annoying, but I can deal.What's harder to deal with is the crackling heat ...

He's everything I hate about hockey players. And now he's my new roommate.Ryder Hendricks: The most notorious playboy on campus. Infuriatingly sexy with captivating amber eyes paired with a sinfully sculpted body—and arrogant as hell, because he knows it.Me: A wallflower future librarian whose idea of an exciting night is curling up with a good book or proofreading an essay.Now we're living together in a house so small we can hardly turn around with...

I'm in love with my best friend's little sister.As the star goalie of the championship-winning Hot Shots, I can have my pick of any girl on campus. Except the only one I really want. Talk about irony.Brooke is beautiful, smart, funny—but, for me, totally off limits. Thanks to her protective older brother, she's going to stay that way. Besides, she only thinks of me as a friend.At least, that's what I've always thought—until a scorching kiss proves m...