"I guess it's true what they say... you've gotta play the cards that life deals you. My whole deck is the Ace of Spades."Life is rarely a calm sea. For some, it is a relentless storm of grief, isolation, and the echoes of "demons" that whisper in the dark. Sea Shanties and The Ace of Spades is a raw, rhythmic journey through the wreckage of a broken heart and the search for a shore worth reaching.Written as a four-act odyssey, this collecti...

Focus on key issues in expanding the genetic base for Musa, including, exploiting current collections of germplasm and collecting and evaluating wild Musa species and landracesCovers methods for improving fertility, resistance and other traits in CavendishReviews the range of conventional and modern molecular techniques for breeding new banana varieties

A multidisciplinary analysis of how state capture unfolded in South Africa and was contested within both civil society and the state itself. It presents a scholarly and empirical understanding of how things went awry, even with various regulating bodies in place, and how to prevent state capture from happening again in the future.The metaphor of ‘state capture’ has dominated South Africa’s political discourse in the post-Zuma presidency era. What is state capture and how does it ma...

With the current world population growth of 1.2%, the earth can expect to house 9-10 billion people by 2050. Food production, too, must increase to accommodate these numbers. Easy growing, high calorie, nutritious foods, such as bananas are the top priority as a solution to this imminent problem. The first comprehensive compendium on bananas in rec