Reviews latest research on crop physiology and genetic diversityDetailed coverage of key advances in breeding and their application to produce more resilient drought, salt and cold-tolerant varieties of soybeanSummarises good agricultural practices to optimise crop cultivation and make it more sustainable

This handbook provides fresh insights into the debates and challenges that unfold in the cross-disciplinary field of architecture and anthropology. Based on studies of empirical contexts across the globe, the authors launch and test a broad variety of methods and advance various theoretical concepts.Architecture and anthropology have always had overlapping interests, but a range of developments in both areas make it more relevant than ever to intersect, overlap, combine or even mer...

Assessment, Restoration and Reclamation of Mining Influenced Soils covers processes operating in the environment as a result of mining activity, including the whole spectra of negative effects of anthropopressure and the environment, from changes in soil chemistry, changes in soil physical properties, geomechanical disturbances, and mine water discharges. Mining activity and its waste are an environmental concern. Knowledge of the fate of potentially harmful elements and their effect on pl...

Christina was a 50-year-old mother and grandmother, who was excited to steal away for vacation to her husband and her summer home a week before everyone else. She planned on prepping the home, getting in some quiet time and even attending a barbeque party that was being held in town later that week. Lasse and Marco were a couple of men eager for a vacation as well. When they find out there rental is gone, Christina jumps in and offers her home while they wait for their replacement. When th...

This book is dedicated to the occurrence and behaviour of PHEs in the different compartments of the environment, with special reference to soil. Current studies of PHEs in ecosystems have indicated that many industrial areas near urban agglomerates, abandoned or active mines, major road systems and ultimately also agricultural land act as sources and at the same time sinks, of PHEs and large amounts of metals are recycled or dispersed in the environment, posing severe concerns to human hea...

This innovative monograph introduces a measurement-based framework for effective treatment of patients with mood disorders, personality disorders, and schizophrenia. Rooted firmly in principles of pharmacotherapy and clinical psychometrics, the book’s signature diagram balances rating scale results and patient self-reported progress along three angles: therapeutic effects, adverse effects, and quality of life. The author’s choices of measures are brief, valid, widely used, and easy for cli...

This comprehensive volume brings together a diverse set of scholars to analyse candidate nomination, intra-party democracy, and election violence in Africa. Through a combination of comparative studies and country-specific case studies spanning much of Sub-Saharan Africa, including Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa, the authors shed light on violence during candidate nomination processes within political parties. The book covers several cases that vary significantly in terms of democracy, pa...

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their built environments and design more livable and sustainable buildings and cities in the future, we need new cross-disciplinary approaches combining anthropology and architecture. This is neither anthropology of architecture, nor ethnography for architects, but a new approach beyond these positions: Architectural Anthropology.The antholog...

A dark queer gothic fantasy romance about captivity, survival, and the slow, agonizing reclamation of the self.Bodies can be broken, but souls can be destroyed.Kowén is a gifted sculptor whose belief in compassion and love leads him into captivity. Drawn into the orbit of a seductive illusionist who whispers devotion while guiding him into the claws of a devil, Kowén trades freedom for belonging. What begins as protection, creativity, and d...

'THE BEST OF LUST 2022 VOL. 1: TOP EROTIC SHORT STORIES' is a collection that features the most popular, most bought and most read erotica stories of 2022. From exploring sexual lifestyles in polygamous collectives to toying with strap-ons, from taboo flirtations with a stepbrother or MILF, to sub and master relationships, these erotic short stories have something to pleasure everyone's fantasies.This collection includes; 'Babysitter', 'The Concert', 'The German Lesson', 'Sugar Gir...

Jasmin works as an interpreter and has just concluded a business trip in Dubai with her boss, Henrik. On their way home, they have to fly via Moscow, but when they arrive in Moscow, they find out that their flight to Copenhagen has been cancelled – so the two of them have to spend Christmas night together in a foreign city with only each other as a company.

While heading to a concert, Jenny and her friend met up with two guys on a train. Jenny had a boyfriend but was having a hard time not staring at Nicholas. Nicholas and his friend had already been drinking all day when he was flirting with Jenny. She didn't seem to mind. The lust between them grew, and before they know it, things are hot and heavy in the middle of the concert.