agriculture Books

Wegren's book is a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the post-Soviet agricultural reforms in Russia. He successfully argues that the Russian state is not "weak" compared to its Soviet counterpart, but that it is still stronger than other components of society, thus creating numerous barriers to the development of an expanding free market in the rural areas. His archival, fieldwork and anecdotal information make this a tremendous contribution to the social sciences.

Alas, this could have been a book filled with enlightening explorations of the endless catastrophe called Russian/Soviet agriculture. Instead, we get tired recitations of fact mixed with analytical reviews of theories that lead the reader away from exactly the places where most readers will probably want to go -- to the farms of the ex-USSR, where real people are struggling with a monumentally inefficient system that's all but collapsed under its own weight. Can't this book give us a glimpse into that rality, rather than the mental constructs of the western academics? We'll have to wait for a better book to come along and help us out.

For teachers, parents, and anyone who has had to house small local creatures and try to keep them alive. AQUATERRARIUMS links real biological concepts with the how and why of small animal caretaking. Covers topics of ecology, physiology, behavior, and diversity in standard English. Lavishly illustrated with color.

Very shiny pages with nice glossy pictures. Unfortunately I had to peel every page apart because they seemed to be glued together. Only a few ripped...

Anyway, typical TFH- given the beautiful vivariums some people are currently making this is a big letdown. Very little real useful information, what is there is very outdated. Lots of glossy pictures of products (look, an aquarium heater!) and some nice pics of amphibians.

Very little good info on setting up aquaterrariums. A lot of the pictures are gravel filled tanks with posters stuck back of beautiful aquariums! Jeeze, who needs to see that?

My name Ahmed Nfati,I,m student in university of Malta at Biology Department.

My name Ahmed Nfati,I,m student in university of Malta at Biology Department.

In this book you find classical biochemistry, and a lot of it. In contrast to most other biochemistry textbooks which drift away from the topic and go more and more into cell biology, immunology and the like, Metzler concentrates on the central topics of biochemistry, the enzymes and their mechanisms. There is no other book where one is more likely to find detailled infomation on the structure-function relation of just about any enzyme (with the only downside of having only black-and-white pictures, even for structures). This book is, however, to be treated with caution: it is not covering the topics of most biochem beginners courses (or is providing too much information that is about to overwhelm inexperienced readers, respectively). Still, it will be an unavoidable desk reference to any biochemist who cares about enzymes and will be highly valuable at least as long as the previous edition from 1977.

The book is horrible! I used many textbooks to teach students biochemistry: Voet, Stryer, Lehninger, Devlin and others. Voet's Biochemistry although too detailed in some places is good for chemistry majors, but is a nightmare for medical students for which Stryer and Lehninger is great. In all tasks these books are better then Metzler.
Metzler's Biochemistry is simply overwhelming. You will hate it if:
- you are medical student or just a novice in the field. What's the point in reading a whole page about "Does lysozyme distort its substrate?" or next 5 pages about xylanases, hemicelluloses, galactanase, glucocerebrosidase..? Though if you know organic chemistry inside out you'll find 300 pages of bioorganic chemistry quite a good review (of what you probably already know).

- you are a graduate student in biochemistry and need a reference. Get something else. For example, speeking about proteases and phosphatase Metzler mostly enumatates some thirty enzymes, but gives the details for only a few. In this book you'll find excessive treatment of one thing on 50 pages and a brief mentioning of 100 things on the next 50 pages.

To sum up I'd like to say that this book is good for a professional biochemist who likes reading encyclopedias before going to bed or wants to expend his/her knowledge in bioorganic chemistry.

You've got to bear in mind that it weighs 16 pounds and trust me you'll never want to take it any where from your shelf (unless you are fond of powerlifting). Such books like dinosaurs will either get extinct or be covered with dust in the library.

This booklet is very basic in its explanation of biogas. If you're looking for something very technical, don't buy this.

I must give it a rating of 5, though, for its illustrated guide to making a homemade biodigester. I have made a few different type of small biodigesters, and the type outlined in this book is the easiest for personal use (if not experimental curiosity)

what kind of plant that good for making biogasses

Unless you plan to have an agricultural based farm, using draft horses, DON'T Bother With This Book. It is an interesting read on horse powered farming, no practical advise, no "setting up" or design of a farm included. Why this title, I haven't a clue. I've never submitted a review to Amazon before, but I felt that the title of the book was so misleading that it was important to do so.

I found this book to be very easy to read. It's actually written in a language that the average person can understand; no technical "Realtor terms." The info is great and very helpful, even if you are just looking to buy a home with a big yard and not a farm. I was quite intrigued with the "horse powered" part, as I hadn't ever thought of anyone still using horses to work farms. This book is certainly food for thought!

this book is very well written, nice flow, meaningful suggestions and very nice analysis of situations in engineering. I read the whole book in a day because it read so smoothly, even to me who has little engineering background.

No paperback book should $EVER$ cost 90 bucks! What's wrong with you people?? I had to buy this book for school, what bs.

While the illustrations are fair, the rhyming text for this book is just horrible. The rhymes are forced and sing-song. Even my nine-year old daughter groaned. The contrast between present manufacturing processes and those of the past is not made clear. Some of the illustrations are simply inaccurate--such as the drawing of the spinning wheel which would never be able to spin or to twist the thread.

This is the best book I have read on how cotton is produced, and then made into fabric. My kids loved it and I learned a lot as well. There are great real pictures, and the illustrations are very good. I would recommend this book to anybody that wants to kow more about cotton, or just wants to have a good book to read.

This is not the fourth adition that we were loking for. We were wondering if we could PLEASE send it back. Please e-mail us back. We already have this adition.

Thank you,
Shirley

There are few books available on this topic but this one covers the subject in depth, with well referenced photos and sample comments. Anyone interested in dairy cows should have it!

This book might be wrought with ageless wisdom, colorful history and practical horse sense- but who would know! The type is way too small (and my vision is perfect) and the text is too far into the spine. That adds up to one unpleasant reading experience-IF you can even manage the arduous task of trying to read this book. Time for a major reformatting by the publisher.

This is a lovely little pocket size book packed with useful information on horse drawn farm machinery.

If you've ever wondered how they did it or the difference between a harrow and a harvester this book will tell you. If you've ever thought of taking up farming by horse, this book can help tell you what you need to know.

Overall I'd recommend it.