Seed Power

Seed Power
Author: Anna Prokos
Publisher: Red Chair Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1634401638

Have you ever swallowed a seed? If you've eaten a strawberry or a tomato, the answer is, yes! But why didn't a new plant grow inside your stomach? In this book, readers discover what a seed needs to grow into a fruit-bearing plant.

Seeds of Power

Seeds of Power
Author: Amalia Leguizamón
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2020-09-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478012374

In 1996 Argentina adopted genetically modified (GM) soybeans as a central part of its national development strategy. Today, Argentina is the third largest global grower and exporter of GM crops. Its soybeans—which have been modified to tolerate being sprayed with herbicides—now cover half of the country's arable land and represent a third of its total exports. While soy has brought about modernization and economic growth, it has also created tremendous social and ecological harm: rural displacement, concentration of landownership, food insecurity, deforestation, violence, and the negative health effects of toxic agrochemical exposure. In Seeds of Power Amalia Leguizamón explores why Argentines largely support GM soy despite the widespread damage it creates. She reveals how agribusiness, the state, and their allies in the media and sciences deploy narratives of economic redistribution, scientific expertise, and national identity as a way to elicit compliance among the country’s most vulnerable rural residents. In this way, Leguizamón demonstrates that GM soy operates as a tool of power to obtain consent, to legitimate injustice, and to quell potential dissent in the face of environmental and social violence.

Power of the Seed

Power of the Seed
Author: Susan M. Parker
Publisher: Process Self-Reliance
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781934170540

Fixed oils play a large part in most all commercial beauty treatments. Power of the Seed is an engaging, illustrated guide book that shows the reader the meaning and uses of fatty acids, omega oils, trans-fats, saturated and unsaturated oils. It also offers instruction on how to use these oils to create topical skin care, cosmetics and massage oils. Susan M. Parker presents advice and in-depth information on the different types, sources, uses and structures of these precious oils. Over 90 rare and common oils are discussed, along with suggestions for creating new recipes.

Power of the Mustard Seed

Power of the Mustard Seed
Author: Jimi Clemons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2006-05-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781425923587

In 1991, an eminent American member of the New World Order secretly declared "The supranatural sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries." Ben Peri has methodically followed the link that exists between this declaration of war on democracy, the rigged American elections of 2000 and 2004, 9/11, orchestrated terror, and the "preventive" wars that followed. The central thesis for the book came as a bolt from the blue from Major General Smedley Butler: "War is a racket." He knows whereof he speaks. He survived two devastating wars as a staff officer in the U. S. Army. He witnessed the real "business" of war with its reckless investors, profiteers, think tanks, propaganda disseminators, and public opinion manipulators. Ben Peri debunks step by step the lies of the U. S. government, the Pentagon, CIA, and FBI about 9/11, the WTC demolition, the false Pentagon attack, fake organized terror, total suppression of our liberties, and the outrageous propaganda about our values, freedom, and democracy. All the while, the mainstream media, according to former chief of staff of The New York Times play "intellectual prostitutes." [presstitutes? - per Mike Rivero] But, a thousand men loaded with lies cannot withstand one man armed with the truth. The "hundred-year war" looks more and more like a "hundred-year extremely rewarding business", at a time when free trade capitalist systems show signs of great collapse. It is a business where the margins are often 100 times more important than the most profitable traditional businesses. While WARBIZ spreads death among totally innocent civilians (over 150,000 so far, including 40,000 kids and babies), as well as U. S. and coalition troops, and depleted uranium (DU), which causes cancer, degenerative diseases, paralysis, and birth deformities. As a consequence of the Gulf War (1991), 50 percent of American soldiers (more than 350,000) suffer from exposure to DU, which has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. Specialists estimate that the uranium contamination in the present Iraq War is 250,000 times the contamination resulting from the atom bomb on Nag

More&More (A Guide to the Harmonized System)

More&More (A Guide to the Harmonized System)
Author: Marina Zurkow
Publisher: punctum books
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2016
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0692622012

More&More is an art and research project that explores the language and mechanics of global trade, container shipping, and the exchange of goods. It questions a mercantile structure that by necessity disallows the presence of ocean as a real space in order to flatten the world into a Pangaea of capital. The project is presented in two volumes, released in conjunction with an exhibition of Marina Zurkow's work (with collaborators Sarah Rothberg, Surya Mattu, and others) at bitforms gallery in New York City in February 2016.This book, More&More (A Guide to the Harmonized System), is an experimental "brick" of a book that intervenes in the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (also known as the HS Code). The HS Code is the internationally accepted standard of product classification, which codifies the way nations conduct import/export. All legal trade products (and illegal ones that find loopholes) are shipped using this system. More&More (A Guide to the Harmonized System) lists the astonishing variety of items that are shipped around the world, and includes instructions for using the code to ship items (both legally and illegally). It also includes poetic, personal, and scholarly annotations by Stacy Alaimo, Heather Davis, Kathleen Forde, Dylan Gauthier, Elena Glasberg, Calliope Mathios, Steve Mentz, Astrida Neimanis, Chris Piuma, Elspeth Probyn, Sarah Rothberg, Phil Steinberg, Rita Wong, and Marina Zurkow.

Comprehensive Biomedical Physics

Comprehensive Biomedical Physics
Author:
Publisher: Newnes
Total Pages: 4052
Release: 2014-07-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0444536337

Comprehensive Biomedical Physics, Ten Volume Set is a new reference work that provides the first point of entry to the literature for all scientists interested in biomedical physics. It is of particularly use for graduate and postgraduate students in the areas of medical biophysics. This Work is indispensable to all serious readers in this interdisciplinary area where physics is applied in medicine and biology. Written by leading scientists who have evaluated and summarized the most important methods, principles, technologies and data within the field, Comprehensive Biomedical Physics is a vital addition to the reference libraries of those working within the areas of medical imaging, radiation sources, detectors, biology, safety and therapy, physiology, and pharmacology as well as in the treatment of different clinical conditions and bioinformatics. This Work will be valuable to students working in all aspect of medical biophysics, including medical imaging and biomedical radiation science and therapy, physiology, pharmacology and treatment of clinical conditions and bioinformatics. The most comprehensive work on biomedical physics ever published Covers one of the fastest growing areas in the physical sciences, including interdisciplinary areas ranging from advanced nuclear physics and quantum mechanics through mathematics to molecular biology and medicine Contains 1800 illustrations, all in full color

Fiber Lasers

Fiber Lasers
Author: Oleg G. Okhotnikov
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527648666

A comprehensive account of the latest developments and applications in this rapidly developing field, covering a wide range of topics, such as power scaling and short pulse generation, dispersion management and modeling, broadband supercontinuum generation and wavelength tailoring. The book brings together contributions from the world's leading experts at major collaborative research centers throughout Europe, Australia, Russia and the USA. Each chapter presents a tutorial style introduction to the selected topic suitable for scientists, researchers and experts, as well as graduate and postgraduate students with a basic background in optics.

The Science and Technology of Coal and Coal Utilization

The Science and Technology of Coal and Coal Utilization
Author: Bernard Cooper
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1468445804

Filling the need for new and improved energy sources is an area where societal effects of science and technology will surely increase. The editors and authors have attempted in this volume to present the most current work on the science and technology of coal and coal utilization. Serious disagreement exists on several key issues such as carbon dioxide release and acid rain. At the same time, however, coal is the world's most abundant fossil fuel and will have to be used to supply the world's energy needs for the next several decades. The 1979 National Research Council Report, "En ergy in Transition: 1985-2010," has estimated that the United States alone may go from a 1979 coal consumption of 14 QUADS per annum (approximately 750 million tons per year) to approximately 40-50 QUADS per annum (approximately 2 billion tons per year) by the year 2010. If this scale of coal utilization is to become a reality, a significant level of research and development will be necessary to establish advanced process technologies and to improve related areas such as materials and instrumentation. The editors hope that this volume will allow a technically educated person to become aware of the several aspects of coal utilization, from characterization of coal itself to the processes of coal utilization. B. R. Cooper and W. A. Ellingson March, 1983 vii Contents 1. THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF COAL AND COAL UTILIZATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bernard R. Cooper and William A. Ellingson 2. COAL CHARACTERIZATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .