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Your Rabbit: A Kid's Guide to Raising and Showing

di Nancy Searle

Practical advice for children who want to raise their own rabbits for pets, profit, or show. Includes information on housing, feeding, grooming, breeding, and more.

Handbook of Milk Composition

di Unknown Author

This informative treatise offers a concise collection of existing, expert data summarizing the composition of milk. The Handbook of Milk Composition summarizes current information on all aspects of human and...

Pest Control for the Smallholder

di David Bezzant

Among the many challenges facing the contemporary smallholder who keeps livestock and grows his own food, is how to deal with the various pests that are capable of decimating crops, degrading pasture, stealing...

Fish Respiration

di Steve F. Perry & Bruce Tufts

Fish Respiration synthesizes classical literature and highlights recent developments pertaining to the respiratory physiology of fishes. Compiled by a team of international researchers, this comprehensive and...

Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers

di Donald N. Maynard & George J. Hochmuth

The leading one-stop reference for commercial vegetable growers for more than 50 years

Rooted in tradition, branching out to the future. For more than half a century, Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers has...

Pasteurisation: A Food Industry Practical Guide

di Joy Gaze

Adopt best practice in the use of pasteurisation with food and drink products to help assure food safety and maximise product quality

Bioenergy Feedstocks: Breeding and Genetics

di Malay Saha, Hem S. Bhandhari & Joseph C. Bouton

Bioenergy and biofuels are generated from a wide variety of feedstock. Fuels have been converted from a wide range of sources from vegetable oils to grains and sugarcane. Second generation biofuels are being...

Practical Quail-keeping

di Sarah Barratt & Martin Barratt

Practical Quail-keeping is a comprehensive guide for anyone who keeps quail or who is thinking about starting out. It covers all key aspects of responsible quail husbandry, and explains how to set up and equip...

Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl

di Gail Damerow

If you want to incubate, hatch, and brood chicks yourself, rather than buying them from a hatchery, this is the guide you need. Poultry authority Gail Damerow explains exactly how to hatch healthy baby chickens,...

HACCP: A Practical Guide

di Mr Robert Gaze

Assure the safety of your food products by adopting HACCP

Cleaning and disinfection of food factories: a practical guide

di Dr Karen Middleton

Ensure that your factory is cleaned to the highest possible standard by planning when and how to clean and which cleaning chemicals to use

Hand hygiene: guidelines for best practice

di Dr Debra Smith

Ensure that your hand washing facilities and procedures are optimised

Mole Catching: A Practical Guide

di Jeff Nicholls

If you are a gardener, groundsman, smallholder or farmer and have a 'mole problem', then this book will be of enormous help to you. Pest-control books normally only devote a paragraph or two to moles and rarely...

Coppicing and Coppice Crafts: A Comprehensive Guide

di Rebecca Oaks & Edward Mills

Coppicing is an ancient method of enhancing woodland biodiversity. The key to successful coppicing is to nurture the new coppice shoots. In return, a coppice will provide an endless supply of wood for a wide...

Finding Good Farmland: How to Evaluate and Acquire Land for Raising Crops and Animals. a Storey Basics Title

di Ann Larkin Hansen

Buying your first farm can be a challenge. This practical guide contains all of the information you need to have before purchasing farmland, covering everything from the characteristics of the land (soil type,...

Management Principles of Sustainable Industrial Chemistry: Theories, Concepts and Indusstrial Examples for Achieving Sustainable Chemical Products and

di Genserik L. L. Reniers, Kenneth S?rensen & Karl Vrancken

Approaching sustainability from the perspectives of engineering and multiple scientific disciplines, this book incorporates the concepts of intergenerational equity and ecological capabilities, while promoting...

Advances in Food Science and Technology

di Sabu Thomas, Laura B. Iturriaga & Pablo Daniel Ribotta

This book comprehensively reviews research on new developments in all areas of food chemistry/science and technology. It covers topics such as food safety objectives, risk assessment, quality assurance and control,...

Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease

di Carol J. Boushey, Ann M. Coulston & Cheryl L. Rock

As we enter the 21st century, a new era of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of disease emerges. Clinical nutrition involves the integration of diet, genetics, environment, and behavior promoting health...

BRC Global Standard for Food Safety

di The Brtish Retail Consortium & The Stationery Office

This Standard provides a framework for food manufacturers to assist the production f safe food and to manage product quality to meet customers' requirements. Certification against this standard is recognised...

Storey's Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables & Herbs for Market

di Keith Stewart

Keith Stewart addresses everything you need to know to successfully grow and market organic vegetables and herbs, covering land, equipment, crop mix, growing techniques, irrigation, soil fertility, pests, greenhouses,...