Jack Brown: 23 books

This book, Plant Breeding, has it bases in an earlier text entitled An Introduction to Plant Breeding by Jack Brown and Peter Caligari, first published in 2008. The challenges facing today’s plant breeders have never been more overwhelming, yet the prospects to contribute significantly to global...

Would you like to know how to master your emotions so that you can improve your social skills and make more friends? Or perhaps learn how to establish relationships and increase your self-awareness and emotional intelligence? Then keep reading... This book will teach you: How to take control...

Do you want to learn techniques and habits that can help you achieve goals that you thought were impossible? Learn skills that can benefit your overall life and increase your confidence and happiness? Or Certain techniques that can help you achieve the relationships you've dreamed about? Or perhaps...

In this eye-opening guide to invisible foes everywhere, a microbiologist and germ-fighting expert gives readers practical advice on how to lessen their risk of infection.

Plants have been successfully selectively bred for thousands of years, culminating in incredible yields, quality, resistance and so on that we see in our modern day crops and ornamental plants. In recent years the techniques used have been rapidly advanced and refined to include molecular, cell and...

Meer dan 1000 pagina's historische actie. Romeinen, Kruisvaarders en Vikingen in één e-bookpakket. 'Geschiedenisles boordevol actie!' - NRC Handelsblad Smaakmakers voor de fantastische historische series van Robert Fabbri, Nick Brown, Jack Hight en Tim Severin. Broederschap van de Kruising geeft...

On August 26, 2009, Daphine Priscilla Brown-Jack thought everything was fine. While driving home from work, she began to reflect on her day, grateful for all her blessings. But just as her gut instinct told her something was wrong, her phone rang. As her daughter relayed news of an allegation against...

**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly). Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...

Sixteen original stories of science fiction and wonder from sixteen talented authors, written to commemorate the first ten years of NewCon PressContents:1. Introduction by Ian Whates2. The Final Path – Genevieve Cogman3. Women’s Christmas – Ian McDonald4. Pyramid – Nancy Kress5. Liberty...

The unbelievably awesome 8th volume of the Golden Age of Science Fiction! Featuring: Sjambak, by Jack Vance One Man’s Poison, by Robert Sheckley Earthmen Bearing Gifts, by Frederic Brown The Leech, by Phillips Barbee The Day of the Boomer Dukes, by Frederik Pohl No Strings Attached, by Lester del Rey Keep Your Shape, by Robert Sheckley The Machine that Saved the World, by Murray Leinster

Since its invention in 1903, the airplane has become the dominant mode of transport, travel, and combat. It has brought the entire planet closer together and changed almost every aspect of how we live today. Along the way, the airplane has inspired writers in every decade of the twentieth century...

Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that...

Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health...

On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...