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Ecoagriculture
Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Although food-production systems for the world's rural poor typically have had devastating effects on the planet's wealth of genes, species, and ecosystems, that need not be the case in the future. In Ecoagriculture, two of the world's leading experts on conservation and developmexamine the idea that...
by Frank N. McMillan, III
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In THE YOUNG HEALER tradition meets contemporary when what starts out as just another day becomes anything but that for young Feather Anderson. Her beloved grandfather, a traditional Lakota healer, pulls her out of class one snowy morning and takes her on an old-fashioned vision quest in the heart...
by Polly Dement
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The seventy stories in Mississippi Entrepreneurscollectively draw attention to the tenacious and courageous journeys of Mississippi men and women who risk fortune and futures to create successful enterprises. Most tell "how they did it" uniquely and in their own words, bringing to life their...