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Ploughshares Winter 2015-2016 Volume 41 No. 4

de Lisa Fetchko, Laurie Baker, Piyali Bhattacharya, Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis, Meng Jin, Joan Murray, Lisa Julin Sharon, Ryan Ruff Smith, Jerry Whitus, Alison Wisdom, George Bilgere, Graham Foust, Julian Gewirtz, Adam Giannelli, Janice N. Harrington, Richie Hofmann, Liam Hysjulien, Christopher Kempf, Michael Klein, Jennifer L. Knox, Kien Lam, Kent Leatham, J. T. Ledbetter, Matthew Lippman, William Logan, Joseph Millar, John Mullen, Megan Peak, Anzhelina Polonskaya, Corey Quinn, Dean Rader, Jacques Rancourt, Cat Richardson, Stephanie Rogers, Tomaz Salamun, Natalie Shapero, Julie Sheehan, Sandra Simonds, Austin Smith, M.G. Stephens, Tim Suermondt, Mark Turpin, Marc Vincenz, Monica Wendel, Jason Whitmarsh, Emily Strasser, Lucy Tan, Emily Jungmin Yun ...

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a ... Leer más

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The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a
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German Machine Guns of World War I

MG 08 and MG 08/15

de Dr Stephen Bull ...

Series Libro 47 - Weapon
World War I's defining weapon for many, Germany's MG 08 machine gun won a formidable reputation on battlefields from Tannenberg to the Somme.Although it was a lethally effective weapon when used from static positions, the MG 08 was far too heavy to perform a mobile role on the battlefield. As the British and French began to deploy lighter machine guns alongside their heavier weapons, the Germans ... Leer más

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World War I's defining weapon for many, Germany's MG 08 machine gun won a formidable reputation on battlefields from Tannenberg to the Somme.Although it was a lethally effective weapon when used from static positions, the MG 08 was far too heavy to perform a mobile role on the battlefield. As the British and French began to deploy lighter machine guns alongside their heavier weapons, the Germans
... Leer más
Improving water management in agriculture

Irrigation and food production

de Professor Jerry W. Knox, Dr Tim Foster, Dr C. D. Pérez-Blanco, Dr G. Schmidt, Dr Upali A. Amarasinghe, Dr Giriraj Amaranath, Dr Alok Sikka, Dr Samuel I. Haruna, Professor Stephen H. Anderson, Dr Henk Ritzema0, Dr Ian C. Dodd1, Dr Katharina Huntenburg2, Dr Juan Gabriel Pérez-Pérez3, Professor J. A. Rodríguez Díaz4, Dr A. Mérida García5, Dr R. González Perea6, Dr I. Fernández García7, Dr Muhammed Arif Watto8, Dr Maria Shabir9, Dr Ali Sher0, Dr Muhammad Awais Ali Khan1, Emeritus Professor Philip Woodhouse2, Professor Bruce Lankford3, Dr Matthew McCartney4, Dr Juliane Haensch5, Professor Sarah Ann Wheeler6, Dr Martin Burton7, Dr M. G. Shivakumar8, Dr Rahul Sen9, Dr Kuppannan Palanisami0, Dr Lance Gore1, Dr María F. Ortuño2, Dr Andrés Parra3, Dr Juan J. Alarcón4, Dr María J. Gómez-Bellot5, Dr Antonio Skarmeta6, Dr Manuel Mora7, Dr Rafael Marín8, Dr Nikolaos Katsoulas9, Dr Sofia Faliagka0, Dr Dimitris K. Papanastasiou1, Dr Mohammed Semiani2, Dr Farouk Eddine Belkhiri3, Dr Smadhi Dalila4, Dr Khouloud Boukadi5, Dr Rima Grati6, Dr Bassem Bouaziz7, Dr Andre Daccache8, Dr Tim M. Hess9, Dr Ray-Shyan Wu0, Dr Fiaz Hussain1, Dr Oscar Melo2, Dr Sadurní Vendrell3, Dr William Foster4 ...

Series Libro 138 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Provides a comprehensive overview of the interventions available to optimise water management in agriculture, including rainwater harvesting and farm reservoirsConsiders the development and application of alternative irrigation techniques which carry a reduced environmental impact, such as solar powered irrigationAddresses the importance of diversification and collaboration in securing water ... Leer más

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Provides a comprehensive overview of the interventions available to optimise water management in agriculture, including rainwater harvesting and farm reservoirsConsiders the development and application of alternative irrigation techniques which carry a reduced environmental impact, such as solar powered irrigationAddresses the importance of diversification and collaboration in securing water
... Leer más
Luminous Ink

Writers on Writing in Canada

de Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Thien, M. G. Vassanji, Lawrence Hill, Pascale Quiviger, Nino Ricci, Sheila Fischman, Heather O'Neill, Camilla Gibb, Eden Robinson, Lee Maracle, Rawi Hage, Michael Helm, Lisa Moore, Rita Wong, Hiromi Goto, George Elliott Clarke, Nicole Brossard, Judith Thompson, David Chariandy, Richard Van Camp, Marie-Hélène Poitras, Stephen Henighan, Greg Hollingshead, Michael Ondaatje, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson ...

Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an introduction by the editors, Dionne Brand, Rabindranath Maharaj, and Tessa McWatt.Contributors include: ... Leer más

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Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an introduction by the editors, Dionne Brand, Rabindranath Maharaj, and Tessa McWatt.Contributors include:
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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production

de Dr Erwin P. C. Koenen, Dr Lisanne M. G. Verschuren, Dr Herman Mollenhorst, Dr Stephen G. Mackenzie, Prof Ilias Kyriazakis, Prof Lars Stoumann Jensen, Dr Karin Groenestein, Dr Mark Sutton, Dr Mingxue Gao, Dr Trevor Coates, Dr Danmeng Wang, Dr Chunlan Mao, Dr Yongzhong Feng, Dr Zhiyuan Zhu, Dr Xiaojiao Wang, Dr Guangxin Ren, Dr Gaihe Yang, Prof James K. Drackley, Dr Michael O'Donovan, Dr Cécile Martin, Dr Vincent Niderkorn, Dr Gaëlle Maxin, Dr Jessie Guyader, Dr Maguy Eugène, Dr Diego P. Morgavi, Dr Natasha Doyle, Dr Philiswa Mbandlwa, Dr Sinead Leahy, Dr Graeme T. Attwood, Dr Mei Bai, Dr Bill Kelly, Dr Collin Hill, Dr R. Paul Ross, Prof Catherine Stanton, Dr Yajing Ban, Dr André L. A. Neves, Prof Le Luo Guan, Dr Tim McAllister, Dr Laurence Shalloo, Prof Yvette de Haas, Dr Marco C. A. M. Bink, Dr Randy Borg, Professor Deli Chen, Professor Dr Barbara Amon, Dr Donal O’Brien, Dr Chris Reynolds ...

Series Libro 95 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
A comprehensive review of both the causes of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and the range of ways these emissions can be reducedParticularly strong focus on the range of nutritional strategies, from forage and silage to feed supplements such as plant bioactive compounds and direct-fed microbials as well as inhibitors and vaccinesCovers other approaches such as genetics and selection, ... Leer más

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A comprehensive review of both the causes of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and the range of ways these emissions can be reducedParticularly strong focus on the range of nutritional strategies, from forage and silage to feed supplements such as plant bioactive compounds and direct-fed microbials as well as inhibitors and vaccinesCovers other approaches such as genetics and selection,
... Leer más
Marcus Garvey A Biography

de Stephen Johnson ...

Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican-born black nationalist and originator of the "Back to Africa" movement during the 1900s, was a passionate and formidable orator and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Garvey went on to become an inspiration for many future civil rights activists.Marcus Garvey: A Biography by Stephen Johnson provides an in-depth look into the incredible life of this ... Leer más

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Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican-born black nationalist and originator of the "Back to Africa" movement during the 1900s, was a passionate and formidable orator and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Garvey went on to become an inspiration for many future civil rights activists.Marcus Garvey: A Biography by Stephen Johnson provides an in-depth look into the incredible life of this
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O Mg! How Chemistry Came to Be

de Stephen M Cohen ...

This book is a graphic introduction to how chemistry developed, from ancient times to now. Led by cartoon host, Ben Zene — with occasional interjections by eccentric Greek philosopher Democritus — readers learn about ancient Greek and Chinese elements, alchemists, and the development of chemistry as we know it today, from Robert Boyle and Antoine Lavoisier, from Elizabeth Fulhame and John Dalton, ... Leer más

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This book is a graphic introduction to how chemistry developed, from ancient times to now. Led by cartoon host, Ben Zene — with occasional interjections by eccentric Greek philosopher Democritus — readers learn about ancient Greek and Chinese elements, alchemists, and the development of chemistry as we know it today, from Robert Boyle and Antoine Lavoisier, from Elizabeth Fulhame and John Dalton,
... Leer más
The 2017 Las Vegas Shooting: The Deadliest Mass Shooting In America, Inside The Mind And Psychology Of Stephen Paddock

de Eric Diaz ...

It was a seemingly pleasant evening on October 1, 2017, and more than 20,000 people gathered at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Everyone was in high spirits and the concert began to a thrilling fanfare. Unbeknownst to everyone, sounds began to erupt which were thought to be fireworks … until people started falling as dead bodies. The Las Vegas shooting was the deadliest attack in modern American ... Leer más

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It was a seemingly pleasant evening on October 1, 2017, and more than 20,000 people gathered at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Everyone was in high spirits and the concert began to a thrilling fanfare. Unbeknownst to everyone, sounds began to erupt which were thought to be fireworks … until people started falling as dead bodies. The Las Vegas shooting was the deadliest attack in modern American
... Leer más

The Language of the Night

Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

de Ursula K. Le Guin ...

Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literary science fiction.“We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.” ... Leer más

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Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literary science fiction.“We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.”
... Leer más
Black Water

Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory

de David A. Robertson ...

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the YearA Quill & Quire Book of the YearA CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the YearA Maclean’s 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter“An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart openand with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family,identity and love.” —Cherie DimalineIn this bestselling memoir, a son who grew up awayfrom his.. ... Leer más

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A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the YearA Quill & Quire Book of the YearA CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the YearA Maclean’s 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter“An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart openand with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family,identity and love.” —Cherie DimalineIn this bestselling memoir, a son who grew up awayfrom his..
... Leer más
The North-West Is Our Mother

The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation

de Jean Teillet ...

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and EuropeansTheir story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous ... Leer más

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There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and EuropeansTheir story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous
... Leer más
The Sentence

de Louise Erdrich ...

"Dazzling. . . . A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read The Sentence and then do just that."—USA Today, Four StarsIn this New York Times bestselling novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich ... Leer más

$15.49 USD

"Dazzling. . . . A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read The Sentence and then do just that."—USA Today, Four StarsIn this New York Times bestselling novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich
... Leer más

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Ploughshares Winter 2015-2016 Volume 41 No. 4

German Machine Guns of World War I

Improving water management in agriculture

Luminous Ink

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production

Marcus Garvey A Biography

O Mg! How Chemistry Came to Be

The 2017 Las Vegas Shooting: The Deadliest Mass Shooting In America, Inside The Mind And Psychology Of Stephen Paddock

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