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Agriculture : (including nutrition, fisheries and forestry) created by N A Berkoff

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: English studies series ; 10Publication details: London Oxford University Press 1971Description: 255 pagesISBN:
  • 0194377202
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • S484 BER
Contents:
Chapter 1 The principles of crop production (1), 2 - The principles of crop production (2), 3 - Nutritive processes in animals, 4 - Developing animal resources, 5 - Mendel's first law, 6 - Improving the soil (1), 7 - Improving the soil (2), 8 - The development of agriculture in Britain, 9 - The forest as a community, 10 - Tree planting practices for arid zones, 11 - Calories and calorie requirements, 12 - Carbohydrates and fats, 13 - Proteins, 14 - Improving the world's fisheries, 15 - Different kinds of fish culture, 16 - Salting of Herrings, 17 - Soils and agriculture, 18 - The scope of ecology, 19 - Salt-water agriculture, 20 - Nuclear physics and agriculture.
Summary: The twenty extracts contained in this volume are taken from books and articles, mainly on agriculture but also including nutrition, forestry and fisheries. Each extract is followed by explanatory notes on words and phrases, and then exercises to aid comprehension, practice grammar and increase vocabulary.A key to the exercises is provided and also a selected pronouncing vocabulary covering the more unusual scientific and technical terms in the extracts.
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Book Book Main Library Core Collection S484 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 17183 Available BK83204
Book Book Main Library Open Shelf S484 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 17367 Available Donation BK29156
Book Book Main Library Open Shelf S484 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 146759 Available BK132408
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Book Book Main Library Open Shelf S484 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 146757 Available BK132430
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Book Book Main Library Core Collection S484 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 17369 Available Donation BK132918
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Book Book Main Library Core Collection S484 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 17360 Available Donation BK132884
Book Book Main Library Open Shelf S484 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 17373 Available BK151345
Book Book School of Social Work Library Open Shelf S484 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 151869 Available Donation BK139196

Includes index.

Chapter 1 The principles of crop production (1), 2 - The principles of crop production (2), 3 - Nutritive processes in animals, 4 - Developing animal resources, 5 - Mendel's first law, 6 - Improving the soil (1), 7 - Improving the soil (2), 8 - The development of agriculture in Britain, 9 - The forest as a community, 10 - Tree planting practices for arid zones, 11 - Calories and calorie requirements, 12 - Carbohydrates and fats, 13 - Proteins, 14 - Improving the world's fisheries, 15 - Different kinds of fish culture, 16 - Salting of Herrings, 17 - Soils and agriculture, 18 - The scope of ecology, 19 - Salt-water agriculture, 20 - Nuclear physics and agriculture.

The twenty extracts contained in this volume are taken from books and articles, mainly on agriculture but also including nutrition, forestry and fisheries. Each extract is followed by explanatory notes on words and phrases, and then exercises to aid comprehension, practice grammar and increase vocabulary.A key to the exercises is provided and also a selected pronouncing vocabulary covering the more unusual scientific and technical terms in the extracts.

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