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From the Soil, the Foundations of Chinese Society
Language: en
Pages: 171
Authors: Xiaotong Fei
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"A lucid and fascinating work about Chinese society and values. Fei's account of how China differs from the West is every bit as telling now as it was when this
The Soil
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: Takashi Nagatsuka
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-01-29 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Nagatsuka Takashi's novel The Soil, published in Japan in 1910, provides a moving and sensitive but unsentimental portrait of rural peasant life in Japan during
Secrets of the Soil
Language: en
Pages: 472
Authors: Peter Tompkins
Categories: Agricultural ecology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: books catalog

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This book,a fascinating companion to The Secret Life of Plants by the same authors, tells the story of the innovative, nontraditional, often surprising things t
The Soil Will Save Us
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Kristin Ohlson
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-18 - Publisher: Rodale

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Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices—and, especially, modern industrial agriculture—have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon
Finding Solace in the Soil
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Bonnie J. Clark
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-07 - Publisher: University Press of Colorado

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Finding Solace in the Soil tells the largely unknown story of the gardens of Amache, the War Relocation Authority incarceration camp in Colorado. Combining phys