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  Bioneers Series 1-09: Biodynamic...

  Hugh Lovel, Peter Proctor, Fred...

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  Industrial agriculture is the single most destructive human activity against the environment.  Hugh Lovel, Peter Proctor and Fred Kirschenmann present an amazing approach to agriculture, stemming from the ideas of Rudolf Steiner, Founder of Waldorf Education, which grows nutritious foods and restores land and water.

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  Before the Refrigerator - How We...

  Jonathan Reese

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  A historical study of how increased access to ice—decades before refrigeration—transformed American life. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to the household. Drawing on newspapers, trade journals, and household advice books, Before the Refrigerator explains how Americans built a complex system to harvest, store, and transport ice to everyone who wanted it, even the very poor. Rees traces the evolution of the natural ice industry from its mechanization in the 1880s through its gradual collapse, which started after World War I. Meatpackers began experimenting with ice refrigeration to ship their products as early as the 1860s. Starting around 1890, large, bulky ice machines the size of small houses appeared on the scene, becoming an important source for the American ice supply. As ice machines shrunk, more people had access to better ice for a wide variety of purposes. By the early twentieth century, Rees writes, ice had become an essential tool for preserving perishable foods of all kinds, transforming what most people ate and drank every day. Reviewing all the inventions that made the ice industry possible and the way they worked together to prevent ice from melting, Rees demonstrates how technological systems can operate without a central controlling force. Before the Refrigerator is ideal for history of technology classes, food studies classes, or anyone interested in what daily life in the United States was like between 1880 and 1930.“An in-depth portrayal of a once-indispensable, life-changing technology, the former existence of which is as unknown to most of us as that of the telegraph or canal is to today’s undergraduates. . . . Rees synthesizes considerable archival research and presents interpretations of importance to scholars. . . . Before the Refrigerator is as refreshing as ice water on a hot summer day.” —Journal of American History“This fact-filled book explains how ice became an American necessity by the early twentieth century. Students in business history and history of technology courses will be fascinated to learn how macrobreweries made lager into America’s favorite beer, how cocktails became commonplace, and how burly men used to lug giant blocks of ice into American kitchens.” —Shane Hamilton, author of Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy

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  The Olive Harvest - A Memoir of...

  Carol Drinkwater

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  The story of life on a French olive farm continues with this moving memoir of hard work, hard luck, and waiting for the return of happiness. Carol Drinkwater and her husband, Michel, arrive at their villa in Provence in anticipation of another glorious summer. Unfortunately, they find the farm unkempt and suffering from lack of rainfall. When their gardener, Monsieur Quashia, finally shows up, he cheerfully explains the shed-building project he’s working on as a surprise for them—a surprise that will send their expenses skyrocketing. But there are bigger problems to come than wild boars tearing through fences and other everyday challenges of farming. After a terrifying accident in Monte Carlo and a hospital stay, Michel is barely functional, and Carol soon realizes she must fend for herself. Burdened with problems from a financial reversal to the threat of nearby wildfires, she will experience firsthand the uncertainties that have plagued farmers since the dawn of agriculture—and hold on to hope that in the end, nature will provide. “A storyteller of great economy and deftness.” —The Telegraph

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  Search Engines Data: The...

  A.N. Drummond

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  Search Engines Data: The Ultimate Guide in Search Engine Optimization. Discover Proven Strategies on How to Get Your Page on Top of the Search EnginesWith each passing day, the entire global landscape is changing due to technological revolutions. The corporate world is the segment that these revolutions are affecting the most. Today, thousands of websites are there just at a single click, when you log into the web. Every website is generated with a lot of money being put as investment; however, not everyone brings the desired results to its owner. You might have thought the reason behind this. Why only a few websites are displayed at first when you Google any term, phrase or keyword. As an ordinary user, you might not have ever thought about that but if you are entrepreneur, doing business online, having social media presence for yourbrand, then this is the area you would have always been concerned aboutThis audiobook will teach you all about search engine optimization and how it works, how it would benefit your business, how to use it and many more. You will understand the concept of SEO and how to make your website user-friendly. This audiobook will discuss the following topics:-What Is Search Engine Optimization?-Benefits of SEO-Approaching SEO-Categories of SEO-SEO-Friendly Tips-And many more!If you want to learn more about SEO, scroll up and click “add to cart” today!

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  Heart

  Sandeep Jauhar

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  For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in The Heart, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ, braiding those tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of the patients he's treated over the years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, boldly arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting and engaging, The Heart takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.

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  The Agile PMO - From Process...

  Sanjiv Augustine, Kevin Aguanno

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  How should we scale Scrum beyond individual projects? How can PMOs avoid being process police and instead truly support Scrum teams, enable enterprise rollout of Scrum, and sustain long-term Scrum adoption?Listen to this recording as agile project management expert Kevin Aguanno interviews agile guru Sanjiv Augustine.  Learn how industry leaders are scaling Scrum with Agile PMOs that:Support and empower agile teams through training, coaching, and organizational obstacle removal,Track project portfolios using Agile tracking techniques, Bring lean discipline to project prioritization, Move towards a stable teams model of resource management Sanjiv will share principles and techniques for the Agile PMO, and discuss how those concepts are being applied in the industry to scale Scrum through adaptive governance of programs and portfolios.Learn how to make the most out of your agile transformation by leveraging an agile PMO.

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