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agricultural production
 Global Science Encounters: Discovering Agricultural Biodiversity $44.95 I've never seen a DVD do what this DVD does. It follows a linear path but has many branches that can be followed for increasingly more information. I found that working though the DVD was simple to execute but more fun because of the interaction and solid writing/acting. Nothing was too heavy handed and there wasn't a downtrodden feel to the video that many videos of similar topics have ("all the biodiversity is ruined, no one is healthy, unless you plant a tree every day we'll all be gone in 5 years" type of notion.). Generally I found the DVD to be a fun and enlightening experience perfect for middle school and high school students. It works especially well in a classroom where the most interested students can get the most of the information while still fitting the video into one lesson. High production values and good content, a great find.  Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East (Oxford Studies in Byzantium) $135.00 This book explores the agrarian landscape and economy of the eastern Mediterranean from modern Israel to Turkey. This region experienced a surge in population between the fifth and sixth centuries AD that raised the population to levels often only regained in the late twentieth century. Cities expanded and the eastern lands reached a pinnacle of cultural expression and economic prosperity in the century before the arrival of Islam. Behind all this lay the ability of Roman farmers to feed themselves by producing a reliable surplus of food. Michael Decker describes precisely how this was done: how plants critical to survival were grown and how new plants were introduced. He also catalogues the range of intensive farming methods used and the rise of cash-crop farming based on olive oil and wine that was traded throughout Europe, western Asia, and parts of Africa.  Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics $125.00 Supply forum for scholarly discussion concerning the envirornment and other related topics. |
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