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Out of the Earth : Civilization and the Life of the Soil by Daniel Hillel (1992, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520080807
ISBN-139780520080805
eBay Product ID (ePID)541617
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
Publication NameOut Of the Earth : Civilization and the Life of the Soil
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
SubjectEnvironmental Conservation & Protection, General, Agriculture / General, Agriculture / Agronomy / Soil Science, Natural Resources
TypeTextbook
AuthorDaniel Hillel
Subject AreaNature, Technology & Engineering
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN92-010461
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments I FOR SOIL THOU ART 1 Prologue 2 Man's Role on God's Earth II THE NATURE OF SOIL AND WATER 3 The Fertile Substrate 4 The Vital Fluid 5 The Dynamic Cycle 6 The Primary Producers 7 The Tenuous Balance III THE LESSONS OF THE PAST 8 Human Origins 9 The Agricultural Transformation 10 Early Farming in the Near East 11 Silt and Salt in Mesopotamia 12 The Gifts of the Nile 13 Husbandry of the Rain-fed Uplands 14 The Desert Rejoiced 15 Tapping the Underground Waters 16 Farming the Wetlands of Mesoamerica 17 The Advent of Chemical Fertilizers IV THE PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT 18 Saline Seeps in Australia and North America 19 The Promise and Peril of Irrigation 20 Accelerated Erosion 21 The "Sorrow of China" 22 Deforesting the Earth 23 Man-Made Deserts 24 The Plight of Africa 25 Endangered Wetlands 26 Sweet Water and Bitter 27 Water Management in Israel 28 Abusing the Living Filter V UNTO SOIL SHALT THOU RETURN 29 A Global Accounting 30 A Case for Conditional Optimism Notes Selected Bibliography Index
SynopsisAs the crucible of life, the source and final resting place of everything that grows, soil inspires reverence not only in the peasant who derives his daily bread from it, but also in the scientist who contemplates its meaning as the place where life and death meet and exchange vital energies .Out of the Earthis the culmination of the author's long career in conservation. This history of man's use and misuse of soil and water combines a description of the complex inner processes that form soil with a lyrical assertion of its powers and significance., As the crucible of life, the source and final resting place of everything that grows, soil inspires reverence not only in the peasant who derives his daily bread from it, but also in the scientist who contemplates its meaning as the place where life and death meet and exchange vital energies. Out of the Earth is the culmination of the author's long career in conservation. This history of man's use and misuse of soil and water combines a description of the complex inner processes that form soil with a lyrical assertion of its powers and significance.
LC Classification NumberS591.H62 1992
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