Author: The Gardeners and Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Keywords: drying, vinegar, alcohol, cold, storage, fermentation, lactic, sugar, oil, canning, freezing, food, traditional, techniques, salt, using, preserving
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-04-04
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1933392592
ISBN-13: 9781933392592

Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern "kitchen gardeners" will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet here is a book that goes back to the future—celebrating traditional but little-known French techniques for storing and preserving edibles in ways that maximize flavor and nutrition.Translated into English, and with a new foreword by Deborah Madison, this book deliberately ignores freezing and high-temperature canning in favor of methods that are superior because they are less costly and more energy-efficient.As Eliot Coleman says in his forew

Authors:Natalie M. Rosinsky,  Mats, Ph.D. Selen, Terre
Publisher: Compass Point Book
Keywords: science, simply, floating, sinking
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $21.26
ISBN-10: 0756505984
ISBN-13: 9780756505981

An introduction to how and why different objects sink or float.

Authors:Siddhartha Chib, Gary Koop, Bill Griffiths, Dek Terre
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
Keywords: econometrics, advances, bayesian
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $174.95
ISBN-10: 1848553080
ISBN-13: 9781848553088

"Bayesian Econometrics" illustrates the scope and diversity of modern applications, reviews some recent advances, and highlights many desirable aspects of inference and computations. It begins with an historical overview by Arnold Zellner who describes key contributions to development and makes predictions for future directions. In the second paper, Giordani and Kohn makes suggestions for improving Markov chain Monte Carlo computational strategies. The remainder of the book is categorized according to microeconometric and time-series modeling. Models considered include an endogenous selection