Author: Robert White
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: soils, vineyard, understanding
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-04-28
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0195311256
ISBN-13: 9780195311259

Terroir connotes a sense of place that imparts a distinctive character to wine. A central component of terroir is the soil and its immediate surroundings. Thus, an understanding of the basic properties of soils and how they function as a "living skin" on the earth’s surface is of fundamental importance to grape growers and winemakers. Stripped of scientific jargon, Understanding Vineyard Soils explains to a wide audience how soils form and why they are so variable. Robert White describes essential chemical and physical processes involving nutrients, water, oxygen and carbon dioxide, mode

Author: Robert E. White
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: wines, fine, soils
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2003-07-31
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0195141024
ISBN-13: 9780195141023

In recent years, viticulture has seen phenomenal growth, particularly in such countries as Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Argentina, Chile, and South Africa. The surge in production of quality wines in these countries has been built largely on the practice of good enology and investment in high technology in the winery, enabling vintners to produce consistently good, even fine wines. Yet relatively little attention has been paid to the influence of vineyard conditions on wines and their distinctiveness-an influence that is embodied in the French concept of terroir. An essential com

Author: Robert E. White
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: soil, resource, natural, science, principles, practice
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0632064552
ISBN-13: 9780632064557

Soil remains one of the most important, yet most abused, natural resources on the planet. Responsible management of soil and associated water resources plays a critical role in the survival and prosperity of many nations around the world. Principles and Practice of Soil Science, Fourth Edition provides a current and comprehensive introduction to soil science for students in the fields of environmental and agricultural science, ecology, soil and land management, natural resource management and environmental engineering. The text focuses on the fundamental concepts of how soils function and

Author: Robert E. White
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Keywords: matlab, computing, modeling, matrix, elements
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 2006-09-12
List price: $85.95
ISBN-10: 1584886277
ISBN-13: 9781584886273

As discrete models and computing have become more common, there is a need to study matrix computation and numerical linear algebra. Encompassing a diverse mathematical core, Elements of Matrix Modeling and Computing with MATLAB examines a variety of applications and their modeling processes, showing you how to develop matrix models and solve algebraic systems. Emphasizing practical skills, it creates a bridge from problems with two and three variables to more realistic problems that have additional variables. Elements of Matrix Modeling and Computing with MATLAB focuses on seven basic applicat

Author: Robert White
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: spectroscopy, applications, practical, infrared, fourier, transform, chromatography
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1989-12-11
List price: $219.95
ISBN-10: 0824781910
ISBN-13: 9780824781910

Author: Robert White
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: discovering, shire, cameras
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 074780298X
ISBN-13: 9780747802983

This book traces the changes in the years from 1945 to 1965 when there were considerable advances in photography and in cameras. At the start of the period most snapshot photographs were black and white contact prints made from box and folding bellows camera negatives, by the end snapshooters enjoyed the simplicity of instant loading cameras, automatic exposure control, built-in flash and colour prints.

Author: Robert White
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: discovering, shire, old, cameras
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0747802661
ISBN-13: 9780747802662

In 1839 the world heard that it was possible to capture the image by chemical means without the aid of the artist’s hand. This book traces the development of the camera from its origins, through the wet colodion period and the boom years for amateur photography which followed the introduction of fast dry plates in the 1880s, and into the 1890s when roll films and commercial processing made snapshots possible. The twentieth century brought smaller, even pocketable cameras which led in the 1920s and 1930s to the miniature camera using 35mm film.