The Fertile Earth

Author: Ruthvika Rao
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250899958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
An unforgettable story of love and resistance surrounding two young people born across social lines, set against a tumultuous political landscape in India. Vijaya and Sree are the daughters of the Deshmukhs of Irumi. Hailing from a lineage of ancestral aristocrats, their family’s social status and power over villagers on their land is absolute. Krishna and Ranga, brothers, are the sons of a widowed servant in the Deshmukh household. When Vijaya and Krishna meet, they forge an intense bond that is beautiful and dangerous. But after an innocent attempt to hunt down a man-eating tiger in the jungle goes wrong, what happens between the two of them is disastrous, the consequences reverberating through their lives into young adulthood. Years later, when violent uprisings rip across the countryside and the Marxist, ultra-left Naxalite movement arrives in Irumi, Vijaya and Krishna are forced to navigate the insurmountable differences of land ownership and class warfare in a country that is burning from the inside out—while being irresistibly drawn back to each other, their childhood bond now full of possibilities neither of them are willing to admit. The Fertile Earth is a vast, ambitious debut that is equal parts historical, political, and human, with the enduring ties of love and family loyalty at its heart. Who can be loved? What are the costs of transgressions? How can justice be measured, and who will be alive to bear witness?

The Fertile Earth

Author: Viktor Schauberger
Publisher: Ecotechnology
ISBN: 9781858600604
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This, the third volume in the eco-technology series, contains Schauberger's writings on trees, biodynamic agriculture and subtle energies in nature. It answers questions about extinction and climate change.

The Fertile Earth

Author: Ruthvika Rao
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781836430070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry

Author: Viktor Schauberger
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717165345
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
How does nature work? When one looks closely at the enormously complex web of life, it is impossible not to be caught by the wonder of how all living things – including rocks and crystals – are interconnected. Just as there is thought behind action, so there is energy behind matter. The Fertile Earth, the third volume of the Eco-Technology series which presents the original, passionate and convincing research of Viktor Schauberger in translation for the first time, contains his groundbreaking writings on trees, biodynamic agriculture and subtle energies in Nature. It provides answers to pressing questions, like why so many plant and animal species are disappearing. Schauberger was a pioneering genius who combined keen observation of Nature with intuitive brilliance and a sharp engineer's brain. One of the first genuine environmentalists, he was predicting ecological catastrophe when no-one else could see it coming. In the era of global warming, deforestation and desertification, Schauberger's predictions are now being proven right. His work is enjoying a worldwide revival because he was able to convey how an understanding of Nature's subtle energies is essential to our survival. The Eco-Technology series makes available for the first time Viktor Schauberger's original writings and passionate debates. Callum Coats has painstakingly collected, translated and edited the material for what promises to be the most definitive study yet of this extraordinary man's life and work. The Fertile Earth: Table of Contents Introduction by Callum Coats - A Different View of Natural Phenomena - The Influence of Temperature and Water Movement - Forestry — Agriculture — The Energy Industry - The Dying Forest - Timber and Water in the Building Industry - Agriculture — Soil Fertilisation — Increased ProductivityAppendix: Austrian Patent Office — Description of Patent No. 166644

Fragrant the Fertile Earth

Author: Aubrey Seymour
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780900093180
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description

Pragrant and Fertile Earth

Author: Aubrey Seymour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description

Terra Preta

Author: Ute Scheub
Publisher: Greystone Books
ISBN: 1771641118
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Terra preta is the Portuguese name of a type of soil which is thought to have almost miraculous properties. The newspapers are flooded with reports about “black gold,” scientists believe that two of the greatest problems facing the world – climate change and the hunger crisis — can be solved by it. The beauty of it is that everyone can do something about it because since 2005 the secret of producing this black soil has been revealed — and it is a secret that seemed to have been lost forever with the downfall of the once thriving Indian culture of the Amazon basin. The recipe is astonishingly simple as all you need are kitchen or garden wastes, charcoal and earthworms, so it can be produced on every balcony or on the smallest of garden plots. The trio of authors Scheub, Pieplow and Schmidt, set off on a treasure hunt and condensed all the knowledge about the world’s most fertile soil into a convenient guidebook. In addition to a sound instruction manual on producing terra preta and organic charcoal (biochar), the handbook covers fundamental principles from climate farming to closed-loop economy. It makes a passionate plea against synthetic fertilizers and genetic technology and offers indispensable advice to all those who feel strongly about healthy food. Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

Origins

Author: Lewis Dartnell
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541617894
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today, voting behavior in the south-east United States ultimately follows the underlying pattern of 75 million-year-old sediments from an ancient sea. Everywhere is the deep imprint of the planetary on the human. From the cultivation of the first crops to the founding of modern states, Origins reveals the breathtaking impact of the earth beneath our feet on the shape of our human civilizations.

The Fertile Soil of Jihad

Author: Patrick T. Dunleavy
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597975486
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
The shocking link between America's prisons and terrorism

"Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It"

Author: Jeremy Cohen
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501745670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395

Book Description
This innovative, interdisciplinary book reconstructs the career of Genesis 1:28 ("Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it...") in Judaism and Christianity, from antiquity through the Reformation. Jeremy Cohen tracks the text through all the Jewish and Christian sources in which it figures significantly—in law, exegesis, homily, theology, mysticism, philosophy, and even vernacular poetry. In his view, the verse situates man and woman on a cosmic frontier, midway between the angelic and the bestial, charging them with singular responsibilities that bear directly on Jewish and Christian ideas of God's "chosen people."