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Author: Robert M. Riley Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
A terrible grain hauling accident leaves a town with an unbelievable mystery when the body of a tractor driver, Chester Johnson, mysteriously disappears after the crash. The very same day, Chester’s wife Maryann, vanishes from sight. All of their affects are left in place at home. Police reports come up blank in their investigations. Enduring for thirty years this enigmatic moment develops into sightings of a yellow-green eyed ghost, fitting the description of the deceased, roams the corn rows and back roads. At the same time this elusive specter walks the prairie and back roads, the ground begins to tremble beneath their feet. Descendents of Chester and an old friend Robert Kelly, a physics Professor, are besieged by questions to which they have no answers to. Later the Professor discovers a strange meteorite with inconceivable properties causing the good Professor to rewrite physics in his own mind. Everyone begins to wonder what is going on beneath their feet.
Author: Robert M. Riley Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
A terrible grain hauling accident leaves a town with an unbelievable mystery when the body of a tractor driver, Chester Johnson, mysteriously disappears after the crash. The very same day, Chester’s wife Maryann, vanishes from sight. All of their affects are left in place at home. Police reports come up blank in their investigations. Enduring for thirty years this enigmatic moment develops into sightings of a yellow-green eyed ghost, fitting the description of the deceased, roams the corn rows and back roads. At the same time this elusive specter walks the prairie and back roads, the ground begins to tremble beneath their feet. Descendents of Chester and an old friend Robert Kelly, a physics Professor, are besieged by questions to which they have no answers to. Later the Professor discovers a strange meteorite with inconceivable properties causing the good Professor to rewrite physics in his own mind. Everyone begins to wonder what is going on beneath their feet.
Author: Christy G. Turner Publisher: ISBN: Category : Animal remains (Archaeology) Languages : en Pages : 568
Book Description
Using detailed osteological analyses and other lines of evidence, this study of prehistoric violence, homicide, and cannibalism explodes the myth that the Anasazi and other Southwest Indians were simple, peaceful farmers.
Author: Atina Diffley Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452939179 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 362
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When the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesn’t compare it to golf balls. She’s a farmer. It’s “as big as a B-size potato.” As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds; the eleven-inch rainfall (“that broccoli turned out gorgeous”); the hail disaster of 1977. The romance of farming washed away a long time ago, but the love? Never. In telling her story of working the land, coaxing good food from the fertile soil, Atina Diffley reminds us of an ultimate truth: we live in relationships—with the earth, plants and animals, families and communities. A memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural as corporate politics, her book is a firsthand history of getting in at the “ground level” of organic farming. One of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest, the Diffleys’ Gardens of Eagan helped to usher in a new kind of green revolution in the heart of America’s farmland, supplying their roadside stand and a growing number of local food co-ops. This is a story of a world transformed—and reclaimed—one square acre at a time. And yet, after surviving punishing storms and the devastating loss of fifth-generation Diffley family land to suburban development, the Diffleys faced the ultimate challenge: the threat of eminent domain for a crude oil pipeline proposed by one of the largest privately owned companies in the world, notorious polluters Koch Industries. As Atina Diffley tells her David-versus-Goliath tale, she gives readers everything from expert instruction in organic farming to an entrepreneur’s manual on how to grow a business to a legal thriller about battling corporate arrogance to a love story about a single mother falling for a good, big-hearted man.
Author: Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf Publisher: Belknap Press ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 296
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The modern corn plant; Theories on the origin of maize; Teosinte, the closest relative of maize; The genetic nature of teosinte; Thipsacum, a more distant relative of corn; Corn's old word relatives; Pod corn, the ancestral form; The nature of the pod-corn locus; Races of maize; The concept of lineages; The role of hybridization in corn's evolution; Mutations; Genetic drift and selection; Archaeological evidence of corn's evolution; Prehistoric wild corn and fossil pollen; Corn in prehistoric art; Corn's spread to the old world; The prehistoric and moderns improvement of maize; The nature of heterosis; Modern breeding techniques.
Author: Jason Offutt Publisher: CamCat Publishing, LLC ISBN: 0744304512 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 361
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Beware of what lurks in the corn. Fairies don’t exist. At least that’s what Thomas Cavanaugh’s parents say. But the events of that one night, when he follows a fairy into the cornfield on his parents’ farm, prove them wrong. What seems like a destructive explosion was, Thomas knows, an encounter with Dauðr, a force that threatens to destroy the fairy’s world and his sanity. Years later, after a troubled childhood and a series of dead-end jobs, he is still haunted by what he saw that night. One day he crosses paths with a beautiful young woman and a troubled young man, soon realizing that he first met them as a kid while under psychiatric care after his encounters in the cornfield. Has fate brought them together? Are they meant to join forces to save the fairy’s world and their own? Or is one of them not who they claim to be?
Author: Carol Cornelius Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791440278 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 320
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Provides a framework and an example for studying diverse cultures in a respectful manner, using the thematic focus of corn to examine the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) culture.
Author: Michael Pollan Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0143038583 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 481
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"Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits." —The New Yorker One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year and Winner of the James Beard Award Author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestseller In Defense of Food and Food Rules What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan’s revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.
Author: Laura Corn Publisher: Park Avenue Publishing California ISBN: 9780962962882 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
Revised and updated for the millennium, this book offers women a way to really get to know the men in their lives. And the best part, 237 Intimate Questions also gives you the answers -- many that will astound you.
Author: Robert M. Riley
Author: Robert M. Riley
Author: Christy G. Turner
Author: Atina Diffley
Author: Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf
Author: Jason Offutt
Author: Illinois Farmers' Institute
Author: Carol Cornelius
Author: Sir John BARLEYCORN
Author: Michael Pollan
Author: Laura Corn