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Alternative sources of protein for poultry nutrition
Soya bean and canola meal are the conventional ingredients used to provide protein in poultry feed. However, they are relatively expensive and must be imported to many poultry-producing areas. Developing alternative protein sources for poultry nutrition will reduce the pressure on these key prote...
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Key challenges in plant health in sub-saharan africa: stakeholder priorities
This chapter comprises short summaries of research priorities from key stakeholders who have worked with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) on plant health. Stakeholders were categorised into the following groups: international organisations (e.g. the FAO), universities, i...
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Taxonomy and classification of cacao
Theobroma cacao is one of the most important cash crops in the world and is native to the tropical, humid forests of South America. This chapter discusses its origin and the taxonomy and classification of the varieties of Theobroma. It then reviews the characteristics of the three general groups ...
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Ensuring and exploiting genetic diversity in rice
Genetic diversity is the basis for all advances in breeding and genetic improvement and represents an insurance policy for dealing with disaster. In the context of a changing climate, breeders are under increased pressure to selectively expand the genetic base of the varieties they develop to enh...
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Advances in understanding the epidemiology of septoria tritici blotch in cereals
This chapter reviews advances in understanding the epidemiology of Septoria tritici blotch in cereals.
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Enhancing seed defence mechanisms against pathogens
Defence priming is defined as the enhanced sensitivity and responsiveness to stress that results from a prior experience and leads to increased resistance and/or stress tolerance. For plants, priming agents may be microorganisms or chemicals. This chapter reviews defense priming against plant pat...
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Advances in understanding the potassium cycle in crop production
Soil reserves of potassium are generally large, but most of it is not plant-available. On crop farms, negative potassium balance is common due to greater removal of potassium in hay, straw and grain than fertilizer potassium. Consequently, soil potassium depletion is increasing the prevalence of ...
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Sustainable production and postharvest handling of avocado
Avocado is one of the world’s most economically important subtropical/tropical fruit crops. This collection considers how global avocado production can be improved to meet the growing demand for the fruit, focussing primarily on how the different components of the avocado supply chain can be opti...
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The role of crop growth models in crop improvement: integrating phenomics, envirotyping and genomic prediction
The chapter highlights the interplay of high throughput phenotyping with crop growth models (CGMs). The chapter shows how crop models can be used to explore knowledge of phenotype, environment and genotype to better understand and predict their complex interrelationships. It describes how CGMs ha...
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Development of single nucleotide polymorphism (snp) markers for cereal breeding and crop research: current methods and future prospects
Modern cereal breeding and research increasingly relies upon the application of molecular genetics. This chapter provides an overview of the development of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for use in such breeding and research. Fluorescence detection methods are fully reviewed as this...
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The contribution of agroforestry systems to improving soil carbon sequestration
Agroforestry is a land-use system where woody perennials are deliberately combined with agricultural crops and/or livestock on the same land-management units in some form of spatial arrangement or temporal sequence. Agroforestry has the potential to respond to multiple challenges related to soil ...
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of barley
This collection reviews advances in understanding barley physiology and genetics, molecular breeding and cultivation techniques, as well as disease and weed management. It also discusses advances in improving barley for end uses such as malting and brewing.
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Managing perennial conservation agriculture systems: orchards, plantations and agroforestry
Perennial CA systems offer a range of productivity and ecosystem benefits to resource-poor smallholder farmers as well as to larger-scale producers managing orchards and plantations. Given the attractive economic and environmental value-adding characteristics of perennial CA systems, it is expect...
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The use of intelligent/autonomous systems in crop irrigation
Climate change, combined with the need to feed an increasing population with decreasing arable land, requires to radically re-think the way water is delivered to crops to increase efficiency and minimize wasted water. This chapter examines how robotic and artificial intelligence can be used to im...
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An overview of genetic improvement in bananas over the last century
Bananas were among the first crops cultivated by man and continue to be important for the livelihoods of millions of people throughout the tropics and subtropics. Yet many cultivars and landraces are susceptible to biotic and abiotic stresses. Genetic resistance to diseases and pests is the best ...
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Advances in screening and product development of microbial bioprotectants
The success of a biological control programme depends on the isolation and selection of antagonists. There is an enormous diversity of culturable microbial species in the soil, rhizosphere, phylloplane, spermosphere and carposphere, which can be used in the isolation and selection of antagonists....
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The challenges of smallholder farming
This chapter starts by discussing the features of small-scale farming, indentifying family management and labour as its hallmark. The considerable differences of geography, economic and social circumstances among smallholder farms are explored. These suggest that while some smallholdings can prov...
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Carbon management practices and benefits in conservation agriculture systems: carbon sequestration rates
The adoption of Conservation Agriculture (CA) and the maintenance of crop residues on the soil surface result in the long-term increase of carbon (C) in the system, promoting C sequestration and reducing C-CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. The present study conducted in subtropical and tropical re...
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Biologically based control strategies for managing stored-product insect pests
The search for and application of less harmful and environmentally-friendly control measures against pest organisms are general trends in agriculture and insofar in stored-product protection. As a consequence, new approaches and more alternatives for conventional chemical pesticides combined with...
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Improving organic animal farming for the future
This chapter reviews key issues and approaches in improving organic animal farming for the future. It emphasises the value of developing diverse solutions suited to local conditions as well as the importance of understanding and working in harmony with the natural resource base. The chapter highl...
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Advances and challenges in strawberry genetic improvement
The commercial strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) is a popular temperate fruit that is both nutritious and widely appreciated for flavour. The purpose of this chapter is to highlight some of the newest innovations in strawberry production with particular emphasis on genetic improvement of the crop....
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Post-harvest storage management of mango fruit
As soon as a high-quality fruit and good yield are achieved, the mango fruit is harvested and the post-harvest-handling venture begins. It is estimated that, from harvest to plate, more than one-third of the fruit yield is lost. The purpose of this chapter is to review existing information and re...
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Advances in pig nutrition
This collection reviews the wealth of research addressing the major challenges facing pig nutrition, including the need to meet the changing needs of animals as they grow whilst minimising environmentally-damaging nutrient losses, as well as improving feed conversion efficiency and finding more s...
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Foundations of an ipm program: detection, identification, and quantification
Integration of pest management efforts based on advanced technologies and multiple pest assessments in multi-field and areawide venues has led to a host of sophisticated approaches that continue to shape the discipline of integrated pest management (IPM). From the initial efforts, the concept of ...
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Developments in techniques to test the efficacy of animal feed products
Various animal feed products may influence animal health, conversion of animal feed into food of animal origin and the emissions caused by animals. All these matters are regulated in the directives of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). This chapter first discusses EFSA guidance on how to ...
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New types of products from tropical wood
This chapter discusses the Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) practices in the tropics and highlights the main wood and biomass resources available. It then elaborates the types of products developed from these resources, both traditional and new products developed. It provides an insight into t...
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Welfare issues in poultry housing and management: laying hens
Laying hens produce a large number of eggs on an annual basis. In recent years, permitted housing methods in the EU have changed to enriched cages and cage-free systems (i.e. barn, free-range and organic production methods), but worldwide hens are still also housed in conventional cages. The vari...
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Fostering carbon sequestration in humid tropical and subtropical soils
In the warm and humid tropics and subtropics, conservation agriculture, based on no-tillage and cropping systems with high biomass production, creates a positive balance between the output and input of carbon (C), which increases soil organic C (SOC) stocks by 0.3–0.6 Megagrams per hectare per ye...
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Soil health and climate change: a critical nexus
A healthy soil has the capacity to sustain biological activity, maintain environmental quality and promote plant and animal health. This chapter reviews the impact of climate change on the key components of soil health, including soil physical, chemical and biological properties. Holistically, un...
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The use of growth promoters in pig nutrition
This chapter will describe the use of growth promoters in pigs, specifically growth hormone (GH) and beta-adrenergic agonist (BA), with the latter focussing on ractopamine. After introducing each growth promoter, their individual effects on growth and feed efficiency will be described, followed b...
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Nutritional properties and biological activity of lactose and other dairy carbohydrates
Lactose is the main carbohydrate in the milk of dairy animals; it is also the only dairy carbohydrate that is digested in the human small intestine. While lactose is digested by all human infants, it is conditionally digestible in human adults and its nutritional properties depend on the genetic ...
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Viruses affecting poultry
Infectious diseases, particularly those caused by viral pathogens, pose one of the most serious threats to the growth and sustainability of the global poultry industry. The industry relies heavily on vaccination-based control strategies, but there are important challenges for this approach, such ...
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Improving modelling of water cycles in crop cultivation
Adequate representation of the water cycle in cropping systems remains as one of the major concerns for crop model developers as it is involved in many critical processes such as the determination of the energy balance and crop temperature, the determination of crop productivity, and the movement...
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Valuing plant genetic resources in genebanks: past, present and future
Though the intrinsic value to society of plant genetic resources conserved in genebanks may be recognized, assigning a cardinal value to them remains elusive. This chapter summarises the main messages from applied economics literature on genebank values that began in the late 1990s, a recent set ...
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Advances in control of wheat diseases: fusarium head blight, wheat blast and powdery mildew
Fusarium head blight, wheat blast and powdery mildew are among the serious damaging diseases of wheat, which are caused by fungi of Ascomycota phylum. Integrated approaches are mandatory for efficient control of all three diseases. Control measures may either contribute to reducing the abundance ...
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Improving potato cultivation to promote food self-sufficiency in africa
Demand for potato in sub-Saharan Africa is growing, but the projected growth in demand is not matched by the projected growth rate in local potato production. An interplay of factors ensure the production gains achieved are small and slow. This chapter reviews the current state of potato producti...
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Zero-tillage cultivation of maize
Zero-till cultivation of maize (Zea mays L.) is a relatively widely used production system whereby the only soil disturbance occurs with the seeding operation. The system aims to reduce erosion, improve soil physical attributes, decrease costs, and improve long-term sustainability of maize cultiv...
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The role of essential oils and other botanicals in optimizing gut function in poultry
The poultry industry has long trusted antibiotics for their benefits in chicken production such as improved feed conversion, growth promotion and disease control. However, the emergence of bacterial antimicrobial resistance has resulted in the U.S. federal guidelines prompting the animal industri...
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Natural antifungal compounds for the control of diseases in wheat and other cereals
Secondary metabolites are essential when considering the ecological context in which an organism operates. They have an array of functions, related to signalling and dealing with biotic and abiotic stress situations. For defence against pathogenic fungi, plants can synthesize various metabolites....
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Circular, closed-loop agricultural systems: key principles and challenges
This chapter discusses the relationship between circular economy and bioeconomy as they relate to agriculture.
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Optimising pig welfare in breeding and gestation
This chapter considers factors affecting the welfare of pigs during breeding and gestation and provides recommendations on optimising their welfare in commercial conditions. The chapter concludes with a summary of the main findings and a discussion of future opportunities to safeguard pig welfare.
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Advances in sheep breeding
This chapter summarises early developments in sheep breeding programmes, with the main emphasis on the Australian industry. It will examine common current breeding practices such as objective trait measurement, flock genetic evaluation and the development of breeding objectives based on rational ...
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Instant insights: ensuring the welfare of laying hens
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the key welfare issues affecting laying hens, as well as the measures and practices which can be put in place to prevent their occurrence. Chapters review the range of welfare issues affecting laying hens in conventional cages, enriched cages a...
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Genomic selection in poultry breeding using single-step genomic best linear unbiased prediction
Single-step genomic BLUP (ssGBLUP) aims to eliminate the bias in BLUP by considering phenotypic, pedigree, and genomic information jointly. In ssGBLUP this is done by combining pedigree and genomic relationships into a single relationship matrix. ssGLBLUP has become a tool of choice because of hi...
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Improving water management in sorghum cultivation
Grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench) is a drought tolerant crop that has been grown across the American Great Plains since the early twentieth century, primarily as a feed crop. Sorghum’s deep, fibrous root system provides greater root volume and therefore potential access to a greater soi...
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Balancing oil palm cultivation with forest and biodiversity conservation
With the formation of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, environmentalists and consumers anticipated a decrease in the indiscriminate destruction of tropical rainforests. Ten years later, thousands of hectares of tropical rainforests continue to be cleared for oil palm plantations in the tr...
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Developing polyphenols from agricultural wastes
Large volumes of organic waste are generated from growing, harvesting and processing crops. These organic bioresidues contain large quantities of diverse bioactive molecules, including phenolic compounds. These compounds have significant antioxidant and health-promoting properties. A more sustain...
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Diseases affecting barley: scald
Scald (leaf blotch), caused by the hemibiotrophic pathogen Rhynchosporium commune, is one of the major diseases of barley worldwide. Typical disease symptoms consist of necrotic areas on the leaf blades. Yield losses are manifested as reduced kernel quality, size and number per ear. This chapter ...
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Instant insights: improving crop nutrient use efficiency
This specially curated collection features four reviews of current and key research on improving crop nutrient use efficiency.
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Manure and compost management to maintain soil health
This chapter discusses the role of manure and compost in maintaining soil health in relation to the use of inorganic fertilizer. It reviews best management practices in using manure and the effects of increased manure use, including resolving problems related to excess manure. The chapter reviews...
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Ethical issues in developing new technologies in agriculture
From the perspective of agricultural ethics, I am investigating potential ethical issues threatening radical innovation in agriculture, and what kind of questions these ethical issues entail for innovators. First, the role of ethics in the development of radical new technologies in general will b...
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Instant insights: managing bacterial diseases of poultry
This collection features five peer-reviewed reviews on managing bacterial diseases of poultry.
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Optimising pig welfare during transport, lairage and slaughter
Preslaughter practices, such as transport, handling and slaughter, can affect the welfare of pigs, and carcass and meat quality both individually and additively. Poor transport conditions and handling may result in loss of profits due to animal losses, carcass downgrading and meat quality defects...
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Agricultural traffic management systems and soil health
This chapter examines the relationship between agricultural traffic and soil compaction. It begins by reviewing research on how agricultural traffic affects soil compaction as well as ways of measuring soil compaction and its effects. It then discusses a range of potential techniques to avoid soi...
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Banana cultivation in africa
Banana is important as a food, cash and climate-resilient crop in Africa. However, its productivity has declined tremendously to less than 10 t/ha compared with a potential 60–100 t/ha and plantation longevity has also severely reduced. This chapter examines the composition and distribution of ba...
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Conservation agriculture for sustainable intensification of maize and other cereal systems: the case of latin america
Latin American agriculture faces many challenges, including extensive soil degradation and the prospect of increasing rainfall variability due to climate change. Conservation agriculture offers a way of responding to these challenges through improved management practices to prevent further soil d...
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Advances in breeding of mangoes
Mango (Mangifera indica L.) and closely related genera (Mangifera spp.) belong to the family Anacardiaceae that consists of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs. The mango is distributed widely in the world’s tropical and subtropical regions as well as in a wide range of areas with a marginal climate ...
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Ramularia leaf spot in barley
Ramularia leaf spot is an emerging pathogen across barley growing regions of the world. It's rise from minor to major disease has been rapid over the last twenty years. The causal pathogen, Ramularia collo-cygni is poorly understood but it has been shown to have a complex life cycle and the abili...
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Life cycle assessments of oil palm products
It is crucial to adapt models and tools that enable the identification of best oil palm cultivation practices in order to contribute to reduce the environmental impacts of agriculture. Oil palm causes impact on the environment both during cultivation and as a result of land use change for new pl...
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Managing sustainable food safety on dairy farms
Within the dairy food chain, the production of milk is the first phase in a series of steps resulting in dairy food products ready to be consumed. At farm level, it is critical to ensure that good management practices minimize the risk of contamination in order to reach a level of risk acceptable...
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Optimizing precision in orchard irrigation and nutrient management
Precise water and nutrient management in fruit production systems has become a key area of study over recent years, not only due to the changing climate but also due to increased demand for fruit from a growing population as part of a healthy diet. Irrigated fruit production has been proven to be...
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Prevention and control of parasitic helminths in dairy cattle: key issues and challenges
Parasitic helminth infections are one of the most important causes of production loss in livestock worldwide. Grazing dairy cattle are exposed to various worm species, all of which can affect health, welfare and productivity to varying degrees. For several decades, helminth control relied primari...
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Life cycle analysis and the carbon footprint of coffee value chains
This chapter presents concepts and tools around the life cycle assessment (LCA) and carbon footprint (CFP) with their applications to the coffee value chain. Coffee is characterised by a particularly complex value chain with multiple actors involved along every step, from production to consumers....
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Advances in understanding the dynamics of weed communities in integrated weed management systems
The shift towards integrated weed management necessitated by the negative unintended consequences of over-reliance on herbicides is a significant challenge for predicting the dynamics of weed communities. In response to this challenge, the novel approach of applying trait-based methodologies to w...
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Dietary fibers in the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus
This chapter reviews how dietary fibers can be used to prevent Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Dietary fibers are a heterogenous group of food compounds. The physicochemical properties of dietary fibers determine their effects on gastrointestinal and metabolic health, including effect on gastro-intesti...
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Instant insights: biostimulant applications in agriculture
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the varied applications of biostimulants in agriculture, from their use as a tool in integrated pest management programmes to suppress pest infestations, to their utilisation as means of enhancing crop root function and nutrient use.
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Ray petri
Scottish-born stylist Ray Petri (1948–1989), founder of the Buffalo collective, defined the look of radical 1980s magazines The Face, i-D, and Arena. This book traces how Petri’s radical casting, genderplay, and iconography of homoeroticism boldly politicized the relationship between fashion an...
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Transformation of indigenous north america
This is a book about the adaptation of Indigenous groups in North America (Mexico, USA, Canada) and their interrelatedness to each other and outside influences over time.
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The being of relation
Brings together Glissant’s poetics of relation and Deligny’s errant lines to study the structures holding whiteness and neurotypicality in place. Moves beyond the confines of pathology and psychological assessment to look into how blackness and neurodiversity emerge at the very site of relation –...
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Beyond the metrics
This interdisciplinary book explores how fitness technology affects self-image, anxiety, and social identity, connecting sports science, psychology, and digital culture.
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Struggle, resistance and decolonization in african american literature after 1960
Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement’s backdrop, this book examines six African American writers who use the cultural and historical past to imagine a different present and future.
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Political theology as critical theory
This book maps a new path to understanding subjectivity and history in response to the challenges faced by modern political thinking, including the shortcomings of liberal individualism in accounting for our lives together. It describes a critical theory derived from political theology and focuse...
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Lean six sigma for law, second edition
The book defines Lean and Six Sigma as they relate to the legal profession, highlights the interdependent relationships between Lean, Six Sigma and Project Management, and demonstrates the different ways in which Lean and Six Sigma may be employed in law firms.
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Company meetings handbook - digital
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Director's checklists - digital
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Advanced certificate in corporate governance
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Academy governance handbook
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Advanced certificate in health service governance
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Academy governance checklists - digital
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Package, position, profit
This book has been written to show you how to package and position your firm in a way that will allow you to profit from your efforts.
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The partner remuneration handbook
Partner compensation and how partners share profits is central to the cohesive fabric of any professional partnership. While one adage says that “there are as many profit-sharing systems as there are partnerships”, there has recently been the emergence of a global practice about what “merit” mean...
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Effective trusts
This Special Report examines the causes of trust disputes and explores the steps that settlors, trustees, beneficiaries and others can take during each stage of a trust’s lifecycle – design, execution, administration and termination – to reduce the risk of sparking a dispute.
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Data protection and the new uk gdpr landscape
Featured are important recent developments including the Morrisons data breach case and the ECJ judgment on data transfers under the US/UK Privacy Shield.
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The visible lawyer
Lawyers today need to be more proactive in winning client work. To be successful in this, they need to think beyond marketing, business developmentâl and selling, and instead strive to be more visible to their target clients.
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Essential soft skills for lawyers
This Special Report offers a research-based view into the importance of soft skills for modern lawyers and how law firms develop essential soft skills – whether to comply with SRA rules, to lead productive teams, to provide the best service to clients or to grow their practice
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Law firm mergers
Lawyers and law firm leaders contemplating the future of their firms need to understand the changing dynamics of the market, and the ways in which mergers and other combinations may or may not help them fulfil their aspirations.
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Coldrick on personal injury trusts
This vital report is the only textbook of its kind for practitioners in this complex area of law. Since 2002 this essential resource has continued to fulfil its promise of: Enabling compensated persons to understand and obtain the best deal from the means-tested benefits system through the use of...
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Secrets of the masters
Increase revenue and forge relationships with clients and colleagues that will last a lifetime. Note: this book was first published in May 2013 and has been redesigned for 2015.
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The silver bullet
The solution for writing - and winning - Request for Proposals is finally here. The Silver Bullet - How RFPs Are Won will serve as a strategic guide to help you significantly increase your win rate - and more.
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New directions in legal services
New Directions in Legal Services examines the fast pace of change in the legal services sector, driven in part by new technologies, and considers what the future holds.
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Beyond bias, second edition
Written by women lawyers who have achieved success, despite the odds, and leading experts who have helped law firms and corporations implement meaningful change, Beyond Bias is more than just an exploration of the problem – it is a roadmap for transforming the legal profession into one that truly...
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Private equity
Featuring fully updated chapters by leading private equity practitioners, the book includes high-level analysis of private equity fund structures, equity and debt finance, acquisition documentation, due diligence, tax structuring, pensions issues and public-to-privates.
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Brand strategy and management for law firms
This report presents a comprehensive framework and guidelines for developing a brand strategy tailored to your firm.
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Competitive strategies for mid-sized law firms
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Islamic finance
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Oil and gas sale and purchase agreements
This new edition, written by experienced and well-known practitioners from within the oil and gas industry, is intended to provide a practical review of the provisions typically included in oil and gas sale and purchase agreements.
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Intellectual property strategy
This guide provides a solid grounding in concepts such as IP generation, IP valuation, portfolio management and the monetisation of IP assets, as well as practical guidance on setting an IP strategy and managing the risks associated with third-party intellectual property.
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To innovate or not to innovate: a blueprint for the law firm of the future
This book will show you how to reinvent yourself to create a culture that encourages and spawns innovation at every level, both on the micro and macro levels. It leads you through the creation of the infrastructure that is necessary to encourage creativity and that is unique to law firms.
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Family business and responsible wealth ownership
This Special Report aims to develop a shared mindset and better understanding across and between the generations, focusing in particular on matters from the perspective of the next generation.
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