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I already own this insightful work and I was quite surprised to see that no one had yet reviewed this book! This work is by no means an economics textbook, rather it focuses on discussions of economic theory and analytical procedures in the area of food demand and consumption behaviors. Offering a review of current contributions to demand analysis, this work also addresses some of the problems and issues associated with demand analysis. Overall, Raunikar and Huang's piece represents a nice integrated work providing basic information on economic theory and data, recent applications and interpretations of both complete and partial demand systems, as well as key insights into the nutritional adequacy of foods relevant to food purchasing behaviors and how public policy impacts nutrition in the US.

I already own this insightful work and I was quite surprised to see that no one had yet reviewed this book! This work is by no means an economics textbook, rather it focuses on discussions of economic theory and analytical procedures in the area of food demand and consumption behaviors. Offering a review of current contributions to demand analysis, this work also addresses some of the problems and issues associated with demand analysis. Overall, Raunikar and Huang's piece represents a nice integrated work providing basic information on economic theory and data, recent applications and interpretations of both complete and partial demand systems, as well as key insights into the nutritional adequacy of foods relevant to food purchasing behaviors and how public policy impacts nutrition in the US.

This book along with the fifth edition of volume 2 is awesome. If you're into hay making or grassland ag these books are the best. Also, if you do hay and want more info there's a book called Harvested Forages that compliments these two books. It's hard to find but if you can dig it up I would buy it.

Now in an updated sixth edition, Forages: An Introduction To Grassland Agriculture is an exhaustive educational resource concerning the science of forages and grasslands, and using them in agriculture without destroying them. Collaboratively compiled and edited by Robert F. Barnes, C. Jerry Nelson, Michael Collins, and Kenneth J. Moore, Forages benefits from twenty-four contributors who combine their scientific perspectives in this informed and informative resource concerning nutrient management, grassland ecosystems, seed production, grazing management and much more. Forages is a welcome and highly recommended contribution to Agricultural Science reference collections and curriculum texts.

This is the fifth edition of this book and it's far less political than the newer sixth edition. For that reason I highly recommend this edition over the other. Buy the first volume as well and also if you're into hay making Harvested Forages is a must with these two Forages volumes.

I looking for that book t o learn more about forrages, seed time ,fetilizer, managment end others. I live in south Brazil, my special attention is : Clovers, raygras clover boll ,ususali on our place. Thanks for your attention.

Valmar Cardozo Junior. PS: Iam sory my inglish is not good.

In this collection the acuity of detail and the quirky eye for every tiny thing that makes a world unique are so finely tuned, so perfectly honed, that every page is a collection of intricate and beautifully rendered images. I love this book. I read "Midnight" over and over just to be in the world of it, and to marvel at its construction. If you read this book and love it and want more, read Licorice next. She's just as good in this novel as she is in the collection. A quietly stunning writer, no fanfare, no hype, just a solid body of excellent work.

Abby Frucht takes ordinary experiences and turns them into unique "moments" in which you catch yourself feeling as though you are a voyeur into someone else's everday life. Intense and thought-provoking, this book made me want to pick up a pen and start writing.

A very pleasant picture book for preschoolers, as well as a compendium of additional information for independent readers. Highly recommened.
I am pleased that another adult reviewer prizes her book. However, the persons in Grant Wood's American Gothic are his sister Nan and his dentist. Picture is on loan from the Chicago Art Institue to the Cedar Rapids [IA] Museum of Art this fall [2005.] Wood was a long-time teacher in the Cedar Rapids public schools.

I was given this book as a baby gift because I grew up in Iowa. By reading this book, I learned things about the state that I never knew. For instance, I did not know that the American Gothic painting is really a farmer and his daughter. H is for Hawkeye will be a keepsake for my family. I will be able to show my son pictures of and information about the state I was raised in.

I like the format with the simple rhymes and the additional paragraphs with more information about each letter's detail. The illustrations are very well done and appealling. I will be giving this book to several children this holiday season and I will be looking at other state alphabet books in this series. This is a wonderful way to teach history and geography of our great country.

Kirkus nods here. The Times also said, "Ms Hsarleman's precise and evocative language can depict complex human relationships in a gripping scene of chopping wood--or subtly illuminate the peril of romance. The Post said, "she carries into these lives a deep and resonant insight. What's noteworthy here is the profound insight of a young woman writer into the lives of men....Ms. Harleman is a wonderful talent...

The stories of Happiness are in general very strong; beautifully written, they are sensitive to their character's personalities and inter-relationships. This is an extraordinary collection, are will reward almost reader.

The ophthalmology department at the University of Iowa is full of talented individuals. One of the ophthalmic photographers in our department is a historical photographer. Visit his website at http://www.harkerphotography.com to learn more about this outstanding artist who is preserving Iowa's history on film.




Harker states:

The images showcased here represent my philosophy as a citizen of Iowa and as a photographer. I am a documentary photographer whose main goal is to record Iowa's historically significant architecture from the 1800's before it disappears forever. My subjects are barns, one-room schools, courthouses, rural churches, banks, and houses from rural areas and small towns.

I work in large format black and white utilizing the scientific technique of Ansel Adams' Zone System to create images of outstanding technical quality. I draw my artistic abilities from my more than thirty year career as a professional photographer.

I intend to leave a lasting legacy in the annals of American Photography through my dedication to the people of Iowa - to visually preserve the early citizens' quality craftsmanship when they built these "cathedrals" of wood and stone.

My images are little time machines carrying forward to future generations of Iowans the dedication of their forbearers. People born a century from now will be able to look back in time to what was once glorious and real.

Thank whatever gods you worship for university presses. They undertake the publication of books, not because they expect them to be profitable, but because the books need to be published. "Harker's Barns" is such a book. It will never make a profit. It would probably have been too expensive for its creators to have self-published. And yet it deserves to be published, not just for what it tells us about barns or a vanishing agrarian society or even about the ways of photography, but for what it tells us about love.

The book consists of seventy-five black and white pictures of barns and other farm buildings. Those who care about black and white photography will admire the edge between peeling paint and dry wood and the texture of sun and wind bleached wood. They will also admire the sense of time hidden in some of the pictures. I am thinking of a photograph of a barn, obviously taken at the smallest possible f/stop, to get the depth of field needed to have the barn etched sharply from front to rear. And yet as a result of the long exposure necessary with this small opening, the weeds in front of the barn, blown about by a passing wind, are ablur.

This is a book about love, make no mistake. It is about the love of the photographer for his subject and what it represents in his mind, and it is about the death of a loved one. And it's about the love that many of the people who helped in the project must have felt for the subject, and perhaps for the vision of the photographer. And of course, it is about the love, perhaps unspoken and unacknowledged, of the farmer for his farm.

The photographer laments the gradual loss of the small family farm and expresses his hope that this book can somehow preserve it. And yet the photographer must know that this is a fatal economic disease from which there is no hope of recovery. The small Iowa farm that the author loves makes little economic sense in a modern society that requires efficiency in everything it consumes. Who of us will pay twice as much for a tomato from a merchant who tells us that such a price will support the farmer who continues to till the land in a way that makes no sense in an industrial society, but does so because that farmer wants to follow his heart rather than his reason?

Normally the text that accompanies a book of photographs is an unnecessary garnish, designed to fill space. But Jim Heynen is a poet, and his words are short and pithy and help us to look at the subject from a slightly different viewpoint. For example, he says "Windows in a round barn follow the light of the seasons, thus giving a sense of agreement with nature."

Even if you don't like black and white photography, even if you don't like farms, the very idea of this book may appeal to you. For it is clearly a work of love, and perhaps the reader can learn to love like the photographer.

These free-verse poems relate the story of Tom Andrew's recovery in hospital after slipping on an icy sidewalk, fracturing several bones and filling his frozen joints with blood--a condition we doctors call "hemarthrosis," an excrutiating state almost unique to hemophiliacs. Transported by the alternate deliria of pain and his morphine, Tom regards his existence from a distance while visiting with his constant companions: physical agony, God, and lyrical verse. The poems also help us understand the life of a man who watched his older brother succumb at an early age to the same disease, but who would not let it kill his spirit. (The title refers to his days as a teenage motocross rider, who would infuse himself with clotting factors to allow him not to die from minor injuries while racing his bike wearing a jersey emblazoned with the slogan "Powered by Christ.") The piece "Praying With George Herbert In Late Winter" will touch the heart of any reader who has survived a dark period of their life through the succor of poetry. Tom's religious faith is not lambent, but hard-bitten: "I can say there is a larger something inside me./ I can say, 'Gratitude/ is a strange country.'/But what/ would I give/ to live there?" As someone with little stock in organized Christianity, I found Tom Andrews compelling and ferocious. I first read his poems in 1996 and they have stayed in my heart ever since.

Poet Tom Andrews, (whom I once had for a professor), is intent of living life to the fullest in spite of having hemophilia. The part about how he avoided contracting AIDS, but avoided doing so were really scary, as they must have been for him. Even though this is his first book not strictly of poetry, again Andrews demonstrates his ability to draw poetical inspiration from such things as lying in a hospital bed with a severe joint bleed. In spite of what a review in Entertainment Weekly said, the final chapter, in which he tell how hemophilia has affected him personnally is the most powerful section of the book.

This is a great collection of stories by Nancy Resiman. I first heard of her in the Best American Short Stories where she had a story published. I really liked it, so I decided to check out more of her works. All of the stories are beautifully written, if a little depressing. I especially liked the series of Jessie stories that she included. This book won the Iowa Short Fiction Award in 1999, which is really prestigious (though I didn't know it before.. I mean, c'mon.. IOWA?? What are you going to write about?! Cows? But yeah, it's a really great award!).

Nancy Reisman's stories are carefully considered, painstakingly crafted works, beautiful at times in the way collages are beautiful, montaged and layered and suggestive. They are ghostly sometimes, and elusive, changing depending on how the light hits them. And sometimes they are funny -- the dinner scene where the young woman is announcing that she's gay and the whole thing gets misheard by the deaf grandparent -- hysterical! And with dialogue that's so right on, so real. Nancy Reisman takes her time with her characters, she's patient with her language and with building her worlds, and I hope readers take the time to invest in these quiet, modest gems. They're so worth it.

An exceptional book about an exceptional man. The great index helps immensely to make this a quality product.

Let me first disclose that I am a little biased in my review because the subject of this biography is my grandfather. For those of you considering reading this book I highly recommend it if you're interested in learning about a spectacular story of entrepreneurial success. I am an avid reader of business-related biographies and I can attest that this is near the top. In addition, the biography accounts for John Ruan's entire life to date, with details of his childhood, his family and related hardships, the founding of his many business, details on the inner-workings of those businesses and his many community/charitable efforts (the most notable of which is the World Food Prize). In all, the book sums up a man of tremendous impact in both Iowa, the U.S. as well as the world. John Ruan, as you will come to note after reading this book, is a unique individual whose 90+ years have had an exceptionally positive impact in our community, and in business. In my opinion, John Ruan truly embodies some of the fundamental principles upon which the United States was founded; the opportunity to achieve through hard work. On a final point, upon picking up the book, I read it straight through in four hours. Again, I highly recommend reading the book.