Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david van den berg”
Skip side bar filters

  • Freeman's: Arrival

    The Best New Writing on Arrival

    by Barry Lopez, Honor Moore, Etgar Keret, Kamila Shamsie, Louise Erdrich, Colum McCann, David Mitchell, Daniel Galera, Haruki Murakami, Aleksandar Hemon, Ghassan Zaqtan, Anne Carson, Tahmima Anam, Helen Simpson, Ishion Hutchinson, Garnette Cadogan, Laura van den Berg, Ben Huff, Fatin Abbas, Michael Salu, Dave Eggers, Lydia Davis ...
    A new literary journal arrives on the scene with unpublished works from such superstars as Dave Eggers, Louise Erdrich, Haruki Murakami, and others.In this inaugural edition of Freeman's, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together the best new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about that electrifying moment when we arrive.Strange ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • CBT for Those at Risk of a First Episode Psychosis

    Evidence-based psychotherapy for people with an 'At Risk Mental State'

    by Mark van der Gaag, Dorien Nieman, David van den Berg ...
    Can severe mental illness be prevented by early intervention?Mental illness is highly prevalent in the general population and has its onset mostly in adolescence and young adulthood. Early intervention usually leads to improved prognosis. This book describes a newly developed, evidence based cognitive behavioural intervention that can be used by clinicians to treat the precursor symptoms of ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Africa

    Proceedings of a Workshop, Netanya, Israel, 23-27 June 1996

    Edited by David Grossman, Leo M. van den Berg, Hyacinth I. Ajaegbu ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1999, this work sets out to assess the potential of urban and peri-urban agriculture for generating income and for improving food supply for the growing urban population in Africa. It considers both full-time small-holder farmers and part-timers, who hold land under various tenurial conditions. Since the book is a collection of papers based on field studies, it contains a wide range ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

  • Managing Risk in Agriculture

    A Development Perspective

    by Tahirou Abdoulaye, Rachidi Aboudou, Aminou Arouna, Victor Barrera, Toritseju Begho, Marrit van den Berg, Pratap S. Birthal, Martina Bozzola, Selina Bruns, Jean-Paul Chavas, Simone Cerroni, Juan Dominguez, Marcella D’Souza, Ali Essossinam, Hongli Feng, Ricardo Fort, J Brian Hardaker, Jaweriah Hazrana, David A. Hennessy, Maman H. Karmana, Aditya R. Khanal, Seo Woo Lee, Sergio H. Lence, Lu Liu, Fulco Ludwig, Abel-Gautier Kouakou, Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink, Wanglin Ma, Hui Mao, Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Digvijay S. Negi, Kehinde Odeniyi, Asis Kumar Senapati, Ariel Singerman, Arjuna Srinidhi, Ruggiero Rippo, Nicholas Tyack, Puneet Vatsa, Alexis H. Villacis, H. Holly Wang, Saskia E. Werners, Tesfamicheal Wossen, Eliana Wulandari, Xiaoheng Zhang, Hongyun Zheng ...
    The book addresses and documents farmers' risks in developing and emerging economies. It draws lessons from experimental economics on measuring risk preferences, attitudes, gender differences in managing risks, and risk management strategies in countries across Africa and Asia. It argues policy makers, especially in emerging economies, need a better understanding of farmers' attitudes toward risk ... Read more

    $178.19 CAD

  • Security Studies

    Classic to Post-Modern Approaches

    by Funda Keskin Ata, Gizem Bilgin Aytaç, A. Poyraz Gürson, Sanem Özer, Selim Kurt, David Hunter, Pelin Bolat, Azime Telli, Funda Ersoy, Can Telemeci, Caspar van den Berg, Özge Eski, Yeliz Yazan Koç, Levent Kirval, Bezen Balamir Coskun, Ahmet Üçagaç, Tarik Oguzlu, Gizem Kayisoglu, Tolga Çikrikçi, Leyla Tavacioglu, Dr. Burak Samih Gülboy, Asiye Gün Günes Gülal, Ahmet Conker, Neslihan Gökmen Inan ...
    As an important aspect of human polity, the concept of security has an important place and space in politics. Though regularly mentioned or referred, the concept is rarely given a proper definition, usually left in the shadows of politics and policymaking and usually referred as a cause to an effect. Within the framework of this book, classic, modern and post-modern security issues are analyzed, ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD

  • Potato

    Botany, Production and Uses

    by Richard Veilleux, Rich Novy, Roger Jones, Howard Davies, William Kirk, Bjorn Kloosterman, Roland van den Berg, Chuck Brown, Paul Bethke, Jennifer Bond, Ian Burke, A Bussan, Wesley Everman, Loretta Mikitzel, Mark Stalham, David Wattie, Kaiyun Xie, Albert Abbott, Carrie Wohleb, Mark Taylor, Andy Jensen, Tim Waters, Robert Robert, Vivian C Blok ...
    Series series Botany, Production and Uses
    Potatoes are a staple crop around the world. Covering all aspects of botany, production and uses, this book presents a comprehensive discussion of the most important topics for potato researchers and professionals. It assesses the latest research on plant growth such as tuber development, water use and seed production, covers all aspects of pest management and reviews postharvest issues such as ... Read more

    $178.79 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Climate Change and Food Systems: Global Assessments and Implications for Food Security and Trade

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This book collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades. The evidence presented describes how global warming will impact where and how food is produced and discusses the significant consequences for food security, health and nutrition, water scarcity and ... Read more

    Free

  • Commodity Modeling and Pricing

    Methods for Analyzing Resource Market Behavior

    by Peter V. Schaeffer ...
    Series Book 514 - Wiley Finance
    Commodity Modeling and Pricing provides extensions and applications of state-of-the-art methods for analyzing resource commodity behavior. Drawing from the seminal work of Professor Walter Labys on the development of econometric methods for forecasting commodity prices, this collection of essays features expert contributors ranging from practitioners in private industry, public sector, and ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Climate Smart Agriculture

    Building Resilience to Climate Change

    Edited by Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy, David Zilberman, Solomon Asfaw, Giacomo Branca ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license.The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional, and resource economics, this book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of ... Read more

    Free

  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Edited by Ludger Woessmann, Stephen J. Machin, Eric A. Hanushek ...
    Series Book 3 - Handbook of the Economics of Education
    How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy?Volume 3 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education uses newly available high quality data from around the world to address these and other core questions. With the help of new methodological approaches, contributors cover econometric methods and international test score data. They examine the ... Read more

    $145.59 CAD

  • The Bhopal Tragedy

    Language, Logic, And Politics In The Production Of A Hazard

    by William Bogard ...
    This book offers a critical theory of hazards, which the Bhopal tragedy would serve to highlight. It provides a general model of how hazards existed in Bhopal come to be defined and symbolically manipulated—through the institutionalized use of expert knowledge and political persuasion. ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Social Science Experiments

    A Hands-on Introduction

    by Donald P. Green ...
    This book is designed for an undergraduate, one-semester course in experimental research, primarily targeting programs in sociology, political science, environmental studies, psychology, and communications. Aimed at those with limited technical background, this introduction to social science experiments takes a practical, hands-on approach. After explaining key features of experimental designs, ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD