Ahead of the Curve: Volume 2

Ahead of the Curve: Volume 2The popular conception of science is of a steady, upward climb of progress. The reality is not that simple. Highly significant discoveries often stay unrecognized for decades, particularly if they conflict with the current paradigm or extend it in ways hard to imagine at the time. Ahead of the Curve: Hidden breakthroughs in the biosciences is a fascinating collection of lost research that the editors believe are important scientific contributions.

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

plant-parasitic nematodes that may detrimentally affect soybean production are microscopic roundworms that feed on or are in plant roots

There are two types of soilless cultivation

economic democracy

The den is the center of their lives

and argues that today the planet stands on the brink of catastrophe

and also on both national and international genetic improvement programmes for resistance to clinical mastitis

The author sees the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the resurgence of the US as evidence of the role played by normative dimensions

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 chapters consider the artistic styles

the broader European and American civic republican tradition and the contemporary revival of this tradition of citizenship

These spatial computing technologies create new social and economic connections