Big ratchet : (Record no. 42322)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01945 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780465044979 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 304.2 |
| Item number | DEF |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Defries, Ruth |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Big ratchet : |
| Remainder of title | how humanity thrives in the face of natural crisis |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2014 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Basic Books |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xii,273p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>Prologue ix<br/>1: A Bird's-Eye View l <br/>Civilization's Engine 7<br/>The Irish Pivot 10 <br/>The Length of the Lens 13<br/>2: Planetary Beginnings 17 <br/>Real Estate in the Cosmos 19 <br/>What Goes Around Comes Around 23 <br/>Time to Fill the Pantry 28<br/>3: Enter Human Ingenuity 35 <br/>From Genes to Ingenuity 39 <br/>Tools, Fire, and Words 47 <br/>Forager to Farmer 52<br/>4: Conundrums of Settled Life 59 <br/>The Great Irony 60<br/> Bottleneck from Below 65<br/> Life from Rivers 70 <br/>Another Conundrum 72 <br/>Ancient China Sidesteps the Bottlenecks 75 <br/>Europe Ratchets Up 78<br/>5: Ratchets from Afar 85 <br/>Boobies and Cormorants 88 <br/>Sun-Powered Cargo 92 <br/>Traveling Water 98<br/>6: Smash Open the Bottlenecks 105 <br/>Food from Air 108 <br/>Buffalo Bones and Buried Coral us Hatchets Downstream 118 <br/>Another Spigot Opens 122<br/>7: Monocultures March Across 127 <br/>the Midwest Hybrids Invade the Corn Belt 133 <br/>Short Beats Tall 136 <br/>In Search of the Soybean 138 <br/>Power from the Ancient Sun 140<br/> More Meat, Less Starch 142<br/>8: Competition for the Bounty 145 <br/>Scarecrows to Strychnine 150 <br/>A Better Scarecrow 153 <br/>Cascading Consequences 157 <br/>Perpetual Pursuit 165<br/>9: The Revolution Goes Global 171 <br/>From Mexico to India 175 <br/>Miracles with Rice 176 <br/>The Dark Side of the Revolution 179 <br/>Back to the Wild 183 <br/>The Next Genetic Twist 185<br/>10: Farmer to Urbanite 189<br/>Fattier and Sweeter 190 <br/>The Planetary Machinery Lashes Back 195 <br/>The Next Pivots 199 <br/>Into the Cacophony 203<br/>Acknowledgments 207<br/>Notes 209<br/>References 231<br/>Index 261 |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 45109 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | USA |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | GENERAL |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 13/04/2016 | Book Plaza | 1385.00 | 11 | 4 | 304.2 DEF | 015663 | 10/05/2024 | 17/01/2024 | 1978.89 | 11/04/2016 | Book |