Lives in Progress: Study of the Natural Growth of Personality [paperback] White, Robert W. [Oct 01, 1966]

Lives in Progress

Health, Fitness & Dieting

White, Robert

Psychology & Counseling

Holt,Rinehart & Winston of Canada Ltd

Terroir connotes a sense of place that imparts a distinctive character to wine. A central component of terroir is the soil and its immediate surroundings. Thus, an understanding of the basic properties of soils and how they function as a "living skin" on the earth's surface is of fundamental importance to grape growers and winemakers. Stripped of scientific jargon, Understanding Vineyard Soils explains to a wide audience how soils form and why they are so variable. Robert White describes essential chemical and physical processes involving nutrients, water, oxygen and carbon dioxide, moderated by the activities of soil organisms, and proposes remedies to alleviate adverse conditions such as soil acidity, compaction, poor drainage and salinity. The pros and cons of organic viticulture are discussed, as are the possible impacts of climate change. The author explains how sustainable wine production requires grape growers and winemakers to take care of the soil and minimize the impact of their activities on the environment. This book is a practical guide for viticulturists and for the lay reader who is seeking general information about soils, but who may also wish to pursue in more depth the influence of different soil types on vine performance and wine character. Understanding Vineyard Soils will discuss new developments, especially in precision viticulture and organic viticulture. The introduction will address new technologies (near and remote sensing, digital soil mapping) as well as traditional soil classification. Following a chapter on site selection are the three core chapters on vineyard and soil management - The Nutrition of Grapevines, Where the Vine Roots Live, and The Living Soil. The book is written from an international perspective - the important points discussed in Chapters 1 through 6 are illustrated with examples drawn from many wine regions around the world.

Understanding Vineyard Soils

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

Oxford University Press

The Study of Lives reveals for the first time the extent of Henry A. Murray's considerable influence on the study of personality. Throughout his long and distinguished career, he has either trained or strongly influenced some of the world's leading psychologists, eighteen of whom have written fascinating essays for this book. The range of topics presented here is as diverse and highly original as Murray's own ideas about personality. Everyone concerned with the study of personality will find this book an excellent sampling of the best work being done in the field. "The study of lives" is a phrase Henry A. Murray has often used to describe his own work, and it suggests his central conviction that living beings must be studied as living wholes. Personality, he has repeatedly pointed out, is a dynamic process-a constantly changing configuration of thoughts, feelings, and actions occurring in a social environment and continuing throughout life. If small parts and short segments of human affairs have to be isolated for detailed scrutiny, they must still be understood as parts of a patterned organic system and as segments of a lifelong process. This has never meant for him that all research should take the form of collecting life histories, although his contributions along this line have been outstanding. It implies simply that isolating, fragmenting, and learning just a tiny bit about a lot of people tend to carry us away from what is most worth studying. The essays in this book are grouped under headings that represent some of Murray's strongest interests: His conception of personality as a dynamic process is reflected in Part I, which deals with continuities and changes in the course of life. His interest in devising procedures suitable for disclosing live feelings, fantasies, and adaptations and his insistence on the necessity for an adequate taxonomy of carefully discriminated, carefully defined variables are represented in the papers of Part II. His view that creativity is a central property of human nature has contributed to the reflections and researches that make up Part III. Finally, his concern with values--the great blind spot of traditional science but so obviously a momentous problem for contemporary lives and societies--has been taken up in several different ways by the authors of Part IV.

The Study of Lives: Essays on Personality in Honor of Henry A. Murray

Routledge

Experiments and research with humans: Values in conflict (Academy forum)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

National Academy of Sciences

Chromatography/Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and its Applications (Practical Spectroscopy)

This book is intended to serve as an up-to-date reference source for those familiar with chromatography/Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) methods and as an introduction to techniques and applications for those interested in future uses for chromatography/FT-IR.

Science & Math

Chemistry

CRC-Press

The Abnormal Personality: 5th Ed

John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

The Outsourcing Manual

Large companies and small are increasingly seeing outsourcing as a means of making the most of their more limited resources.  But how do you know whether it is right for your organization?  What benefits are on offer and how do you ensure you realize them?  How do you begin to construct a value-for-money agreement or determine a basis for pricing?  What are the risks, and how do you recognize and manage them?  Because every organization’s needs are different, informed answers to these questions have been difficult to come by.  Robert White and Barry James are experts with more than 35 years of experience in this field.  The Outsourcing Manual is a fully comprehensive guide for any organization considering taking this route.  It is above all practical, with models, outline procedures, a step-by-step guide to procurement, and standard documentation that can easily be adapted to your organization’s requirements.  There are case studies and worked examples throughout.  The four part structure takes you through: assessment of outsourcing as a strategy for your organization; the planning phase; implementation; and outsourcing from the supplier’s perspective.  If you are involved in or considering outsourcing, the methodical and case study illustrated approach of The Outsourcing Manual will equip you to manage the process for a successful outcome.

Business & Money

James, Barry

Industries

Making Words Work for You: A Guide to Creative Word Power

Reference

Unright, Jo-Ann

Words, Language & Grammar

Arco Pub.

Book of the Yorkshire Dales: Landscapes Through Time

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

In 1839 the world heard that it was possible to capture the image by chemical means without the aid of the artist's hand. This book traces the development of the camera from its origins, through the wet colodion period and the boom years for amateur photography which followed the introduction of fast dry plates in the 1880s, and into the 1890s when roll films and commercial processing made snapshots possible. The twentieth century brought smaller, even pocketable cameras which led in the 1920s and 1930s to the miniature camera using 35mm film.

Discovering Old Cameras 1839-1939 (Shire Discovering)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Shire Publications

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