[PDF.90qd] The World's Greatest Fix: A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture

The World's Greatest Fix: A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture

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 | #488012 in Books |  2004-08-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.30 x1.00 x9.30l,1.28 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||4 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| An important subject|By AG Primack|This is an iconoclastic telling of the story of what we knew about nitrogen and when we knew it. The author tells the story of the development of the undrestanding of plant nutrition in farming, starting as far back as possible and traveling up to the modern industry of making fertilizer and explosives.
The information is entertainingly p| ||"Leigh conveys a great deal of information in 220 pages of text, and does so in an easy-to-read, clear and accurate style. This is an altogether fine book."--Nature||"This is a detailed, scholarly, well-documented and illustrated work, intended for

In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, this gives the very early history of how human ingenuity overcame the risk of famine through productive agriculture. Starting with a layman's guide to the chemistry of nitrogen fixation, the book goes on to show how humans emerged from nomadic lifestyles and began developing towns and settlements. When they for the first time began planting the same fields year after year, they noticed quickly the nee...

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