Soil Science: Methods & Applications

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Preface Introduction: From the Ground Up Chapter 1: What You Eat is Made out of Thin Air (and a Tiny Bit of Dirt) Chapter 2: Soil, the Earth's Miracle Skin Chapter 3: The Earth's Kidneys: When Good Soil Turns Bad Chapter 4: Plants Don't Eat Dirt: The Underground Economy Chapter 5: Here, There and Everywhere: The 'Old Friends' Hypothesis Chapter 6: Look After the Soil, and the Plants Look After Us Chapter 7: Nutritional Dark Matter Chapter 8: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Chapter 9: Big Ones, Small Ones, Skinny Ones, Fat Ones: Worms Chapter 10: Bombs, Germs and Plants: 100 Years of Fast Fixes Creating Big Problems Chapter 11: How The Green Revolution is Turning the World Brown Chapter 12: You'll Never Plough a Field by Turning it Over in Your Mind Chapter 13: Burying Charcoal and Building Soil Chapter 14: Weeds: What We Can See Tells Us About What We Can't Chapter 15: Home Gardeners Rock Chapter 16: Compost, Compost and Compost Chapter 17: If it Quacks, Is It a Duck? Chapter 18: We Are All, For a Certain While, Not Soil Chapter 19: Keep Them Dawgies Movin' Chapter 20: A Grain of Truth: Regenerative Agriculture Chapter 21: What's the Beef with Methane? Chapter 22: Money in the Bank Chapter 23: They Germinated a Seed on the Moon Chapter 24: Loaves and Fishes: Feeding a Hungry World Soil FAQs Resources Acknowledgements Index