Improving the quality of apples

Improving the quality of applesThis collection reviews the wealth of recent research undertaken on the factors which can determine the quality of apples, focussing on attributes such as texture and nutritional content. The book also considers how these attributes can be optimised at both the pre and postharvest stages in the value chain for apples as a means of meeting the increasing expectations and demands of consumers.

Examines the ‘New Soviet Man’ not only as an ideal of masculinity presented to Soviet cinemagoers

A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion

This book explains how the processes of ‘total territorial rule’ at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Widely acknowledged as the benchmark text for both students and RIM professionals ("extremely comprehensive and accessible

Distillation of Sound traces the beginnings of dub music in Jamaica and how the culture is distilled throughout the world

Poultry meat is one of the most consumed animal proteins by humans

and provides suggestions for further reading on this subject

A great resource for those whose professional or creative lives encompass multiple aspects of art

This monograph examines a number of motifs central to the expression of the ideal of sovereignty as it is articulated in Vedic liturgical poetry

texts of a variety of genres and many different languages and periods

crop morphology

It is based on a study of 25 young rural Thai men who were each interviewed three times within a two-year period while they were aged 18–20