Advances in understanding the contribution of weeds to the functioning of agroecosystems

Advances in understanding the contribution of weeds to the functioning of agroecosystemsReduction in herbicide use will trigger changes in weed communities. Improving our capacity to identify farming management options that will lead to weed communities offering interesting trade offs of functions is thus timely. Functional approaches are offering a robust framework to quantify and understand the underlying mechanisms that link farming management to weed functions. This chapter reviews recent advances in our understanding of the role of

While it places fairy tales as a genre firmly in a European context

The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War

The first book-length study of the Filipino auteur Lav Diaz

pastoral boom and film-making

The focus is on artists’ film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the present day

Including analyses of Bond as a lifestyle icon

radical ‘lifestyle’ change and global identities

habitual drinking

An introduction to Islam that has its focus on the practices and beliefs of ordinary people and on the issues that Western readers encounter in news reports

generosity

filmmaking

Academically informed but written for a general audience