Giving the Body Its Due

Giving the Body Its DueThese essays bring together disciplinary understandings of what it is to be the bodies we are. In its own way, each essay calls into question certain culturally embedded ways of valuing the body which deride or ignore its role in making us human. These ways have remained virtually unchanged since Descartes in the seventeenth century first sharply divided mind a thinking substance, from the body an extended substance. The legacy of this Cartesian

This chapter reviews progress in developing automated image-based systems for identifying crop insect pests

Organic crop breeding is a small but rapidly growing branch of organic agriculture

running counter to dominant trends while richly informed by a long and fruitful engagement with theology

The term ‘soil health’ or ‘soil quality’ is used to express the status of the soil’s functional ability in the ecosystem

declining rainfall in parts of Australia and New Zealand

providing comprehensive insight into the cultural

unsaturated flow and multiphase flow

Michael Haag explores Cairo’s past and present in word and picture

At stake is the inheritance of Egypt’s throne

Improving the nutritional quality of maize is necessary to meet the growing demands of maize consumption

and in stimulating new readings of E

The present chapter offers a summary of the current state of potato cultivation and the role of women