The Resource Breaking new ground : a personal history, Lester R. Brown
Breaking new ground : a personal history, Lester R. Brown
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The item Breaking new ground : a personal history, Lester R. Brown represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- Breakthrough
- Early years: the Great Depression and World War II
- Growing tomatoes
- Ag science at Rutgers
- Life in the villages of India
- Monsoon failure in India
- Shifting gears: The Overseas Development Council
- The Worldwatch Institute: present at the creation
- Worldwatch: a world leader
- The food debate with China
- Earth Policy Institute: time for Plan B
- Reaching the world
- Reflections
- Isbn
- 9780393240061
- Label
- Breaking new ground : a personal history
- Title
- Breaking new ground
- Title remainder
- a personal history
- Statement of responsibility
- Lester R. Brown
- Subject
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- Worldwatch Institute -- Biography
- trueFamines
- Earth Policy Institute -- Biography
- trueEnvironmental movement
- trueUnited States, Department of Agriculture
- Brown, Lester R., (Lester Russell), 1934-
- trueEnvironmentalists -- United States -- Biography
- trueEnvironmentalists
- trueLife stories -- Nature and outdoors
- trueEnvironmentalism
- trueAgricultural policy
- trueBrown, Lester R, 1934-
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The environmentalist describes how he created a successful tomato business as a teenager, worked at the USDA, and founded two non-profit organizations that have drawn attention to climate change and lagging agricultural productivity
- Award
- Green Prize for Sustainable Literature: Adult Nonfiction, 2014.
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10225581
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1934-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brown, Lester R.
- Dewey number
-
- 363.70092
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Brown, Lester R.
- Environmentalists
- Worldwatch Institute
- Earth Policy Institute
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a personal history
- Label
- Breaking new ground : a personal history, Lester R. Brown
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Breakthrough -- Early years: the Great Depression and World War II -- Growing tomatoes -- Ag science at Rutgers -- Life in the villages of India -- Monsoon failure in India -- Shifting gears: The Overseas Development Council -- The Worldwatch Institute: present at the creation -- Worldwatch: a world leader -- The food debate with China -- Earth Policy Institute: time for Plan B -- Reaching the world -- Reflections
- Control code
- 2013013753
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780393240061
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013013753
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Breaking new ground : a personal history, Lester R. Brown
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Breakthrough -- Early years: the Great Depression and World War II -- Growing tomatoes -- Ag science at Rutgers -- Life in the villages of India -- Monsoon failure in India -- Shifting gears: The Overseas Development Council -- The Worldwatch Institute: present at the creation -- Worldwatch: a world leader -- The food debate with China -- Earth Policy Institute: time for Plan B -- Reaching the world -- Reflections
- Control code
- 2013013753
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780393240061
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013013753
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- trueAgricultural policy
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueBrown, Lester R, 1934-
- Brown, Lester R., (Lester Russell), 1934-
- Earth Policy Institute -- Biography
- trueEnvironmental movement
- trueEnvironmentalism
- trueEnvironmentalists
- trueEnvironmentalists -- United States -- Biography
- trueFamines
- trueLife stories -- Nature and outdoors
- trueUnited States, Department of Agriculture
- Worldwatch Institute -- Biography
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