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Excessively Diverted: The Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Newlyweds Mr and Mrs Fitzwilliam Darcy begin their married life at Pemberley quite blissfully but it is not long before the tranquillity they relish is cut short by a series of traumas The formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh makes little attempt to hide her distain for her nephew’s wife. She is joined by Caroline Bingley, as sharp tongued and resentful as ever, in the shared amusement of criticising Elizabeth. But the new mistress of Pemberley soon has more pressing matters on her mind, the fact that she is carrying the Darcy heir being the most pleasant of them. The sudden return of her sister Lydia brings cause for concern. Alarming reports of a seduction, blackmail and the need to keep news of another’s confinement secret dampen even Elizabeth’s notoriously high spirits and Darcy shows his true character when faced with the most difficult decision of his life. Has he been softened by his love for Elizabeth or is his former remoteness about to be resurrected?.
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The Perfect Baby Handbook: A Guide for Excessively Motivated Parents
New parents are hipper, more educated, and more sophisticated than ever, but they're also highly competitive--a lethal combination when turbocharged by the anxieties of raising a baby. And for many couples, it's not just any baby, but the perfect baby. These “excessively motivated” parents will not sabotage Junior's future by denying him Mandarin lessons, a nursery chandelier (just like the one Gwyneth's kids enjoy), or advanced infant yoga. A hilarious, highly visual satire of childrearing manuals, The Perfect Baby Handbook provides much-needed comic relief from the pressures of modern parenting, and gives comfort to moms and dads who can say with a sigh of relief, “At least, we're not this bad.” .
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Environmental implications of low nitrogen use efficiency in excessively fertilized hot pepper (Capsicum frutescens L.) cropping systems [An article from: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment]
This digital document is a journal article from Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: A randomized-block greenhouse plot experiment was conducted on N utilization efficiency and N losses in intensive hot pepper (Capsicum frutescens L.) production systems typical of commercial practice in Shouguang, an important vegetable production area in Shandong province, northeast China. Crop yield and N utilization, soil mineral N dynamics and potential nitrate leaching losses were studied in control plots receiving no N fertilizer or organic manure and in experimental plots receiving 0, 600, 1200 or 1800kg urea-Nha^-^1 plus a basal dressing of 15tha^-^1 air-dried poultry manure supplying 178kgNha^-^1. Ammonia volatilization from the soil surface was monitored. A microplot was established in each of the plots receiving 1200kg urea-Nha^-^1 (the local average commercial fertilizer N application rate), the urea applied to the microplot was labelled with 10atom % ^1^5N tracer and residual soil ^1^5N and ^1^5N in harvested plant parts were determined. Previous intensive cropping led to a very high residual soil mineral N content (1117kgNha^-^1) before the experiment began and control plots gave a satisfactory mean fruit yield of 5.7tDMha^-^1 with no significant yield response to applied fertilizer and poultry manure. Only 10% of applied fertilizer N was recovered in the aboveground parts of the crop and about 52% was lost from the soil-plant system. Substantial nitrate leaching losses occurred using the two highest fertilizer N application rates but there was little NH"3 volatilization from the soil surface. In a survey of 94 wells in Shouguang, the NO"3^--N concentrations in water used for drinking and irrigation were determined. Almost half of 94 local wells surveyed had NO"3^--N concentrations above the USEPA public drinking water maximum contaminant level of 10mgL^-^1. The data indicate that N inputs for intensively managed vegetable crops in northeast China should be reduced urgently to maintain crop yields while avoiding serious long-term environmental damage. .
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