HANDBOOK OF SOIL SCIENCE (HB 2010) (SPECIAL INDIAN EDITION)

The Handbook of Soil Science provides a resource rich in data that gives professional soil scientists, agronomists, engineers, ecologists, biologists, naturalists, and their students a handy reference about the discipline of soil science. This handbook serves professionals seeking specific, factual reference information. Each subsection includes a description of concepts and theories; definitions; approaches; methodologies and procedures; tabular data; figures; and extensive references.

Winner of a Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Title award, January 2001
...is immensely research oriented being written by research scientists and engineers...the handbook is an excellent contribution that will be used by many different groups of soil scientists, engineers, and persons in related disciplines...The authors are top-notch in their areas...book is well laid out and edited...is a worthy addition to any soil scientists library...I would recommend it especially for persons starting out in a soil science field, who would gain much from the vast knowledge and experience represented by these authors.
--Larry M. Shuman, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Vol. 107, no. 4

...makes extensive use of the primary research literature...near-encyclopedic assemblage of the core knowledge...a unique reference work on soil science...more appropriately called a compendium of soil science...valuable reference text across the range of soil science...essential library purchase for institutions for undergraduates and post graduate students...many professional soil scientists, agronomists, geographers, engineers and ecologists active in teaching, research, extension, consultancy and soil management will find a useful assemblage of core knowledge.
--D. W. Hopkins, European Journal of Soil Science, March 2001, 52