Nancy Kassebaum Baker (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 2018. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Near Fine; slight bumping to bottom of rear panel; small smudge on front panel. Gold cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. Tan endpapers. 115 pp tall oblong 8vo. In the landscape of the American imagination the Kansas farmer looms large, an icon of Midwestern diligence and bounty. But just as the state's seemingly flat horizon denotes earthly riches, the Kansas farmer contains multitudes. The photographs by Larry Schwarm capture this world in all its depth and diversity, conveying in breadth and detail the grit and mystery, the art and science, of farming in Kansas. The outgrowth of a collaborative study of crop production, farming practices, and land use in Kansas, this volume looks into the larger questions the study raised: why farmers choose to farm and what that life entails. These photographs reflect a keen sense of both the beauty and hardship of the farmer's life. Taken in the midst of a record-long drought, they picture the age-old industry caught up in the drama of the changing climate—Kansas farmers and ranchers tending crops and animals while working the earth in an ever-shifting balance with nature. A clean very presentable copy. Larry Schwarm (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 115 pages. 11.00x9.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. Providing an historical focus on Washington as a pioneer farmer actively engaged in a scientific approach to crops, farm animals and the land, this text shows him as an informed, forward-thinking experimenter, concerned with the ruinous agricultural practic.

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnIn the landscape of the American imagination the Kansas farmer looms large, an icon of midwestern diligence and bounty. But just as the state s seemingly flat horizon denotes earthly riches, the Kansas farmer contains multitudes. .