Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus Triticum; the most widely grown is common wheat (T. aestivum). The archaeological record suggests that wheat was first cultivated in the regions of the Fertile Crescent around 9600 BCE. Botanically, the wheat kernel is a type of fruit called a caryopsis. Wheat is grown on more land area than any other food crop (220.4 million hectares, 2014). World trade in wheat is greater than for all other crops combined. In 2017, world …

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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English

Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …

like Toronto. Add seas of golden wheat swaying under endless prairie skies. Draw a doodle we learn from sinkholes, cypress knees, golden wheat, and mothering? How can the Suwanee River appear 16. oil pumps listing waves, lurching golden 17. wheat, pelican dines estuary to sea; feeding one and then


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

on the extraction of resources like fish, pelts, wheat, coal, nickel and other metals, oil, and uranium


DDN: Dundurn Press · 25 June 2024 English

A gripping noir mystery introducing artless young detective Patrick Bird, set in Toronto’s Parkdale during the tumultuous ’60s.“I didn’t kill her. I had the thought, the idea. What’s the saying? …

But put down sausage for now.” “White or whole wheat?” “White.” “Coffee or tea?” “Coffee. Black.”“Uh-


NSP: New Society Publishers · 25 June 2024 English

Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a practical approach, providing clear and achievable methods to bridge …

rice, and so much more, and rely on potatoes, wheat, beans, foraged food, hunted, trapped, netted,


CHB: Coach House Books · 18 June 2024 English

WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD This punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction Living …

bleach-white industrial unit in the middle of a scorched wheat field. In the background the sun rose, wanting


DDN: Dundurn Press · 11 June 2024 English

An anarchist online group sets out to assassinate the corporate elites they believe have turned culture into a digital nightmare.“A blistering look at what our online and offline lives have …

a sea of wheat, all swaying gold. Sound quality is amazing. It really sounds like wheat sway- ing in game somewhere. Eris: Your mission begins in the wheat field. T- Redeem: Sure, we burned a lot of these Eris: But only those with the genetically modified wheat. T- Redeem: That’s the point, isn’t it? Eris: See There’ll be a dozen ways to work through the wheat field, from high aerial to stealth skim- ming and make a good thing out of a bad habit. I enter the wheat field at game speed. I’m obvious about it. No sense


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 7 June 2024 English

Before contact with white people, the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast traded amongst themselves and with other Indigenous groups farther inland, but by the end of the 1780s, when …

California and returned with 1,000  fanegas of wheat, 300 arrobas of flour, and 800 arrobas of lard.36 California’s missions and ranchos produced abundant wheat and beef, but foreign trade was prohibited by the


DDN: Dundurn Press · 4 June 2024 English

A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to …

side of the plate. Sometimes, I fry up some bake. Wheat, flour, and oil. Bake, like bannock, fills bellies


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 17 May 2024 English

Despite most policy-makers' belief that GDP growth is the primary measure of success, the true core factors of economic progress are capital assets—human, natural, produced, financial, and social capital. These …

crops production with special references to tef and wheat crops: A case study of Adea and Lume districts


Yellowhead Institute · 7 May 2024

In doing operations into the purview of the land in question — in so, they take on a similar tone to the kinds of agricultural this case, through the prospect …

“cool season” grains such as oats, barley, and wheat. In the Clay Belt, municipal elected ocials and


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