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Agricultural Engineering, Plant & Water Quality Sciences

Why Books?

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Books provide overviews and in-depth information. Scholarly books are peer reviewed and cite their sources--just like scholarly articles. Use scholarly books when you want authoritative content, depth and detail as well as background on a topic. Scholarly books often take longer to publish than journal articles, so the information in books may not be "cutting edge."

Interdisciplinary books can be useful in getting a good grasp on the subject. They provide perspective on how agricultural engineering interacts with otherField of corn, with hills in the background disciplines such as climate change, pollution and "forever chemicals," water resources, genetically-modified organisms (GMO), land management, and how humans modify our environment.

 

 

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