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Status of the Worlds Soil Resources
Goal of this guide is to make clear these essential connections between human well-being and the soil, and to provide a benchmark against which our collective progress to conserve this essential resource can be measured.
Author(s): Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
648 Pages 
This note covers the following topics: Soil Physical Properties, Soil-water potential- concepts and measurement, Saturated water flow, Water flow in unsaturated soils, Field soil water regime, Solute movement, Gas flow, Heat transfer, Spatial and temporal variability of soil physical properties.
Author(s): UC Davis
NA Pages
This class presents the application of principles of soil mechanics. It considers the following topics: the origin and nature of soils; soil classification; the effective stress principle; hydraulic conductivity; stress-strain-strength behavior of cohesionless and cohesive soils and application to lateral earth stresses; bearing capacity and slope stability; consolidation theory and settlement analysis; and laboratory and field methods for evaluation of soil properties in design practice.
Author(s): Prof. Charles Ladd and Dr. Lucy C. Jen
NA Pages
This book explains the following topics: Soil Physics - Solids, Water, Heat, Soil aeration, solute transportation, Effects of cattle grazing on soils in coniferous forests, Soil Chemistry: Ion adsorption and exchange, Soil organic matter, Soil Biology - Soil organisms, Physiology and environment of soil organisms, Soil Fertility - Soil as a source of plant nutrients and Nutrient cycles.
Author(s): The University of British Columbia
NA Pages
This volume is designed to be a complete manual for all but amateur cultivators. The object of this volume is to condense, and present in an intelligible form, all important established facts in the science of soil-culture. The author claims originality, as to the discovery of facts and principles, in but few cases.
Author(s): J. H. Walden
NA Pages
The book is intended to help children to study nature. This book covers the following topics: What is the soil made of, more about the clay, what lime does to clay, some experiments with the sand, the plant food in the soil, the dwellers in the soil, the soil and the plant, cultivation and tillage, the soil and the countryside, how soil has been made.
Author(s): E. J. Russell
NA Pages
Soil Biology and Land Management (PDF 20P)
This note covers the following topics: the goal of soil biology management, why should land managers understand soil biology?, the underground community, what controls soil biology?, general management strategies, considerations for specific land uses, cropland, forestland, rangeland, assessment and monitoring.
Author(s): NA
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