Product Description: The developed world has much to learn from the third world about the preservation of biological diversity. This book demonstrates the intimate relationship between cultural and biological diversity, and how the practices of third world farmers have promoted cultivation with conservation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: As societies worldwide have become more heterogeneous, the incidence of mixed marriages has increased. This collection of studies and experiences defines the mixed relationship; describes growing up amidst American cultural pluralism; becoming part of a minority; and living and working abroad...read more