Turf Management for Golf Courses - Hardcover

Beard, James B.

 
9781575040929: Turf Management for Golf Courses
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1575040921 ISBN 13: 9781575040929
Verlag: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 2001

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Commonly referred to as "Beard s Bible," after Dr. James B. Beard, the internationally recognized turfgrass agronomist who wrote it, the first edition of this essential work sold over 50,000. Since then, Dr. Beard has spent 16 years compiling his scientific research to update his original best-seller, which is written in conjunction with the entire USGA Green Section and covers every practical and technical aspect of turfgrass management, maintenance, and operation. This new edition also boasts hundreds of new color photographs, color drawings, and useful tables that illustrate Dr. Beard s research-proven techniques. Now you can put Dr. Beard s three-decades of experience, and the collective field experience of the USGA Green Section, on your desk in the most complete, most detailed, and most useful manual-of-practice ever published.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James B Beard was born in Bradford, Ohio, in 1935, earned a BSc degree from Ohio State University in 1957, Summa cum laude, and both MSc and PhD degrees from Purdue University in 1959 and 1961, respectively. He subsequently was awarded a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Life Science Department at the University of California–Riverside in 1969. He has held research-teaching positions on the faculties at Michigan State University from 1961 to 1975 and Texas A&M University from 1975 to 1992, and served as Interim Head of Soil and Crop Science Department in 1980. He founded the International Sports Turf Institute, Inc. in 1992. Dr. Beard is an international advisor and lecturer on turfgrass issues. He has published over 260 scientific research papers and over 400 popular technical articles.

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Dr. James B Beard is one of the world's leading turfgrass agronomists, and has published several bestselling books on turfgrass culture and management. He spent the past sixteen years compiling the countless changes that have occurred in the field of golf course maintenance and management to update the best-selling, practical book ever published for the golf industry and for golf course superintendents?Turf Management for Golf Courses. This Second Edition is completely revised and boasts hundreds of new color photographs, color drawings, and useful tables to illustrate research-proven techniques. It is written in conjunction with the USGA Green Section agronomists and covers the practical and technical aspects of turfgrass culture, management, and operation of golf courses.

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Verlag
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1575040921
ISBN 13 
9781575040929
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
816
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