{"id":2284,"date":"2016-10-01T00:03:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T07:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-130\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T19:37:45","slug":"nature-and-properties-of-soils","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/nature-and-properties-of-soils\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nature and Properties of Soils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/soils-weil-brady.jpg\" alt=\"Nature and Properties of Soil book jacket\" align=\"left\" \/>&#8220;If you are a student\u2026you have chosen a truly auspicious time to take up the study of soil science.&#8221; This encouragement is found in the preface of the new fifteenth edition and is explained by emphasizing the growing need across many fields for scientists and managers with this expertise.<\/p>\n<p>This venerable publication \u2013 the first edition was in 1909 \u2013 can be read in depth, but at over 1,000 pages more likely will be used as a reference book for learning about a particular interest or to solve a specific problem. Throughout, it is very readable, and will be of value to those at almost all levels of soils knowledge. While this new edition is restricted to use in the Miller Library, the still authoritative fourteenth edition (from 2008) is available to check out.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the October 2016 <em>Leaflet for Scholars<\/em> Volume 3, Issue 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you are a student\u2026you have chosen a truly auspicious time to take up the study of soil science.&#8221; This encouragement is found in the preface of the new fifteenth edition and is explained by emphasizing the growing need across many fields for scientists and managers with this expertise. This venerable publication \u2013 the first edition was in 1909 \u2013 can be read in depth, but at over 1,000 pages more likely will be used as a reference book for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/nature-and-properties-of-soils\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Nature and Properties of Soils<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[22],"class_list":["post-2284","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}