It takes the average reader 4 hours and 14 minutes to read The Spirit of the Soil by Paul B. Thompson
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In this second edition of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, Paul B. Thompson reviews four worldviews that shape competing visions for agriculture. Productionists have sought increasing yields—to make two seeds grow where only one grew before—while traditional visions of good farming have stressed stewardship. These traditional visions have been challenged by two more worldviews: a call for a total cost accounting for farming and an advocacy for a holistic perspective. Thompson argues that an environmentally defensible systems approach must draw upon all four...
The Spirit of the Soil by Paul B. Thompson is 252 pages long, and a total of 63,504 words.
This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 47 minutes to read The Spirit of the Soil aloud.
The Spirit of the Soil is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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