Book Review 2011 Week 2 MOTHER TERESA: HER PEOPLE & HER WORK DESMOND DOIG COLLINS FOUNT PAPERBACK 1976 PART II Chapter 2: Calcutta: Setting for a Mission • Calcutta, once known as the City of Palaces because of its pretentious public buildings and its extravagant private residences set in well-tended gardens, has always been a …
THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE UNDERSTANDING GLOBALIZATION THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX 1999 PART I Opening Scene: The World Is Ten Years Old • On the morning of December 8, 1997, the government of Thailand announced that it was closing 56 of the country’s 58 top finance houses. Almost overnight, these private banks …
FROM THESSALONIKI TO AUSCHWITZ AND BACK MEMORIES OF A SURVIVOR FROM THESSALONIKI ERIKA MYRIAM KOUNIO AMARIGLIO VALLENTINE MITCHELL 2000 Translated into English by Theresa Sundt (neé Amariglio) Thessaloniki 1998 PART III Chapter 3: Arrival in Auschwitz and Birkenau • It was 20 March 1943. Another stop, but this time they opened the doors. Wild cries, …
Book review In Proof Positive: How to Reliably Combat Disease & Achieve Optimal Health Through Nutrition & Lifestyle Neil Nedley, M.D. we learn that “The World Health Organization states that a program is needed of ‘primordial’ prevention; that is, do something about it before the epidemic occurs. It is possible to reduce coronary heart disease …
2011 Diary Week 1 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part 5 of the review of Hell and High Water: Global Warming – the Solution and the Politics – and What We Should Do by Joseph J. Romm is below. Here are a few snippets: “About two-thirds of U.S. oil consumption is …
