THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART XI Chapter 20: The Bridging of the Atlantic Chapter 21: The Remaking of North America Chapter 22: Wealth Real and Imaginary Chapter 23: Europe’s Discovery of Art and Science Chapter 24: Empires of East and South Asia Chapter 25: The …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART VII Chapter 9: The Foundations of Inequality The rise of western Europe after 1500, from being a backward area of the world to one which dominated the rest of the globe, not only …
RESOURCE WARS THE NEW LANDSCAPE OF GLOBAL CONFLICT MICHAEL T. KLARE A METROPOLITAN/OWL BOOK 2001 PART II . Chapter 1: Wealth, Resources, and Power: The Changing Parameters of Global Security (Cont) Parallel developments elsewhere · The United States is not the only nation to have assigned greater significance to economic and resource concerns in the …
FORMULA FOR LIFE THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON CORRECT NUTRITION, ANTI-OXIDANTS AND VITAMINS, DISEASE PREVENTION AND LONGEVITY EBERHARD KRONHAUSEN, Ed.D. & PHYLLIS KRONHAUSEN, Ed.D. WITH HARRY B. DEMOPOULOS, M.D. QUILL WILLIAM MORROW 1989 PART II Chapter 2: why don’t we take better care of ourselves? We are taking good care of ourselves. That’s what we …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART IX 8.4 Silent Spring: The gathering storm In Silent Spring Rachel Carson wrote of the alienation between modern agriculture and nature: ‘Single crop farming does not take advantage of the principles by which nature works. Nature has introduced great variety …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART X Chapter 16: Riding the Roller-coaster: The European Experience Chapter 17: The Scourge of Asia Chapter 18: Riding the Roller-Coaster: The Asian Experience Chapter 19: The World in 1455 An alien visitor conducting an audit of the …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART VI Chapter 8: The Rape of the World Over the last 10,000 years human activities have brought about major changes in the world’s ecosystems. The expansion of settlements, the creation of fields and …
RESOURCE WARS THE NEW LANDSCAPE OF GLOBAL CONFLICT MICHAEL T. KLARE A METROPOLITAN/OWL BOOK 2001 PART I Introduction Conflict over valuable resources – and the power and wealth they confer – has become an increasingly prominent feature of the global landscape. Often intermixed with ethnic, religious, and tribal antagonisms, such conflict has posed a …
FORMULA FOR LIFE THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON CORRECT NUTRITION, ANTI-OXIDANTS AND VITAMINS, DISEASE PREVENTION AND LONGEVITY EBERHARD KRONHAUSEN, Ed.D. & PHYLLIS KRONHAUSEN, Ed.D. WITH HARRY B. DEMOPOULOS, M.D. QUILL WILLIAM MORROW 1989 PART I Preface by Harry B. Demopoulos, M.D. Drs. Eberhard and Phyllis Kronhausen have written a comprehensive treatise on practical health matters …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART VIII Chapter 8: The Fourth Billion (1960-1975) 8.1 Introduction: focus on development It took a century to add the second billion to the world’s population, and 33 years to add the third, but the fourth took only 15 years. The …
