THE GREAT EXPERIMENT THE STORY OF ANCIENT EMPIRES, MODERN STATES, AND THE QUEST FOR A GLOBAL NATION STROBE TALBOTT SIMON & SCHUSTER 2008 PART II PART ONE: THE IMPERIAL MILLENIA Chapter 1: Caravans at Rest Chapter 2: A Light Unto the Nations Chapter 3: The Ecumenical State Chapter 4: The Poet and ‘The Prince’ …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XII Chapter 11: What the World Eats Now 11.1 Introduction: food for thought about food In this chapter we look at the several aspects of the present world food situation and begin to wonder where we from here. Despite a …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART XIII Chapter 46: A Backward Look In 1922, the British writer H.G. Wells published his best-selling A Short History of the World. It ended with the following: As yet we are hardly in the dawn of human greatness. Can we doubt …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART IX Chapter 10: Disease and Death (Cont.) Other Eurasian diseases One of the oldest human diseases is leprosy, which, although it originated with the water buffalo, only affects humans. It has been eliminated …
INDEX TO POSTINGS IN SEPTEMBER 2011 The Creation of World Poverty Part 7 by Teresa Hayter September 1 The Story of Man: An Introduction to 150,000 Years of Human History Part 7 by Cyril Aydon September 2 Feeding the Ten Billion: Plants and Population Growth by L.T. Evans Part 6 September 3 The Bottom Billion: …
STOLEN HARVEST THE HIJACKING OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2000 PART 1 Introduction Over the past two decades every issue I have been engaged in as an ecological activist and organic intellectual has revealed that what the industrial economy calls “growth” is really a form of theft from nature and …
ETHICS FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA RIVERHEAD BOOKS 1999 PART I Preface February 1999 Having lost my country at the age of 16 and become a refugee at 24, I have faced a great many difficulties during the course of my life. When I consider these, I see that …
THE GREAT EXPERIMENT THE STORY OF ANCIENT EMPIRES, MODERN STATES, AND THE QUEST FOR A GLOBAL NATION STROBE TALBOTT SIMON & SCHUSTER 2008 PART I Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end. Isaiah 9:7 In my father’s house are many mansions. John 14:2 Reason and experiment have been indulged, …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XI Chapter 10: The Sixth Billion (1986-1998/9) 10.1 Introduction: the recognition of limits In 1998/9, just 200 years after Malthus first published his Essay on the Principle of Population, the world population will reach 6 billion. That is six times …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART XII Chapter 26: The Age of Revolution Chapter 27: Napoleon and After Chapter 28: A New Way of Working Chapter 29: The Coming of the Machine Chapter 30: Iron Horses and Iron Ships Chapter 31: The Changing Balance …
