Book review In Part 2 of Feeding People is Easy, Colin Tudge points out that: “The task before us is to provide good food for everyone, forever; at the same time to create agreeable ways of life for farmers, and for everyone else involved in the food chain – and for all humanity; to do …
Book review In Feeding People is Easy, published in 2007, Colin Tudge points out that: “Food is the most pressing issue and the thing we absolutely have to get right. Get agriculture wrong, and everything else is compromised.” “The world population now stands at 6.4 billion (6400 million), of whom roughly 1 million are chronically …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART V Chapter 4: Hiding/Seeking (Cont.) 3. I am a factory farmer When people ask me what I do, I tell them I’m a retired farmer. I started milking cows when I was six. We lived in Wisconsin. My daddy had a small herd – fifty, …
THE WAY TO GREECE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERN TIMES MARIA BELIVANI ELLINIKA GRAMMATA ATHENS 2004 PART II THE BIRTH OF DEMOCRACY Athens, the first democracy One of the most influential concepts of Ancient Greece has been that of democracy (Demos + Kratos = The power of the people). In …
THE END OF POVERTY HOW WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OUR LIFE TIME JEFFREY SACHS PENGUIN BOOKS 2005 PART II Chapter 1: A Global Family Portrait (Cont.) Bangladesh: On the ladder of development A few thousand miles away from this perfect storm is another scene of poverty. This is poverty in retreat, …
THE WAY TO GREECE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERN TIMES MARIA BELIVANI ELLINIKA GRAMMATA ATHENS 2004 PART I Preface by Maria Belivani, April 2004 Is there a way to live in harmony with ourselves and the environment? The aim of this book is to suggest some answers to this …
AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART III BRUCE AND TAD: THE BEGINNING IN AMERICA A review of MY METAMORPHOSIS A TAPESTRY OF PEOPLE, PLACES AND EVENTS ELIZABETH LANSDALE ENARETOS PRESS 2007 info@afs.edu.gr www,afs.edu.gr PART I Foreword by Dimitris Zannas My Metamorphosis by Tad Lansdale is about a love affair. In this …
THERMOPYLAE THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD PAUL CARTLEDGE THE OVERLOOK PRESS 2006 The inside cover In 480 BC, a huge Persian army, led by the fabled King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae as they marched on Greece, intending to conquer the land with little difficulty. But the Greeks – led by King …
THE FIVE LESSONS OF LIFE BILL ADAMS RIDER 2000 PART VI Chapter 8: Love Within twenty minutes we were standing outside the door of a stone hovel, a dilapidated dwelling with a flat earth roof and two tiny windows. No running water. No electricity. This was the house of a very poor person. It was …
ALEXANDER AND THE EAST DIMITRIOS PANDERMALIS THESSALONIKI CULTURAL CAPITAL OF EUROPE 1997 ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI This guide to the exhibition ALEXANDER AND THE EAST was printed in 3,000 copies in December 1997 under the auspices of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on behalf of “Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997” Prologue For …
