A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett. Part 2 Introduction By the time my Uncle Bernard started his medical studies at the University of Chicago in 1932 he had already witnessed the great influenza pandemic of 1918-19. He was seven years old when he …
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THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE About the author Laurie Garrett is a health and science writer for Newsday and New York Newsday. A contributing author to AIDS in the World, edited by Jonathan Mann, she was formerly a science correspondent for National Public Radio and has written for …
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CIVILIZATION A NEW HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD ROGER OSBORNE PIMLICO 2007 PART 6 Chapter 18: The Post-War World: From Social Cohesion to Global Marketplace (cont.) As well as direct military spending, the 1944 GI Bill of Rights gave $13 billion for returning soldiers to enter college, enrol in training programmes or set up in …
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THE SEARCH FOR A JUST SOCIETY JOHN HUDDLESTON GEORGE RONALD 1989 PART 19 Chapter 28: Preparing for a Just Society (Cont.) The Family Beyond the individual comes the family. As in the other great religions, the idea of family is upheld in the Bahá’í Faith, where it is seen as a basic building-block of …
OUT OF THE EARTH CIVILIZATION AND THE LIFE OF THE SOIL DANIEL HILLEL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS 1991 PART 3 PART II: THE NATURE OF SOIL AND WATER Chapter 3: The fertile Substrate Chapter 4: The Vital Fluid Chapter 5: The Dynamic Cycle Chapter 6: The Primary Producers Chapter 7: The Tenuous Balance …
CIVILIZATION A NEW HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD ROGER OSBORNE PIMLICO 2007 PART 5 Chapter 18: The Post-War World: From Social Cohesion to Global Marketplace The mere six decades since the end of the Second World War have barely given people who have lived through them time to acquire a historical perspective. Personal memories, day-to-day …
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THE SEARCH FOR A JUST SOCIETY JOHN HUDDLESTON GEORGE RONALD 1989 PART 18 Chapter 28: Preparing for a Just Society In this chapter the present-day programme of action in the Bahá’í Faith is summarized to see if it is a practical approach to the building of a just society. The Individual Bahá’í guidelines for the …
OUT OF THE EARTH CIVILIZATION AND THE LIFE OF THE SOIL DANIEL HILLEL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS 1991 PART 2 Chapter 2: Man’s Role on God’s Earth We live on a unique planet bathed in the light and warmth of a nearby star we call the sun. Alone among the planets revolving around that …
CIVILIZATION A NEW HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD ROGER OSBORNE PIMLICO 2007 PART 4 Chapter 17: The End of Civilization. Depression, Extremism and Genocide in Europe, America and Asia The willing march into the catastrophe of the 1914-18 war defies any rational rules of historical cause and effect. We can map out the alliances, the …
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THE SEARCH FOR A JUST SOCIETY JOHN HUDDLESTON GEORGE RONALD 1989 PART 17 Chapter 27: The Big Picture (Cont) The spiritual dimension to the progressive movement These underlying universal themes concerning the existence of God, the nature of man, a spiritual life after death, and the unity of religion are, it is suggested, factors which …
