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 …
FROM THESSALONIKI TO AUSCHWITZ AND BACK MEMORIES OF A SURVIVOR FROM THESSALONIKI ERIKA MYRIAM KOUNIO AMARIGLIO VALLENTINE MITCHELL 2000 Translated into English by Theresa (neé Amariglio) Thessaloniki 1998 PART II Chapter 2: German Occupation and Deportation • On the first day of September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. That was it! The Second World War had …
Book review Introduction: The perils of indifference Elie Wiesel’s millennium address on the ‘perils of indifference’ contains eternal truths and pinpoints the essence of all decent civilization. “We are on the threshold of a new century, a new millennium. What will the legacy of this vanishing century be? How will it be remembered in the …
FOREST FARMING TOWARDS A SOLUTION TO PROBLEMS OF WORLD HUNGER AND CONSERVATION J. SHOLTO DOUGLAS & ROBERT A de J. HART INTERMEDIATE TECHNOLOGY PUBLICATIONS REPRINTED 1985 Foreword by E. F. Schumacher Ten years ago I received a book with the title Tree Crops – A Permanent Agriculture, by J. Russell Smith that made sense because …
FOOD FROM DRYLAND GARDENS AN ECOLOGICAL, NUTRITIONAL, AND SOCIAL APPROACH TO SMALL-SCALE HOUSEHOLD FOOD PRODUCTION DAVID A. CLEVELAND & DANIELA SOLERI CENTER FOR PEOPLE, FOOD & ENVIRONMENT 1991 Preface by James P. Grant, Executive Director, UNICEF Household gardens are an important part of the indigenous agricultural production system in almost all developing countries. For …
PILLAR OF SAND CAN THE IRRIGATION MIRACLE LAST? SANDRA POSTEL NORTON/WORLDWATCH BOOKS 1999 Preface by Sandra Pastel March 1999 The key challenge has been clear: How can we meet growing human needs for water without destroying the health of rives, lakes, and other aquatic systems that we depend on and that provide so many …
FIVE ACRES AND INDEPENDENCE A HANDBOOK FOR SMALL FARM MANAGEMENT M. G. KAINS DOVER PUBLICATIONS 1973 The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. Abraham Lincoln The land! That is where our roots are. There is the basis of our physical life. …
THE NEW ORGANIC GROWER A MASTER’S MANUAL OF TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR THE HOME AND MARKET GARDENER ELIOT COLEMAN CHELSEA GREEN, VERMONT 1989 One of the intangible legacies the Shakers left to the world is their demonstration that it is possible for man to create the environment and the way of life he wants, …
BE FIT! OR BE DAMNED! PERCY CERUTTY PELHAM BOOKS 1967 Percy Cerutty was 43 in 1939 when he lost his job as an Australian civil servant, broken in health. His will to survive, his courage, and his desperate search for scientific health secrets that would restore his health and strength pulled him through. He ran …
THE RODALE BOOK OF COMPOSTING DEBORAH L. MARTIN & GRACE GERSHUNY, EDITORS RODALE PRESS 1992 Chapter 1: Composting Throughout History Composting is, in broadest terms, the biological reduction of organic waste to humus. Whenever a plant or animal dies it is reduced to an earthlike substance that forms a beneficial growing environment for plant …
