So Shall Ye Reap
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Author | : Joan London |
Publisher | : New York : Crowell |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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The story of the farm labor movement from its roots in the nineteenth century to the conclusion of the graps strike.
Author | : Otto Thomas Solbrig |
Publisher | : Shearwater Books |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1994 |
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Consider this: If mankind's history spanned just twenty-four hours since its beginnings, agriculture would have existed in only the last five minutes. Yet despite its recency, the development of farming has radically changed both human society and the world's environment. This rapid evolution - from small, egalitarian bands of hunters and gatherers to a globally interconnected society dependent on food produced by 20 percent of its population - has profoundly altered our lives. So Shall You Reap presents a fresh and informed perspective on how farming and the crops we grow have developed throughout history. Beginning with the prehistoric era, Otto and Dorothy Solbrig describe the intriguing connections between the evolution of farming techniques and major societal changes: cultivated cereals and the beginning of civilization; the search for spices and European exploration; extraction of sugar from sugarcane and sugar beets and the use of slave labor; industrialism and the new agriculture; and Malthusian prophecy and the advent of bioengineering. Taking this engaging historical approach, the authors also explain the ancient origins of agriculture; the drastic alterations in our diet; the migration and transformation of wild fruits, grains, and legumes; and the reasons for and the effects of irrigation, fertilization, and crop rotation. As they review agriculture's fundamental importance to history, the authors trace how farming has taken its toll on the physical world. To feed the more than 5 billion people on our planet, we have completely transformed natural landscapes in order to provide room for large-scale growth of only a few species of plants and even fewer species of domesticatedanimals. Agriculture has altered the earth's biosphere and changed its geosphere: Biodiversity has been imperiled; the soil has been modified; forests have been felled; swamps have been drained; rivers have been dammed and diverted. So Shall You Reap concludes with a description of current agricultural practices and future expectations. The Solbrigs make a strong case for the need to understand the origins and evolution of agriculture so that we might be better prepared to anticipate what the future may hold, and what we must do to increase food production while minimizing environmental problems.
Author | : Work of Better Truth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1984* |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Donna Leon |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2023-03-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802162371 |
In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti’s own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murder On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice’s canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Because no official record of the man’s presence in Venice exists, Brunetti is forced to use the city’s far richer sources of information: gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim. Curiously, he had been living in a small house on the grounds of a palazzo owned by a university professor, in which Brunetti discovers books revealing the victim’s interest in Buddhism, the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, and the last crop of Italian political terrorists, active in the 1980s. As the investigation expands, Brunetti, Vianello, Commissario Griffoni, and Signora Elettra each assemble pieces of a puzzle—random information about real estate and land use, books, university friendships—that appear to have little in common, until Brunetti stumbles over something that transports him back to his own student days, causing him to reflect on lost ideals and the errors of youth, on Italian politics and history, and on the accidents that sometimes lead to revelation.
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Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1869 |
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Author | : Ezra Taft Benson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Latter Day Saint churches |
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Author | : Louis Selle |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1869 |
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Author | : Work of Better Truth |
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Rog Phillips |
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Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 1947 |
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Author | : Mat Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Adultery |
ISBN | : 9780956511904 |
This is a gripping thriller about a successful businesswoman, who wants to find love, leaving her family behind, and a man who has begun to give in to his worst most depraved instincts - With the woman's young daughter caught in the middle.