Times of Feast, Times of Famine
Author: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13:
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Feast and Famine
Author: Leslie Clarkson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2001-11-15
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0191543675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the history of food and famine in Ireland from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. It looks at what people ate and drank, and how this changed over time. The authors explore the economic and social forces which lay behind these changes as well as the more personal motives of taste, preference, and acceptability. They analyze the reasons why the potato became a major component of the diet for so many people during the eighteenth century as well as the diets of the middling and upper classes. This is not, however, simply a social history of food but it is a nutritional one as well, and the authors go on to explore the connection between eating, health, and disease. They look at the relationship between the supply of food and the growth of the population and then finally, and unavoidably in any history of the Irish and food, the issue of famine, examining first its likelihood and then its dreadful reality when it actually occurred.
Feast Or Famine
Author: Reginald Horsman
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0826266363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Drawing on the journals and correspondence of pioneers, Horsman examines more than a hundred years of history, recording components of the diets of various groups, including travelers, settlers, fur traders, soldiers, and miners. He discusses food-preparation techniques, including the development of canning, and foods common in different regions"--Provided by publisher.
Land of Feast and Famine
Author: Helge Ingstad
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780773509115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHelge Ingstad's life in the Canadian Arctic spanned the 1920s and 1930s. He describes the native companions and fellow trappers with whom he shared adventures and relates stories of numerous hunts and how he learned first hand about beaver, caribou, wolf and other wildlife.
Famine in the Land
Author: Steven J. Lawson
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0802496822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs your congregation starving? There's a spiritual famine in the land—a shortage of faithful preaching leaving those in the pews dangerously undernourished. We need people today who will preach like the prophets and apostles did, proclaiming the word of God with courage and conviction. Famine in the Land, a compilation and adaptation of four powerful journal articles by Steven Lawson, makes a biblically-grounded argument for the desperate importance of expository preaching. Whether you preach to 3,000 or 30 this book will embolden you to: revere the glorious, painful, historical call of preaching dig deep in your study of God's word speak and live with uncompromising conviction This is an indispensable resource for any church leader who wants to see lives changed through preaching.
Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2007-01-05
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0309102251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn response to a request from Congress, Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years assesses the state of scientific efforts to reconstruct surface temperature records for Earth during approximately the last 2,000 years and the implications of these efforts for our understanding of global climate change. Because widespread, reliable temperature records are available only for the last 150 years, scientists estimate temperatures in the more distant past by analyzing "proxy evidence," which includes tree rings, corals, ocean and lake sediments, cave deposits, ice cores, boreholes, and glaciers. Starting in the late 1990s, scientists began using sophisticated methods to combine proxy evidence from many different locations in an effort to estimate surface temperature changes during the last few hundred to few thousand years. This book is an important resource in helping to understand the intricacies of global climate change.
Tombstone
Author: Yang Jisheng
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 0374277931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.
Feasting in a Famine of the Word
Author: Mark W. Birkholz
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-02-16
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1498203167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Lord warns of a "famine . . . of hearing the word of the Lord" (Amos 8:11). Has this warning come to pass in our day? There is no shortage of preachers, but how often do they miss the mark in actually delivering the word of God to their hearers, leaving them hungry? The authors of these essays seek to equip preachers with resources to offer their hearers a rich feast from the word of the Lord. Writing from a Lutheran perspective, contributors from across the globe provide a fresh approach to preaching. These authors represent seasoned pastors and professors as well as young scholars. All are actively preaching and teaching God's word on a regular basis. This book covers a wide range of topics relating to preaching--from the scriptural background and hermeneutical issues to historical examples of notable preachers, and also practical guides to crafting and delivering a sermon. These essays will assist preachers in proclaiming God's word in a manner that provides a feast for those living in a famine-stricken world. Check out a review on Logia Online Review on the Pastoral Meanderings Blog! Video Endorsement by LCMS President Matt Harrison Interview with Mark Birkholz and Jonathan Mumme with BookTalk on KUFO
The Third Horseman
Author: William Rosen
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-04-28
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0143127144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe incredible true story of how a cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history—years before the Black Death, from the author of Justinian's Flea and the forthcoming Miracle Cure In May 1315, it started to rain. For the seven disastrous years that followed, Europeans would be visited by a series of curses unseen since the third book of Exodus: floods, ice, failures of crops and cattle, and epidemics not just of disease, but of pike, sword, and spear. All told, six million lives—one-eighth of Europe’s total population—would be lost. With a category-defying knowledge of science and history, William Rosen tells the stunning story of the oft-overlooked Great Famine with wit and drama and demonstrates what it all means for today’s discussions of climate change.
Late Victorian Holocausts
Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1781683603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants' lives.
