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Author | : Elinor G. K. Melville |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521574488 |
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Taking as a case study the sixteenth-century history of a region of highland central Mexico, this book is about the biological conquest of the New World.
Author | : Elinor G. K. Melville |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1994-03-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1139935933 |
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This is a book about the biological conquest of the New World. Taking as a case study the sixteenth-century history of a region of highland central Mexico, it shows how the environmental and social changes brought about by the introduction of Old World species aided European expansion. The book spells out in detail the environmental changes associated with the introduction of Old World grazing animals into New World ecosystems, demonstrates how these changes enabled the Spanish takeover of land, and explains how environmental changes shaped the colonial societies.
Author | : David M. Sherman |
Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2019-03-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1612495761 |
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The very mention of Afghanistan conjures images of war, international power politics, the opium trade, and widespread corruption. Yet the untold story of Afghanistan’s seemingly endless misfortune is the disruptive impact that prolonged conflict has had on ordinary rural Afghans, their culture, and the timeless relationship they share with their land and animals. In rural Afghanistan, when animals die, livelihoods are lost, families and communities suffer, and people may perish. That Sheep May Safely Graze details a determined effort, in the midst of war, to bring essential veterinary services to an agrarian society that depends day in and day out on the well-being and productivity of its animals, but which, because of decades of war and the disintegration of civil society, had no reliable access to even the most basic animal health care. The book describes how, in the face of many obstacles, a dedicated group of Afghan and expatriate veterinarians working for a small nongovernmental organization (NGO) in Kabul was able to create a national network of over 400 veterinary field units staffed by over 600 veterinary paraprofessionals. These paravets were selected by their own communities and then trained and outfitted by the NGO so that nearly every district in the country that needed basic veterinary services now has reliable access to such services. Most notably, over a decade after its inception and with Afghanistan still in free fall, this private sector, district-based animal health program remains vitally active. The community-based veterinary paraprofessionals continue to provide quality services to farmers and herders, protecting their animals from the ravages of disease and improving their livelihoods, despite the political upheavals and instability that continue to plague the country. The elements contributing to this sustainability and their application to programs for improved veterinary service delivery in developing countries beyond Afghanistan are described in the narrative.
Author | : William McNeill |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2010-10-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307773663 |
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The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures. "A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." —The New Yorker From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, Plagues and Peoples is "a brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (Kirkus Reviews). Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition. Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is essential reading—that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening.
Author | : Clive Spinage |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 806 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1441989013 |
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Cattle Plague: A History is divided into five sections, dealing with the nature of the virus, followed by a chronological history of its occurrence in Europe from the Roman Empire to the final 20th century outbreaks; then administrative control measures through legislation, the principal players from the 18th century, followed by an analysis of some effects, political, economic and social. Then follows attempts at cure from earliest times encompassing superstition and witchcraft, largely Roman methods persisting until the 19th century; the search for a cure through inoculation and the final breakthrough in Africa at the end of the 19th century. The last section covers the disease in Asia and Africa. Appendices cover regulations now in force to control the disease as well as historical instructions, decrees and statutes dating from 1745-1878.
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Total Pages | : 1092 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Animal industry |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George H. Dadd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Cattle |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Graeme Caughley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1987-05-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521303443 |
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This book examines the ecology and management of kangaroos and shows how they interact with their own environment and with that shaped by sheep grazing and the wool industry. It presents the results of intensive and detailed studies of feeding behaviour, movement and habitat utilisation, body condition and population dynamics, weather and plant growth.
Author | : John Buchan |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2015-04-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473373557 |
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A classic Richard Hannay adventure novel by John Buchan. Richard Hannay is now in his fifties but once more must throw himself into an adventure to uphold a an oath he made in his youth to protect the son of a man he once knew, the son being an heir to the secret of a great treasure.
Author | : Kendall Crolius |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1997-01-15 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780312152901 |
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Learn to recycle Rover into beautiful garments and accessories as the authors teach you this wacky new spin on an old craft. Knitting with Dog Hair is the definitive guide to putting on the dog! In this tip-filled, easy-to-use book, the authors tell: -How to make Afghan or a beret from your Beagle: you pet can yield yarn -How to collect, clean, and store your pooch's fur -How to modify your patterns to accommodate pet-spun yarn -How to find experienced pet hair spinners, a guide to resources and suppliers From mittens from a Malamute to caps from a Collie, this illustrated guide is the creative answer to that vexing shedding problem. This fetching book is certain to be this year's best in show!