The Human Harvest
Author | : David Starr Jordan |
Publisher | : Dissertations-G |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Starr Jordan |
Publisher | : Dissertations-G |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : David Matas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
Falun Gong is a modern day spiritual/exercise movement which began in China in 1991 drawing on and combining ancient Chinese traditions. The Chinese Communist Party, alarmed at the growth of the movement and fearing for its own ideological supremacy banned the movement in 1999. Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in the hundreds of thousands and asked to recant. If they did not, they were tortured. If they still did not recant, they disappeared. Allegations surfaced in 2006 that the disappeared were being killed for their organs which were sold for large sums mostly to foreign transplant tourists. It is generally accepted that China kills prisoners for organs. The debate is over whether the prisoners who are killed are only criminals sentenced to death or Falun Gong practitioners as well. The authors produced a report concluding that the allegations were true. Bloody Harvest sets out the investigations and conclusions of the authors.
Author | : David Starr Jordan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Degeneration |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0595283977 |
Author | : Rob Swigart |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2019-12-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 178920612X |
Short stories about the deep past and those who lived through millennia of exploration, hardship, and uncertainty during the evolution of farming. Winner of the 2019 Nautilus Book Award, Multicultural and Indigenous “Swigart is to be congratulated for giving us a series of connected short stories that are both entertaining and educational. The book is accurately grounded in archaeological facts, and its individual stories are thoroughly believable. Its particular format should be emulated by all those wishing to blend fact and fiction, not just as entertainment but as education, too.”—Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies In unforgettable stories of the human journey, a combination of compelling storytelling and well-researched archaeology underscore an excavation into the deep past of human development and its consequences. Through a first encounter between a Neanderthal woman and the Modern Human to the emergence and destruction of the world’s first cities, Mixed Harvest tells the tale of the Neolithic Revolution, also called the (First) Agricultural Revolution, the most significant event since modern humans emerged. Rob Swigart’s latest work humanizes the rapid transition to agriculture and pastoralism with a grounding in the archaeological record. From the introduction: In the space of a few thousand years agriculture dominated the earth. We live with it all around us. History began, cities soared, the landscape was crisscrossed with roads.... Each story is prefaced by a short introduction and followed by some context in order to stitch the narrative together. Some stories are linked, but most are independent. The stories are gathered into three chapters: “Shelter,” “House,” and “Home.” These represent a progression in where we lived, a series of transformations in technology and consciousness.
Author | : Lesley A. Sharp |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2006-10-04 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0520247868 |
Illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. This ethnographic study explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning.
Author | : D. Jordan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Vaclav Smil |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2012-12-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 026201856X |
An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production. The biosphere—the Earth's thin layer of life—dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistory to the present day. Smil examines all harvests—from prehistoric man's hunting of megafauna to modern crop production—and all uses of harvested biomass, including energy, food, and raw materials. Without harvesting of the biomass, Smil points out, there would be no story of human evolution and advancing civilization; but at the same time, the increasing extent and intensity of present-day biomass harvests are changing the very foundations of civilization's well-being. In his detailed and comprehensive account, Smil presents the best possible quantifications of past and current global losses in order to assess the evolution and extent of biomass harvests. Drawing on the latest work in disciplines ranging from anthropology to environmental science, Smil offers a valuable long-term, planet-wide perspective on human-caused environmental change.
Author | : Daniel J. Blackburn |
Publisher | : Garrett County Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2013-08-30 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1939430100 |
Dorothea Gray Johanson Montalvo Puente was a female serial killer, an extremely rare phenomenon in the annals of American crime. She took advantage of a flaw in the Social Security laws to carve a lifelong career out of exploiting elderly, ill, often-helpless people. She established herself in positions of trust in order to steal these people’s only source of income, then drugged them to expedite her chicanery and, finally, murdered them. Dorothea did not exist in a vacuum. She simply took full advantage of a system that fails to protect America’s most helpless citizens. A stubborn and unreasonable refusal to correct a faulty administrative code has perpetuated the callous exploitation of the elderly, allowing people like Dorothea to operate all over the country, in communities large and small.
Author | : Anthony Francis Raspono |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494102012 |
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.