Famine The Four Horsemen Book 3

• Author : Laura Thalassa
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2021-06-16
• ISBN : 1942662254

The third horseman must choose between the young woman who once saved his life and his loyalty towards his last immortal brother.

• Author : Anne Applebaum
• Publisher : Signal
• Release Date : 2017-10-10
• ISBN : 9780771009310

Winner of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, a revelatory history of Stalin's greatest crime. In 1929, Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization -- in effect a second Russian revolution -- which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five

• Author : Cormac O Grada,Cormac Ó Gráda
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2010-08-29
• ISBN : 9780691147970

"O Grada explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia ... He enriches our understanding of the most crucial and far-reaching aspects of famine; how food markets can mitigate famine or make it worse; famine's long-term demographic consequences; and the successes or failures of globalized disaster relief. O Grada demonstrates the central role famine has played in the economic and political histories of places"--From publisher description.

• Author : World Intellectual Property Organization
• Publisher : WIPO
• Release Date : 2016-09-29
• ISBN : 0987654321XXX

This short leaflet introduces the Marrakesh Treaty and explains how WIPO is working with partner organizations to promote inclusive publishing.

• Author : Alex de Waal
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2017-12-08
• ISBN : 9781509524709

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground

• Author : Julian Cribb
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release Date : 2011-08-22
• ISBN : 9780520271234

Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth

• Author : Frank Dikötter
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release Date : 2010-10-01
• ISBN : 9780802779281

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives."

• Author : Larry S. Bourne,William A. Dando
• Publisher : Hodder Education
• Release Date : 1980
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105035915532

Describes famine from a historical and spatial perspective and suggests that natural factors cause crop failures, but humans cause famines, famines are man-made. Case studies of famines in England, India, and Russia are included, as well as discussion of changing food procurement and production methods and the effects of technology and population growth on relative food supply.