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Author : Elinor G. K. Melville
Release : 2010
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Book Synopsis A Plague of Sheep by : Elinor G. K. Melville
Download or read book A Plague of Sheep written by Elinor G. K. Melville. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elinor G. K. Melville
Release : 1994-03-24
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis A Plague of Sheep by : Elinor G. K. Melville
Download or read book A Plague of Sheep written by Elinor G. K. Melville. This book was released on 1994-03-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Elinor G. K. Melville
Release : 1994
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 488/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Plague of Sheep by : Elinor G. K. Melville
Download or read book A Plague of Sheep written by Elinor G. K. Melville. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David M. Sherman
Release : 2019-03-15
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 761/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis That Sheep May Safely Graze by : David M. Sherman
Download or read book That Sheep May Safely Graze written by David M. Sherman. This book was released on 2019-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2010-10-27
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Plagues and Peoples by : William McNeill
Download or read book Plagues and Peoples written by William McNeill. This book was released on 2010-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
