The 1970s. They were the best of times and the worst of times. Wealth inequality was at a record low, yet industrial strife was at a record high. These were the glory years of Doctor Who and glam rock, but the darkest days of the Northern Ireland conflict. Beset by strikes, inflation, power cuts and the rise of the far right, the cosy Britain of the post-war consensus was unravelling – in spectacularly lurid style.
A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis
Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in which plants, animals, soil, climate, and society have interacted.
With no end to the global debt crisis in sight and the American economy sinking into depression, traditional advice on money could lead millions of innocent victims down the road of deepening losses. But with this timely audiobook, Martin Weiss will guide you to the truly safe havens and show you how to turn this crisis into a unique wealth-building opportunity. As Editor of the Safe Money Report and author of Crash Profits, Martin Weiss specifically warned of this crisis well before it began.
In Meltdown, the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis, New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr., explains what led up to the current economic crisis, who's really to blame, and why government bailouts won't work.
In 1857, St. Louis, Missouri, was a bustling city where people from both the North and South mingled and prospered. But beneath the bright surface was an undercurrent of tension and unrest that was to erupt into the greatest crisis in the history of the United States.
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