For two years the rainfalls in Ethiopia were missing. The situation is particularly dramatic in the high country in the north of the country, where the rain time was now already missing for the fourth time. Also Eritrea, the Sudan, Kenya, Djibouti and Uganda are affected by the hunger disaster.
The cattle verhungert and daily children and old humans die.

Television pictures of skeletons shook up humans the world over, in 1984. At that time died according to estimations of the UN over 1 million humans hunger death. But also 1972, 1974 and 1989 the supply situation was critical. If not soon something is done, is to be counted on it, that the current disaster the extents of the hunger emergency of 1984 will still far exceed.

Above all old humans and children are the victims of the hunger emergency, after famines Since 1998 Ethiopia and Eritrea lead an embittered border war. And war in each region it is expenditure-lived.

The devastating hunger emergency holds Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries in the world, not of it off, high sums
- per year it is to concern 460 million dollar -
to spend on the war against Eritrea.

Sakorey Faday and Adan Mohammed come from two different countries of Africa, but the two young women made the same tragic experiences. Adan brought to the Ethiopia capital Addis Abeba in the past ten days with its three children 100 kilometers foot march behind itself, in order to reach the auxiliary center in Gode, approximately 580 kilometers southeast. For their four years old daughter and the one year's son the strains were too much; both children died on the long, cumbersome journey.

Faday ran on the search for assistance for Baidoa in the neighbouring Somalia, after the duerre had destroyed made its work on the farm. Their man is dead for one year, the Zwillingsbru. Then of the small, underfed baby in their arms died with the birth. Now, then it says, remains it nothing more, but purely nothing at all more. The odyssey of the two women began in February, since the food scarceness threatens millions human lives by the food shortages in East Africa. "I saw, say no rains for 18 months" Adan. The 200 animals counting cattle and herd of sheep of its family was received months ago therefore already. "now I can expect something only from God", say the 33-Jaehrige.

Exhausted and sad it sees child in the stretcher cloth out in its dusty, traditional veil and the survivor...

This book was wonderful. It gave great insight into the lives of the average mexican person. It discussed the hardships that many Mexicans had to go through if they decided to turn to the protestant way of life. This book also discusses the missionaries in Mexico and the work they do. If interested in religion then this is the book for you!!

This coffee-table book is full of gorgeous photos and contains a great deal of in-depth information, though obviously not including records from the past few years. It is at least as well-illustrated as Coburn's book (which I would also recommend)and seems to be written for a more knowledgeable audience. Overall, it's "the" classic large-format book on Everest.

I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in broadening their perspective on the influence of social and structural forces on human personality and development.

I usually borrow books from the library instead of actuallypaying for a book, so it was with some hesitation that I plunked down[my money] for a paperback copy of _Field Notes From the Northern Forest_, by Curt Stager, biologist, educator, and cohost of the radio program "Natural Selections." As it turns out, it was money well spent. As a writer of popular science--biology, in particular--Stager's task is not simple. He must explain, in Darwinian fashion, why and how all the curious adaptations that make creatures so strange and wondrous, confer to them special advantages that make them better able to become ancestors, and this he must do clearly and simply. Stager succeeds resoundingly, with the added touch of playfulness and humor. And, owing to Stager's training in rigorous science (judging by the journals in which he has published), the book is well grounded in Science, mercifully lacking in New-Age nonsense and gut-wrenching appeals to our emotions.

_Field Notes_ is not a show & tell identification guide, nor is it a malediction, written solely to remind us of our reckless and wanton ravaging of the environment. Instead, it is a series of essays covering several years of Stager's careful observations of nature, bolstered by relevant information in the scientific literature. His research, importantly, is gleaned largely from primary sources of information, not from secondary, often cherry-picked and tendentious interpretations of scientific data we so often see in agenda-driven publications. With the flood of books, journal articles, and newspaper stories relating to the natural world that has swept into our everyday lives since the environmental movement emerged three decades ago--most of which is sullied by political correctness and environmental extremism--Stager's _Field Notes_ is a refreshing departure from the "the sky is falling!" message which so often suffuses the Nature genre. Stager does, however, caution us of

environmental degradation relevant in the Northern Forest caused by humans, such as the problems of acid rain, unchecked development, and insatiable resource consumption. But on the whole, the book remains delightfully non-alarmist and upbeat.

One thing that keeps the content of _Field Notes_ close to earth is Stager's ability to appreciate and mediate both sides of a contentious issue. The vast Adirondack Park, where Stager makes his home, contains more than its share of dichotomies--political, social, cultural, and economic--where land-use controls dictate how the area is to be developed, and where a constant battle is waged between many of the natives, who feel the controls are intrusive, and the preservationists, who want minimal human impact on the land. Stager, obviously keenly aware of the struggles that go on in the lives of the creatures around him, is also mindful of the cultural tug-of-wars that surround him, and his sensitivity to both sides resonates in _Field Notes_. For example, Stager risks incurring the wrath of the animal rights activists when he daringly proposes a radical method of controlling the burgeoning beaver population: by--perish the thought!--harvesting them!

Stager's essays probe and lay open to question many of our idealistic, romantic, and often intuitively-held notions of nature. He challenges us to rethink our tendency to regard all things natural as healthful and benign. Quite to the contrary, as he mordantly points out in his revelatory essay on plant defenses. In his chapter on native species, Stager reveals the dynamic and transitory nature of the natural world, one that is in a state of constant flux, thereby pulling apart our idea of stasis in nature, and invalidating such a thing as a "native" species. The well-intentioned foot soldiers waging war on invasive exotics might pause to consider this before brandishing their Round-up-filled spray guns.

My only disappointment with _Field Notes_ is (to me) a palpable omission in his essay on beavers. In it he talks about the modern beaver's giant six-foot-long ancestors, but he fails to speculate on what might have caused their demise, along with the extinction of several other species of magnificent megafauna that once roamed the Northern Forest a mere ten thousand or so years ago. He only cites a Native American folklore account, most likely based on mysticism and superstition, of how the present beavers came to be. But there is fairly convincing evidence in the scientific literature (of which I'm sure Stager is aware) that adduces their demise to over-hunting by Native Americans, and I suspect that this political-cultural hot-button, coupled with Stager's close friendship with local Mohawk Indian poet Maurice Kenny (to whom he co-dedicates the book), and Native American rights advocate Ray Fadden, colored stager's decision not to share this information with his audience. Had he shared this information, it would have been in keeping with much of the Nature myth-dispelling that runs through his essays, and the notion that Native Americans were intentionally careful stewards of the land could have been another popularly-held idea worthy of more scrutiny by his audience.

No one can fault a culture for behaviors based on mysticism and superstitions thousands of years ago, but today, more than two centuries since The Enlightenment, the notion of a scientically advanced culture clinging to such irrational beliefs is astonishing. And Stager, who has already warned us of the potential health-related dangers of our foolish New-Age belief in the supposed innocence and benignity of nature, in his chapter on bears again warns us of the potentially far-reaching and devastating consequences of the silly and superstitious belief that a bear's bladder (or a rhinoceros horn, etc.) can cure impotence. This irrational belief, largely based in Eastern cultures, is fundamentally no different from the New-Age belief system that has most recently emerged in scientifically and technologically advanced societies today. This sort of fuzzy thinking is anathema to science, and we may be facing another wave of extinctions of megafauna if it continues to manifests itself as an assault on the natural world. (That is, of course, if we don't manage to kill them all off some other way first.)

Stager's allusions to the folly of magical thinking add even more to the depth of _Field Notes_, already rich in content. Keeping in mind that his intent is to keep the content optimistic and hopeful, as well as instructive and entertaining, inviting too much controversy would only defeat this purpose. Field Notes will go up in my bookcase and share a space next to two of my favorite popular biology books, May Theilgaard Watts' _Reading the Landscape of America_, and Paul A. Colinvaux's _Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare_.

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In the land of Elsewhere, the queen calls for the "five fingers of the hand" to repair a broken moon essential to their well-being. Thumbkin, Pointer, Long Man, Gold Man and Pinkie each contribute their individual talents so everyone can once again live happily by night. Good lesson that each person has special gifts. This imaginative tale is cleverly spun and children will delight in the enchanting full page illustrations of a somewhat somber land in Elsewhere (inhabited by brownies and fairies), lit up by the glow of the moon, lanterns, candles, fireworks and strings of lights.

When Freddy, in a sudden burst of irrepressible impishness manages to convince Emma and Alice, the Bean Farm ducks, to go for a balloon ride, he little expects that he too will have to take part in the adventure. But Mr. Golcher, the balloonist is every bit as sly as Freddy and, in no time at all Freddy has agreed not only to give a speech, but to ride with the ducks. What he also didn't realize until he was on the way up was that Mr. Golcher was staying behind, and that our pig, along with the duck sisters were on their own. When it turns out that the balloon has a faulty valve our not quite intrepid adventurers discover that they are in for an extended voyage.

All is not lost by any means. Freddy talks a friendly bald eagle into bringing them a food basket from the Bean kitchen, they weather a stormy night, and see some splendid scenery. Eventually, as all things do, the balloon descends enough for Freddy to get it down. Freddy leaves the ducks with the balloon and, after borrowing a tuxedo from a scarecrow, heads off to investigate. He soon discovers that the worst has happened. Mr. Golcher, infuriated at the loss of his balloon has accused Freddy of stealing it and the police of several counties are trying to capture the pig and bring him to justice. It will take all of Freddy's vast imagination and the help of both the Bean animals and the entire Boomschmidt Circus to get him out of trouble.

The reader will find many familiar characters here. In addition to the denizens of the Bean Farm and the Circus, Emma and Alice's Uncle Wesley manages to return. In addition, there are parachuting mice, somersaulting ducks and an ostrich ticket taker. Nor can one leave out the noble eagle, Breckenridge, who inspires a whole burst of poetry from Freddy. By the time the book reaches its climax the reader will be completely entranced as animals display character and style that we lowly humans can only imitate.

One of the nicest things about Walter Brooks' world is that the inevitable moral lessons are demonstrated rather than taught. And demonstrated in a delightful, ingenious way. In 1942 Brooks uses two timid lady ducks to demonstrate that adventuring is not just for male chauvinists and that having the courage to stand up for your rights keeps bullies at bay. Freddy's honesty saves the day at the end, and, as always, the importance of friends gets a good plug. Best of all is that the right things to do are also fun to do. Freddy is the pig for all ages.

Freddy the Cowboy is one of the funniest books I've read! Freddy's adventures with Cal Flint, the picklefaced cowboy, and attempted riding will keep you in stitches. The farm animals each have their own personalities, some may remind you of a neighbor or brother. The rhymes are great, and you will love the Horrible Ten! Must read!

This book was a great aide in helping to understand the Franklin Reality Control Model. It was a very easy read, and would be a great benifit to anyone looking to use the model, either in their lives, or with clients. The examples and illustrations make the process easy to understand, and easy to apply.