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A report on the effects of starvation on physical growth and social and national behavior is based on first-hand experience of famine and misery in Russian provinces during the 1920's

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9780813005195 | Univ Pr of Florida, June 1, 1975, cover price $21.50 | About this edition: A report on the effects of starvation on physical growth and social and national behavior is based on first-hand experience of famine and misery in Russian provinces during the 1920's

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Discusses famine, its causes, how new technology can be applied to food production, and how people throughout the world can cooperate to alleviate starvation.

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9780531022016 | Franklin Watts, September 1, 1978, cover price $8.90 | About this edition: A history of famines throughout history and an examination of the causes and circumstances of recent famines are followed by a discussion of the politics of food and projections of future needs

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Product Description: First published in 1981
By John R. K. Robson (editor)

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9780677161808 | Taylor & Francis, August 1, 1981, cover price $172.00 | About this edition: First published in 1981

Essays examine the political, economic, and ethical aspects of famines around the world and analyze the efforts of organizations and government agencies to deal with the effects of famine

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9780883441329 | Orbis Books, April 1, 1982, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Essays examine the political, economic, and ethical aspects of famines around the world and analyze the efforts of organizations and government agencies to deal with the effects of famine

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By Bruce Currey and Graeme Hugo (editor)

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9789027717627 | D Reidel Pub Co, May 1, 1984, cover price $199.00

Discusses the worst of disasters, famine, focusing on that problem in several African countries in the 1980s and mentioning some major famines in history, such as China's in the 1870s, Ireland's of mid-nineteenth century, and Russia's of the 1920s

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9780516008592, titled "Disaster! Famines: Famines" | Childrens Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $17.27 | About this edition: Discusses the worst of disasters, famine, focusing on that problem in several African countries in the 1980s and mentioning some major famines in history, such as China's in the 1870s, Ireland's of mid-nineteenth century, and Russia's of the 1920s

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Product Description: The third volume of Drought and Man contains case studies used in the long in-depth study set up by IFIAS and the Aspen Institute following the Sahel drought. They consider areas in Latin America, particularly northeast Brazil, the case of Tanzania, and discuss colonial disjunction in Sahelian countries...read more

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9780080258256 | Pergamon Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $125.00 | also contains Infection Control During Construction Manual: Policies, Procedures & Strategies for Compliance | About this edition: The third volume of Drought and Man contains case studies used in the long in-depth study set up by IFIAS and the Aspen Institute following the Sahel drought.

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9780804694100 | Associated Faculty Pr Inc, June 1, 1988, cover price $25.75

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9780813817293 | Iowa State Pr, June 30, 1988, cover price $31.95
9781557532770 | Purdue Univ Pr, June 30, 1988, cover price $33.95

Product Description: Book by Harrison, G A
By G. A. Harrison (editor)

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9780198576624 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Book by Harrison, G A

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Product Description: In this original and timely work, David Arnold draws upon the history of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, to explain the origins and characteristics of famine. He considers whether some societies are more vulnerable to famine than others, and contests the assumption that those affected by famine are simply passive 'victims'...read more

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9780631151197 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1988, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: In this original and timely work, David Arnold draws upon the history of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, to explain the origins and characteristics of famine.

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By Stanley R. Sloan (editor)

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9780080367224 | 1 edition (Macmillan General Reference, April 1, 1989), cover price $35.00 | also contains The New Famines: Why Famines Exist in an Era of Globalization

Studies the political, social, and scientific-technical reasons for world food shortages, and focuses on possible approaches to increasing food production

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9780531110072 | Franklin Watts, April 1, 1991, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Studies the political, social, and scientific-technical reasons for world food shortages, and focuses on possible approaches to increasing food production

Discusses the problem of world hunger, the science and technology of food production, and the political situations that effect attempts at solutions

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9780894902833 | Enslow Pub Inc, July 1, 1991, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Discusses the problem of world hunger, the science and technology of food production, and the political situations that effect attempts at solutions

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Product Description: In light of the many famine and drought crises in the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, there may never be a better time for a book like this. Could we have avoided the famines we see today? In all likelihood, "yes." This book demonstrates that famine is a process, not an event, yet the typical response to famine is relief after the fact, not preemptive intervention...read more
By John Osgood Field (editor)

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9781565490192 | Kumarian Pr Inc, November 1, 1993, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: In light of the many famine and drought crises in the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, there may never be a better time for a book like this.

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9781565490185 | Kumarian Pr Inc, November 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In light of the many famine and drought crises in the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, there may never be a better time for a book like this.

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Product Description: This book is based on the authors' views and experiences as fieldworkers in situations of food insecurity and famine, combined with their in-depth knowledge of the discipline of nutrition. They develop a new conceptual framework of the role of nutrition in famine which can be used to analyse the underlying causes of malnutrition, the stage of famine, and the risk of disease and death...read more

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9781853392436 | Practical Action Pub, December 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This book is based on the authors' views and experiences as fieldworkers in situations of food insecurity and famine, combined with their in-depth knowledge of the discipline of nutrition.

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Product Description: Political Science/International Relations An analytical look at the ways we define and respond to famine. We see famine and look for the likely causes: poor food distribution, unstable regimes, caprices of weather. A technical problem, we tell ourselves, one that modern social and natural science will someday resolve...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780816635061, titled "Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid" | Univ of Minnesota Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Political Science/International Relations An analytical look at the ways we define and respond to famine.

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9780816635078, titled "Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid" | Univ of Minnesota Pr, July 15, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Political Science/International Relations An analytical look at the ways we define and respond to famine.

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Product Description: Medical administration & management

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9780080258249, titled "Drought and Man: The 1972 Case History : Constant Catastrophe : Malnutrition, Famines and Drought" | Pergamon Pr, December 1, 1981, cover price $120.00 | also contains Drought and Man: The 1972 Case History : Constant Catastrophe : Malnutrition, Famines and Drought

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9781578394814 | Hcpro Inc, January 28, 2005, cover price $129.00 | About this edition: Medical administration & management

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