Famine books

283 books were found.

Famine in the Land of Ulster

Famine in the Land of Ulster

Author: Michael Sheane
ISBN: 9780722338971
Format: Paperback
$20.67

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Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid

Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid...

Author: Jenny Edkins
ISBN: 9780816635078
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Whose Hunger? shows how the forms and ideas of modernity frame our understanding of famine and, consequently, shape...  Read More >>

Famine Early Warning Systems and Remote Sensing Data

Famine Early Warning Systems and Remote Sensing Data...

Author: Molly E. Brown ,  Richard Chourlarton
ISBN: 9783540753674
Format: Hardback
$525.36

This book describes the interdisciplinary work of USAID’s Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) and its...  Read More >>

Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to  Famine in Nineteenth-Century China

Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ,  Cormac Ó Gráda
ISBN: 9780520253025
Format: Hardback
$140.95

The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870s remains...  Read More >>

Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty

Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land...

Author: Mark Winne
ISBN: 9780807047309
Format: Hardback
$63.23

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Negotiating the Seed Treaty

Negotiating the Seed Treaty

Author: Stuart Coupe ,  Roger Lewins
ISBN: 9781853396281
Format: Paperback
$38.68

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Nutrition in Public Health: Principles, Policies, and Practice

Nutrition in Public Health: Principles, Policies, and...

Author: Arlene Spark
ISBN: 9780849314735
Format: Hardback
$343.07

Nutrition plays a key role in many areas of public health, such as pre-term delivery, cancer, obesity, diabetes,...  Read More >>

Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform

Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform

Author: Stephan Haggard ,  Marcus Noland
ISBN: 9780231140003
Format: Hardback
$173.95

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century....  Read More >>

Cash-Transfer Programming in Emergencies

Cash-Transfer Programming in Emergencies

Author: Oxfam ,  Susanne Jaspars
ISBN: 9780855985639
Format: Paperback
$33.51

This book presents the rationale behind cash-transfer programmes, explaining how to assess whether cash is the most...  Read More >>

Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon

Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon

Author: George Cusack
ISBN: 9780716533870
Format: Paperback
$85.80

Hungry Words re-evaluates the authors and texts generally recognised as the 'canon' of Irish literature in the light...  Read More >>

Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance, and Social Change in North Korea

Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian...

Author: Hazel Smith
ISBN: 9781929223589
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance, and Social Change in North Korea

Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian...

Author: Hazel Smith
ISBN: 9781929223596
Format: Hardback
$132.00

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Bengal Tiger and British Lion: An Account of the Bengal Famine of 1943

Bengal Tiger and British Lion: An Account of the Bengal...

Author: Richard Stevenson
ISBN: 9780595362097
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Describes the interplay of politics, economics, sociology and military policy, which caused a famine due to a lack...  Read More >>

Famine and Disease in Ireland

Famine and Disease in Ireland

Author: E Margaret Crawford ,  Leslie Clarkson
ISBN: 9781851967919
Format: Mixed media product
$1145.00

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Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan

Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan

Author: Alex de Waal (Director, Director, Justice Africa, London)
ISBN: 9780195181630
Format: Paperback
$64.95

Examines the famine in Dafur, Sudan in the 80's, and aid agencies' response to it. This book claims that humanitarian...  Read More >>

Human Rights and World Trade: Hunger in International Society

Human Rights and World Trade: Hunger in International...

Author: Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez (Independent Researcher of International Affairs, UK)
ISBN: 9780415349390
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book provides an analysis of the political viability of basic human rights, with a focus on the right to food....  Read More >>

Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in...

Author: Lester R. Brown
ISBN: 9781844071852
Format: Hardback
$71.99

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Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe: A Functional Study of Nutrition among the Southern Bantu

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe: A Functional Study...

Author: Audrey I. Richards
ISBN: 9780415330015
Format: Hardback
$683.00

The force of hunger in shaping human character and social structure has been largely overlooked. This omission is...  Read More >>

Famine

Famine

Author: Liam O'Flaherty
ISBN: 9781903582206
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933

The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933

Author: R. Davies ,  S. Wheatcroft
ISBN: 9780230238558
Format: Paperback
$363.54

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