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The following are some new books covering various topics which have been 
raising heat on this newsgroup.

ISBN 1567510612
Stauber, John C. (John Clyde), 1953-
  Toxic sludge is good for you : lies, damn lies, and the public 
relations
industry / John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton. -- 1st ed. -- Monroe, ME : 
Com
Courage Press, c1995.         
Self explanatory title.

ISBN 8170995809 :
Structural reforms in Indian economy / <ed. by> Devadas Bhorali. -- New
  India : Mittal Publications, 1995.
 Interesting conservative study, with two chapters on agriculture. 
One chapter covers a study which projected crop increases under 
various sustainable and non-sustainable systems. Concludes that 
"Production without any modern inputs such as fertilizer, etc, but with 
scientific and intensive field management" and an actual REDUCTION in the 
amount of irrigation  would provide adequate increase of production for 
self sufficiency in the district of Assam. The major roadblock is land 
distribution with holdings being too LARGE for intensive management due 
to farmer dislocation due to local debt structures.

ISBN 1855673894
Land degradation in the tropics : environmental and policy issues / edit
  Michael J. Eden and John T. Parry. -- New York : Pinter, 1996.
  (Global development and the environment series)
Good description of 400 years of industrial agriculture in the caribbean.


SBN 0851991033 :
Baker, C. J.
  No-tillage seeding : science and practice / C.J. Baker, K.E. Saxton and 
W.
Ritchie. -- Wallingford : CAB International, c1996.
How to advise for the no-till farmer. Test results of various seeding 
strategies.

ISBN 0125442807
Farming and birds in Europe : the common agricultural policy and its
  implications for bird conservation / Deborah J. Pain and Michael W. 
Pienkowsk
  (eds.). -- San Diego : Academic Press, c1997.

ISBN 926415342X
Fertilizers as a source of cadmium. -- Paris : Organization for Economic 
Co-
  operation and Development, 1996.
  (OECD proceedings )
 Cadmium occurs as a contaminant in many Phosphorus rock deposits which 
are mined for fertilizer. It has contributed to food contamination and 
soil contamination. The aim of this paper by this very conservative 
organization is to develop new "attainable standards" (i.e. lower 
standards) in light of the omnipresence of excessive levels of cadmium in 
certain phosphorus mines, and a "balanced flux" (i.e. non-source point 
pollution) as "sustainable" (i.e., now it ain't my problem, it's yours). 
The authors refuse (explicitly)to consider the environmental inpacts of 
this flux.Lots of data. Raises more issues around over limeing of fields. 

ISBN 0521455189 (hardback)
Resistance to new technology : nuclear power, information technology, and
  biotechnology / edited by Martin Bauer. -- Cambridge ; New York : 
Cambridge
  University Press, 1995. 
Various experts discuss the history and motives behind luddism. For 
luddites and non-luddits alike.

ISBN 0841234531 (acid-free paper)
Molecular genetics and evolution of pesticide resistance / Thomas M. Brow
  editor. -- Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, c1996.
  (ACS symposium series, 0097-6156 ; 645)
 The author is quite gung ho, but full of info and studies of how 
resistance develops.

ISBN 0851989764
Cromwell, E., 1963-
  Governments, farmers and seeds in changing Africa / Elizabeth Cromwell. 
--
Wallingford : CAB International, 1996.
 Section on drawbacks of "green revolution" seed banks.



Gay, Edwin F. (Edwin Francis), 1867-1946. THE MIDLAND REVOLT AND THE
INQUISITIONS OF DEPOPULATION OF 1607,                                    
   Book on the enclosure riots in England.

And for anyone who still doubts that English politicians bear some 
responsibility for the Great Irish Famine:

ISBN 0716525658 (cased)
'Fearful realities' : new perspectives on the famine / edited by Chris 
Morash &
  Richard Hayes. -- Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, Or.: Irish
  Academic Press, c1996.
  Chapter intitled A nation perishing of political economy"

Kinsella, Anna.
  County Wexford in the famine years, 1845-1849 / <Anna Kinsella>. --
Enniscorthy <Ireland> : Duffry Press, c1995
Exemplary contemporary quote from an English observer: Captain Pose, "The 
price of food is of no consequence to him who has no chance of earning 
wages.... though 1847 is a wonderful contrast to 1846, granaries 
bursting, every outhouse bursting with food, yet because the wages of the 
Board of Works have ceased the people cannot buy."

ISBN 0952001322
Lest we forget : Kildare and the great famine. -- <Naas> : Kildare County
  Council, <1996> 
 

-- 
Karen Stark
ks36@cornell.edu



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