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Strength in Numbers

Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France

By: Carol Blum

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Strength in Numbers

Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France

By: Carol Blum

In the eighteenth century France became convinced it was losing population. While not technically true (France was merely failing to gain population as rapidly as Great Britain and the German states), the public's belief in a national fertility crisis had far-reaching consequences. In Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France, Carol Blum shows how intellectuals used "natalism" as a means of criticizing the monarchy and the Church in their pursuit of social change. In addition to the arguments over celibacy, divorce, and polygamy, other, more radical, proposals were put forward to free potentially fruitful male desire from the tedious ties of European matrimony. The question of whether sexual violence was a crime or rather an imperative of nature was passionately debated, as was the abolition of the incest taboo. Descriptions of exotic locales where uninhibited natives were alleged to copulate freely and procreate abundantly became a popular literary genre of erotic fantasy, made respectable by a framework of natalist discourse. The wish to reject the Church's moral guidance and return to the "laws of nature" led philosophers such as Diderot and Voltaire to question the institution of marriage itself. Centered on the eighteenth-century struggle to define moral authority, Strength in Numbers is the account of freethinkers' campaigns against the Church and monarchy; of the conflicts concerning the good and evil of "natural" sexuality; and of the ways in which natalism was used not only as a passive instrument in the wars of Enlightenment but as an active force shaping mentalities.

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290

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JHU Press

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0801874688

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9780801874680

Life's Big Instruction Book

The Almanac of Indispensable Information

By: CAROL; ELWOOD MADIGAN, ANN

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Life's Big Instruction Book

The Almanac of Indispensable Information

By: CAROL; ELWOOD MADIGAN, ANN

An entertaining guide to everything, from the creators of The People's Almanac and The Book of Lists, answers virtually any question that might arise in these information-saturated times, including how to choose a bank, wear a condom, and buy fish.

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912

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446568678

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9780446568678

Forests and Human Health

Assessing the Evidence

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Douglas Sheil,Misa Kishi

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Forests and Human Health

Assessing the Evidence

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Douglas Sheil,Misa Kishi

This study has two central concerns: the state of human health in forests, and the causal links between forests and human health. Within this framework, we consider four issues related to tropical forests and human health. First, we discuss forest foods, emphasizing the forest as a food-producing habitat, human dependence on forest foods, the nutritional contributions of such foods, and nutrition-related problems that affect forest peoples. Our second topic is disease and other health problems. In addition to the major problems—HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola and mercury poisoning—we address some 20 other tropical diseases and health problems related to forests. The third topic is medicinal products. We review the biophysical properties of medicinal species and consider related indigenous knowledge, human uses of medicinal forest products, the serious threats to forest sustainability, and the roles of traditional healers, with a discussion of the benefits of forest medicines and conflicts over their distribution. Our fourth and final topic is the cultural interpretations of human health found among forest peoples, including holistic world views that impinge on health and indigenous knowledge. The Occasional Paper concludes with some observations about the current state of our knowledge, its utility and shortcomings, and our suggestions for future research.

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121

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CIFOR

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9792446486

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9789792446487

Maths Matters 1

By: Barry Brooker,Carol Butel,Penny Carson

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Maths Matters 1

By: Barry Brooker,Carol Butel,Penny Carson

... comprehensively covers the content of the Forms 1-4 Syllabus (1987) and is consistent with the draft National Curriculum (1991)"--P. ii.

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0908911033

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