Past Progress

Author : Ed Pulford
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503639034

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Past Progress by Ed Pulford Pdf

While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress – whether political or economic – has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how several of global history's most ambitiously totalizing progressive endeavors have ended in cataclysmic collapse here. From the Japanese empire which banished Qing, Tsarist, and Choson dynastic histories from the region, through Chinese, Soviet, and Korean socialisms, these borderlands have seen projections and disintegrations of forward-oriented ideas accumulate on a grand scale. Taking an archaeological approach to notions of historical progress, the book's three parts follow an innovative structure moving backwards through linear time. Part I explores "post-historical" Hunchun's diverse sociopolitics since high socialism's demise. Part II covers the socialist era, discussing cross-border temporal synchrony between China, Russia, and North Korea. Finally, Part III treats the period preceding socialist revolutions, revealing how the collapse of Qing, Tsarist, and Choson dynasties marked a compound "end of history" which opened the area to projections of modernity and progress. Examining a borderland across linguistic, cultural, and historical lenses, Past Progress is a simultaneously local and transregional analysis of time, borders, and the state before, during, and since socialism.

Author : Ursula Thanheiser
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789492444301

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News from the past: Progress in African archaeobotany by Ursula Thanheiser Pdf

Most of the contributions in this volume were presented at the seventh International Workshop on African Archaeobotany (IWAA), held in Vienna, 2-5 July 2012. They address past interrelationships between people and plants as evident in the rich archaeobotanical, ethnographic, and linguistic record of Africa. Since its inception two decades ago, IWAA has developed into a tightly knit community of scholars from all continents who share a profound interest in African ways of plant exploitation, trade networks, questions of origin, domestication and subsequent dispersal of African crops, as well as the introduction of crops of Asian and American origin.

Author : Mahrt, Kristi,Headey, Derek D.,Ecker, Olivier,Comstock, Andrew R.,Tauseef, Salauddin
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dietary quality and nutrition in Myanmar: Past progress, current and future challenges by Mahrt, Kristi,Headey, Derek D.,Ecker, Olivier,Comstock, Andrew R.,Tauseef, Salauddin Pdf

In the decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Myanmar was in the midst of a dietary transition driven by rapid economic growth and urbanization. In this study, we first use national survey data to compare household diets in 2015 to the healthy diet recommendations of food-based dietary guidelines adapted for Myanmar, as well as estimated nutrient consumption relative to recommended intakes. We use these food group and nutrient consumption gaps to estimate a new measure of multidimensional dietary deprivation developed by Pauw et al. (2022), and a novel extension of that index to nutrient deprivation. Both deprivation indices are strongly negatively correlated with total household expenditure. We then use food demand estimation to estimate income and own price elasticities, which reveal strong preferences for animal-sourced foods, but weaker preferences for vegetables and pulses. Expenditure data also point to strong demand for oils/fats – a problem observed throughout developing Asia (Pingali and Abraham 2022) – and for food away from home, which partially explains the rising burden of overweight/obesity in Myanmar. Moreover, since most nutrient-dense foods are income- and price-elastic, estimated income elasticities suggest that recent declines in household income and increases in food prices in Myanmar will result in declining dietary diversity. We show that this is indeed the case utilizing household phone surveys conducted in recent years. We first use a food vendor survey to show that the cost of a healthy diet increased by 61 percent between September 2021 and September 2022. Next, we analyze a rural Dry Zone panel survey implemented 10 times over 2020-2021 and find that maternal and child dietary diversity both declined significantly as Myanmar’s economic situation deteriorated. Then, in a nationally representative phone survey conducted quarterly in 2022 over a period of rapid food inflation, we find further deterioration in diet quality among adults, but no deterioration among children 6-23 months of age, suggesting parents may be trying to insulate their children from the worst effects of the crisis. Finally, we conclude the paper by discussing policy and program options in very difficult political circumstances. Malnutrition is a multidimensional problem requiring multisectoral solutions, but at present the breakdown in the provision of even basic services makes significant progress highly unlikely, and reversing the recent deterioration in dietary quality and nutrition will surely require resolution of Myanmar’s political crisis. In the interim, we discuss three potentially effective types of interventions: (1) rice fortification to reduce micronutrient deficiencies; (2) homestead food production to improve dietary quality in farm households and rural and peri-urban communities; and (3) nutrition-sensitive social protection for vulnerable mothers and young children, with transfers ideally accompanied by nutrition education interventions.

Author : WILLIAM A. McDONALD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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PROGRESS INTO THE PAST The Rediscovery of Mycenaean Civilization by WILLIAM A. McDONALD Pdf

Author : Ronald Wright
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 9780887847066

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A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright Pdf

Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water — the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or sustained? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?In his #1 bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.

Author : Lee Gutkind
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820358062

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My Last Eight Thousand Days by Lee Gutkind Pdf

As founding editor of Creative Nonfiction and architect of the genre, Lee Gutkind played a crucial role in establishing literary, narrative nonfiction in the marketplace and in the academy. A longstanding advocate of New Journalism, he has reported on a wide range of issues—robots and artificial intelligence, mental illness, organ transplants, veterinarians and animals, baseball, motorcycle enthusiasts—and explored them all with his unique voice and approach. In My Last Eight Thousand Days, Gutkind turns his notepad and tape recorder inward, using his skills as an immersion journalist to perform a deep dive on himself. Here, he offers a memoir of his life as a journalist, editor, husband, father, and Pittsburgh native, not only recounting his many triumphs, but also exposing his missteps and challenges. The overarching concern that frames these brave, often confessional stories, is his obsession and fascination with aging: how aging provoked anxieties and unearthed long-rooted tensions, and how he came to accept, even enjoy, his mental and physical decline. Gutkind documents the realities of aging with the characteristically blunt, melancholic wit and authenticity that drive the quiet force of all his work.

Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781582340401

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After Progress by Anthony O'Hear Pdf

An important, bold challenge to our attitude toward progress. As we stand on the brink of the third millennium, we are very much in thrall to the idea that civilization is moving forward in a progressive direction, and that overall in the world things are getting better. In After Progress, philosopher Anthony O'Hear argues that we need to temper our optimism and self-assurance, that progress has not been attained without some loss. The gains of the past two or three centuries, particularly in the fields of science and democratic politics, have resulted in losses in areas once thought of as allied to religion, such as art, education, morality and philosophy. O'Hear asks the basic question: why does it seem there are more unhappy people today in the US and in Britain when we are living in a time of unprecedented individual affluence, health and human rights? O'Hear sets out to find out how we might re-examine our lives of progress by looking back on what we have learned from the great philosophers, scientists, and thinkers of the past. After Progress serves as an introduction to the ideas of major thinkers from Plato to Wittgenstein, as well as providing a new way to think about the present, by not ignoring the lessons from the past.

Author : Arthur Bradford
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375413858

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Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford Pdf

Tender and satiric, hilarious and humane, Dogwalker plunks readers down in a land of misfits and the circumstantially strange–where one young man buys drugs from a dealer who locks his customers in a closet, while another lands a cat-faced circus freak for a roommate, and yet another must choose between his pregnant wife and the ten-pound slug he’s convinced will bring him a fortune. And throughout these stories moves a divinely inspired collection of dogs: three-legged, no-legged, dogs that sing, that talk, and that give birth to humans. Brilliant, perplexing, and moving, this is a daring debut that strolls along society’s fringes and unearths strange beauty among its misfits

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UCSC:32106011956809

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Progress of Astronomy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dmitri Rabounski ,Florentin Smarandache, Larissa Borissova
Publisher : Infinite Study
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Progress in Physics, vol. 2/2017 by Dmitri Rabounski ,Florentin Smarandache, Larissa Borissova Pdf

The Journal on Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Experimental Physics, including Related Themes from Mathematics

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Literature
ISBN : UOM:39015078140749

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The Contemporary Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Kingsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044037765419

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Historical Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley Pdf

Author : Johan Norberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786072320

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Progress by Johan Norberg Pdf

A Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty, war, inequality, hunger. While politicians, journalists and activists from all sides talk about the damage done, Johan Norberg offers an illuminating and heartening analysis of just how far we have come in tackling the greatest problems facing humanity. In the face of fear-mongering, darkness and division, the facts are unequivocal: the golden age is now.

Author : Tim McCaskell
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771132794

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Queer Progress by Tim McCaskell Pdf

Author : Ontario Fruit Growers' Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Fruit-culture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924086551565

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Report of the Fruit Growers' Association of the Province of Ontario by Ontario Fruit Growers' Association Pdf