Modern Germany, its Rise, Growth, Downfall, and Future

The modern rise of population

THOMAS McKEOWN, The modern rise ofpopulation, London, Edward Arnold, 1976, 8vo, [3 11.], pp. 168, illus., £7.95. One of the major problems in historical demography, and yet the most difficult of solution, is to explain why the population of West Europe has risen in the last three centuries. Professor McKeown's solution is well known and he presents it here again, in greater detail and with more...

The evolution of modern agriculture and its future with biotechnology.

Since the dawn of agriculture, humans have been manipulating crops to enhance their quality and yield. Via conventional breeding, seed producers have developed the modern corn hybrids and wheat commonly grown today. Newer techniques, such as radiation breeding, enhanced the seed producers' ability to develop new traits in crops. Then in the 1980's-1990's, scientists began applying genetic engin...

Religion and the Rise of Modern Culture

The rise and fall of modern medicine

[Downfall in infancy].