Bøger af Charles F. Gritzner

A guide to the luminous phenomena of ghost lights in North Carolina-their settings, origins, and the legends surrounding them.

As the world's population approaches seven billion people, some fear that Earth's citizens face a catastrophic food crisis in the near future. This title explores the problem of world hunger, how experts propose to cure this problem, and what booming population growth means for the future of food.

Tropical islands evoke images of sun, surf, and sand, palms swaying gently in the breeze, and happy, carefree people. Though Haiti became independent in 1804, its history is one of tyrannical government, grinding poverty, social turbulence, and massive human-caused environmental destruction. This explains how this beleaguered land has fallen short of becoming an idyllic ""tropical paradise"".