Sentences with phrase «times of famine by»

They include everything from information on the walls of Pharaohs tombs to crop reports such as the remarkable wine harvest record used in Times of Feast, Times of Famine by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie or the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) records I used to reconstruct almost 300 years.

Not exact matches

Huffington adds: «As long as success is defined by who works the longest hours, who goes the longest without a vacation, who sleeps the least, who responds to an email at midnight or five in the morning — in essence, who is suffering from the biggest time famine — we're never going to be able to enjoy the benefits of time affluence.»

By doing activities that make them feel useful, employees increase their sense of «time affluence,» the researchers conclude, implying that the source of our perceived time famine isn't really lack of hours but a lack of a sense of purpose and accomplishment.

While you have chosen to believe in a book written by bronze age sheepherders who thought the earth was flat and promoted selling your daughter for a good price, that you'd go to hell for eating shellfish, and that you can eat your children in times of famine.

If I could tell when the end times were on their way by the number of wars, famines, earthquakes and plagues that are afflicting our world, I'd say, «Wow!

As late as David's time, when a devastating famine was blamed by the oracle on Saul's slaughter of the Gibeonites, two of Saul's sons and five of his grandsons, entirely innocent, were put to death and their bodies hung up «before Yahweh.»

According to his reporting for TIME, the famine was spurned by the politics of the American government, who classified the provision of food aid as tantamount to supporting terrorism.

The first use of microalgae by humans dates from about 2,000 years ago, in China, where the cyanobacteria Nostoc was used as food in times of famine.

A Commentary article in the same issue of The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology by Harvard Professor Matthew W. Gillman notes that the study had a large sample size, reasonably precise information about the timing of the famine, geographical variation in the same country, and clinical outcomes — a combination of strengths missing in other famine studies.

By studying the skeletons of farmers, peasants, monks, and nobles, paleopathologists hope to find out what diseases killed people from medieval times until the present — and how their overall health fluctuated during famine, war, climate change, and other challenges.

The hypothalamus perceives this drop as an indication of a time of famine, and initiates a starvation response, primarily by decreasing the production of sex hormones.

Max Irons (WOMAN IN GOLD) and Samantha Barks (LES MISERABLES) lead the cast in this powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion, and survival at the time of the Holodomor, a nationwide famine engineered by Joseph Stalin that killed millions of men, women, and children.

It is upsetting that to date, persons with reading disabilities have access to no more than 10 % of the yearly book production, from specific adaptations made by inclusive associations: the term «book famine» has been coined a long time ago to describe this fact.

Tony Brown's «Long Slow Thaw» based on CET records and later supported by C Loehle's multi proxy climate study, cross references voluminous empiric data on weather across regions, UK and Europe eg frost fairs, crop failure data, famine reorts and farmers» accounts of seasonal shifts in planting times.

In order to counter the abysmal knowledge of previous climatic fluctuations over the last 1000 years shown by some members of the Senate, I am looking for subscribers to fund the sending to 20 selected senators of E Roy Laduries» magisterial book «Times of Feast Times of Famine.

It has been researched by many climatologists and as Ladurie demonstrated in «Times of feast times of famine» the advances of the glaciers in a variety of locations worldwide was unprecedented in the reTimes of feast times of famine» the advances of the glaciers in a variety of locations worldwide was unprecedented in the retimes of famine» the advances of the glaciers in a variety of locations worldwide was unprecedented in the record.

See book «times of feast, times of famine» by Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie Chapter three and chapter four in particular.

Here's what's caught our eye in climate change news this morning, beyond the obvious in the headline: The famine in Somalia (yeah, it's still happening) will likely kill tens of thousands of people by the time it's done, the wife of an MIT climate researcher has been targeted in hate mail (seriously out of hand, this), and, somewhat counterintuitively new research shows cold winters are being caused by warmer summers.