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Brave New Books (5)
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My Name is Bridget
human beings are worthy
2014 || Paperback || Ineke Bosman || Brave New Books
Bridget is a young Ghanaian woman born with cerebral palsy, a physical disability.
She had the fortune to survive because of her exceptional mother and grandpa in a village that thought of her as a worthless if not dangerous being.
Bridget, now 25 years old, looks back and still wonders if she is worthy of living the life of a normal human person...
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My name is bridget
2014 || Paperback || Ineke Bosman || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
The story of Bridget is about hope and will as well as luck. How many girls called Bridget survive after all? It is about love, the love of a mother and grandfather in a hostile society. It is most of all about the capacity to fight. Fight for the survival of a twitching baby who can neither suck nor crawl nor later walk. Fight for a person to be called human even if all the odds seem against it because of a traditional belief system.
Those around her in her local society mumble: Isn t sh...
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Sick Poultry, Pet Birds, Pigs, Cows and Dromedary Camels cause Diseases in Humans
2014 || Paperback || Peter Holst || Brave New Books
We remember still a single farm with chickens and pigs on the farm and cows in the pasture. Increasingly we see grain silos appear with large livestock farming, whose pigs, chickens or cows never outside come. Diseases, which can be transmitted from animals to humans, are the result.
Prevention is essential for all of us in order to make our environment healthier and reduce the increase of chronic diseases.
Lifestyle changes, such as the purification of drinking water, sewage treatment and t...
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Beware the dromedary flu / druk 1
2014 || Paperback || Peter Holst MD PhD || Brave New Books
We remember still a single farm with chickens and pigs on the farm and cows in the pasture. Increasingly we see grain silos appear with consumption animal farms, whose pigs, chickens or cows never outside come. Diseases, which can be transmitted from animals to humans, are the result. The expansion in the intensive livestock and tropical bird breeding threatens the health of us all. It is of great importance that the air we breathe indoors in private homes, public transport, public buildings ...
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The Last Chimpanzee / druk 1
Somewhere in the 21st century, the last chimpanzee will die.
2014 || Paperback || Peter Holst MD PhD || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Only man is capable of birth-control, both population growth and contraception. The explosive growth in population and famine on earth has led to the breeding of animals solely for consumption. Genocide, the accelerated extinction of species, and Ecocide, large environmental damage are the consequences. This process is self-ending .... and forces us to reconsider. Sooner or later in the 21st century the chimpanzee will die. Wild life conservation, restoring the amount of available wild fish...