The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop through a history of one of its most devastating diseases, the coffee leaf rust. He deftly synthesizes agricultural, social, and economic histories with plant genetics and plant pathology to investigate the increasing interdependence of the world's coffee-producing zones. In the process, he illuminates the progress and prognosis of the challenges--especially climate change--that pose an existential threat to a crop that global consumers often take for granted. And finally, in putting a tropical plant disease at the forefront, he has crafted the first truly global environmental history of coffee, pushing its study and the discipline in bold new directions.

The Burlington Historical Society welcomes "Lake of the Shining Arrow" Carol DeMarco's history of Brown's Lake. Making use of the Historical Society archives of photos, artifacts, newspapers and maps, Carol has spent many hours in research both here and at the Burlington Library. I hope this sparks your interest and curiosity in the history of the Burlington Area. Don Vande Sand, Curator, Burlington Historical Society ________________________________________ Hop on board and cruise Brown's Lake with the local characters and the Chicago crowd that made her a summer playground. Sail through the eras of farmers, resorters, cottagers, and gangsters who put her on the map. Skim over one hundred photos, maps and drawings.

Kano: Environment, Society and Development is a collection of research works on Kano and its environs. Though largely a rural economy, the region is known for its huge population, extensive landmass and abundant natural resources. As a richly endowed part of Nigeria, it is not surprising that it has attracted several scholarly studies on its physical and human environments, including the region's potential for leading the charge in the country's quest for economic development. Contributions in this volume cover a wide range of critical environmental, economic, political, demographic, cultural and health issues. The diversity of the themes explored attests to the complexity and breadth of the curriculum of contemporary academic studies of geography. The authors worked on the principle that there is a dynamic relationship between man and his environment and noted that in the Kano region, environmental resources play a great role in supporting and developing peoples' livelihoods. They also explored the complex pattern of relationships between the physical and human environmental resources utilised in the area. They equally interrogated the current policies and management of environmental resources in Nigeria, which are too frequently underpinned by a perspective that views African societies primarily as backward and lacking in livelihood sustainability. ____________________ Adamu Idris Tanko, PhD, is a Professor of Geography and the Dean, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences at Bayero University Kano, Nigeria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (FRGS/IBG). He has managed field research in Northern Nigeria and beyond for about 25 years and has led a number of funded researches. His main areas of research are: environment and development and irrigation management. He has published widely in the Social Sciences and has written four books. He won a number of fellowships including the Ron Lister's at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Saleh Bashayi Momale is a Development Geographer at the Department of Geography and the Centre for Dryland Agriculture (CDA), Bayero University Kano. He is currently working towards completing his PhD with a focus on pastoral groups in northern Nigeria. He was an Executive Secretary of the Pastoral Resolve (PARE), a non-governmental organisation devoted to the improvement of the livelihood of the Nigerian Pastoralists. He has extensively worked and has published widely on pastoralism and other livelihood practices.

During Charles Darwin's 1831-6 voyage on the Beagle, his on-board library included 'Cook's voyages' (the edition is not specified). This illustrated 1821 edition, in seven volumes, is representative of the versions available in the early nineteenth century. Volumes 1 and 2 cover the first Pacific voyage of James Cook (1728-79), the object of which was to observe the 1769 transit of Venus from Tahiti. The text replicates the version published in 1773 by John Hawkesworth (1715-73) as part of a collection of 'Voyages ... in the Southern Hemisphere', which interwove Cook's account with botanical and ethnographical notes by the ship's naturalist, Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820). The journals were only published separately much later: Cook's in 1893 (ed. Wharton) and Banks' in 1896 (ed. Hooker); both are also available. Volume 1 narrates the voyage to Tahiti, the observations there, and the explorers' first impressions of New Zealand.

During Charles Darwin's 1831-6 voyage on the Beagle, his on-board library included 'Cook's voyages' (the edition is not specified). This illustrated 1821 edition, in seven volumes, is representative of the versions available in the early nineteenth century. Volumes 3 and 4 cover Cook's second voyage (1772-5), a key objective of which was to look for a continent in the Southern Ocean. The explorers sailed to 71 degrees South, within the Antarctic Circle, encountering stormy weather and icebergs, albatrosses and storm petrels. On this voyage, the ship's naturalists were Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg (1754-94), who is credited here as co-author. Volume 4 describes the flora, fauna and people of the New Hebrides and New Caledonia, the uninhabited Norfolk Island, and the voyage home via Cape Horn and Tierra del Fuego. The appendix contains a vocabulary of the Tahitian language as spoken in the Society Islands.

The time frame of the story starts in 1958. It is just after the Baghdad Revolution where young King Faisal and his family were murdered. The Communists began a rampage of killing and hanging naked, headless, corpses of men from Bagdad's lamp posts. Qassim is the head of the Bagdad Revolution, and afraid stop the Communists. James McMartin receives an invitation from his old classmate, Cyrus Zafar to come to Iran. He happily accepts even though there was a revolution in neighboring Iraq with bodies with the headless and naked bodies of men hanging from lamp posts all over Baghdad and Iran looks like it is next.. State Department and the Pentagon talked big about the Baghdad Pact (Turkey, Iraq, and Iran) that was to oppose any Russian drive into the important oil fields but the Pact was in name only. Now tanks, trucks, and planes began to flow into Iran to block any possible aggressive move by the Russians as the time was opportune. In WW II, Britain and Russia invaded Iran on August 25, 1941 to secure Iran's railway so that America could supply Russia with tanks, trucks, planes, and weapons unimpeded. Col. Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. headed of the US Army then and in 1953 Norman Schwarzkopf is on the CIA desk in the US Embassy and plotting to overthrow Prime Minister Mossadegh. In 1989, his son, General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. headed the Allied force that invaded Iraq. Unknown to James, all of this becomes a part of his life to come in Iran. On his way to Iran, he stops in Germany to visit an old classmate, Kurt von Heide to get his visa to Iran at the German Embassy in Bonn. He meets and falls in love with Renata. Going on to meet with Cyrus, he starts his work in Iran with a British company in the Khuzestan Province of Iran on the Sugarcane Plantation at Haft Tapeh just 15 kilometers from the Iraqi border. Nearby is a mosque where the Prophet Daniel is buried. North is Andemesk where Alexander the Great had 20,000 of his soldiers marry Persian girls. The place is loaded with history of Babylonian and Persian history. James visits Renata in Germany but she marries someone else and after James gets over her, he finds a new love in Pakistan with Zarin Khan. Life is wonderful but she comes down with leukemia and gives birth to their daughter, Fawzia before she dies. Fawzia is taken to Pakistan by Zarin's father as James cannot look after her in Iran. After grieving for two years he meets Ming Toy a friend of Cyrus's wife, Roxanne. With President Nixon wanting to make an American base out of Iran to keep peace in that part of the world, oil prices spiral out of control and when the Shah is asked to cut Iran's oil production he wants to use 72 billion of Iran's oil royalties in American banks to make economic development. As he doesn't listen to the CIA he is ousted and Khomeini comes into the picture. There is the June 8 1967 attack by Israel on Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon Israel's Army occupies Gaza and West Bank, and strips Palestinians of all rights. After Israeli Defense Forces occupying Gaza and the West Bank vigilante groups like Hezbollah, Al Fatah, and Hamas spring up. The United Nations does not oppose Israel's abuse of all Palestinians and Iran becomes he only nations supplying oil to Israel. But when the Shah want Pakistan to unify with Iran, Israel turns against the Shah and fireworks begin. The author tells of going to Makka, learning about the Assassins and Roshaniya who are followers of the Lighted One. The Inquisition in Spain in 1492 sought out the Alumbrados become known as the Illuminati which is the Latin name for followers of the Lighted One. At the end of the book are ten years of time line to confirm the events in the book are based on truth as well as some info on ancient Babylon and Persia.

The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1929, also known as the Great Andros Island Hurricane of 1929, was the only major hurricane during the very inactive 1929 North Atlantic hurricane season. The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1929 was perhaps one of the greatest and deadliest hurricanes to impact the Bahamas and is often regarded as the greatest Bahamian hurricane of the twentieth century. It was the only storm on record to last for three consecutive days over the Bahamas, with pounding torrential rainfall and strong, gusty winds. The storm killed 134 persons in the Bahamas, mostly mariners and sponge fishermen, as it directly hit the islands of Nassau and Andros.

This thoroughly researched history considers this intense storm and its aftermath, offering an exploration of an important historical weather event that has been neglected in previous study. Also included is a harrowing account of a dog called Speak Your Mind who rescued a sponge fisherman at sea.

Through unique historical photographs of actual damage, author and veteran meteorologist Wayne Neely shows the widespread devastation left in the wake of this tremendous storm. Drawing upon many newspaper accounts, ship reports, and Family Island Commissioners reports from throughout the Bahamas, the author provides a fascinating glimpse of this hurricane and the devastation it caused the Bahamas.

ALSACE-LORRAINE
By George Wharton Edwards
Contents
The Lost Provinces
The German Yoke
Ferrette, a Toy Village
Altkirch
The Feast of the Pipers
Mulhouse
Colmar
The Vineyards
Fete Days and Customs
Sainte Odile
The Quaint Houses
Dreien-Eguisheim
Turckheim
Thann
Rosheim
Metz
Strassburg
The Real Reason
The Land of Tears
Bibliography
Index
Excerpt from Foreword
The one dominating purpose of the people of Alsace-Lorraine is their reunion with the mother country: France. A temporary or final autonomy for the Lost Provinces, this "Land of Unshed Tears," is out of the question. The people do not want it. It would be most impracticable to establish it. They would not even discuss it. The people of Alsace-Lorraine consider themselves French and a part of France.
The creation of even a temporary autonomy would be nothing more than a makeshift, a deferring of the whole question, and history shows conclusively that there is no attempted settlement so dangerous to ultimate peace as such a makeshift; a temporary autonomy such as Germany proposes. The only logical way to settle the matter is to sever completely the enforced, undesired and unnatural connection between the provinces and Germany, and return them, with as good grace as they can assume, to their natural place as part of France.
There is no way of causing the self-expatriated inhabitants of Alsace-Lorraine, who fled rather than live under the Prussian rule, to return to it under an autonomy. In the United States, in England, and in France, there are half a million of Alsatians who would not consent to leave their adopted homes and new occupations for the doubtful opportunity of taking part in a plebiscite in the country of their birth. They know too well the touch of the iron hand.
The seizure in 1871 of Alsace-Lorraine is regarded by the Germans as the crowning triumph and victory of the Bismarckian era of conquest, and it must be made for them by ourselves and our Allies one of the reasons for their defeat in the present war, which that blood-steeped war master of Europe has precipitated upon the nations for their domination.
The wrong done to Belgium is not greater than that done to Alsace-Lorraine, save that the latter country has not yet been so wrecked by fire and sword.
How can the wrong to either nation be righted save by restoration?
How else than by France's recovery of the provinces so wrongfully seized, can Germany be defeated? - Treaties with a government which contemptuously regards them as "scraps of paper" is play for children or Bolsheviki. . .
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