| 单词 | production |
| 例句 | Laughing herself, she said, “I think we better halt this production right now!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “This problem,” Rick said, “stems entirely from your method of operation, Mr. Rosen. Nobody forced your organization to evolve the production of humanoid robots to a point where—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Over in the production group at ATK, a whole different division, they sometimes had trouble with a machine that inspected the booster rockets’ O-ring grooves to make sure there was no corrosion. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But that doesn’t prove that food production and large populations make complex societies inevitable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Peoples who, by accident of their geographic location, inherited or developed food production thereby became able to engulf geographically less endowed people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, the food production package quickly became superior to the hunter-gatherer package. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally, I scolded him, “You’re not Sir Laurence Olivier playing Hamlet, you know. All I want are the facts and how you felt. Not a theatrical production.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only does Ms. Washington direct the shows up at the high school, but she also stars in most of the productions at the Playhouse. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Some productive hunter-gatherer societies reached the organizational level of chiefdoms, but none reached the level of states: all states nourish their citizens by food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That date is within a thousand years of the beginning of the Neolithic Age and food production in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Once he settled on a production method, Seaborg beat the deadline by four months. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Yet Welles created his most successful and well-known productions—the War of the Worlds broadcast and Citizen Kane—before he turned twenty-six. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He turned the cleaning into a big production, making separate requests for the tiny bags of powdered soap we kept in the office, for a toilet brush, for garbage bags. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In response, the neighboring oaks step up their tannin production the better to withstand the coming onslaught. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z As we saw in previous chapters, that evidence is important because food production led to high population densities, germs, technology, political organization, and other ingredients of power. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those imported domesticates may be thought of as “founder” crops and animals, because they founded local food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And sure enough, the student council has approved a thousand dollars for the staging and production of the musical Tiny Dancer. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z If one accepts the traditional, earlier dates for the onset of American plant domestication, then 5,000 years instead of 1,500 or 2,000 years elapsed before food production supported villages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dramatic black-and-white portraits of Hattie’s mother in various ballet productions line the hallway, along with a procession of Hattie’s school photos. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z As we have discussed, all three arose historically from the development of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Of all the food-acquiring methods of Aboriginal Australians, millet harvesting is perhaps the one most likely to have evolved eventually into crop production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The end result has been the elimination of populous Native American societies from most temperate areas suitable for European food production and physiology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Soojin sighs as if my entire middle school future depends on performing a solo in Ms. Holly’s Blast from the Past production. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He detailed the production of various bombs, as well as the solicitation of money abroad. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From the precursors of food production already practiced by hunter-gatherers, it developed stepwise. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Zach came home from school one day, and his father asked him if he had read about all the problems plaguing the Broadway production of Spider-Man. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z "We need money so that we can stage our production of Tiny Dancer." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z He focused on his own favorite, the man called Miller, who was in charge of grain production each fall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Turf scribe Jack McDonald surveyed the production and wondered if the net effect would be to inspire Ligaroti or scare him to death. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, the expressions “Fertile Crescent” and “world leader in food production” are absurd. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And why was so much of the production line hidden away? Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Chapter 4 sketches how food production—that is, the growing of food by agriculture or herding, instead of the hunting and gathering of wild foods—ultimately led to the immediate factors permitting Pizarro’s triumph. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A more indirect way involved the consequences of the sedentary lifestyle enforced by food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The other was for a “new and larger cyclotron” for medical research, including the full-scale production of synthetic radioisotopes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The reviews were generally positive, and a theatre critic called one production “an exciting excursion into stagecraft.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Much of northern and western Europe is still able to support productive intensive agriculture today, 7,000 years after the arrival of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That is, the adoption of food production exemplifies what is termed an autocatalytic process—one that catalyzes itself in a positive feedback cycle, going faster and faster once it has started. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As we saw in Chapters 5 and 10, only a few relatively small areas of each hemisphere acted as a “homeland” where food production first arose and from which it then spread. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In all this discussion of the Fertile Crescent’s advantages for the early rise of food production, we have not had to invoke any supposed advantages of Fertile Crescent peoples themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But most wild animal and plant species have proved unsuitable for domestication: food production has been based on relatively few species of livestock and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The faces change, but the production remains the same, like a Broadway show. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Before turning to those regions, however, we must consider two related questions arising in regard to any area of the world where food production never developed independently or else resulted in a less potent package. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As Table 7.1 summarizes, the domestication of local cereal / pulse combinations launched food production in many areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He has found some success in New York—he has an agent, gets auditions, and has been cast in small productions, though not yet Broadway. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Just two years prior, with the storm clouds gathering, President Roosevelt challenged the nation to ramp up its production of airplanes to fifty thousand per year. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z All these effects that continental differences in area, population, ease of diffusion, and onset of food production exerted on the rise of technology became exaggerated, because technology catalyzes itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the opposite extreme are regions in which food production certainly began with an abrupt arrival of foreign people as well as of foreign crops and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Besides permitting sedentary living and hence the accumulation of possessions, food production was decisive in the history of technology for another reason. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But most of Greenland is covered by an ice cap, and even the two most favorable coastal fjords were marginal for Norse food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Clothing manufacturers and leather production companies were called upon to meet the increased demand. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Late in the afternoon, my father, whose name was also Phillip—Phillip Enright—returned home from the refinery where he was working on the program to increase production of aviation gas. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Together, they siphon off an enzyme, which stops the production of a certain hormone, which complicates my life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He makes a production of getting out of his seat, then drags his feet up the aisle like a condemned man approaching a noose. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The spaceling would have observed no food production in the eastern United States, because food production did not begin there until around 2500 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He made a big production of catching his breath and calming down and then he stomped off to our room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We have seen that large or dense populations arise only under conditions of food production, or at least under exceptionally productive conditions for hunting-gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It consisted in falsifying a series of production reports of two years ago in such a way as to cast discredit on a prominent member of the Inner Party who was now under a cloud. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “We don’t have time for hobbies, Chacho. The orderly production of resources is vital to the general good of the people.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The agency scrambled to keep up with the production miracle that was the American aircraft industry, which had gone from the country’s forty-third largest industry in 1938 to the worlds number one by 1943. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Their spread was soon followed by that of other innovations originating in or near the Fertile Crescent, including the wheel, writing, metalworking techniques, milking, fruit trees, and beer and wine production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Todd School allowed young Orson to take control of the student stage productions. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Because of the steep grade, soil erosion from rain and wind whittled down food production year by year. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Just as a hunting-gathering lifestyle can be traded piecemeal for a food-producing lifestyle, one system of food production can also be traded piecemeal for another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Recall that the rise of food production involved a competition between food production and hunting-gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Intensified food production and societal complexity stimulate each other, by autocatalysis. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is a long-debated chicken-or-egg problem: did a rise in human population density force people to turn to food production, or did food production permit a rise in human population density? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I have been dwelling on latitude, readily assessed by a glance at a map, because it is a major determinant of climate, growing conditions, and ease of spread of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, Colonel Nichols, exasperated by the scientists’ condescension toward his workforce, soon informed Lawrence that the women could outproduce the scientists and that he was prepared to prove it in a production race. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He needed someone who could collaborate with MTI to pare down the show, simplify some of the music and set, while still pulling off a production that would impress Mackintosh. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z That is especially true at high altitudes in the Andes, where genetically European women have physiological difficulties even in reproducing, and where native Andean crops still offer the most suitable basis for food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That suite’s modest potential for domestication was responsible for the late start of food production in North America. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Experiments show that the younger the animal is when it is subjected to a cancer-producing agent the more certain is the production of cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Now, I would do anything to sit through Freckles’s bad Holocaust production of Chekhov. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Lon Teter arrived in the final month to serve as, in effect, production foreman—getting an immense and complicated body of work checked, formatted, and into the paper on time. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But in fact, from its genesis Olympia was a political and ideological production. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The agricultural economy was based on a seasonal cycle of production, comprising long months of cultivation followed by short peak periods of harvest. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z By enabling farmers to generate food surpluses, food production permitted farming societies to support full-time craft specialists who did not grow their own food and who developed technologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The police came and shut down the production. I don’t think that’s very helpful, either. It was just pretty interesting to read about.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Geographic differences in the means by which food production arose are also puzzling. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They carry not only instructions about eye color, height, nose shape, enzyme production, microphage resistance, but a story, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The ancient Japanese developed some of the oldest pottery in the world and settled as hunter-gatherers in villages subsisting on Japan’s rich seafood resources, long before the arrival of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While food production was thus a necessary condition for the evolution or early adoption of writing, it was not a sufficient condition. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Yet those other Mediterranean zones not only failed to rival the Fertile Crescent as early sites of food production; they never gave rise to indigenous agriculture at all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was glad that Yvonne kept bringing me more Lego trash bags or my production would’a really been slowed down by Rose’s thieving. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “My family. Please do me the very great honor of coming to see me perform the role of Walter Lee Younger in the Village Troupe’s production of A Raisin in the Sun.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In early November, the first racetrack was being readied for the production phase. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The peoples of areas with a head start on food production thereby gained a head start on the path leading toward guns, germs, and steel. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Caroline got her parents to take some of our paper to the community room at the YMCA, so production from there comes over every evening when they close. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” Freckles says, “we did a production of Midsummer in Cleveland three years ago. And she was luminous.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Here, the results of recent molecular biological studies are illuminating in linking germs to the rise of food production, in Eurasia much more than in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z China may actually have encompassed two or more independent centers of origins of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Nile Valley remained a cultural backwater for about 3,000 years after village food production began to flourish in the hills of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As Nichols understood, once the plant entered the production phase, what was needed was unquestioning operation, not ceaseless tweaking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Therefore, his worth is not defined by a single element, but by the overall success of the production. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He is overwhelmed by the production taking place for his benefit. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z That’s not to say that Australia had no potential crops at all, or that Aboriginal Australians would never have developed indigenous food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In their subsistence modes, Polynesians ranged from the hunter-gatherers of the Chathams, through slash-and-burn farmers, to practitioners of intensive food production living at some of the highest population densities of any human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The rise of food production in China spawned several great prehistoric movements of human populations, or of cultural traits, or of both. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Despite the sometimes ridiculous production values, the monsters can be terrifying. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The companies that run the farms expect this death rate and figure it into the cost of production. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As we shall see, Aborigines in the climatically most favorable areas of Australia were evolving in a direction that might have eventuated in food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The advertising poster for the 1936 play Horse Eats Hat, a production staged by Welles and Houseman for the Federal Theatre Project in New York City. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Only the lack of suitable wild plants might then explain why food production did not evolve in some areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “He directs plays and found a girlfriend at his work. A beautiful actress from one of his productions. My mom decided we needed to get away from California and my father...so here we are.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z In general, societies that engaged in intense exchanges of crops, livestock, and technologies related to food production were more likely to become involved in other exchanges as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Additional forces are being sent into District 8, and all textile production has ceased. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z A final advantage of early food production in the Fertile Crescent is that it may have faced less competition from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle than that in some other areas, including the western Mediterranean. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Big domestic mammals also interacted with domestic plants in two ways to increase crop production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z You can use your regular laptop to follow the ‘dailies’ and ‘edits’ over the production cycle.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z After Washington, Lawrence and Alvarez planned to fly to Ottawa for a look at the Canadian government’s heavy-water reactor in nearby Chalk River, a design they thought might be adapted for tritium production. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Food production also arose in West Africa and Ethiopia, and by around 2500 B.C. cattle herders had already crossed the modern border from Ethiopia into northern Kenya. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If you get too caught up in the production of information, you drown in the data.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Again and again, people with access to the prerequisites for food production, and with a location favoring diffusion of technology from elsewhere, replaced peoples lacking these advantages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A not-so-tiny part of Ophie was hoping that she could get an answer to her question and get out of the dining room before the whole production started. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As population densities rose, food production became increasingly favored because it provided the increased food outputs needed to feed all those people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Yayoi iron tools were initially imported from Korea in enormous quantities, until domestic Japanese iron smelting and production began after several centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I asked him how much of his own money he spent to get the production to Nebraska, and he would not say. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z What actually happened was not a discovery of food production, nor an invention, as we might first assume. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With the development of machine production, however, the case was altered. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “To production, I mean. Two weeks sitting around your house doing nothing just means two weeks of being hungry for most people.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Since the launch of the HeLa production factory at Tuskegee, Gey had been writing a steady stream of letters to other scientists, trying to restrict the way they used Henrietta’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z All the members of chiefly lineages, bureaucrats, and some craft specialists were freed from the work of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Wild Brain wanted seamlessly interoperable work flow software to make animated films with a production team spread out around the world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Howard brought a man to the barn to make plaster casts of Seabiscuit’s hooves for the production of souvenir ashtrays. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wonderful, Virginia!” she says, and puts me in charge of the whole production—writing, directing, casting, everything. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Why did the same plant package launch food production throughout western Eurasia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to him, I now controlled production, sales, distribution—I had everything I needed to lock down the bootleg business. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The chemosterilants of this group are alkylating agents, which are extremely reactive chemicals, capable of intense cell destruction, damage to chromosomes, and production of mutations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They are super romantic about it—how they spent the summer putting on theater productions in the woods—so I’m kind of not allowed to say how much I hated it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Everybody knew him from starring in campus productions and from leading the drum majors. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z After three days’ delay, during which the crown prosecution stood over for the production of the witness from the prison-ship, the witness came, and completed the easy case. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “You look it up. I learned it by reading and preparing myself for the production of great literature. So you do the same.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His productions kept being selected for the Main Stage at the International Thespian Festival. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Those few peoples who remained hunter-gatherers into the 20th century escaped replacement by food producers because they were confined to areas not fit for food production, especially deserts and Arctic regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Or are large populations and complex societies instead the cause, somehow leading to intensification of food production? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z During these five years she is almost constantly pregnant, and is fertilised within 60 to 120 days after giving birth in order to preserve maximum milk production. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Taylor made a big production of putting his hands on his hips. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z In the Soviet Union the resources, quality, attention and care given to military production is in striking contrast to the little left for consumer goods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So did John, who was building a career for himself in film production. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Why did any of them adopt food production at all? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z More banks failed, layoffs increased, industrial production sagged, and strikes grew more violent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Before the mid-seventeenth century, gears were laid out and cut by hand; Hooke designed the first machine to produce identical gears, thus making possible the mass production of machinery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He had to make a production out of it. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z So far the calutron’s production was minuscule and its reliability imperfect, but he was already planning to replace its 10-milliampere ion source with one offering yet another tenfold increase in power. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But he has an aura around him now and he controls something of value: parts in his productions. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Later, they sat in a large hall and watched the children’s production of a Christmas play, about a Nigerian family who find an orphan on their doorstep on Christmas Day. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Sedentary villages based on cereals were already in existence before the rise of food production and predisposed those hunter-gatherers to agriculture and herding. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was Steve Spiegel, then president of Music Theatre International, the leading licensing agent for Broadway productions, who made the decision on what high school would be asked to pilot the play. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Royal Dutch Shell had borrowed him from his American company because he was an expert in refineries and gasoline production. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s the principle of vaccination: to stimulate our antibody production without our having to go through the actual experience of the disease, by inoculating us with a dead or weakened strain of microbe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Please do let me know if there’s anyone you find is not mature enough to participate in our production. I’m sure I can find other accommodations for them.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z For example, in the Fertile Crescent food production and village life originated in hills and mountains, not in lowland river valleys. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In these two ways, independent Aboriginal societies were eliminated in all areas suitable for European food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Second, the production of RNA messages was coordinately regulated. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But four seed crops and a container fall far short of a complete food production package. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But it bristled with Lawrence’s self-confidence and his manner of intuitively grasping possibilities well ahead of realities—in this case, the production of sustained resonant proton beams with a million volts of kinetic energy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We have now considered examples of three contrasting areas, in all of which food production did arise indigenously. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Other striking examples involve wild species that were not domesticated in areas where food production never arose spontaneously, even though those wild species had close relatives domesticated elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The production was so popular that national and international tours were organized to provide an authentic presentation of the fictional story to audiences everywhere. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Finally, food production permits or requires people to adopt sedentary living, which is a prerequisite for accumulating substantial possessions, developing elaborate technology and crafts, and constructing public works. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mixed economies that added certain crops or livestock to hunting-gathering also competed against both types of “pure” economies, and against mixed economies with higher or lower proportions of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If it was all okay they were to start production in plastics factories all over the country. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Children often come up with very imaginative ways to group instruments based on characteristics other than sound production. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It was only within the last 11,000 years that some peoples turned to what is termed food production: that is, domesticating wild animals and plants and eating the resulting livestock and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For the most part, that adoption was linked to our adoption of food production, which required us to remain close to our crops, orchards, and stored food surpluses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dad went from factory to factory, installing his time-saving systems, reducing worker fatigue, so as to speed up production. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Similar questions arise whenever one tries to understand the origins and spread of many other aspects of human culture—such as technology, religion, and food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even today, with Eurasian crops and with trucks and railroads to transport produce, food production in Australia remains a risky business. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Shot using various cinéma verité techniques, with low production values, the film was poorly edited and thematically scattered. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “She just produced. She's on the pills now. But in a few months she'll need to start getting ready for her second production.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Other hunter-gatherers, in Palestine, coastal Peru, and Japan, became sedentary first and adopted food production much later. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1950, uranium production from mines in Colorado increased sharply, exceeding Canadian output for the first time. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The experience “led to much coarse humor about production of monsters among our progeny in years to come,” Kamen recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If those first farmers could have foreseen the consequences of adopting food production, they might not have opted to do so. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My mom likes to stock up on frozen food before she goes into production on a show. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z As for livestock, Eurasian sheep made it possible to extend food production to arid areas of Australia unsuitable for agriculture, and Eurasian cattle joined crops in moister areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We are told that the enormous and expanding use of pesticides is necessary to maintain farm production. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If a chromosome disappeared and production of a certain enzyme stopped, researchers knew the gene for that enzyme must be on the most recently vanished chromosome. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He’d walk into a factory like the Zeiss works in Germany or the Pierce Arrow plant in this country and announce that he could speed up production by one-fourth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The Nazis accorded music considerable esteem, hoping to shape the course of musical history by manipulative policies affecting the production and reception of music across the vast territories they eventually controlled. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But from afar, a galaxy reminds me more of a collection of lovely found objects—seashells, perhaps, or corals, the productions of Nature laboring for aeons in the cosmic ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember the production in Somerset? What a superb Titania you were!” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z All Poulsson needed to know was that the Germans had rapidly increased production of heavy water at Vemork since taking over Norway. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “They went' in and out of production, which suggests to me that we are looking at a long-term but dynamic system.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z However, all such peoples either practice at least some food production or are the partly acculturated last remnants of the world’s former hunter-gatherer societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On opening night, his mother says she thought the play was very good, though she preferred the last Truman production Zach was in—High School Musical 2. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Eurasia and the Americas also differed with respect to plant food production, though the disparity here was less marked than for animal food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I sometimes listen to these moments, as a production is still in formation, and worry how Volpe is ever going to pull things together. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Not that I ever believed that the whole production of World War II was a trick of the eye manip- ulated by a bunch of calculating fat old men, appealing though this idea was. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z These differences stemmed ultimately from Eurasia’s much longer history of densely populated, economically specialized, politically centralized, interacting and competing societies dependent on food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At this same time, the spring production of Lincoln: The True Story of Honest Abe’s Honesty was well into rehearsals, with opening night looming. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z To ensure compliance, the film department of the propaganda ministry now directly oversaw the planning and production of all new German films. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z However, food production itself is not a proximate cause. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "You know that for the student-run productions, I just show up for performances." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They were adopted for cultivation in those areas of their wild range outside the Fertile Crescent as soon as they arrived with the whole package of food production from the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, food production even in its areas of origin became enriched by the addition of crops, livestock, and techniques from other areas of origin. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What was it about the Americas and Africa that made the spread of food production more difficult there than in Eurasia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Compared with cereals and legumes, they had the drawback of not starting to yield food until at least three years after planting, and not reaching full production until after as much as a decade. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Let us now summarize how variations in these three factors—time of onset of food production, barriers to diffusion, and human population size—led straightforwardly to the observed intercontinental differences in the development of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, DuPont began work on the next stage of the manufacturing cycle: a full-scale production plant located on a bend of the Columbia River in central Washington State, near the little town of Hanford. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The initial development of food production in China was therefore independent of that at the same latitude in the Fertile Crescent, and gave rise to entirely different crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A cast photo, with the players dressed in their costumes from their production of Abraham Lincoln. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “The other does something with music production, I think. He lives in Hollywood, anyway.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Without being connected to the rover, it no longer had my C02 production to deal with. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In these four areas the onset of food production provides little or no evidence for the domestication of local plant or animal species, but also little or no evidence for the replacement of human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Food production was already arising in the Fertile Crescent only 1,500 years after the time when Clovis-derived hunter-gatherers were just reaching southern South America. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the assembly, I sit up front with my friends as the principal starts it off and then introduces the video as a Diverse Voices production. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z A fourth factor was the two-way link between the rise in human population density and the rise in food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The framed poster from the Playhouse’s production of Little Shop of Horrors, signed by the cast and crew, still hangs on the wall above where Grace’s bed used to be. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z It is not uncommon for their egg production to be increased threefold — all through the beneficent effect of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z These considerations, along with the just mentioned correlation between regional population size and societal complexity, have led to a protracted chicken-or-egg debate about the causal relations between food production, population variables, and societal complexity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If his productions are merely almost transcendent, when the possibility of true transcendence exists somewhere nearby, waiting to be attained, then there is something else that must be done. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z On Mount Johnson Island as well as in Florida, then, the same situation prevails — there is some occupancy of nests by adults, some production of eggs, but few or no young birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A new impetus for the project had emerged: fears of a shortage of uranium ore, the raw material for the production of plutonium bomb cores. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The principle of mass production at last applied to biology. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to give a smile of thanks, but he’s obviously still avoiding eye contact with me, so I pretend to be absorbed, observing the production line. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The Japanese were so impressed by the new weapon that they commenced indigenous gun production, greatly improved gun technology, and by A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With multiple crosses in parallel, the production of data accelerated. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He also mentioned their training at Hitler's sabotage school and how the focus of the mission was to sabotage war production in the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The P-51 Mustang was the first production plane to use one of the NACAs laminar airfoils, a factor that contributed to its superior performance. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Finally, the same pattern of an abrupt start of food production dependent on domesticates from elsewhere, and an abrupt and massive population replacement, seems to have repeated itself in many areas in the prehistoric era. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Theoretically, there could have been some production of oxygen by photodissociation of water vapor in ultraviolet light, but not much. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If he had put out fifty of them it would have been a fortune, but Lee was a humble man who didn’t care for mass production. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, food production and thousands of years of societal evolution following its adoption were as essential for the evolution of writing as for the evolution of microbes causing human epidemic diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Montgomery has a beautiful park that houses the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, which brings nationally acclaimed playwrights and actors to Alabama to perform Shakespeare and modern theatrical productions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One day we will take hold of the means of production and there will be justice on earth.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Within only a few hours of the big bang, the production of helium and other elements would have stopped. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And there is the production of racial meaning and racial boundaries. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Yes. Did you have any similar backups in coal production this year?” he asks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It is important to remember, therefore, that the fat-soluble insecticides become stored in individual cells, where they are in position to interfere with the most vital and necessary functions of oxidation and energy production. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Thinking about the source of sound production and materials will lead you to the field of organology, or the classification of musical instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Solutions to stress must be found, because it hurts production and therefore profits. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Any reader steeped in the history of Western civilization would be forgiven for assuming that African food production began in ancient Egypt’s Nile Valley, land of the pharaohs and pyramids. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The plant was built with sufficient room to install more tanks if production failed to continue ramping up. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That would double their output or, to put it another way, reduce the requirement for 100 grams of daily production to only one thousand tanks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Food production would have faced even less competition from hunting-gathering in these areas than it did in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, thousands of years after the beginnings of animal domestication and food production, the animals also began to be used for milk, wool, plowing, and transport. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most media outlets, like the New York Times, ESPN, ABC Nightly News, and USA Today, to name a few, would send over production teams to interview me at the Westbrook Foundation in New York. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z As for my dad, well, Kalbro had announced they were moving a big chunk of their production to China, which I think he might have warned us about at one point or another. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z During those same centuries China led the world in technology, having launched itself on food production nearly as early as the Fertile Crescent did. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Years later, Welles acknowledged that Houseman made possible the staging of the Mercury’s theatre productions. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z For both of those reasons, all developments of economically complex, socially stratified, politically centralized societies beyond the level of small nascent chiefdoms were based on food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, it seems clear that food production did not evolve independently in western Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I quite agree that the production of neutrons from beryllium is no evidence for the disintegration of deutons and a low mass for the neutron,” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Continental differences in axis orientation affected the diffusion not only of food production but also of other technologies and inventions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In short, only a few areas of the world developed food production independently, and they did so at widely differing times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those regions of the Americas without food production included all of northern North America and southern South America, the Canadian Great Plains, and all of western North America except for small areas of the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Ted helped me set up a studio downstairs so I could take in work as a free-lance production assistant for graphic artists. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In between revolutions, communes, epidemics and wars, Paris was the Vegas of the nineteenth century, and the grandeur of its opera productions stood at the pinnacle of a glittering high-society scene. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z An argument that he had "essential" enamelware workers wouldn't have meant anything to the decision makers, but the argument that we were essential to Germany's munitions production did. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “It's my theater, it's my production, it’s my reputation, and it's my money,” said Mr. Gregory. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In 1971, we had our first production, a play called The Brown Bag Affair. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z In a showcase of shorter performances that afternoon, another high school performs a production number from Pippin. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Spanish landfalls in the Americas were at subtropical latitudes highly suitable for food production, based at first mostly on Native American crops but also on Eurasian domestic animals, especially cattle and horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As for food production’s more sinister by-product of infectious diseases, we cannot specify where within the Old World most major diseases of Old World origin arose. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He bought a program, the kind you can buy in London theaters that’s full of photographs and gives a history of the production. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But, as we’ll see, food production was indirectly a prerequisite for the development of guns, germs, and steel. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Eight years later the facilities of the arsenal were leased to a private oil company for the production of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One of the production people mics me up as John gives me a rundown of this walk and talk thing. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s experience as an impresario of Big Science gave him an instinctive grasp of how to scale up a process from prototype to production. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z These super cows were injected with hormones to increase ovulation drastically and cause the production of multiple embryos. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly there were production managers and financial executives looking over Ernests shoulders. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Some or all of these centers may actually comprise several nearby centers where food production arose more or less independently, such as North China’s Yellow River valley and South China’s Yangtze River valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is then no further energy production, so the end effect is very similar to uncoupling. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Alongside these parallels, there were also some major differences in food production systems around the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For that movie, he used actors who had played roles in the War of the Worlds broadcast and other Mercury radio and theatre productions. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z As the war approached its peak, every single American military airplane in production was based fundamentally—and in many cases in specific detail—upon the research results and recommendations of the NACA. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In the beer business, as in other businesses, production costs decrease greatly with scale. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z District 13 strictly forbids any production or consumption of intoxicating beverages, and even the rubbing alcohol in the hospital is kept under lock and key. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z At lower temperatures, however, when colliding particles have less energy, particle/antiparticle pairs would be produced less quickly—and annihilation would become faster than production. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She reviewed the production of Grease at the Unitarian Church and Guys and Dolls at the high school: “Rollicking,” she wrote of one; “Sit Down; They’re Rocking the Boat!” she wrote of the other. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Milk production in Japan always starts at one minute past midnight, so that the milk that goes to market in the morning can be labeled as today’s milk. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And it was to those with a very high IQ, he believed, that “we must look for production of leaders who advance science, art, government, education and social welfare generally.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Broad valleys were completely deforested and dotted with villages, and drained and fenced fields for intensive food production covered entire valley floors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Is it intensive food production that is the cause, triggering population growth and somehow leading to a complex society? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “But because of Rob’s impressive organizational skills, which were apparent even when he was sixteen and seventeen, he was soon running the entire production side of the company.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Not least, the Americas were more fragmented by areas unsuitable for food production or for dense human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The friendly young production assistant had just told him everything he needed to know. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The biggest political units could assemble large labor forces to construct irrigation systems and fishponds that intensified food production even further. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As we have seen in the preceding chapter, many of the chlorinated hydrocarbons, the phenols, and some herbicides interfere with oxidation and energy production within the cell. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I log in the last few links of production to make sure I’m up to date, and deliver the answer. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He attended productions at other local high schools and made friends and mentors of their drama directors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The burden fell most heavily on Martin Kamen and others tasked with isotope production. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There exist many actual cases of hunter-gatherers who did see food production practiced by their neighbors, and who nevertheless refused to accept its supposed blessings and instead remained hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This all started with me noticing a 60-liter shortfall in water production. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A century later, in 1900, when sugar was used in jams, cakes, syrups, and tea, and every modern country was filled with factories, world production of sugar reached six million tons. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There was a chapter about Dacca, and I began to read about its rainfall, and its jute production. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Of course, this meant that production of the elixir stopped. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z President Wilson needed a steady production of meat from the Stock Yard to feed the hungry troops. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But most food production in outlying areas depended initially on Fertile Crescent domesticates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Moton school office put war stamps on sale, each purchase a small offset against the gargantuan cost of the military production. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In early stages of food production, people simultaneously collected wild foods and raised cultivated ones, and diverse types of collecting activities diminished in importance at different times as reliance on crops increased. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A model called the Nylon 66, no longer in production, it was a favorite of Alaska trappers because of its light weight and reliability. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no evidence for large-scale cultivation of apples even in the Fertile Crescent and in Europe until classical Greek times, 8,000 years after the rise of Eurasian food production began. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From those few centers of origin, food production spread much more rapidly to some areas than to others. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “My authentic Chinese face got me in the door. South Pacific, a local production. You know, ‘Happy talk, keep talkin’, happy talk.’ Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Polynesian food production depended mainly on agriculture, which was impossible at subantarctic latitudes because all Polynesian crops were tropical ones initially domesticated outside Polynesia and brought in by colonists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition, the largest domestic mammals interacted with domestic plants to increase food production by pulling plows and thereby making it possible for people to till land that had previously been uneconomical for farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to stick around too long and make a whole production of the goodbye. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Despite these drawbacks, Welles jumped at the chance to reach millions of people with his own dramatic productions. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z If they would behave themselves in captivity, grizzlies would be a fabulous meat production animal. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For one lively half century Pennsylvania had a virtual monopoly on one of the most valuable products in the world, oil, and an overwhelmingly dominant role in the production of a second, coal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Briefly, at high population densities only a portion of the people came to be farmers, but they were mobilized to devote themselves to intensive food production, thereby yielding surpluses to feed nonproducers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Another has been the problem of disentangling cause and effect in the rise of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In these and other areas where food production depended on the arrival of founder crops from elsewhere, did local hunter-gatherers themselves adopt those founder crops from neighboring farming peoples and thereby become farmers themselves? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s a bare white box and big clanking pipes and one framed show poster from a production of Grand Hotel at Walnut Street Theater. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Once the pillow production line was again rolling smoothly, the meeting began. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z For example, chickpeas are widely grown by traditional farmers from the Mediterranean and Ethiopia east to India, with the latter country accounting for 80 percent of the world’s chickpea production today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His shift had failed to meet the day’s production quota and was required to do bitter humiliation work. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They couldn’t understand that the sort of meal they took for granted, a thirty-minute production in the land of General Electric, translated here to a lifetime of travail. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Pacific coast areas that would otherwise have been suitable for food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Heads bent, mouths fanning straight pins, hem-covered oxfords working unseen treadles, they continued production. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Early food production was less competitive with hunting-gathering in the Americas than in the Fertile Crescent or China, partly owing to the Americas’ virtual lack of domesticable wild mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of the dates in Table 18.1 are very uncertain, especially those for the onset of American food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Archaeologists date food production by radiocarbon dating of carbon-containing materials at the site. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That is how these women produced manioc, and that is how their children ate it: with no apparent thought to the higher purposes of production and consumption. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, Chapter 3 sketched the immediate factors behind Europe’s conquest of Native Americans, and Chapter 4 the development of those factors from the ultimate cause of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Still another factor tipping the balance away from hunting-gathering was the cumulative development of technologies on which food production would eventually depend—technologies for collecting, processing, and storing wild foods. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In Egypt as well, food production began in the sixth millennium B.C. with the arrival of Southwest Asian crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was used in heavy industry to render other compounds like refined gasoline or polyvinyl chloride for plastic pipe production. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Each year, the United States issues about 70,000 patents, only a few of which ultimately reach the stage of commercial production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z China had had writing for at least 900 years, and metal tools for at least 1,500 years, and had just invented the world’s first cast-iron production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Polynesian subsistence depended on varying mixes of fishing, gathering wild plants and marine shellfish and Crustacea, hunting terrestrial birds and breeding seabirds, and food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The stuffed offspring was then presented to the mother so that its presence would encourage her milk production. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, I am unaware of anyone’s even seriously suggesting any supposed distinctive biological features of the region’s peoples that might have contributed to the potency of its food production package. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I can understand your fascination in our sustenance production, considering your background in botany,” he says. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Where, when, and how did food production develop in different parts of the globe? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then, over the eleven-week production schedule for the show, you can log in twenty-four hours a day and check the progress of the production as it follows the sun around the world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Writing arose independently only in the Fertile Crescent, Mexico, and probably China precisely because those were the first areas where food production emerged in their respective hemispheres. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Tired of mutant hunting, Muller wondered if he could accelerate the production of mutants—perhaps by exposing flies to heat or light or higher bursts of energy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He's the fashion tastemaker of the kingdom, and is in charge of all garment production. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Pig iron production fell by half, and new rail construction shrank almost to nothing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The adoption of intensive food production from the Asian mainland was also very slow and piecemeal in Japan, probably because the hunter-gatherer lifestyle based on seafood and local plants was so productive there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How can we explain these geographic differences in the times and modes of onset of food production? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At first, soldiers were called on to provide the raw material, but such an arrangement was hardly conducive to industrial-scale production. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I turned to the cast and told them that our production would have been no match for theirs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They’re moving all the snowplows and road graders outside to make room for our new production. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The Fashion Minister draws the queen's attention away from me with a question about silkworm production and winter gowns. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z So I have to find my way through the exploding production lines of the Middle West while sitting alone beside a lake in northern Michigan. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We have now traced how food production arose in a few centers, and how it spread at unequal rates from there to other areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Food production’s spread proves as crucial to understanding geographic differences in the rise of guns, germs, and steel as did its origins, which we considered in the preceding chapters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, food production, which increases population size, also acts in many ways to make features of complex societies possible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We have upward of two thousand strains of yeast in production and new strains are added monthly. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It was also the landmass with the two centers where food production began the earliest: the Fertile Crescent and China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All this has come about because of the sudden rise and prodigious growth of an industry for the production of man-made or synthetic chemicals with insecticidal properties. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Everybody head home and stay safe. We’re shutting down production while we wait out this storm.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “There are always extras in every production,” he told Rowan. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z However, Ethiopia also developed many indigenous crops, and we do not yet know whether it was these crops or the arriving Fertile Crescent crops that launched Ethiopian food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some sort of production of palm oil had taken place here; there were the remains of palm nut seeds everywhere. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z When I was majoring in Asian-American studies, I took only one relevant course, in theater set design, for a college production of Madama Butterfly. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z As elsewhere in the world, in China food production gradually led to the other hallmarks of “civilization” discussed in Chapters 11—14. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was Russell Dieter, an ex-Marine aircraft mechanic who had been working as a production welder and, since his divorce, living on the family farm, midstate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Our production actually improves, since the art room isn’t so crowded anymore and we’re not getting in each other’s way. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Reducing diversions even to 10 percent of total production, he calculated, would require a force of tens of thousands of inspectors fanned out across Russia’s vast territory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Almost at once production workers began to exhibit the staggered gait and confused faculties that mark the recently poisoned. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They thus appear as agents potentially capable of blocking the whole process of energy production and depriving the cells of utilizable oxygen. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Julia’s unit in the Fiction Department had been taken off the production of novels and was rushing out a series of atrocity pamphlets. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The Homecoming Court people, the majorettes, the two lead actresses in our fall production of The Miracle Worker. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “It’s ninety percent cheaper to produce than an ordinary chip because the whole thing is sealed in so you don’t need clean rooms for production.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The Liberator was one of the heaviest planes in the world; the D model then in production weighed 71,200 pounds loaded. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z In contrast, villages were closely associated in time with the rise of food production in much of Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From what I could learn, the production was nearly professional, with many props and fancy equipment I’d never even heard of. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Vrasayana was in charge of a brine-evaporation plant for the production of iodine, with which yeast can do without, but human beings not. His plant was forced into receivership.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z That is, what arrived to launch food production in Egypt was foreign crops and animals, not foreign peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z And too tired for a day of production. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Our comparison begins with food production, a major determinant of local population size and societal complexity—hence an ultimate factor behind the conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Taken together, these four factors help us understand why the transition to food production in the Fertile Crescent began around 8500 B.C., not around 18,500 or 28,500 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They had begun to manage their environment intensively for fish production by building fish traps, nets, and even long canals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “This was the first production I was ever in, back when I was in sixth grade, and I’ve loved it ever since. We’ll sing the songs in class tomorrow.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z She could not fall behind in her production, else her pay would drop and before she knew it one of these cussed papists would have her job. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z When I was little, Chairman Mao had challenged the nation to catch up with England and America in steel production. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The most glaring difference between American and Eurasian food production involved big domestic mammal species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When pheasants received dieldrin in their diets, “egg production was markedly lowered and chick survival was poor.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “What is wrong with you three? I’ve been waiting to shoot my warehouse scene for hours! Oh, I get it. Fred is holding up production. Letting everybody down. Again.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z And, to make sure there was food, they seized control of all food production. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Plays and musicals that Volpe puts into production are often already familiar to his students because they have studied them in class. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Of these, the one linked most directly to the differences in food production was germs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The land, then the main means of production, belonged to the whole tribe and there was no individual ownership whatsoever. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence these local failures or limitations of food production cannot be attributed to competition from bountiful hunting opportunities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A superb Chinese tradition of bronze metallurgy had its origins in the third millennium B.C. and eventually resulted in China’s developing by far the earliest cast-iron production in the world, around 500 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “We wouldn’t want anybody to get sick, now, would we? Might slow down production.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That accounts for some of the discrepancies that readers may note between this book’s dates and those quoted in some standard reference books on early food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, we must consider food production and hunting-gathering as alternative strategies competing with each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig iron. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z That’s because, as we saw in Chapter 5, there were no more than nine areas of the globe, perhaps as few as five, where food production arose independently. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Inside Central, everyone who wasn't talking about getting us out of school seemed to be talking about the upcoming production of The Mikado. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Customs, culture, ideas about right and wrong all fall away under the pressure to increase production and get a higher return on investment. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It was the clumsiest production of physical interaction; the whole thing lasted no more than several seconds. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The first evidence for tool production dates from about 2.5 million years ago, and the manufacture and use of tools are the criteria by which archaeologists recognise ancient humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In all parts of the world where adequate evidence is available, archaeologists find evidence of rising densities associated with the appearance of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, though, possibly the earliest archaeological evidence for food production in Africa comes instead from the Sahara. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m not saying that food production could never, in any amount of time, have arisen in all those areas where it actually had not arisen indigenously by modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Children can explore the timbre, production, and material of the instruments to come up with their own ways of categorizing them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z At ten o’clock one winter evening in early 1935, Houseman slipped backstage at a New York production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Musically, the shape of the instrument is important since the shape is directly related to sound and sound production. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Have you ever seen a really beautiful production of, say, The Cherry Orchard? Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Her stepdad was hanging a framed poster from a Broadway production of Rent. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Part of the new production method’s genius was its division of labor into unskilled tasks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Here are some figures, in thousands, for the production of individual copies of printed books: of necessity, they are merely sophisticated estimates. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If research production was a measure of career viability—and it was— theoretical aerodynamics might have been the best place in the world to be a female researcher. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z These examples demonstrate that the sole missing ingredients required to sustain food production in large areas of the Americas were domestic animals and crops themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nobody gets a pass into a Truman production. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The charter does not speak about the eradication of classes and private property, or public ownership of the means of production, or promulgate any of the tenets of scientific socialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The ultimate work of energy production is accomplished not in any specialized organ but in every cell of the body. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As soon as the footlights came on, however, the production’s nontraditional emphasis became clear. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In addition, food production never arose indigenously in Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To Moseley, the fish bones suggested that the ample protein on the coast allowed people to go inland and build irrigation networks to produce the cotton needed to expand fishing production. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He became an assiduous collector of government contracts large and small, starting with the production of radioisotopes at a standard fee of $25 per hour of cyclotron time. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "So then," I say hopefully, "no production of Tiny Dancer?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Chapter 6 explores the numerous factors driving the shift from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle toward food production, in some areas but not in others. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like Duke himself, his native town had long since expanded far beyond cigarette production, turning to millwork first to supply the tobacco industry with cotton bags, and later expanding to manufacture hosiery and other garments. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He suggested that I try taking Clomid, a drug meant to stimulate egg production, for a couple of months. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This includes various tissues but most importantly those engaged in the production of blood. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Why did food production develop first in these seemingly rather marginal lands, and only later in today’s most fertile farmlands and pastures? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Adoption of food production may have been rapid and wholesale in southeastern and central Europe because the hunter-gatherer lifestyle there was less productive and less competitive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly assemble a potent and balanced biological package for intensive food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Monroe County had been developed by plantation owners in the nineteenth century for the production of cotton. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He made a production of looking at his watch. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z All of these capabilities of centralized societies have fostered intensified food production and hence population growth throughout history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those yields in turn supported intensive pig production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So I need almost four times my current plan's production to survive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Industrial production had fallen by half in those four years. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Cane sugar production in Cuba was booming, driving down prices. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In addition, food production contributes in at least three ways to specific features of complex societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Advances in mass production assembly enabled both sides to quickly arm their troops. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the world; refers to expanding one’s market beyond the immediate area of production. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z In their present form these bombs are now in production, and even more powerful forms are in development. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, one part of the explanation for farmer power lies in the much denser populations that food production could support: ten naked farmers certainly would have an advantage over one naked hunter-gatherer in a fight. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That was not because chiefdoms were more kindly disposed toward defeated enemies but because the greater economic specialization of states, with more mass production and more public works, provided more uses for slave labor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For this reason, it is absolutely against his wishes that parties in Iceland and elsewhere should provide financial subsidy for the production of this film or should show it once completed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The night bombers took off in a line three minutes after each other—just like a factory production line. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I don’t know why we insisted on making such a production of these dinners, because by the time Julian arrived we were invariably nervous and exhausted. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Fermi’s associate Franco Rasetti came away from a brief visit in 1935 astonished at the “enormous superiority” of the twenty-seven-inch cyclotron for the production of neutrons, far beyond anything available in Europe. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Features of American wild plants also contributed to the lesser competitiveness of Native American food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our productions were what might now be called minimalist: no stage, no scenery, no costumes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Different peoples acquired food production at different times in prehistory. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the far north, where food supplies are historically lean and farmers are regarded as politically hostile, the military takes a quarter of total grain production, Kwon said. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Polynesian food producers variously intensified production of pigs, dogs, and chickens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s nice to have friends, and besides I wanted a little time to think about the things I’d seen, the huge factories and plants and the scurry and production. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z You couldn’t judge very much from his productions in different colored chicken feathers and nutshells. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z With each production, they set an incredibly high goal and go about building something. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Well before other crops began to arrive from elsewhere, Native Americans settled in eastern U.S. river valleys and developed intensified food production based on local crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z However, once food production had arisen in one part of a continent, neighboring hunter-gatherers could see the result and make conscious decisions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of Greenberg’s subfamilies, and some groupings recognized by more-traditional linguists, may turn out to be legacies of New World population expansions driven in part by food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “So,” she begins, “you know that Michael and I tried out for the summer production at the Cape Playhouse, right?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z April 21—I figured out a new way to set up the mixing machines in the bakery to speed up production. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Normal cake production proved out of the question. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the leading man, however, who has made the most eloquent appeal to me to call off the production. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Just as some regions proved much more suitable than others for the origins of food production, the ease of its spread also varied greatly around the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Aborigines modified and managed the surrounding landscape in ways that increased its production of edible plants and animals, without resorting to cultivation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He flipped through the pages himself and said: “My wife and I caught a production of this musical in New York City back in ’74. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z In each of those areas, food production was initiated by some of the same suite of domestic plants and animals that launched it in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hence the next four chapters will explore how the ultimate cause of food production led to the proximate causes of germs, literacy, technology, and centralized government. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A caveat must be mentioned immediately: while there is no doubt about the antiquity of food production in Eurasia, there is controversy about its onset in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When the boys came running into the room, Doreen went through the whole production again. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Writing has evolved de novo only a few times in human history, in areas that had been the earliest sites of the rise of food production in their respective regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The other major obstacle to the development of food production in Australia was the paucity of domesticable wild plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And so I went into salt production for several days, and chipped out a niche inside the tree in which to store it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A chiefdom’s large population in a small area required plenty of food, obtained by food production in most cases, by hunting-gathering in a few especially rich areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their business is the first stage in the production of a hamburger. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But any food production that did arise indigenously in Australia would have been limited by the lack of domesticable animals, the poverty of domesticable plants, and the difficult soils and climate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Let’s now return to our earlier questions about the rise of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To take on such edgy and controversial material and fail would surely be far worse than presenting a production of Beauty and the Beast that falls just a little flat. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The next group of areas consists of ones that did domesticate at least a couple of local plants or animals, but where food production depended mainly on crops and animals that were domesticated elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Large-scale production of 94 would require a uranium chain reaction, which Fermi had not yet achieved. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Only after the first Polynesian settlers had exterminated moas and decimated seal populations on New Zealand, and exterminated or decimated seabirds and land birds on other Polynesian islands, did they intensify their food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He had also begun negotiating a contract with Eastman Kodak for large-scale industrial production of these nonradioactive substances. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “No, sir. I’m a production assistant. Jenny Yen over there?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Our other caveat concerns the limits that locally available wild species set on the rise of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Long before America’s aircraft manufacturers placed one of their newly conceived flying machines into production, they sent a working prototype to the Langley laboratory so that the design could be tested and improved. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z All the stages of a production come clear to her in a way nothing else ever has. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z If our rice production is increased this year it is because Pol Pot made it happen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Polynesian material culture varied from the production of no more than personal utensils to the construction of monumental stone architecture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mackintosh had not made the trip just to bless the production. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Now, America’s aircraft industry was a production miracle, easily surpassing Roosevelt’s mark by more than half. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Mass production, cheap labor, and big capital were the watchwords of the day now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I’m expecting a production meeting in which Plutarch instructs me where to stand and gives me my cue for shooting Snow. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z We thus have many different phenomena converging on the same conclusion: that food production spread more readily out of Southwest Asia than in the Americas, and possibly also than in sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I mentioned already that the adoption of food production involved a competition between the food producing and the hunting-gathering lifestyles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The oil production industry in West Texas had collapsed. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They organized work forces to construct large irrigation systems for agriculture and to enclose large ponds for fish production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Were they motivated to apply this knowledge to developing food production? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, as we shall see, food production evolved as a by-product of decisions made without awareness of their consequences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Food production based on eastern U.S. crops alone had been insufficient to trigger the boom, for reasons that are easy to specify. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The table suggests that food production began to provide a large fraction of human diets around 5,000 years earlier in the Eurasian homelands than in those of the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the night of Thursday, May 5, officials of the National Cordage Company, a trust that controlled 80 percent of America’s rope production, placed itself in receivership. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Some areas that are ecologically very suitable for food production never acquired it in prehistoric times at all, even though areas of prehistoric food production existed nearby. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The underlying reason why this transition was piecemeal is that food production systems evolved as a result of the accumulation of many separate decisions about allocating time and effort. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The only items the commander was interested in were the wings on his back and the multiphase, water-cooled, tri-barreled blaster strapped to his hip—the most powerful production handgun under the world. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z By noting which craters overlap which and other signs of lunar stratigraphy, we can reconstruct the sequence of impact and flooding events of which the production of crater Bruno is perhaps the most recent example. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These sprints require levels of energy production that far exceed the body’s capacity to produce aerobic energy, regardless of oxygen intake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Since the power production of the cyclotron was directly proportional to the size of its magnet, this would be a major leap forward. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In short, the variable outcomes of the Austronesian expansion strikingly illustrate the role of food production in human population movements. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I am hastening to let you know that the experiments on the production of high speed protons have been successful beyond our expectations,” Lawrence wrote to Dr. Frederick Gardner Cottrell on July 17. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z European agricultural production exploded after the arrival of the moldboard plow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The military uses of horses and camels, and the killing power of animal-derived germs, complete the list of major links between food production and conquest that we shall be exploring. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nor could food production spring up spontaneously in deserts remote from sources of water for irrigation, such as central Australia and parts of the western United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It could include facilities for food production, health care, manufacturing, leisure activities—just as a town on earth can do. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Couples danced to the latest hits while fireworks exploded overhead, or they enjoyed light comedies performed by a local stock company, in a theater that served as a casino between productions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She sits quietly on an uncomfortable chair beneath a line of framed posters advertising past productions, surrounded by boxes of tickets and receipts. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Berkner suggests that there may have been cycles of oxygen production and carbon dioxide consumption, depending on relative abundances of plant and animal life, with the ice ages representing periods of apnea. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There are so many of us now that Caroline and Michael had to move production from the art room into the gym, and parts of the chain are draped over everything. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z When he told his father that his job was to "hinder production," his mother scolded him, "You are here to do something against the country and here we are earning our living here." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z She crept away from the kitchen, then made a big production of entering the bathroom and slamming the door shut. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z That is, population growth leads to societal complexity, by mechanisms that we shall discuss, while societal complexity in turn leads to intensified food production and thereby to population growth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Before we can answer these questions, we must dispel some misconceptions about the origins of food production and then reformulate the question. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Concern about the future was rooted not only in seasonal cycles of production, but also in the fundamental uncertainty of agriculture. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In areas where there were only hunter-gatherers to begin with, those groups of hunter-gatherers who adopted food production outbred those who didn’t. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Australian Aborigines, of course, stood in the way of European food production, especially because what was potentially the most productive farmland and dairy country initially supported Australia’s densest populations of Aboriginal hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The orderly production of resources is vital to the general good of the people,” said Raul. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As we have seen, the production of these synthetic chemicals in large volume began in the 1940’s. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z "Or however many your guild can spare, without in-terfering with production. It's empty pots I'm asking for, understand. Have them sent round to the captains on each of the city gates." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Theory dictated that if the supposed disintegration were occurring within the nucleus’s electric field, the production of protons and neutrons would diminish as the targets got heavier. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Yet, already in prehistoric times, food production became established in many other regions besides those few areas of origins. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I had been to these productions for other kids— kids who were sent back—so what was the point? Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Even a visitor to the Fertile Crescent in 9500 B.C. rather than in 8500 B.C. could have been misled into supposing the Fertile Crescent permanently unsuitable for food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition, Truman has piloted productions of Les Miserables and Rent for Music Theatre International and in November will present a pilot for a school edition production of Spring Awakening, also for MTI. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The bookshelves, window sills, radiators, and all other flat surfaces are piled high with anthologies of plays, copies of scripts, and videotapes and sound tracks of Broadway productions. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z For instance, neither farming nor herding developed in prehistoric times in North America’s Arctic, while the sole element of food production to arise in Eurasia’s Arctic was reindeer herding. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Napoleon, on the other hand, argued that the great need of the moment was to increase food production, and that if they wasted time on the windmill they would all starve to death. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But the rise of food production varied around the globe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even among all those areas where food production did spread in the prehistoric era, the rates and dates of spread varied considerably. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the mass production of bronze tools, which was just beginning in the South American Andes in the centuries before A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It should come as no surprise that food production never arose in large areas of the globe, for ecological reasons that still make it difficult or impossible there today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Knowledge of wild species was presumably even more detailed before the rise of food production, when everyone on Earth still depended entirely on wild species for food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, however, they were fascinated, as they had never been backstage at a theatrical production and there was so much to see. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He took a long swig and made a big production out how refreshing it was—even though he was still sort of cringing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Instead, the links are indirect, especially via food production systems and their consequences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The immediate causes of that language replacement were the advantages in technology and political organization, stemming ultimately from the advantage of an early rise of food production, that invading Europeans held over Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Aboriginal Australian substitute for food production has been termed “firestick farming.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A prerequisite for living in settlements is either food production or else a productive environment with especially concentrated resources that can be hunted and gathered within a small area. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The production guys actually would turn to Keith to fix the software. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Another forge was built for the production of tools and nails. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z As a result we tend to overestimate the importance of new technology and underestimate the rate of production and the impact of new intellectual tools. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She had been napping near the semicircle of canvas-backed chairs where the production big shots sat, because she was exhausted. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z But no such humility marks the booming “weed killer” business of the present day, in which soaring sales and expanding uses mark the production of plant-killing chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was often not even a conscious choice between food production and hunting-gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, a good many chemicals also have the power to separate oxidation from energy production, and the insecticides and weed killers are well represented on the list. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z From those nuclear areas, hunter-gatherers of some neighboring areas learned food production, and peoples of other neighboring areas were replaced by invading food producers from the nuclear areas—again at widely differing times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When we trace food production back to its beginnings, the earliest sites provide another surprise. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z High school casts always get to know each other well—if they don’t start out as friends, they become close over the course of the production. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Harding, according to Russell, could have put on a toga and stepped onstage in a production of Julius Caesar. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Second, food production may be organized so as to generate stored food surpluses, which permit economic specialization and social stratification. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But tribal societies without intensive food production have no employment for slaves and do not produce large enough food surpluses to be able to yield much tribute. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was relentless pressure to meet production quotas. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z With the war emergency fading into the past and without war production pressures, there would be no hire-at-all-costs demand for women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Instead, what cries out for explanation is the failure of food production to appear, until modern times, in some ecologically very suitable areas that are among the world’s richest centers of agriculture and herding today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “We can be our own barbarians. Madame Szegeczowska.—Oh, I meant to ask you. The Almaden mercury mines have fallen off quite badly in production. Surely the ores are not declining more rapidly than anticipated?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Such differences in food production constituted a major ultimate cause of the disparities between Eurasian and Native American societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Within East Asia, China’s head start in food production, technology, writing, and state formation had the consequence that Chinese innovations also contributed heavily to developments in neighboring regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It turns out that the German beer industry suffers from small-scale production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And there were rumors of layoffs, big ones, trickling down from head office, and talk of moving the entire production facility to China, so keeping on top of things was doubly important at the moment. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The societies without writing that I just mentioned are ones that got a later start on food production than did Sumer, Mexico, and China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Food production was the first of those major innovations to appear in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There are grinning skulls; a ghoulish, blue-skinned woman with glowing yellow eyes; a caricature of a great, horned animal; illegible graffiti signatures; advertisements for local bands and theater productions. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I'm limited by my oxygen production, but I'm all excited now, so I'm willing to use half my reserves. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, peoples of some areas ecologically suitable for food production neither evolved nor acquired agriculture in prehistoric times at all; they persisted as hunter-gatherers until the modern world finally swept upon them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Walking down the hallway to my car I saw yet another flyer about the next production of To Kill a Mockingbird, which just added to my outrage. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was typical of the students in Volpe’s productions in that his life had been composed of more struggle than ease, though his circumstances were more complicated than most. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z With the reduced load of only supporting one human instead of six, a 14 percent energy production loss is irrelevant. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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