[t]he Values To Which People Cling Most

We Study The Injustices Of History For The Same Reason That We Study Genocide, And For The Same Reason That Psychologists Study The Minds Of Murderers And Rapists... To Understand How Those Evil Things Came About.

I Decided That Now Is The Time To Start Doing The Things That Really Interest Me And I Find Important. It Was In The 10 Years Of The Macarthur Grant That I Began Working On My First Book... And I Began Putting More Work Into Environmental History.

Aids And Malaria And Tb Are National Security Issues. A Worldwide Program To Get A Start On Dealing With These Issues Would Cost About $25 Billion... It's, What, A Few Months In Iraq.

The Adoption Of Agriculture, Supposedly Our Most Decisive Step Toward A Better Life, Was In Many Ways A Catastrophe From Which We Have Never Recovered.

Eurasia Ended Up With The Most Domesticated Animal Species In Part Because It's The World's Largest Land Mass And Offered The Most Wild Species To Begin With.