An essay on the principle of population by Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834

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Merchants of despair : radical environmentalists, criminal pseudo-scientists, and the fatal cult of antihumanism by Zubrin, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Malthus, the most dismal scientist -- Darwinism's moral inversion -- The birth of eugenics -- Deutschland über alles -- Eugenics comes to America -- The Nazi Holocaust -- Eugenics reborn -- In defense of malaria -- Scriptures for the doom cult -- The betrayal of the left -- The anti-nuclear campaign -- Population control: preparing the Holocaust -- Population control: implementing the Holocaust -- Better dead than Fed: green police for world hunger -- Quenching humanity's fire: global warming and the madness of crowds -- The mind imprisoned or the soul unchained.…”


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The ecology book

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The world's population : an encyclopedia of critical issues, crises, and ever-growing countries by Shelley, Fred M., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, 1776 ; Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798 ; Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, 1848 ; Johnson-Reed Act: text of section establishing immigration quotas, 1924 ; Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965: text of amendment eliminating national immigration quotas ; International adoptions: The Hague Convention, Preamble and Articles 1-5, 1993 ; Genocide: the eight states of genocide, 1998 ; Environmental refugees: Living Space for Environmental Refugees (LiSER) - mission statement, 2002 ; One-Child Policy: testimony of U.S. …”


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Smaller faster lighter denser cheaper : how innovation keeps proving the catastrophists wrong by Bryce, Robert, 1960-

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The making of modern economics : the lives and ideas of the great thinkers by Skousen, Mark

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Vintage reading : from Plato to Bradbury : a personal tour of some of the world's best books by Kanigel, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Forster -- My Ántonia / Willa Cather -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- On many a list for burning (Heretics, subversives, demagogues): Stories / Dorothy Parker -- The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- The Devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce -- Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler -- Nana / Emile Zola -- Ten days that shook the world / John Reed -- Native son / Richard Wright -- Books that shaped the western world: Essays / Montaigne -- Dialogues / Plato -- The wealth of nations / Plato -- An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus --…”


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The life of Benjamin Franklin by Lemay, J. A. Leo (Joseph A. Leo), 1935-2008

Table of Contents: “…Volume 3: Soldier, Scientist, And Politician 1748-1757: -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Association, 1747-1748 -- Electricity -- Astronomy, weather, and the northwest passage: natural philosopher, 1748-1757 -- Clerk, councilman, and magistrate, 1748-1751 -- Academy and college of Philadelphia -- Colonial Union, dumping felons in America, and assemblyman 1751 -- Fundamental document of the American Revolution, 1751 -- Pennsylvania hospital -- Franklin's first full assembly, the money Bill, and Susanna Wright, 1751-1752 -- Insurance: the Philadelphia contributionship -- Paper currency, the coming of war, and a trip to New England, 1752-1753 -- Carlisle Treaty, Postmaster General, a trip to New England, and Assembly Sessions, 1753-1754 -- Pennsylvania Germans -- Assembly sessions, the snake cartoon, and the Albany Conference, 1754 -- Boston, America and the empire, and Katy Ray, 1754-1755 -- Libels on the assembly, Quincy's Mission, and General Braddock, 1755 -- Assembly crises, Crown Point, Parables, and glimpses of Deborah, 1755 -- French and Indians attack and Pennsylvania responds, 1755 -- General Franklin on the frontier, 1755-1756 -- Rival militias, Colonel Franklin, Virginia, New York, and frontier fighting, 1756 -- Easton Treaty and Assembly Sessions, 1756-1757 -- Franklin in New York and at sea, 1757 -- Assessing Franklin, age 42 through 51 -- Appendices: -- New attributions -- Franklin's residences and real estate to 1757 -- Electrical terminology -- Influence of Benjamin Franklin's "observations concerning the increase of mankind" (1751) on Ezra Stiles, Richard Price, and Adam Smith; on Thomas Malthus; and on Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin -- Franklin's plan of union and the Albany Plan -- Franklin's saying: "essential liberty-temporary safety" -- Post office expansion, 1753-1757 -- Franklin's wealth, 1756 -- Americanization of Benjamin Franklin -- List of abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.…”


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