This is a book that will be welcomed by social scientist and economist as well as by historians and demographers. It's range is vast - the history of the world's population from early man to the twenty-first century AD (by projection). But it is so silfully and clearly organized that reading it is a pleasure and reference simple.
Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran s religious culture encompasses the most censorious and dogmatic Shi a Muslim clerics in the world, yet its poetry insistently dwells on the joys of life:
When Major Dam Stormdragon was chosen to serve as part of Castalia's military tithe to the Mother World he had no choice but to go - much as he loather Terra and everything she stood for. He knew that given the combination of arrogance and paranoia that Terran's displayed towards all Colonials he
