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02700nam a2200217 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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130905s2013 nyua b 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781451687866 (hb) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781451687873 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
363.8091724 BUF/For |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Buffett, Howard G. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
40 chances :finding hope in a hungry world |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
by Howard G. Buffett ; with Howard W. Buffett ; foreword by Warren E. Buffett. |
| 246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Forty chances |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Simon & Schuster, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2013. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiv, 443 p. ; |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
23 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: one shot at a warlord -- Story 1: How I realized i had only "40 chances" -- Story 2: Prague, 1968 : "The army eats first : we get what is left" -- Story 3: From bulldozing dirt to planting soil -- Story 4: Devon's gift -- Story 5: Because "al called" -- Story 6: The ovarian lottery -- Story 7: Reality has a nutty taste, especially when fried -- Story 8: Where hunger hides -- Bravery, courage, and hope -- Story 9: Loved, but lost -- Story 10: Empty calories -- Story 11: Little cromite -- Story 12: Sex and hunger in Timbuktu -- Story 13: Loss in Armenia -- Story 14: Farming under fire -- Story 15: Seeds of change -- Story 16: Shakira -- Story 17: a franciscan padre in the Sierra Madre -- Story 18: Gorillas v. guerillas -- Hard-learned lessons -- Story 19: Can this village be saved? -- Story 20: A complicated legacy -- Story 21: For yields to go up, we have to look down -- Story 21 1/2: owners make better farmers -- Story 22: What does doing better look like? / by Howard W. Buffett -- Story 23: Disconnects -- Story 25: A six-beer insight -- Story 26: Less than sparkling -- Challenges we need to figure out -- Story 27: Elephants and experts -- Story 28: Can smarter carrots save soil? -- Story 29: Chains that unlock potential / by Howard W. Buffett -- Story 30: A walk to the well -- Story 31: Souped up yields from stripped down tools -- Story 32: Does aid plant seeds of violence? / by Howard W. Buffett -- Reasons to hope -- Story 33: Opening what once was cerrado -- Story 34: Chocolate-covered opportunities -- Story 35: Fired up in Ghana -- Story 36: Buy local! -- Story 37: Hungry for data -- Story 38: The power of a piece of paper -- Story 39: Farmer of the future / by Howard W. Buffett -- Story 40: Help for a "poor relation" -- Epilogue: an optimistic pessimist returns to prague. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Food relief |
| Geographic subdivision |
Developing countries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Agricultural development projects |
| Geographic subdivision |
Developing countries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Humanitarianism |
| Geographic subdivision |
Developing countries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Hunger |
| Geographic subdivision |
Developing countries. |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) |
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| Koha normalized classification for sorting |
363_809172400000000_BUF_FOR |
| Koha itemnumber |
168654 |
