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Read the fascinating story of one of the greatest unsung figures of
the nature conservation movement, founder of the RSPB and icon of
early animal rights activism, Etta Lemon. A heroine for our times,
Etta Lemon campaigned for fifty years against the worldwide
slaughter of birds for extravagantly feathered hats. Her legacy is
the RSPB, grown from an all-female pressure group of 1889 with the
splendidly simple pledge: Wear No Feathers. Etta's long battle
against 'murderous millinery' triumphed with the Plumage Act of
1921 - but her legacy has been eclipsed by the more glamorous
campaign for the vote, led by the elegantly plumed Emmeline
Pankhurst. This gripping narrative explores two formidable heroines
and their rival, overlapping campaigns. Moving from the feather
workers' slums to high society, from the first female political
rally to the rise of the eco-feminist, it restores Etta Lemon to
her rightful place in history - the extraordinary woman who saved
the birds. ETTA LEMON was originally published in hardback in 2018
under the title of MRS PANKHURST'S PURPLE FEATHER. 'A great story
of pioneering conservation.' KATE HUMBLE 'Quite brilliant.
Meticulous and perceptive. A triumph of a book.' CHARLIE ELDER
'Shocking and entertaining. The surprising story of the campaigning
women who changed Britain." VIRGINIA NICHOLSON 'A fascinating and
moving story, vividly told.' JOHN CAREY 'A fascinating clash of two
causes: rights for women and rights for birds to fly free not adorn
suffragettes' hats. An illuminating story, provocative,
well-researched and brilliantly told.' DIANA SOUHAMI
For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world.
Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry.
Now the food system itself is beginning to falter. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, we can resolve the biggest of our dilemmas and feed the world without devouring the planet.
Regenesis is a breathtaking vision of a new future for food and for humanity. Drawing on astonishing advances in soil ecology, Monbiot reveals how our changing understanding of the world beneath our feet could allow us to grow more food with less farming. He meets the people who are unlocking these methods, from the fruit and vegetable grower revolutionising our understanding of fertility; through breeders of perennial grains, liberating the land from ploughs and poisons; to the scientists pioneering new ways to grow protein and fat. Together, they show how the tiniest life forms could help us make peace with the planet, restore its living systems, and replace the age of extinction with an age of regenesis.
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A Description of Patagonia, and the Adjoining Parts of South America
- Containing an Account of the Soil, Produce, Animals, Vales, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, &c. of Those Countries; the Religion, Government, Policy, Customs, Dress, Arms, and Language Of...; Copy 1
(Hardcover)
Thomas 1707-1784 Falkner, William 1742-1823 Combe
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R808
Discovery Miles 8 080
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This book focuses on British fossils and the story of life on our
islands, including details of the great fossil collections of
Britain.
The centrality of natural resources to global economic growth has
placed the debate over their ownership and control at the forefront
of legal, territorial and political disputes. Combining both legal
and policy expertise with academic and practitioner perspectives
this book considers the dimensions of natural resource governance
at a time when disputes over their use grow more acute. Focusing on
the law, regulation and governance of natural resources, this
timely work examines in detail the conflicts and contradictions
arising at the intersection between international economic law,
sustainable development and other areas of international law, most
notably human rights law and environmental law. Exploring the views
of different stakeholder groups in the natural resources sectors,
key chapters consider whether their differing interests and
concerns are adequately addressed under national and international
law. This book will appeal to scholars of law, political science
and development studies. It will also benefit policy practitioners
and advocacy specialists in development NGOs, research institutes
and international organisations. Contributors include: S. Adelman,
J.P. Bohoslavsky, C. Buggenhoudt, L. Cotula, D. Davitti, J.
Faundez, J. Justo, L. Martin, J. McEldowney, S. McEldowney, C.
Ochoa, D. Ong, M. Picq, F. Smith, C. Tan, J. Van Alstine, E. Wilson
For the past 150 years, architecture has been a significant tool in
the hands of city planners and leaders. In Creating Cities/Building
Cities, Peter Karl Kresl and Daniele Ietri illustrate how these
planners and leaders have utilized architecture to achieve a
variety of aims, influencing the situation, perception and
competitiveness of their cities. Whether the objective is branding,
re-vitalization of the economy, beautification, development of an
economic and business center, status development, or seeking
distinction with the tallest building, distinctive architecture has
been an essential instrument for those who manage the course of a
city's development. Since the 1870s, and the reconstruction of
Chicago following the Great Fire, architecture has been affected
powerfully by advances in design, technology and materials used in
construction. The authors identify several key elements in such a
strategic initiative, and in the penultimate chapter examine
several cases of cities that have ignored one or more of these
elements and have failed in their attempt. A unique set of insights
into this fascinating topic, this study will appeal to specialists
in urban planning, economic geography, and architecture. Readers
interested in urban development will also find its coverage
accessible and enlightening.
This book examines the dynamics of the relational and spatial
politics of contemporary French theatrical production, with a focus
on four theatres in the Greater Paris region. It situates these
dynamics within the intersection of the histories of the public
theatre and theatre decentralization in France, and the dialogues
between live performances and the larger frameworks of artistic
direction and programming as well as various imaginations of the
"public". Understanding these phenomena, as well as the politics
that underscore them, is key to understanding not only the present
status of the public theatre in France, but also how theatre as a
publicly funded institution interacts with the notion of the
plurality, rather than the homogeneity, of its publics.
He was known simply as the Blind Traveler. A solitary, sightless
adventurer, James Holman (1786-1857) fought the slave trade in
Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue
elephants in Ceylon, helped chart the Australian outback--and,
astonishingly, circumnavigated the globe, becoming one of the
greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously explored. A Sense
of the World is a spellbinding and moving rediscovery of one of
history's most epic lives--a story to awaken our own senses of awe
and wonder.
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