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The world is becoming a busy noisy place and it is good to find a
pastime that creates a different space, another dimension. Our
paintings mean a lot to us because they remind us of lovely places
we have visited and enable us to remember them in detail. It takes
time to study the colours and contours of a scene. It may be that
the drawing is an inadequate representation of the three
dimensional scene spread out before us, how can it be anything
else, but the process of trying to represent it on the two
dimensions of the blank page is intellectually rewarding. The
emerging picture is not just about the scene before you but also
about your response to it at the time.
`A series which is a model of its kind.' EDMUND KING, HISTORY The
latest volume in the series concentrates, as always, on the half
century before and the century after 1066, with papers which have
many interconnections and range across different kinds of history.
There is a particular focuson church history, with contributions on
an Anglo-Saxon archiepiscopal manual, architecture and liturgy in
post-Conquest Lincolnshire, Anglo-Norman cathedral chapters, and
twelfth-century views of the tenth-century monastic reform. Other
topics considered include social history (the Anglo-Norman family),
gender (William of Malmesbury's representation of Bishop Wulfstan
of Worcester), and politics (the sheriffs of Northumberland and
Cumberland 1170-1185). The volume is completed with articles on
Domesday Book and the post-Domesday Evesham Abbey surveys, and a
double paper on land tenure and royal patronage. Contributors:
STEPHEN BAXTER, JOHN BLAIR, HOWARD CLARKE, TRACEY-ANN COOPER,HUGH
DOHERTY, PAUL EVERSON, DAVID STOCKER, KIRSTEN FENTON, VANESSA KING,
JOHN MOORE, NICOLA ROBERTSON, DAVID ROFFE
Ecology and economics share a common root: the Greek word oikos,
meaning a house. Ecology is the way the natural world manages its
house. Economics is the way society manages its house. The
contentions of this book are that the natural world is the best
guide to our economic activities, that supply and demand are
insufficient determinants, that profit and loss are not
alternatives, that wealth cannot be created but can be lost.
Ecological economics is a term that has been coined to encapsulate
these ideas. We can stop throwing away food before and after it
gets to the table. We can learn to deal with our pollution. We can
stop wasting our resources. We must look again at our priorities.
We're in a race against time. Perhaps there's not time enough, but
it's in everyone's interest to try. If we keep our activities on a
human scale, maybe the passengers can regain control of the runaway
train.
The human burden of infection caused by food-borne protozoan
parasites is enormous; billions of people are infected world-wide
and the DALY (disability-adjusted life year) toll due to these
infections is correspondingly huge. Whilst some infections may
result in mild, relatively insignificant clinical disease, others
may be seriously debilitating or even fatal. This book provides
detailed insights into those protozoa who are currently most
relevant regarding food-borne transmission. This book is intended
to be of use and interest for a range of professionals, from
researchers to regulators, from diagnosticians to parasitologists
to food technologists; it should be read by those who work in
academia, within the various branches of the food industry and food
research associations, in government regulatory agencies, and in
environmental health departments.
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