Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
Williams tackles a host of controversial subjects in this collection of nineteen impassioned essays dealing mostly with humanitys abuses of the natural world.
Collection of essays by Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania. The social, political, and scientific insights in these essays anticipate many contemporary environmental-policy dilemmas and the growing demand for environmental justice.
This comprehensive and authoritative collection of Oscar Wilde's American interviews affords readers a fresh look at the making of a literary legend. Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer (at twenty-six years old, he had by then published just one volume of poems), Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour ......
Taken from a family archive held at the Royal Armouries, Only Water Between tells the story of Captain Jack Adam and his family. Deployed to France in 1918, Jack leaves behind his beloved wife Gert and their three children. Separated by war, letters from home are a lifeline.
When an English family renovate a 17th Century château in France as their new home, they are welcomed into a pleasant rural lifestyle. Everything is très bon – until a politician with a Machiavellian agenda sets out to ruin them. Against a backdrop of intrigue and skeletons of Nazi collaboration from World War II, the evils of corruption envelop ......
From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic
This book presents the supernatural as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk characters, their literary representations, or popular media. Instead, we move around the world and into the twenty-first century, reshaping legends into a post-modern image that is psychologically and socially relevant.
Collection of essays by Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania. The social, political, and scientific insights in these essays anticipate many contemporary environmental-policy dilemmas and the growing demand for environmental justice.
An abridged, annotated translation of Girolamo Benzoni's 1572 History of the New World, which describes firsthand encounters between Europeans and Native Americans, New World geography, and indigenous flora and fauna.
