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Insects (entomology)June 2007Insect Conservation Biology
by Edited by Alan J A Stewart, Timothy R New, Owen T Lewis
In an age of unprecedented human impact on the environment, insect conservation biology is of increasing importance. Due to their abundance, diversity and rapid response to environmental changes, insects are also valuable indicators of wider biodiversity, and make excellent models for conservation research and monitoring. Over 50 international experts have contributed to this authoritative and up-to-date compendium, covering many topics including climate change, habitat management, ecosystem processes, conservation genetics, impact of GM technology, and the integration of insects into wider conservation agendas.
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September 2006Owen Noone
Roman
by Cowie, Douglas / Englisch Wasel, Ulrike; Englisch Timmermann, Klaus
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September 2021Jesse Owens
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Anna Katharina Jansen, Silke Kleemann
Jesse war das jüngste der zehn Kinder seiner Familie. Obwohl er der schnellste Läufer an seiner Schule war, konnte er nicht mit den anderen Kindern trainieren. Er musste arbeiten, um seine Familie zu unterstützen. Doch Jesse gab nie auf und wurde einer der größten Leichtathleten. Er brach zahlreiche Rekorde und gewann sogar bei den Olympischen Spielen. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Künstlerin, Pilotin oder Wissenschaftler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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The ArtsMarch 2013Space and being in contemporary French cinema
by James S. Williams
This book brings together for the first time five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting and significant working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guédiguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. Whatever their chosen habitats or shifting terrains, each of these highly distinctive auteurs has developed unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world. The book proposes that we think about cinematographic space in its many different forms simultaneously (screenspace, landscape, narrative space, soundscape, spectatorial space). Through a series of close and original readings of selected films, it posits a new 'space of the cinematic subject'. Accessible and wide-ranging, this volume opens up new areas of critical enquiry in the expanding interdisciplinary field of space studies. It will be of immediate interest to students and researchers working not only in film studies and film philosophy, but also in French/Francophone studies, postcolonial studies, gender and cultural studies. Listen to James S. Williams speaking about his book http://bit.ly/13xCGZN. (Copy and paste the link into your browser) ;
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October 1984Soziale Intentionen und Reformen des Robert Owen in der Frühzeit der Industrialisierung.
Analyse seines Wirkens als Unternehmer, Sozialreformer, Genossenschafter, Frühsozialist, Erzieher und Wissenschaftler.
by Elsässer, Markus
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2010New D.H. Lawrence
by Howard Booth
New D.H. Lawrence uses current and emergent approaches in literary studies to explore one of Britain's major modernist writers. The collection features new work by the present generation of Lawrence scholars, who are brought together here for the first time. Chapters include: Andrew Harrison on the marketing of Sons and Lovers; Howard J. Booth on The Rainbow, Marxist criticism and colonialism; Holly A. Laird on ethics and suicide in Women in Love; Hugh Stevens on psychoanalysis and war in Women in Love; Jeff Wallace on Lawrence, Deleuze and abstraction; Stefania Michelucci on myth and war in 'The Ladybird'; Bethan Jones on gender and comedy in the late short fiction; Fiona Becket on green cultural critique, Apocalypse and Birds, Beasts and Flowers; and Sean Matthews on class, Leavis and the trial of Lady Chatterley. New D.H. Lawrence will be of interest to all concerned with contemporary writing on Lawrence, modernism and English radical cultures. ;
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February 2024Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement
by Emlyn Williams, Chris Harwood, Colin Matheson
This third edition of Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement provides a set of practical procedures to follow when planning, designing and analysing tree improvement trials. Using many fully worked examples, it outlines how to: design field, glasshouse and laboratory trials; efficiently collect and construct electronic data files; pre-process data, screening for data quality and outliers; analyse data from single and across-site trials; and interpret the results from statistical analyses. The authors address the many practical issues often faced in forest tree improvement trials and describe techniques that will efficiently give conclusive results. The techniques provided are applicable to the improvement of not only trees, but to crops in general. Building on the success of the second edition, this new edition has been fully revised to include the construction of p-rep and spatial designs using the commercially available software package for design generation (CycDesigN). For analysis of the examples, it provides online Genstat and SAS programs and a link to R programs.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2023Reading David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature
by Allard den Dulk, Pia Masiero, Adriano Ardovino
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June 1983Innovationen
Über den Prozeßcharakter von Literatur und Kultur
by Raymond Williams, H. Gustav Klaus, H. Gustav Klaus, H. Gustav Klaus
In Großbritannien haben die Arbeiten des unorthodoxen marxistischen Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaftlers Raymond Williams eine lebhafte Resonanz gefunden; hierzulande ist er noch nicht zureichend beachtet worden. Die vom Herausgeber gemeinsam mit Raymond Williams im Blick auf eine kontinentale Leserschaft getroffene Auswahl aus seinen Arbeiten vereinigt theoretisch-begriffliche Untersuchungen und materiale Analysen, die sich in exemplarischer Weise mit zentralen Fragen der Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte befassen.
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September 2017Reveal: Robbie Williams
Enthüllungen
by Heath, Chris / Übersetzt von Prummer-Lehmair, Christa; Übersetzt von Horn, Heide; Übersetzt von Weiß, Robert A.; Übersetzt von Schermer-Rauwolf, Gerlinde; Übersetzt von Steckhan, Barbara; Übersetzt von Schuhmacher, Sonja; Übersetzt von Förs, Katharina
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Business, Economics & LawMarch 2017Arctic Tourism Experiences
Production, Consumption and Sustainability
by Young-Sook Lee, David Weaver, Nina K Prebensen
An exploration of Arctic tourism, focusing on tourist experiences and industry provision of those experiences; this is the first compilation to concentrate on the fundamental essence of the Arctic as being a geographical periphery, but also an experiential core that offers peak tourism experiences. Part 1 investigates the depth and dimensions of tourist experiences in the Arctic. Chapters examine the essence of diverse peak experiences and delve into the factors that give rise to these experiences. Part 2 considers the links between these core experiences and the tourism industry that seeks to sustain itself by facilitating such satisfying outcomes. ; The book focuses on tourist experiences and industry provision of those experiences. It concentrates on the fundamental essence of the Arctic as being a geographical periphery, but also an experiential core that offers peak tourism experiences. ; PART I: INTRODUCTION AND ISSUES: TOURIST EXPERIENCES OF THE ARCTIC AND CREATING TOURIST EXPERIENCES.Chapter 1: Arctic Destinations and Attractions as Evolving Peripheral Settings for the Production and Consumption of Peak Tourism ExperiencesChapter 2: Experiencing the Arctic in the Past: French Visitors to Finnmark in the Late 1700s and Early 1800sChapter 3: Roles of Adventure Guides in Balancing Perceptions of Risk and SafetyChapter 4: The Central Role of Identity in the Arctic PeripheryChapter 5: Tourists and Narration in the Arctic: The Changing Experience of MuseumsChapter 6: World Heritage List = Tourism Attractiveness?PART II: CREATING TOURIST EXPERIENCES IN THE ARCTICChapter 7: Degrees of Peripherality in the Production and Consumption of Leisure Tourism in GreenlandChapter 8: Northern Lights Experiences in the Arctic Dark: Old Imaginaries and New Tourism NarrativesChapter 9: Exploring the Extreme Iditarod Trail in AlaskaChapter 10: The Arctic Tourism Experience from an Evolving Chinese PerspectiveChapter 11: Tourists’ Interpretations of a “Feelgood In Lapland” Holiday- A Case StudyChapter 12: Negotiating Sami Place and Identity: Do Scottish Traditions Help Sami to be More Sami?Chapter 13: Emergence of Experience Production Systems for Mass Tourism Participation in Peripheral Regions: Evidence from Arctic ScandinaviaChapter 14: Factors of Peripherality: Whale Watching in Northern NorwayChapter 15: Responsible Fishing Tourism in the ArcticChapter 16: Long way up: Powered Two-Wheeled Journeys in Northern PeripheriesChapter 17: Experiences of Marine Adventurers in the Canadian ArcticChapter 18: Arctic Tourism in Russia: Attractions, Experiences, Challenges and PotentialsChapter 19: Tourism Experiences of Post-Soviet Arctic BorderlandsChapter 20: Arctic Tourism Experiences: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Research Directions for a Changing Periphery
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2009The four funerals in Beowulf
by Gale Owen-Crocker
It is well known that the old English poem Beowulf begins and ends with funerals and includes the third as a digression part way through. Now, for the first time, a fourth funeral (hitherto disguised as poetic imagery) is identified from archaeological evidence. A detailed analysis of the four funerals establishes their thematic and structural importance, revealing them as pillars around which the poem is built. The poet is revealed as a literate antiquarian of considerable structural skill; one who explores feminist issues, plays with numbers and enjoys a pun; who establishes an ideal then probes its darker side. The author's unique knowledge of Anglo-Saxon culture provides constant surprises and enlightenment. This book will be invaluable to all students of the poem for its fresh and detailed reading, its identification of a coherent structure and its establishment of the integrity of the surviving texts. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 1999Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951
by Owen Davies
The only serious study of witchcraft and magic from 1736 to 1951 Brings together matters ranging from upper class spiritualism to rural witchcraft in an exciting and intellecually stimulating way Essential reading for all social historians and all h. . . . ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2024Sir Philip Sidney: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
The New Arcadia, Second Revised Edition
by Victor Skretkowicz, Elisabeth Chaghafi, J. B. Lethbridge
Shipwrecks, gory battle scenes, cross-dressing, toxic relationships, abduction, torture (psychological and physical), comical country bumpkins, and, of course, love and poetry -Sir Philip Sidney's witty pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia is the classic that has it all in terms of entertainment factors. Modern readers mostly know Arcadia in its complete 'old' version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590) that was the most influential and most widely imitated literary text of the sixteenth century. While preserving the basic plot - a ruler attempts to escape an alarming oracle by moving his family to the countryside and engaging in shepherd-cosplay until the arrival of two foreign princes triggers a chain of events leading to the fulfilment of the oracle - this version adds further narrative strands and introduces ambitious revisions that showcase Sidney's stylistic brilliance as a prose writer.
