The Accidental Countryside

Author : Stephen Moss
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781783351664

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The Accidental Countryside by Stephen Moss Pdf

'A superb naturalist and writer.' CHRIS PACKHAM 'From Stone Age remains to modern day skyscrapers, Stephen Moss takes us on an exhilarating journey through place and time, providing a fascinating insight into nature's relationship with environments created by man.' DR MYA-ROSE CRAIG (BIRDGIRL) Welcome to The Accidental Countryside. This is the fascinating and remarkably empowering story of our influence upon the landscape and wildlife of these crowded islands, and of how wildlife has co-opted its most unlikely corners - even when we least expected it. From the seabirds sheltering in the prehistoric stone structures of Shetland to the peat diggings in Somerset teeming with life, and from the rare insects hidden in Belfast's docklands to the falcons that make London's Shard their home, Stephen Moss reveals the unexpected oases which foster the crucial links in the chain that bind the natural world together.

Author : Judith W. Page,Elise L. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108491150

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Women, Literature, and the Arts of the Countryside in Early Twentieth-Century England by Judith W. Page,Elise L. Smith Pdf

This book examines the centrality of the countryside to women's work, creativity, and aspirations in early-twentieth-century England.

Author : Paul Cloke,Jo Little
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134769551

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Contested Countryside Cultures by Paul Cloke,Jo Little Pdf

This book charts the experiences of marginalised groups living in (and visiting) the countryside, revealing how notions of the rural have been created to reflect and reinforce divisions among those living there.

Author : Stephanie C. Palmer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739132128

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Together by Accident by Stephanie C. Palmer Pdf

This fascinating account of the regional travel accident motif within American local color literature offers a reassessment of the cultural work done by authors writing during the Gilded Age. Stephanie C. Palmer shows how events like broken carriage wheels and missed trains were used by local color authors to bring together bourgeois and lower-class characters, thus giving readers the opportunity to see modernity coming into contact with both rural and urban life. Using the works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and others, Palmer traces the use of the regional travel accident motif and how local color writers employed it to give critiques on class, society, and modern life. Exploring the themes of regional identity, modernity, and interpersonal relationships, Together by Accident offers an intriguing evaluation of the innovations and inconveniences associated with life during the industrializing Gilded Age in America.

Author : G. E. Mingay
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0415241952

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The Victorian Countryside by G. E. Mingay Pdf

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Valeria Siniscalchi,Krista Harper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350084780

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Food Values in Europe by Valeria Siniscalchi,Krista Harper Pdf

What can a focus on “food projects” in Europe tell us about contemporary social processes and cultural debates? Valeria Siniscalchi and Krista Harper show how food becomes a marker of identity and resistance to social exclusion, and how food values become tools for transforming power dynamics at the local level and beyond. Through the comparison of food-centered movements across Europe, the book explains how these forms of mobilization express ideologies as well as economic and political objectives. The chapters use an ethnographic approach to focus on the transformation of values carried by individuals and groups in relation to food in Portugal, Greece, Latvia, Moldova, Denmark, the UK, Italy, and France. Contributors analyze food values, as expressed in daily life and livelihoods, through specific practices of production, exchange, and consumption. Topics covered include Prague's urban agricultural scene, the perception of poverty in Moldova, shepherds' protests in Sardinia, and organic food cooperatives in Catalonia.

Author : Jennifer Joyce
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008348656

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The Accidental Life Swap by Jennifer Joyce Pdf

‘I haven’t laughed so much at a book for a long time.’ Whispering Stories Book Blog, 5 stars Sometimes one moment can change your life forever...

Author : Valerie Bowman
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466839434

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The Accidental Countess by Valerie Bowman Pdf

CAN A SCANDALOUS CHARADE For seven long years, Lady Cassandra Monroe has waited for the man of her dreams to return from the war. Unfortunately, he happens to be engaged to her flighty cousin. What Cass wouldn't give to take her cousin's place! When he mistakes Cass for Patience Bunbury, a fictitious friend her cousin has invented to escape social obligations...even with her future husband, Cass thinks this is her chance. LEAD TO TRUE AND LASTING LOVE? After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, Captain Julian Swift is not quite ready to settle down and enter into his unwanted arranged marriage-especially when the real object of his affection turns out to be a beguiling beauty he meets at a party. Patience Bunbury is witty, independent, passionate...and, unbeknownst to him, the cousin of his current fiancée. When the truth about Cass comes out-and Julian discovers that their courtship is anything but accidental-will he surrender his heart to a woman who really is too good to be true?

Author : Andrew Gilg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134937196

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Countryside Planning by Andrew Gilg Pdf

Should rural Britain be preserved from urban development, or should people be allowed to live and shop where they want? In the face of continued urban expansion the countryside has become a major issue, its future development uncertain. Countryside Planning addresses these concerns and provides an in-depth study of the rural debate. Beginning with the key concepts and issues, the author sets out the context in which planning operates and how society has constructed its own images of the countryside. Using three theoretical perspectives the book decsribes the evolution of the current planning system and provides a basis for further discussion about the possible future for the countryside. In the wake of the recent Rural White Paper, the book includes the major issues that affect contemporary rural Britain including the current reforms of the CAP, the role of farmers as land managers, and the hypocrisy of sustainable and green tourism. Using boxed policy summaries throughout the text, as well as key question and answer sections in every chapter, the author treats policy and trends across the whole spectrum of countryside planning. Countryside Planning is an in-depth and authoritative analysis of rural policy and makes an important contribution to the countryside planning debate and the future of rural Britain.

Author : Maggie Dallen
Publisher : Lyrical Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781601834652

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The Accidental Engagement by Maggie Dallen Pdf

An American playboy’s PR crisis leads to a fake engagement and a peculiar love triangle in Italy in this contemporary romance series debut. Oops . . . It started as a regular night for New York City restaurant hostess Ivy Sinclair, until a rowdy customer turned out to be world famous playboy Jack Everett. Thanks to the paparazzi, now the world thinks they’re a couple—which couldn’t be farther from the truth. But when a brooding, sexy businessman offers her a simply irresistible proposition . . . Uh oh . . . Just when cutthroat venture capitalist Daniel Gladwell thought he’d never close the deal with an Italian conglomerate, a simple mistake becomes the perfect opportunity. All he has to do is convince Ivy to pretend to be Jack’s fiancée while on a business trip to Italy to offset Jack’s bad boy reputation. As long as Daniel doesn’t sabotage the plan by claiming the tempting waitress for himself . . . Oh yes! It was supposed to be a business only arrangement. But in the magic of the Tuscan countryside, neither Ivy nor Daniel can fight the attraction building between them. In the world’s most romantic setting, the line between business and pleasure is one that begs to be crossed . . .

Author : Kenneth Allsop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Plovers
ISBN : 0140034463

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Adventure Lit Their Star by Kenneth Allsop Pdf

Author : Robert Rebein
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813149974

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Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists by Robert Rebein Pdf

Robert Rebein argues that much literary fiction of the 1980s and 90s represents a triumphant, if tortured, return to questions about place and the individual that inspired the works of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and other giants of American literature. Concentrating on the realist bent and regional orientation in contemporary fiction, he discusses in detail the various names by which this fiction has been described, including literary postmodernism, minimalism, Hick Chic, Dirty Realism, ecofeminism, and more. Rebein's clearly written, nuanced interpretations of works by Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, Dorothy Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, E. Annie Proulx, Chris Offut, and others, will appeal to a wide range of readers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015071811254

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Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Summaries. Vol. 3. No. 2 by Anonim Pdf

Author : C. A. Brebbia
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845647797

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Urban Transport XX by C. A. Brebbia Pdf

Urban Transport XX contains the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment.Topics covered include: Environmental impact; Transport strategies; Public transport systems; Urban transport simulation; Transport safety and security; Experiences from emerging countries; Intelligent transport systems.

Author : Thom Pico
Publisher : Random House Graphic
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593118863

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Aster and the Accidental Magic by Thom Pico Pdf

A fun, action-packed fantasy adventure about a girl, her dog, and magic gone wrong! Quiet . . . birds . . . nature. . . . That's what Aster expects when her parents move their whole family to the middle of nowhere. It's just her (status: super-bored), her mom and dad (status: busy with science), her brother (status: has other plans), and . . . . . . magic? In her new home, Aster meets a mysterious old woman with a herd of dogs who gives her a canine companion of her own. But when she and her dog Buzz are adventuring in the forest, they run into a trickster spirit who gives Aster three wishes. After wishing for the ability to understand and talk to her dog, she becomes only able to talk in dog language . . . and the trouble she gets into is just starting. Maybe the middle of nowhere will be more interesting than Aster thought. "Crisp, vibrant artwork." -The AV Club