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I May be Gone for Some Time(2015)In 2014, Peter Hill, a self-proclaimed 'relatively normal 50-year-old, overweight desk-jockey', took on the task of attempting a 5,000-mile walk around the coast of Britain in aid of two charities. Adapted from his award-winning blog, I May Be Gone For SoVezava: Mehka29,27 € -
Ice Ages(2022) MAZUR, ALLAN (SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK)Allan Mazur's book tells the appealing history of the scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages, and how the waning of the last Ice Age paved the way for agrarian civilization and, ultimately, our present social structures. An engrossing combination of natural sVezava: Trda39,92 € -
Treasury of Folklore: Woodlands and Forests(2021) CHAINEY, DEE DEE,WINSHAM, WILLOWAn entertaining and enthralling collection of myths, tales and traditions surrounding our trees, woodlands and forests from around the world.Vezava: Trda21,02 € -
Peatlands of Britain and Ireland(2021) BAIN, CLIFTONIn The Peatlands of Britain and Ireland, Clifton Bain has completed a journey around our most spectacular natural areas and unites his vast conservation experience with detailed accounts, maps, and strikingly beautiful imagery.Vezava: Trda35,04 € -
Peaks and Bandits(2022) BONNEVIE BRYN, ALFRecounting Alf Bonnevie Bryn and George Ingle Finch's memorable trip to Corsica in 1909, Peaks and Bandits is a funny and joyful classic of Norwegian literature.Vezava: Mehka15,43 € -
Captain Shakespear(2017) DILLON, MR ALANTwo years before T E Lawrence's misson to the Hejaz, Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, a pioneering British political agent, ventured deep into the Nejdi desert, building crucial ties with Ibn Sa'ud before WW1. His journey and pivitol role in earlyVezava: Trda38,61 € -
Quartz and Feldspar(2016) KELLY, MATTHEWA miserable place of rain and bog or a sunny upland of exquisite natural beauty, here the elements are raw, the sky huge and nature seems ascendant. But it is no less a place made by human beings.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Intimate Geopolitics(2020) SMITH, SARABegins with a love story set in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State, but this is also a story about territory, and the ways that love, marriage, and young people are caught up in contemporary global processes.Vezava: Mehka57,03 € -
Participatory Action Research(2019) CHEVALIER, JACQUES M. (CARLETON UNIVERSITY, OTTAWA, CANADA),BUCKLES, DANIEL JRevised and updated, Participatory Action Research 2ed, guides readers on new pathways to collective reasoning and evidence-based learning for social change, addressing the widespread difficulties all disciplines face when trying to contribute to change iVezava: Mehka87,49 € -
Political Ecologies of Meat(2015)This book tackles the key issues of contemporary meat production and consumption through a lens of political ecology, which emphasizes the power relations producing particular social, economic and cultural interactions with non-human nature.Vezava: Mehka87,49 € -
Portable Prisons(2022) GACEK, JAMESPortable Prisons is an exploration of the electronic monitoring of offenders based on an ethnographic case study from Scotland. Through interviews and observations, Gacek demonstrates this technology is representative of the carceral state’s overreachingVezava: Mehka53,45 € -
Voices from the Shoreline(2021) SMYLIE, MIKEAn important record of ancient fishing traditions along Britain’s coastal fringes, now rapidly dying outVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Fen, Bog and Swamp(2022) PROULX, ANNIEA BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ‘A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!’ Bill McKibben ‘I learned something new – and found something amazing – on every page’ Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot SeeVezava: Trda23,82 € -
How to Become a Chartered Surveyor(2021) LEMEN, JENHow to Become a Chartered Surveyor demystifies the process and provides a clear road map for candidates to follow. The book outlines potential pathways and practice areas within the profession and includes the breadth and depth of surveying, from commerciVezava: Mehka45,61 € -
Log from the Sea of Cortez(2001) STEINBECK, JOHNIn 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in Sea of Cortez, published in 1941Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Dragon from the Mountains(2022) MCCARTNEY, MATTHEW (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Chinese investment in Pakistan has generated a debate - economic saviour or economic takeover? This book utilises an in-depth understanding of economic change in contemporary China and Pakistan, and economic theory and studies of big infrastructure projecVezava: Trda110,91 €
