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No Timber Without Trees

Sustainability in the tropical forest

By: Duncan Poore

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No Timber Without Trees

Sustainability in the tropical forest

By: Duncan Poore

Much of the world's tropical timber is still supplied from natural forest, but under current systems of management the forests are rapidly becoming exhausted. Unless management practices change to become genuinely sustainable, neither the forests nor the essential contribution of the timber industry to many economies will survive. Duncan Poore reviews the extent to which natural forests are already being sustainably managed for timber production, and looks at how these practices can be enlarged. He places management for timber in the wider context of tropical forest conservation and outlines a strategy for further action. Thoroughly researched and accessibly written, this book will be useful for everyone working or interested in the subject of tropical forests. Foreword by Dato Dr B.C.Y. Freezailah Originally published in 1989

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1134064217

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Changing Landscapes

The Development of the International Tropical Timber Organization and Its Influence on Tropical Forest Management

By: Duncan Poore

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Changing Landscapes

The Development of the International Tropical Timber Organization and Its Influence on Tropical Forest Management

By: Duncan Poore

This is the history of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO); its aims, policies and achievements, through drawing on contemporary records and the author's own wide experience. The book uses examination of past successes and failures to formulate a 21st-century agenda for the most practical ways of improving the management of forests and deciding forest policies.

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Routledge

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113657008X

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9781136570087

The Management of Tropical Moist Forest Lands

Ecological Guidelines

By: Duncan Poore,Jeffrey Sayer

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The Management of Tropical Moist Forest Lands

Ecological Guidelines

By: Duncan Poore,Jeffrey Sayer

This book is a comprehensive guide to fundamental ecological principles in tropical moist forest lands. This edition has been revised to encompass our increased knowledge and understandings of the complexities of forest management. It addresses the cross-cutting issues: the effects of government policies, land allocation and infrastructure development in forest lands. An analysis is made regarding various forest uses: forests for wood, forests for agriculture and forests for nature conservation and environmental protection.

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283170071X

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The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558

By: John Duncan Mackie

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The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558

By: John Duncan Mackie

This classic volume in the renowned Oxford History of England series examines the birth of a nation-state from the death throes of the Middle Ages in North-West Europe. John D. Mackie describes the establishment of a stable monarchy by the very competent Henry VII, examines the means employed by him, and considers how far his monarchy can be described as "new." He also discusses the machinery by which the royal power was exercised and traces the effect of the concentration of lay and eccleciastical authority in the person of Wolsey, whose soaring ambition helped make possible the Caesaro-Papalism of Henry VIII.

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Oxford University Press

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0198217064

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9780198217060

Shakespeare’s Props

Memory and Cognition

By: Sophie Duncan

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Shakespeare’s Props

Memory and Cognition

By: Sophie Duncan

Cognitive approaches to drama have enriched our understanding of Early Modern playtexts, acting and spectatorship. This monograph is the first full-length study of Shakespeare’s props and their cognitive impact. Shakespeare’s most iconic props have become transhistorical, transnational metonyms for their plays: a strawberry-spotted handkerchief instantly recalls Othello; a skull Hamlet. One reason for stage properties’ neglect by cognitive theorists may be the longstanding tendency to conceptualise props as detachable body parts: instead, this monograph argues for props as detachable parts of the mind. Through props, Shakespeare’s characters offload, reveal and intervene in each other’s cognition, illuminating and extending their affect. Shakespeare’s props are neither static icons nor substitutes for the body, but volatile, malleable, and dangerously exposed extensions of his characters’ minds. Recognising them as such offers new readings of the plays, from the way memory becomes a weapon in Hamlet’s Elsinore, to the pleasures and perils of Early Modern gift culture in Othello. The monograph illuminates Shakespeare’s exploration of extended cognition, recollection and remembrance at a time when the growth of printing was forcing Renaissance culture to rethink the relationship between memory and the object. Readings in Shakespearean stage history reveal how props both carry audience affect and reveal cultural priorities: some accrue cultural memories, while others decay and are forgotten as detritus of the stage.

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440

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Routledge

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1351967606

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Demography and Nutrition

Evidence from Historical and Contemporary Populations

By: Susan Scott,Christopher J. Duncan

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Demography and Nutrition

Evidence from Historical and Contemporary Populations

By: Susan Scott,Christopher J. Duncan

This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a major impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today. Demography and Nutrition takes an interdisciplinary approach, involving time-series analyses, mathematical modelling, aggregative analysis and family reconstitution as well as analysis of data series from Third World countries in the 20th Century. Contents include details and analysis of mortality oscillations, food supplies, famines, fertility and pregnancy, infancy and infant mortality, ageing, infectious diseases, and population dynamics. The authors, both well known internationally for their work in these areas, have a great deal of experience of population data gathering and analysis. Within the book, they develop the thesis that malnutrition, from which the bulk of the population suffered, was the major factor that regulated demography in historical times, its controlling effect operated via the mother before, during and after pregnancy. Demography and Nutrition contains a vast wealth of fascinating and vital information and as such is essential reading for a wide range of health professionals including nutritionists, dietitians, public health and community workers. Historians, social scientists, geographers and all those involved in work on demography will find this book to be of great use and interest. Libraries in all university departments, medical schools and research establishments should have copies of this landmark publication available on their shelves.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470777451

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9780470777459

Return of the Black Death

The World's Greatest Serial Killer

By: Susan Scott,Christopher J. Duncan

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Return of the Black Death

The World's Greatest Serial Killer

By: Susan Scott,Christopher J. Duncan

If the twenty-first century seems an unlikely stage for the return of a 14th-century killer, the authors of Return of the Black Death argue that the plague, which vanquished half of Europe, has only lain dormant, waiting to emerge again—perhaps, in another form. At the heart of their chilling scenario is their contention that the plague was spread by direct human contact (not from rat fleas) and was, in fact, a virus perhaps similar to AIDS and Ebola. Noting the periodic occurrence of plagues throughout history, the authors predict its inevitable re-emergence sometime in the future, transformed by mass mobility and bioterrorism into an even more devastating killer.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470338997

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9780470338995

Biology of Plagues

Evidence from Historical Populations

By: Susan Scott,Christopher J. Duncan

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Biology of Plagues

Evidence from Historical Populations

By: Susan Scott,Christopher J. Duncan

The threat of unstoppable plagues, such as AIDS and Ebola, is always with us. In Europe, the most devastating plagues were those from the Black Death pandemic in the 1300s to the Great Plague of London in 1665. For the last 100 years, it has been accepted that Yersinia pestis, the infective agent of bubonic plague, was responsible for these epidemics. This book combines modern concepts of epidemiology and molecular biology with computer-modelling. Applying these to the analysis of historical epidemics, the authors show that they were not, in fact, outbreaks of bubonic plague. Biology of Plagues offers a completely new interdisciplinary interpretation of the plagues of Europe and establishes them within a geographical, historical and demographic framework. This fascinating detective work will be of interest to readers in the social and biological sciences, and lessons learnt will underline the implications of historical plagues for modern-day epidemiology.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139432303

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9781139432306

Shakespeare Among the Courtesans

Prostitution, Literature, and Drama, 1500-1650

By: Duncan Salkeld

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Shakespeare Among the Courtesans

Prostitution, Literature, and Drama, 1500-1650

By: Duncan Salkeld

Courtesans - women who achieve wealth, status, or power through sexual transgression - have played both a central and contradictory role in literature: they have been admired, celebrated, feared, and vilified. This study of the courtesan in Renaissance English drama focuses not only on the moral ambivalence of these women, but with special attention to Anglo-Italian relations, illuminates little known aspects of their lives. It traces the courtesan from a wry comedic character in the plays of Terence and Plautus to its literary exhaustion in the seventeenth-century dramatic works of Dekker, Marston, Webster, Middleton, Shirley and Brome. The author focuses especially on the presentation of the courtesan in the sixteenth century - dramas by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Lyly view the courtesan as a symbol of social disease and decay, transforming classical conventions into English prejudices. Renaissance Anglo-Italian cultural and sexual relations are also investigated through comparisons of travel narratives, original source materials, and analysis of Aretino's representations of celebrated Italian courtesans. Amid these fascinating tales of aspiration, desire and despair lingers the intriguing question of who was the 'dark lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets.

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1317056671

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9781317056676

Ben Jonson and the Lucianic Tradition

By: Douglas Duncan

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Ben Jonson and the Lucianic Tradition

By: Douglas Duncan

Duncan suggests Jonson's challenge to the audience originates in the practice of 'oblique teaching', which was developed by Erasmus and More out of their admiration for Lucian.

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0521223598

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9780521223591

Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan

1592-1623

By: Katherine Duncan-Jones

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Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan

1592-1623

By: Katherine Duncan-Jones

An original and provocative study of the evolution of Shakespeare's image, building on the success of Duncan-Jones' acclaimed biography, Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life. Taking a broadly chronological approach, she investigates Shakespeare's changing reputation, as a man, an actor and a poet, both from his own viewpoint and from that of his contemporaries. Many different categories of material are explored, including printed books, manuscripts, literary and non-literary sources. Rather than a biography, the book is an exploration with biographical elements. The change in public opinion in Shakespeare's time is quite startling: Henry Chettle attacked him as an 'upstart Crow' in 1592, an attack from which Shakespeare sought to defend himself; and yet by the time of the First Folio in 1623 he had become the 'Sweet Swan of Avon!' and was fast becoming the national treasure he remains today. This engaging and fascinating study brings the politics and fashions of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical world vividly to life.

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A&C Black

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1408139189

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9781408139189

One Long and Beautiful Summer

A Short Elegy For Red-Ball Cricket

By: Duncan Hamilton

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One Long and Beautiful Summer

A Short Elegy For Red-Ball Cricket

By: Duncan Hamilton

*A MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING SPORTS WRITER* 'Hamilton's book is a marvel . . . I'm not sure he could write a dull sentence if he tried' Spectator One of Duncan Hamilton's favourite writers on cricket, Edmund Blunden, wrote how he felt going to watch a game: 'You arrive early, earlier even than you meant . . . and you feel a little guilty at the thought of the day you propose to give up to sheer luxury'. Following Neville Cardus's assertion that 'there can be no summer in this land without cricket', Hamilton plotted the games he would see in 2019 and write down reflectively on some of the cricket that blessed his own sight. It would be captured in the context of the coming season in case subsequent summers and the imminent arrival of The Hundred made that impossible. He would write in the belief that after this season the game might never be quite the same again. He visits Welbeck Colliery Cricket Club to see Nottinghamshire play Hampshire at the tiny ground of Sookholme, gifted to the club by a local philanthropist who takes money on the gate; his village team at Menston in Yorkshire; the county ground at Hove; watches Ben Stokes's heroics at Headingley, marvels at Jofra Archer's gift of speed in a Second XI fixture for Sussex against Gloucestershire in front of 74 people and three well-behaved dogs; and realises when he reaches the last afternoon of the final county match of the season at Taunton, 'How blessed I am to have been born here. How I never want to live anywhere else. How much I love cricket.' One Long and Beautiful Summer forms a companion volume to Hamilton's 2009 classic, A Last English Summer. It is sports writing at its most accomplished and evocative, confirming his reputation as the finest contemporary chronicler of the game.

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riverrun

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1529408385

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9781529408386

The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 9

By: Duncan Wu,Tom Paulin,David Bromwich,Stanley Jones,Roy Park

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The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 9

By: Duncan Wu,Tom Paulin,David Bromwich,Stanley Jones,Roy Park

William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.

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1000749207

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Mary I

Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen

By: S. Duncan

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Mary I

Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen

By: S. Duncan

This book explores the gender politics of the reign of Mary I of England from her coronation to her funeral and examines the ways in which the queen and her supporters used language, royal ceremonies, and images to bolster her right to rule and define her image as queen.

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1137047909

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No Timber Without Trees

No Timber Without Trees

Changing Landscapes

Changing Landscapes

The Management of Tropical Moist Forest Lands

The Management of Tropical Moist Forest Lands

The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558

The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558

Shakespeare’s Props

Shakespeare’s Props

Demography and Nutrition

Demography and Nutrition

Return of the Black Death

Return of the Black Death

Biology of Plagues

Biology of Plagues

Shakespeare Among the Courtesans

Shakespeare Among the Courtesans

Ben Jonson and the Lucianic Tradition

Ben Jonson and the Lucianic Tradition

Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan

Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan

One Long and Beautiful Summer

One Long and Beautiful Summer

The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 9

The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 9

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