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Resilience in the English Small-Scale Fishery

Small Fry but Big Issue

By: Rebecca Korda,Tim Gray,Selina M. Stead

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Resilience in the English Small-Scale Fishery

Small Fry but Big Issue

By: Rebecca Korda,Tim Gray,Selina M. Stead

This book is a contribution to our understanding of the worrying situation of small-scale fisheries (SSF) which face marginalisation in most coastal countries. The authors explain why SSF are so pressured; how there has been a powerful backlash against this marginalisation during the last 30 years; what are the main ideational currents supporting this backlash; and what is the enduring value of SSF that justifies that support. The authors discuss the major contemporary interpretations of SSF; the challenges facing SSF globally and in England; and SSF’s coping strategies in response to those challenges through the framework of resilience theory. In an innovative analysis, the authors show how there are three kinds of resilience: passive resilience (where fishers are resigned to their adverse fate), adaptive resilience (where fishers make the best use of the opportunities that are available to them), and transformative resilience (where fishers attempt to change the system that faces them). The authors draw on an extensive range of interview data to provide rich insights into the world of SSF, and they discuss a variety of proposals for improving their conditions. The book will appeal to the growing academic and public community that is following with increasing concern the debate about the future of SFF, and to the environmental movement which has committed itself to support SSF as a greener form of fishing than the large-scale industrial sector.

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193

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Springer Nature

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ISBN 10

3030542459

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9783030542450

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

A Biography

By: Selina Hastings

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The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

A Biography

By: Selina Hastings

He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has never been fully told. At last, the truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham’s personal correspondence and to newly uncovered interviews with his only child, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity, and passion that inspired Maugham to create such classics as The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage. Portrayed in full for the first time is Maugham’s disastrous marriage to Syrie Wellcome, a manipulative society woman who trapped Maugham with a pregnancy and an attempted suicide. Hastings also explores Maugham’s many affairs with men, including his great love, Gerald Haxton, an alcoholic charmer. Maugham’s work in secret intelligence during two world wars is described in fascinating detail—experiences that provided the inspiration for the groundbreaking Ashenden stories. From the West End to Broadway, from China to the South Pacific, Maugham’s remarkably productive life is thrillingly recounted as Hastings uncovers the real stories behind such classics as Rain, The Painted Veil, Cakes & Ale, and other well-known tales.

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914

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Simon and Schuster

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1611457041

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9781611457049

The Red Earl

The Extraordinary Life of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon

By: Selina Hastings

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The Red Earl

The Extraordinary Life of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon

By: Selina Hastings

In The Red Earl Selina Hastings tells the extraordinary story of her father, Jack Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon. In 1925, Hastings infuriated his ultra-conservative parents by turning his back on centuries of tradition to make a scandalous run-away marriage. With his beautiful Italian wife he then left England for the other side of the world, further enraging his family by determining on a career as a painter. The couple settled first in Australia, then on the island of Moorea in the South Pacific. Here, they led an idyllic existence until a bizarre accident forced them to leave the tropics forever. En route back to England, they stopped for a year in California, where Hastings continued to paint while enjoying a glamorous social life with actors such as Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. While in San Francisco, Hastings met the great Mexican artist Diego Rivera, and persuaded him to take him on as an assistant. For the next nearly four years he lived at close quarters with Rivera and with his wife, Frida Kahlo, first in San Francisco, then Detroit, and finally Mexico City. When eventually Hastings returned home it was to be faced with fighting on all fronts: in Spain during the Civil War; in England with his parents; and lastly with his wife, determined to keep him locked into a marriage from which by now he was desperate to escape. This enthralling story, superbly well written, not only gives a new perspective on two of the 20th-century's greatest artists, Rivera and Kahlo, but also reveals in fascinating detail the private life of an aristocratic family of 100 years ago.

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240

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408187388

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9781408187388

Rāsalīlā

A Musical Study of Religious Drama in Vraja

By: Selina Thielemann

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Rāsalīlā

A Musical Study of Religious Drama in Vraja

By: Selina Thielemann

A Comprehensive Account Of The Musical Elements Of Rasalila, Focuses As An Indepth Analysis Of The Rasalila Performance. An Extensive Photographic Documentations Displayed On 58 Colour Plates Concerns Its Preparations, Musical Instruments And Scans And Their Various Aspects.

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400

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APH Publishing

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8170248647

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9788170248644

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Resilience in the English Small-Scale Fishery

Resilience in the English Small-Scale Fishery

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

The Red Earl

The Red Earl

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