Now the subject of a BBC Radio 4 documentary'Wild and wonderful ... I doubt anyone will ever match Strandings for its sheer bravura, its wry insight, and its absolute, engulfing, and brilliantly enlivening whaleheadedness'PHILIP HOARE, ALBERT AND THE WHALE'Addictive and scandalously fascinating' Caught by the RiverWhen Peter Riley was thirteen, a woman with blue hair and a comet tat...

Featuring a decade's worth of work by British poet Peter Riley, this collection explores the pressures of history, culture, language, and place on the traveler through questioning lyrical poems and monologues. Most of these pieces derive from the experience of unfamiliar places from highland to wilderness, notably the Pyrenees, the Apennines, Derbyshire, Haute Provence, and the American West. Riley is keenly conscious of natural surroundings, and this compilation becomes a venue for the se...

In Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry, Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation--a myth, he argues, that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood, valued, and exploited. The book seeks to challenge a dominant cultural logic that frames contingent, non-vocational labor as a necessary sacrifice that frustrates the righteous progress towards realizing that seemingly purest of callings: Poet. In...

Stage 7 is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education.Help learners engage with and fully understand topics they are studying with captivating content following the new Cambridge Lower Secondary Science curriculum framework (0893).- Provide activities to increase learners' subject knowledge and develop the skills necessary to think and work scientifically.- Test learners' comprehension of each topic with questions designed to develop d...

The Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics series provides non-specialist primary school teachers with subject knowledge and full teaching programmes in a variety of key primary curriculum subjects.This bookis a revised and up-to-date hands-on guide to planning and delivering primary science lessons. Updates include the following topics:- Climate change- Citizen science- Outdoor learningEach chapter offers practitioners an essential summary of a...

Stage 9 is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education.Help learners engage with and fully understand topics they are studying with captivating content following the new Cambridge Lower Secondary Science curriculum framework (0893).- Provide activities to increase learners' subject knowledge and develop the skills necessary to think and work scientifically.- Test learners' comprehension of each topic with questions designed to develop d...

A Map of Faring holds three major poetical sequences meditating on particular places: an English wood, a Transylvanian valley, and a house in southern France, as well as poems of places in Austria, Germany, The Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and elsewhere. In these, landscape and encounters become the vocabulary of a personal exploration of senses of time and passage, and the fate of small localities in the spread of global forces. A Map of Faring reckons with acts large and small, that are ...

Stage 8 is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education.Help learners engage with and fully understand topics they are studying with captivating content following the new Cambridge Lower Secondary Science curriculum framework (0893).- Provide activities to increase learners' subject knowledge and develop the skills necessary to think and work scientifically.- Test learners' comprehension of each topic with questions designed to develop d...

From 9/11 to the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq, the eurozone crisis to the Brexit vote, the Great Recession to the Arab Spring, the rise of China to the annexation of Crimea, the passage from Obama to Trump and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the London-based New Left Review has offered a series of sharply critical editorials, combining argument with analysis-radical antidotes to the self-serving accounts of the Anglophone press. Contraventions brings together a selecti...

Sociological Theory and the Environment is a comprehensive survey and assessment of sociological theories of the relations between societies and their 'natural' biophysical environment. This book touches on and addresses virtually all of the major perspectives, focal points, and debates in environmental sociology today-classical and twentieth century social theories, macro-micro linkage issues, globalization and development, reflexive modernization, ecological modernization vs. 'limits' vi...

This book explores how rural gender relations are changing in a globalising world that fundamentally impacts on the structure of agricultural life in rural areas and urban-rural relations. It analyses the development of rural gender relations in specific places around the world and looks into the effects of the increasing connectivity and mobility of people across places. The themes covered are: gender and mobility, gender and agriculture, Gender and rural politics, rurality and Gender ide...

Famous Trees of Texas was first published in 1970 by the Texas Forest Service (now Texas A&M Forest Service), an organization created in 1915 and charged with protecting and sustaining the forests, trees, and other related natural resources of Texas.For the 100-year anniversary of TFS, the agency presents a new edition of this classic book, telling the stories of 101 trees throughout the state.Some are old friends, featured in the first edition and still alive (27 ...