British woodlands and forests are often located on sites and in regions that are marginal for agriculture; many are at high elevations and exposed, with short growing seasons. Wherever forests are located, site and climatic conditions must dictate species choice in forest management. This book provides a detailed guide to the biological suitability of different sites and soils for all important native trees and the most extensively used exotics. Apart from physical difficulties such as ste...

Wrapped in a pink fluffy woollen blanket, a baby is buried without ceremony, in a cemetery at the dead of night.One of a series of revelations that only became known to me in later life and started to unravel the cosy family history I had always imagined for myself. The assumptions, the omissions, the contradictions, the little white lies; the more I discovered, the more questions it posed. Why hadn't the family secrets been shared with me?On a hot summer's day, a pleasant ...

Our understanding of the historical ecology of European forests has been transformed in the last twenty years. Bringing together key findings from across the continent, Europe's Changing Woods and Forests: From Wildwood to Managed Landscapes provides a comprehensive account of recent research and the relevance of historical studies to our current conservation and management of forests. Combining theory with a series of regional case studies, this book shows how different aspects of forestr...

Peter Rossdeutscher and Brett Savill are executives, entrepreneurs and academics who have written a How To guide on corporate innovation using lessons and case studies from leading corporate innovators in Australia and beyond.Moonshot Applied outlines how the world's best performing companies combine bold ambition and outstanding implementation to spot, develop, and scale innovations on a repeated basis. The best innovators develop an investment thesis about the profound c...

The high profile reporting of child sexual abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile over decades has had far reaching-consequences, raising public awareness and concern, yet we continue to uncover new cases of institutional abuse which have been taking place under the radar for years.This book distils the learning from 80+ public inquiries relating to Savile as well as related cases of institutional abuse and analyses the key findings. It examines what we now know about offending within o...

Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, first published in 1790, was the last of the great philosopher's three critiques, following on the heels of Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and Critique of Practical Reason (1788). In the first two, Kant dealt with metaphysics and morality; in the third, Kant turns to the aesthetic dimension of human experience, showing how our experiences of natural and artistic beauty, the sublime magnitude and might of nature, and of pu...

For the first time, this book tells the Wytham story in a way that is accessible to both scientist and general reader alike. It provides a fascinating overview of what the Woods are like, their history, composition (both plant and animal), and how their wildlife has changed over time. This iconic location has been the subject of a series of continuous ecological research programmes dating back to the 1920s, a level of continuity of research effort that is extremely rare. Hence there is a s...

Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen und andere Geschichten von Oscar Wilde, gelesen von Peter Bieringer. Die titelgebende Erzählung des englischsprachigen Schriftstellers Oscar Wilde ist wahrscheinlich das bekannteste Werk aus der Kurzgeschichtensammlung: Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen und andere Geschichten, die zusammen mit den hier versammelten Geschichten 1887 erschienen ist. Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen: Eine Studie über die Pflicht Der Titelheld der Geschichte, Lord Savile, trifft bei L...