Forest Communities, Community Forests is a collection of stories about twelve communities in the United States and their efforts to protect and restore their community forests. It explores the struggles and opportunities faced by people as they work to invest in natural capital, reverse decades of poor forest practices, tackle policy gridlock, and address community as well as ecological health. The case studies are organized by the dominant themes in American community forestry today, with...

Sieben Jahre Segelabenteuer: Ein Ratgeber für (zukünftige) SegelreisendeErobern Sie die sieben Weltmeere mit diesem inspirierenden Ratgeber. Die Autoren Claudia Clawien und Jonathan Buttmann teilen ihre wertvollen Erfahrungen auf eine charmante, authentische Art und bieten praktische Antworten auf essentielle Fragen, die jedem Segler das Leben erleichtern können.Warum Sie dieses Buch lesen sollten• Echter Erfahrungsschatz: Entdecken Sie die Herausforderungen und Fre...

For much of its history Ealing was a rural village in Middlesex, outside London. Improved communications encouraged its development as a market garden for the capital and later it became an attractive suburb in West London, nicknamed ‘Queen of the Suburbs’, a bustling area with beautiful open spaces, historic buildings and even film studios.In Ealing: A Potted History, local historians Dr Jonathan Oates and Paul Howard Lang look back over the centuries to uncover the fasci...

Originally a county town in Middlesex, Ealing became known as the ‘Queen of the Suburbs’ at the beginning of the last century. Famous for the Ealing Studios, the oldest film studios in the world, in this book authors Paul Lang and Dr Jonathan Oates delve into the fascinating but often lesser-known history of this district. Characters associated with Ealing include Olga Grey, hockey player and MI5 agent, and Ealing’s pro-Hitler MP, and other links with espionage and political extremism incl...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As climate change accelerates, our window for action is closing. To stay within the "Anthropocene" - an epoch in which humankind as the dominant force shaping the planet retains a degree of control over the destructive processes it has unleashed - global warming must be kept below 2° Celsius.This book explores the unprecedented technological and legal changes required to achieve this. Featuring contributions from leading ex...

British history is a rollercoaster ride of power struggles and family intrigues, imperial conquest and class struggles, plagues and religious wars—and it’s all in this audiobook. That, plus the liveliest cast of characters found anywhere outside of the King James Bible. Whether you confuse your Tudors with your Stuarts, or wouldn’t know Catherine Parr from Catherine Howard, this is the perfect guide for you. From Stonehenge to Hadrian’s Wall, the Magna Carta to mad King George, the Battle ...

Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the bestselling A Tale of Love and Darkness.Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abravanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her for...

Der Klimabeschluss des Bundesverfassungsgerichts von 2021 markiert einen Wendepunkt im juristischen Umgang mit staatlichem Klimaschutz. Erstmals wird dem Staatsziel aus Art. 20a GG konkrete verfassungsrechtliche Wirkkraft im politischen Raum zugesprochen. Die vorliegende Arbeit nimmt diese Entwicklung zum Ausgangspunkt, um den verfassungsrechtlichen Stellenwert des Klimaschutzes in seiner historischen und systematischen Tiefe kritisch zu analysieren. Im Fokus stehen die normativen Spielräu...

Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die Regelung des § 648 BGB zur freien Kündigung des Werkvertrages durch den Besteller. Die Regelung gibt dem Besteller die Möglichkeit, das Vertragsverhältnis grund- und anlasslos zu beenden. Dies wirft die Frage nach der Reichweite des Grundsatzes der Vertragstreue im Werkvertragsrecht auf. Die unmittelbare praktische Bedeutung der Norm für das Bauvertragsrecht hat ihren Grund u. a. darin, dass die Rechtsfolgen des § 648 S. 2, 3 BGB regelmäßig auch dann Anwendung...

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Known as the 'Queen of the Suburbs', Ealing is best known as being home to the world-famous Ealing Studios, the oldest film studios still in operation. However, there's much more to Ealing’s historical and architectural heritage than this. Ealing in 50 Buildings explores the history of this West London borough through a selection of its greatest architectural treasures, from the Grade I listed medieval St Mary’s Church in Perivale to the twenty-first-century gurdwara in Havelock Road, the ...