Lichens are fascinating and beautiful organisms able to colonise a vast range of habitats, including seemingly impossible places such as bare icy mountain tops and sun-scorched coastal rocks. This book discusses all aspects of British lichens, revealing the secrets of their success. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.comLichens are fascinating and beautiful organisms able to colonise a vast range of habitats, including seemingly impossible places such as bare icy mountain ...

This book is about the plants and animals of urban areas, not the urban fringe, not encapsulated countryside but those parts of towns where man's impact is greatest. The powerful anthropogenic influences that operate in cities have, until recently, rendered them unattractive to ecologists who find the high proportion of exotics and mixtures of planted and spontaneous vegetation bewildering. They are also unused to considering fashion, taste, mowing machines and the behaviour of dog owners ...

El sí-mismo ricoeiuriano es un ser que va mucho más allá de su ser mismo; aborda así el ser del otro, de la pluralidad humana y del sentido de vivir-juntos. Precisamente, en su última obra publicada en vida, Ricoeur analiza dicho vínculo en una hermenéutica que nos conduce a la odisea de sí-mismo. Esta obra, por su parte, aporta un diálogo enriquecedor entre la obra de Ricoeur y especialistas de la talla de Marcel Hénaff, Olivier Abel, Richard Kearney, Georges Taylor, Tomás Domingo Moratal...

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Dara and Nicola used to be inseparable, but that was before - before Dara kissed Parker, before Nicola lost him as her best friend, before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred. Now the two sisters, who used to be so close, aren't speaking. In an instant, Nick lost everything and is determined to use the summer to get it all back.But Dara has other plans. When she vanishes on her birthday, Nicola thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl has vanis...

From slavery to liberation to life as an abolitionist, feminist, orator, and preacher—the autobiography of a woman who refused to be anything but free.Born into slavery in New York around 1797, then sold from master to master, Sojourner Truth spent her formative years witnessing the cruelty inherent in the institution of slavery. Escaping to a friendly household before emancipation, she learned that her young son had been sold illegally and launched a lawsuit that ...

Truth's narrative begins with her birth as Isabella Baumfree in New York around 1797. She describes her early experiences in slavery, the brutal conditions she faced, and her eventual escape to freedom. After gaining her freedom, Truth changed her name to Sojourner Truth, reflecting her mission to travel and speak out against the injustices of slavery and to advocate for the rights of women. Her powerful speeches and unwavering commitment to social justice made her a significant figure in ...

The Icon Black Lives Matter Series“I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star."Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843 after she became convinced that God had call...

What would YOU give to save the life of a stranger's child? That's the emotive question posed by this heartwarming novel by Brian Will Oliver. With echoes of Nicholas Sparks, GILBERT'S GIFT is a moving tale of selfless courage, a quest for forgiveness, and a Swinging Sixties first love, lost and found again.Inspired by real events, this delightful novel tells the story of sixtysomething Gilbert Shilling who, against his family's wishes, decides to donate one of his lungs in a despe...

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is a poignant biography as told to Olive Gilbert by Isabella Bomefree—a slave born at the end of the eighteenth century who later took the name of Sojourner Truth. She recounts the harshness of life under slavery, as well as what transpired after she won her freedom, when she became a vociferous abolitionist, a role for which she has been long remembered and revered.

Vozes da liberdade é uma curadoria de títulos com histórias profundas e importantes da história dos direitos dos afro-estadunidenses. São biografias e autobiografias que fundamentarem a luta por igualdade. Conheça: 'A história de Sojourner Truth, a escrava do Norte', 'Relato da vida de Frederick Douglass, um escravo americano', 'Nos bastidores - Trinta anos escrava, quatro anos na Casa Branca', 'Incidentes na vida de uma escrava'.

This book is about the plants and animals of urban areas, not the urban fringe, not encapsulated countryside but those parts of towns where man's impact is greatest. The powerful anthropogenic influences that operate in cities have, until recently, rendered them unattractive to ecologists who find the high proportion of exotics and mixtures of planted and spontaneous vegetation bewildering. They are also unused to considering fashion, taste, mowing machines and the behaviour of dog owners ...