This edited collection explores the relationships between humans and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded. The ‘Anthropocene,’ whose literal translation is the ‘Age of Man,’ is one way of marking these planetary changes to the Earth system. Global climate change and rising sea levels are two prominent examples of how nature can no longer be simply thought of as something outside and removed from humans (an...

Peter Heller’s masterful coming-of-age tale, the story of a mother and daughter living on a Vermont apple orchard, escaping ghosts of the past.Hayley and her seven-year-old daughter, Frith, live in a rustic cabin with no electricity in the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains. A renowned translator of Tang dynasty poetry, Hayley walked away from her career and her addict husband to raise Frith alone in a land populated not by ambition-fueled academics but by hawk...

In the foothills of a mountain range in northern Pakistan is a beautiful orchard. Swallows wheel and dive silently over the branches, and the scent of jasmine threads through the air. Pomegranates hang heavy, their skins darkening to a deep crimson. Neglected now, the trees are beginning to grow wild, their fruit left to spoil on the branches.Many miles away, a frail young man is flung out of prison gates. Looking up, scanning the horizon for swallows in flight, he stumbles and col...

NEW IN PAPERBACKFirst performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, The Cherry Orchard remains a classic of the theatre. Completed less than a year before his death at the age of forty-four, Chekhov's last 'comedy' still ranks supreme as a human tragedy of dispossession with audiences and actors alike.Peter Gill’s luminous version brings the psychological realism of Chekhov’s characters into sharp focus; fragile souls poi...

Something is growing beneath Grey Hollow - and it isn't supposed to.When environmental analyst Daniel is sent to investigate a cluster of abnormal agricultural reports, he expects faulty data, sick livestock, maybe contaminated soil. What he finds instead is far worse.Plants that grow too fast. Animals that refuse to go near certain fields. Farmers who won't talk. And beneath it all, something buried - something spreading.As Daniel digs deeper, he uncovers a pattern...

Peter Heller’s masterful coming-of-age tale, the story of a mother and daughter living on a Vermont apple orchard, escaping ghosts of the past.Hayley and her seven-year-old daughter, Frith, live in a rustic cabin with no electricity in the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains. A renowned translator of Tang dynasty poetry, Hayley walked away from her career and her addict husband to raise Frith alone in a land populated not by ambition-fueled academics but by hawk...

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!Young readers will enjoy following along on a trip to the apple orchard. This story features carefully leveled text and full-color photographs. Pairs with the fiction text Picking Apples.

Young readers will enjoy following along on a trip to the apple orchard. This story features carefully leveled text and full-color photographs. Pairs with the fiction text Picking Apples.

A TOWN GETTING AWAY WITH MURDERBeneath the glamour of a trendy Hamptons summer town lies another world–one of dark lives and desperate secrets. And when Labor Day arrives and the beautiful people depart, locals like Declan MacManus are left behind to make a living out of just surviving. A sometime P.I., MacManus is an expert at self-defense and a master of self-destruction, but nothing he's seen of the dark side of fortune can prepare him for what he is about to di...

The World of Dinosaur Roar! is a best-selling, collectable storybook series that introduces young children to a cast of colourful dinosaur characters. The series has been developed in association with the Natural History Museum ensuring that the stories feature authentic dinosaur designs, fun, age-appropriate facts and a useful pronunciation guide.

This is a paper on two pairs of twinned plays by Shakespeare. The role of nature as healing agent is described. A comparison between green and human nature shows that in an Elizabethan view assumed female properties can be matched to properties of nature. Performing a spacial analysis we find an enormous potenial for creativity in intermediate spaces. Be it between patriarchal and natural space or between what was seen in Shakespeare´s time as male or female behaviour.

Young readers will enjoy following along on a trip to the apple orchard. This story features carefully leveled text and full-color photographs. Pairs with the fiction text Picking Apples.