'When a robin appears, a loved one is near' In 2019, Tony Putman was working as a gardener in Edenbridge, Kent, when he noticed a bold robin sitting on a branch of an old plum tree.
Women against cruelty is the first book to explore women's leading role in animal protection in nineteenth-century Britain, drawing on rich archival sources.
'Truthful - and often very funny - this is as true a book about a dog as you will find' - The TelegraphIn this poignant, funny and disarmingly honest memoir, one of the world's most beloved storytellers, bestselling author of The Book Thief, tells of his family's adoption of three troublesome rescue dogs - a charming and courageous love story about making even the most incorrigible of animals family.
La sequía es la amenaza climática más común en la agricultura; a escala global, esta amenaza es mayor que la de ciclones, inundaciones y tormentas, y representa una de las causas más importantes de malnutrición y pobreza rural, pero sus efectos pueden ser minimizados si se conocen las zonas más susceptibles, ante su intensidad y periodicidad, para hacerle frente mediante medidas preventivas, así como medidas mitigantes y correctivas in situ (parcelas).
El libro es un relato sobre el factor ecologico, esa suma de ideas filosoficas, eticas, politicas y economicas que buscan un nuevo rumbo para la conduccion humana.
Jane Austen's heroines respond to the power of the natural world, seeking comfort in nature's calm or referencing trees and "e;verdure"e;--meaning fresh greenness and fertility--in relation to their awakening self-knowledge and, in most, their sexuality.
Jane Austen's heroines respond to the power of the natural world, seeking comfort in nature's calm or referencing trees and "e;verdure"e;--meaning fresh greenness and fertility--in relation to their awakening self-knowledge and, in most, their sexuality.
