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Scottish Woodland History
- Paperback - Scottish Cultural
This book deals with both the old Caledonian pine forests and the deciduous woods, and discusses how people have used and misused them over the centuries.
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The Origins Of The Organic Movement
Philip Conford - Paperback - Floris
This historical work covers the formation of the organic movement. It gives an informative explanation of the political background, which is now relevant to topical issues concerning organic farming.
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Nature Contested: Environmental History In Scotland And Northern Ireland Since 1600
T. C. Smout - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
This work deals with four centuries of conflict over some of the most valued landscapes in Europe. Based on a series of lectures given by the author at Oxford University in 1999, it combines social and cultural history with ecology and geography.
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Earthwise: Environmental Crafts And Activities With Young Children
Carol Petrash - Paperback - Floris
In Earthwise, Carol Petrash shows how to teach children about their dependence on the Earth. Using a series of activities children learn how to be creators and not just consumers whilst learning real respect for the planet and its resources.
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Goethe On Science: An Anthology Of Goethe's Scientific Writings
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Paperback - Floris
This selection of writings by Goethe reveal a scientific mind very much in harmony with nature. He believed that science is as much an inner path of development as it is a means to accumulating knowledge of the world around us.
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A High And Lonely Place
Jim Crumley - Paperback - Whittles
This is the work of a man who has known and loved the Scottish Cairngorms for more than 30 years. Jim Crumley marks nature's rhythms with observations of bird, beast, flower and landscape, and proposes a radical solution to safeguard the mountains.
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Who Owns Scotland Now?: The Use And Abuse Of Private Land
Auslan Cramb - Paperback - Mainstream
In Who Owns Scotland Now? Auslan Cramb examines the use and abuse of private land. This book is both an insight into the closed world of the great landowners and a clarion call for change.
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Scotland's Nature In Trust: The National Trust For Scotland And Its Wildland And Crofting Management
Laughton Johnston - Hardback - T. & A. D. Poyser
The National Trust for Scotland is one of the largest landowners in Scotland, owning one per cent of its countryside. This comprehensive title looks a the Trust's credentials for natural heritage management and examines the properties it owns.
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A Naturalist's Shetland
J. Laughton Johnston - Hardback - T. & A. D. Poyser
One of Britain's natural treasures, the Shetland Islands are spectacular with their varied geology, wonderful landscape and special flora and fauna. This book describes all the wildlife of Shetland and is illustrated with photographs and sketches.
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Species History In Scotland: Introductions And Extinctions Since The Ice Age
- Paperback - Scottish Cultural
Environmental historians, archaeologists, ecologists, biologists and nature conservationists offer an interdisciplinary approach to species history in Scotland.