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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gardens have inspired, comforted, and sustained people from all walks of life, and since the Garden of Eden many iconic gardens have inspired great artists, poets, musicians, and writers. In this Very Short Introduction, Gordon Campbell embraces gardens in all their splendour, from parks, and fruit and vegetable gardens to ornamental gardens, and takes the reader on a globe-trotting historical journey through iconic and cultural signposts of gardens from different regions and traditions. Ranging from the gardens of ancient Persia to modern day allotments, he concludes by looking to the future of the garden in the age of global warming, and the adaptive spirit of human innovation. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A smart and lively journey through acenturyofpandemics, from the Spanish fluto Zika.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A timely history of Britain'scomplexrelationship with 'the Continent'.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Urdu literature has always prominently featured the short story as a form of literary expression. Moreover, Urdu short fiction has shown the same kinds of evolutionary dynamism and innovative flair as other forms of world literature. This book comprises seventeen contemporary short stories, translated into English from Urdu.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A portrait of the ultimate globalized city, its fortune tied firmly to the world economy and vulnerable to the vagaries of global commerce.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Does human life have any meaning Does the question even make sense today For centuries, the question of the meaning or purpose of human life was assumed by scholars and theologians to have a religious answer: life has meaning because humans were made in the image of a good god. In the 19th century, however, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution changed everything-and the human organism was seen to be more machine than spirit. Ever since, with the rise of science and decline of religious belief, there has been growing interest-and growing doubt-about whether human life really does have meaning. If it does, where might we find it The historian and philosopher of science Michael Ruse investigates this question, and wonders whether we can find a new meaning to life within Darwinian views of human nature. If God no longer exists-or if God no longer cares-rather than promoting a bleak nihilism, many Darwinians think we can convert Darwin into a form of secular humanism. Ruse explains that, in a tradition going back to the time of Darwin himself, and represented today by the evolutionist E. O. Wilson, evolution is seen as progress-'from monad to man'-and that positive meaning is found in continuing and supporting this upwards path of life. In A Meaning to Life, Michael Ruse argues that this is a false turn, and there is no real progress in the evolutionary process. Rather, meaning in the Darwinian age can be found if we turn to a kind of Darwinian existentialism, seeing our evolved human nature as the source of all meaning, both in the intellectual and social worlds. Ruse argues that it is only by accepting our true nature-evolved over millennia- that humankind can truly find what is meaningful.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - An urgent call to reform Britain's sickness culture, offering social-not medical-solutions.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Distinguished politicians and scholars advocate the need for a 'democratic playbook' robust enough to withstand threats to free and fair elections in Africa.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Exposes the secret global network that profited from apartheid.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - After the murderous twentieth century and the long twilight of the European empires, humanity has confronted both a crisis of globalization and a crisis of climate. This book explores the challenges posed by colonialism's end, globalization, and climate change to our ideas of civilization, history, justice, nature, and humanity itself.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This book seeks to introduce readers to a new perspective on food, showing how science is at the heart of what we love about food.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Space matters in foreign policy. India's understanding of its neighbourhood is informed by a politics of realism as South Asia remains a 'space' defined in terms of power and sovereign territoriality in contrast to alternative imaginations based on the market or community. India's relations with neighbours have moved between fixed points of references, constituted by its imagination of South Asia as a space of power and territorial control. India's spatialimaginations of its neighbourhood build on a differentiated cartography of territorial nationalism, colonizing our shared ontology of social space.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The Oxford India Gandhi looks beyond the plaster-cast image of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Mahatma. Gandhi's autobiography ends in the late 1920s, several historic years before his assassination in 1948. This book seeks to fill the void left by Gandhi himself. Edited by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the book tells Gandhi's story in his own words¿-the story of his life as he himself might have narrated it to a grandchild.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The most detailed multi-jurisdictional work on directors' conflicts drawing together relevant case law, codes and statutory regulation covering the law applying to directors of companies incorporated under the UK Companies Acts with extensive reference to the law in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and New Zealand.