Wintle M Editors (4 results)

8vo, 488pp. Colour illustrations. As new paperback copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 180 pages. Philippa Levine "States of Undress: Nakedness and the Colonial Imagination" / Emily Harrington "Michael Field and the Detachable Lyric" / Natalie M Houston "Newspaper Poems: Material Texts in the Public Sphere" / Meredith Martin "Gerald Manley Hopkins and the Stigma of Meter" / Catherine Robson "The Presence of Poetry: Response" / Aviva Briefel "Hands of Beauty, Hands of Horror: Fear and Egyptian Art at the Fin de Siecle" / Suzanne Dale "Spinning Cotton: Domestic and Industrial Novels" / Claire Wintle "Career Development: Domestic Display as Imperial, Anthropological, and Social Trophy" (SL#54/1).…

Octavo, paperback,488 pp.,colour and black and white photographs, illustrations, maps. WAS $70. The Australian wildfires of 2019/20 (Black Summer) were devastating and unprecedented. These megafires burnt more than 10 million hectares, mostly of forests in southern and eastern Australia. Many of the fires were uncontrollable. These megafires affected many of Australiaâs most important conservation areas and severely impacted threatened species and ecological communities. They were a consequence of climate change â" and offered a glimpse of how this is likely to continue to affect our future. Australiaâs Megafires includes contributions by more than 200 researchers and managers with direct involvement in the management and conservation of the biodiversity affected by the Black Summer wildfires. It provides a comprehensive review of the impacts of these fires on all components of biodiversity, and on Indigenous cultural values. These fires also triggered an extraordinary and highly collaborative response by governments, NGOs, Indigenous groups, scientists, landholders and others, seeking to recover the fire-affected species and environments â" to restore Country. This book documents that response. It draws lessons that should be heeded to sustain that recovery and to be better prepared for the inevitable future comparable catastrophes. Such lessons are of global relevance, for wildfires increasingly threaten biodiversity and livelihoods across the globe.…

8vo, 22.2cm. Pp. 158, refs., notes, index of subj. and pers. names. - " Papers delivered to the Twelfth Anglo-Dutch Historical Conference, Rotterdam, 1994.".