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Blood on the Stones
Two young men, once close as brothers, fall out over a girl when they are in their twenties and go their separate ways. Their vow 'never to meet again', is forgotten though, when they find themselves face to face in the course of an attempted royal assassination.
The Threatening Desert
Lands lost to desert may effectively be lost for ever, so desertification is humanity's most obvious despoliation to the planet. It is certainly one of the most serious environmental problems facing the world today. In this book the author describes what is happening and where. Although the problem is greatest in developing countries, it is by no means confined to them. Australia, Africa, the USA and India are all affected. In the 1970s an international Plan of Action was drawn up to bring the phenomenon under control, but it was never implemented. Now that the situation is more serious than ever before, this book urges new action and describes many of the myriad ways in which it is possible to arrest the progress of desertification. It describes, too, not just the failures, but the considerable successes that have been achieved. Originally published in 1990
Controlling Tropical Deforestation
Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species and contributing to global climate change through the greenhouse effect. But, despite widespread concern for over twenty years, only limited progress has been made in controlling deforestation and improving forest management in the humid tropics. In this book Alan Grainger offers afresh analysis of the causes of deforestation and presents an integrated strategy for controlling it. His strategy embraces agriculture, forestry and conservation and stresses the need for changes in government policies if land...
The Klondike Chest
Billy Orange, pugnacious little Irishman, five foot nothing and scared of nobody, rescues a man from a beating in a back alley in Seatle, and finds himself caught up in the Great Gold Rush to the Klondike. Arctic midwinter conditions, unscrupulous tricksters, romance, and death, test him, but nothing can stop him. From the Author My wife and I spent 10 weeks in the area in the Klondike fulfillment of my lifetime's ambition to go there. We panned on Bonanza, got eaten by mosquitoes, but found no gold; we gambled at Diamond Tooth Gertie's and lost our money; we sat out on the veranda of our B&B and drank whisky until near midnight and got sunburned, and we followed Granddad's tracks where we c...
The Tree That Walked
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Father Unknown
Two brothers fall out after a family secret is revealed and when the dispute turns to violence one of them ends up in prison. On his release, he digs into his background in the hope of resolving some of the issues which have been troubling him. His research takes him to Ireland, where he finds, not only the answers he seeks, but a route to a new life free of conflict. This is the second book in the Templederry Trilogy. The Learning Curves is the first; The Legacy is the last.
Good Intention, Bad Result
Detective Superintendent 'Foxy' Reynard and his team from Sussex CID have to unravel a complicated web of circumstances to get to the murderers of men more associated with wine and frying pans than death. A typical old fashioned, almost genteel, British 'Whodunnit'.
The Learning Curves
Divided from his father and frozen out of his home in Ireland by his new stepmother, sixteen year old Jimmy O'Callaghan runs away resolving never to return. With no one to guide and support him, he finds himself with little option but to learn about life and love as best he can. He's aided in his quest for enlightenment, success and happiness, by an unlikely collection of worldly people, the sort of people he would never have encountered, let alone befriend, at home in Templederry. Starting off with the few pounds he'd stolen from the till in his father's pub the night before he left, and with little appreciation of how big a risk he was taking, he has only his personality and determination to make sure nothing is ever beyond his reach. This book is the first of The Templederry Trilogy, and is partly set in the rural Irish town of Templederry, County Tipperary. It is followed by Father Unknown and The Legacy
Exploring Sustainable Development
Sustainable development is capturing the attention of planners, politicians and business leaders. Within the academic sphere its study is increasingly breaching disciplinary boundaries to become a focus of attention for natural and social scientists alike. But in studying such a key concept, it is vital that there is a clear definition of what it means, how it is applied on the ground, and the influence it exerts upon people's perceptions of change in the physical environment, economic activity and society. Exploring Sustainable Development is a major new text which provides a multifaceted introduction to key areas of study in this field, examining sustainability at the full range of spatial...
The Exiled
When several young girls are abducted from various locations in Edinburgh, Detective John Grainger and his brother Alan, a reporter, investigate the cases from different directions. The abductor is cunning, always one step ahead, and the only clue he leaves behind at each scene are the brutalized corpses of black swans. When the brothers' investigations finally converge at a farmhouse in Central Scotland, they catch a glimpse of where the girls have been taken, a place both far away yet close enough to touch. A land known throughout Scottish history with many names: Faerie, Elfheim, and the Astral Plane. It is a place of legend and horror, a myth. But the brothers soon discover it's real, and, to catch the abductor, they will have to cross over themselves. To catch a killer, John and Alan Grainger will have to battle the Cobbe, a strange and enigmatic creature that guards the realm, a creature of horrific power that demands a heavy price for entry into its world. The fate of both realms hangs in the balance…and time is running out…
