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'I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.' James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continues to inform all subsequent accounts. These are family memories, the record of Jane Austen's life shaped and limited by the loyalties, reserve, and affection of nieces and nephews recovering in old age the outlines of the young aunt they had each known. They still remembered the shape of her bonnet and the tone of her voice, and their first-hand accounts bring her vividly before us. Their declared partiality also raises fascinating issues concerning biographical truth, and the terms in which all biography functions. This edition brings together for the first time these three memoirs, and also includes Jane's brother Henry Austen's 'Biographical Notice' of 1818 and his lesser known 'Memoir' of 1833, making a unique biographical record.
Customer Reviews:
Enjoying Jane.......2007-09-08
If you enjoy Jane Austen novels, you really should read this memoir from her nephew. It is like meeting his aunt and adds a special touch to the reading of her novels.
Not what I hoped it would be.......2007-04-26
I've read this book three times (all three times while the electricity was out and only a lantern or flashlight at hand) and all three times I've been totally disappointed. This book gives no insight. Nothing interesting crops up. It's boring. But I give it three stars because at least it exists. I suggest if forced to read by candlelight, you turn to the Bronte bios.
All Personal memoirs brought together, nice to read with the letters.......2005-10-08
Primary sources to Jane Austen's life are few and far between. This version includes the few personal family accounts which were published. James Edward Austen-Leighs is the largest of these, although still not very substantial. His two sisters also published them.
This includes four memoirs of Aunt Jane, all written much after her death by Caroline Austen, Anna Lefroy, James Austen_leigh and Henry Austen. Some are better reads than others but they add to the sparse amount of biographical and family information on Austen.
Handily, there is a family tree provided as well as a chronology. There are also useful explanatory notes.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone but a keen Austen fan - one of the excellent biographies available are much more readable and entertaining. For an avid Janeite this book provides a substantial source of primary information. I would highly recommend reading this with the collected letters which have been collected and edited by Claire Tomalin.
It is a nice collection and it is great to see all these published, as they ought to be together in one volume.
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- Its not all that bad
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- HMS Hood, invincible flagship of the British Royal Navy
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Hms Hood: Pride of the Royal Navy
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Its not all that bad.......2006-01-29
Some of the criticism leveled against this book are fair, but in the same breath it is unfair to dismiss the book entirely based upon the authors assertion that the Prince Eugen was responsible for the sinking of the HMS Hood. There is much more to this book, it contains a snapshot of shipboard life that no longer exists in this day and age. For a less insulting, highly professional discussion of the sinking of the HMS Hood read the article at http://www.warship.org/no21987.htm
A mess.......2004-08-02
Spotty history, technical speculation, second rate naratives.
Don't waste your time with this mess of a book. I knew I was in trouble when the author had already refered to the Bismarck as a "pocket" battleship in the prologue.
It covers little to nothing on the design of the Hood. It spends an entire chapter covering some obscure world cruise but has zero account of the Hoods pre-Bismarck battles (as part of Force H), zips straight through the Denmark straight fight, then dives into poorly thought out conjecture and speculation as to why the ship was lost.
His grand conclusion is that an 8" plunging shell (HE by the way, not AP) from the Prinz Eugen somehow passed straight down one of the stacks, penetrated the steel bar supports and armor, and exploded in the boiler room. Here superheated steam (itself a massive fire supressant) and pre-heated oil were released and flashed into a major fire that broke the ship in two and sank it. All this theory is based on the fact that something similar happend to a cargo ship bombed by a brit naval aircraft at some other point in the war. You gotta be kidding me.
I picked this title up for $5 at a remainder sale, and it was overpriced at even that price. Spend your money on something educational like a comic book. This title has no place in the library of any serious naval historian.
Hoodwinked.......2004-01-08
The author's potential contribution to the study of HMS Hood lay in recording the memories of her crewmen. Surprisingly though, the "recollections" section takes up a mere 40 pages--published separately as a booklet, this might have been worth a modest price. Here I will discuss the remaining 100+ pages with their focus on technical/historical material: warship design, naval combat, and battle history, none of which Norman understands. From a vast list of errors, I have selected a few representative examples.
NORMAN on warship design: Regarding deck protection, "Hood's armor was not plate, but of the cemented type...." This is pure gibberish. Hood did have British C armor ("C" for "cemented") in thicknesses up to 15-inch, but not on her decks, which instead had lesser steel with no individual plate more than about 2-inch. No mere detail, this bears directly on the cause of Hood's loss, and the author cannot even correctly parrot the fundamentals.
NORMAN on battle history: "Most, if not all [of Bismarck's shells], failed to explode or did so only partially." In reality, German shells indeed underachieved, but it was Prinz Eugen's ammunition that gave a demonstrably poor performance, not Bismarck's. Norman says that, if Bismarck hit Hood with a shell, "chances were that it had not exploded"--opening the door for his theory that Eugen fired the fatal shell. Norman's theory depends on ignorance of the basic facts.
NORMAN on naval combat: When sunk, Hood was "well within" her immune zone, "defined as a range no closer than 12,000 yards, and the outer limit beyond 25,000 to 30,000 yards." The concept of an immune zone--the area where both the belt armor and the deck armor are likely to resist the armor-piercing shells--did not apply in this instance for the simple reason that Hood had no immune zone. Quite the contrary, through much of Norman's specified zone, neither Hood's belt nor her deck would suffice to keep out Bismarck's shells. She was doubly vulnerable! But Norman again is steering us toward his Eugen theory, puzzling though it is--if Hood was immune to Bismarck's 800kg armor-piercing shells, what could Eugen achieve with shells that were 122kg and not armor-piercing? Norman claims Eugen's shells could by-pass Hood's armor, plummeting straight down Hood's funnel, though he offers no explanation how the shells could achieve the great heights necessary for this trajectory. In fact, Eugen's shells were descending from an angle only about 20 degrees above the horizontal; so unless the Germans managed a bank shot off a low-flying billiards table, this theorized hit was physically impossible.
Given the availability of many fine books on Hood and Denmark Strait, this one earns little regard. The final word on Norman's research appears on page 82 with a photo captioned "Hood at speed"--a dramatic photo which, unfortunately, depicts the battleship Royal Oak, a ship four years older than Hood and from an entirely different class.
HMS Hood, invincible flagship of the British Royal Navy.......2002-04-09
This book will obviously attract most attention from the reader with a keen interest in historical and military subjects, particularly naval disasters, ancient and modern. HMS Hood, flagship and pride of the British Royal Navy, had been considered an unsinkable battle cruiser until her encounter with the German battleship Bismarck and her consort, Prinz Eugen on May 24, 1941. Only 3 crew members from the Hood survived; 1,418 went to their graves that day, a hideous waste of human life, as all such war casualties are. The author covers the death of the ship, the postmortem (Boards of Enquiry), the doubts over the official verdict, and some of the theories as to what went wrong, including one of his own. As a civilian from a later generation, I couldn't begin to offer an opinion on the theories. But the author's description of the battle (in which the battleship HMS Prince of Wales also took part) is vivid and shocking.
The first section of the book is easier reading for the non-military or non-history reader, covering as it does recollections of everyday life aboard the Hood before she was drafted into service for World War II. The Hood visited many ports on her world cruise (crossing the equator six times) and the crew had collected quite a menagerie on board, including a kangaroo. The anecdotes are often funny and eye-opening.
Some of the technical details (that is, military specs) can be a bit tedious for the lay reader, but naval buffs will certainly appreciate them. The book is well-written, well-researched, and full of original photographs from some of the men who served on HMS Hood, along with other unique and original source material. It is definitely a keeper! ...
Perhaps it wasn't the Bismarck after all........2002-02-13
Having found the last resting place of the Titanic and Bismarck, it was only a matter of time before someone would find the "Hood." This ship was indeed the pride of the Royal Navy and fondly regarded as the most beautiful ship wherever she went. With her recent discovery, there were bound to be a plethora of books on the subject giving rise to the age-old debate of how and why this magnificent Battle Cruiser sank so quickly.
Andrew Norman favours one particular theory for the sinking of the Hood - and I must say, it really is as plausible as any I have read (except for the "Built from the same faulty batch of steel as the Titanic" theory.). His description of the "Concept of the Immune Zone" is easily understandable - and something of which I was previously unaware. His conclusions that an 8 inch shell from the Prinz Eugen sank the Hood is, therefore, as sound as any. That said, it is the job of any good author to write his book in such a way as to lead the reader to that same conclusion.
HMS Hood - Pride of the Royal Navy is hardback, measuring 9¼ in x 6 in and contains over 150 pages of information and dialogue presented in an easy-to-read style. There is also a liberal sprinkling of very relevant b & w photographs throughout. Altogether, a very competent piece of work, where the author sets the scene by telling us all about the ship through the recollections of a variety of very different people who served on board at different times. This gives the reader a good "feel" for the ship before arriving at the events of May 1941 - which are described in even closer detail. As the jacket states "In these pages you will meet" and then lists 5 of those individuals - two of whom had the great fortune to be amongst the three survivors on that fateful day.
Doubtless, those who subscribe to a different "reason" as to why the Hood sank so quickly, will knock this book in order to place their own favoured theory at the top of the pile. Personally, I don't know because I wasn't there - but I do believe this book should be read alongside all other theories in order to provide a balanced view. Unlike many, it is a very good read.
NM
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Classic in it's field........2005-12-05
This book reitterates and represents the attitude of citizens who sincerely desire peace. Using a humble tone it reminds us the absurdity of war and the dangers of gross nationalism. Reading this book I enjoyed a lovely daydream of the bush administration reading this book with an open mind and appreciating it's message of alternatives to wars of ideology.
written in 1966, valid today.......2004-07-02
This book should be required reading for all Americans, written by a man who, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the VietNam War period, can write with some authority about international affairs. Fulbright's thesis is that Americans have two sides, one that is humanitarian and one that is puritanical.
While we may want to see others enjoy the virtues of democracy and freedom (our humanitarianism) we tend to approach them with an air of superiority and an inability to see that there are many cultures in the world and that of the U.S. is only one.
How accurate Fulbright is when he says that unilateral aid, either military or economic, can evoke anger and resentment by those who, Americans feel, should be grateful and eager to receive what we have to give.
Fulbright asks Americans to reflect on the fact that ours is a profoundly conservative society which abhors radical change. Others in the world are impatient with the lack of change and can go to extremes that would never be considered in the United States. Fulbright sees this in the discomfort Americans have with revolutions, being good only if they follow the path of our own. Any route that differs from American experience is suspect.
Fulbright rightly sees the strength of American society in the freedom to dissent and laments the fear and approbrium that dissent often receives. Humility is definitely in order instead of loud boasting and self-righteous denunciations (heard any of that lately???)
Tocqueville said of American democracy..."the smallest reproach irritates its sensibility and the slightest joke that has any foundation in truth renders it indignant; from the forms of its language up to the solid virtues of its character, everything must be made the subject of encomium. No writer, whatever be his eminence, can escape paying this tribute of adulation to his fellow citizens."
This book is Fulbright's effort to speak the truth. It's good to read at a time when we daily hear from powerful politicians who are never wrong and who seem to feel the amount of truth in a statement comes from the number of times it is repeated.
Fulbright's description of the use of fear to drum up support for foreign intervention is exactly to the point in the 21st century with talk of unilateral interventions. Having members of the United States Congress with the author's courage to speak out would simultaneously benefit the prospects for democracy and the image of the United States worldwide.
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Anthony Summers is the past master of scandal, the man who brought you Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe and that unforgettable (alleged) eyewitness account of J. Edgar Hoover in a flouncy black dress. Greater experts than I must rule on Summers's exhaustively researched portrait of Richard Nixon, The Arrogance of Power, but it sure is one racy read. Summers depicts a Nixon stoned out of his mind on Seconal, single-malt Scotch, Dilantin, speed, and clinical paranoia, pummeling his wife, Pat (who was rumored to have once been rescued by the Secret Service from drunkenly drowning in a bathtub). Summers's Nixon apparently took Mickey Cohen Mob money to fund his anti-Semitic, salacious smear campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas to get his Senate start; framed Alger Hiss with a fake typewriter; traded gold for POWs with Vietcong; and issued orders to bomb Damascus and Jordan and nuke Vietnam and Korea (orders that were ignored until Nixon sobered up in the morning). His favorite limo was the SS100X that JFK died in. Nixon's shrink reportedly also treated Rita Hayworth, spoke like Dr. Strangelove, and used "Pavlovian technique" to "brainwash Nixon into becoming a better person." No luck.
Summers's Nixon favored the Greek generals who tortured pro-democracy types, and took a bribe from Göring's pal Nicolae Malaxa, who, thanks to Nixon, traded his Romanian mansion (in which thousands of Jews were tortured and killed) for a posh Manhattan apartment. Summers's most fascinating stuff concerns the Howard Hughes/Castro/Watergate connection. Did Nixon order CIA/Mafia plots to kill Castro? Did Robert Maheu (said to have inspired Mission: Impossible) arrange "sex services" and "assassination planning" for the CIA, and spy on Jean Peters and Ava Gardner for Howard Hughes? Did Hughes give big money to Nixon under the guise of saving the fast-food "Nixonburger" franchise of Richard's brother Donald Nixon (whom Richard had the FBI spy on)? Did the Castro plot get JFK killed, as Haldeman suspected? Was the Watergate break-in (one of perhaps 100 Nixon break-ins) intended to seize information about Nixon's Hughes loans and Castro plots?
Summers tries to assess his massive data while he's presenting it, and he doesn't credit every wild tale equally. Still, without him, I would never have heard about Castro's alleged ex-girlfriend, "the Mata Hari of the Caribbean," hired by future Watergate burglars to re-seduce Castro and slip two poison pills in his coffee. But she hid the pills in her cold-cream jar, and when she took them out in their Havana Hilton bathroom, they'd melted. Besides, her close encounter with the leader left her "torn by feelings of love." The Arrogance of Power won't give you this feeling. --Tim Appelo
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Anthony Summers' biography of Richard Nixon reveals a troubled figure whose criminal behavior did not begin with Watergate. Drawing on more than a thousand interviews and five years of research, Summers reveals a man driven by an addiction to intrigue and power, whose subversion of democracy during Watergate was the culmination of years of cynical political manipulation. New evidence suggests the former president had problems with alcohol and prescription drugs, was at times mentally unstable, and was abusive to his wife Pat. Summers discloses previously unrevealed facts about Nixon's role in the plots to topple Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende, his sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks in l968, and his acceptance of funds from dubious sources. The Arrogance of Power shows how the actions of one tormented man influenced fifty years of American history, in ways still reverberating today.
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This is a Rant, Not a Biography.......2007-08-31
What Nixon did over the years was utterly unforgiveable, but this relentless diatribe--at times, tantrum--does little to give us an accurate picture of what went on. Summers virtually paints Nixon as somewhere between Vlad the Impaler and Jeffrey Dahmer, spending his entire presidency picking wings off flies. They call this kind of writing "one dimensional" and it may be fun reading, but it hardly contributes to an understanding of the whole man. It actually became silly to read, it was so biased.
Most laughable was when he repeatedly painted Nixon's most enthusiastic hatchetmen, Haldeman and Ehrlichmen, as choirboys speaking over the years with such reason and, of course, afterward with such balanced hindsight.
It's a shame. Obviously, Summers did tremendous research for this book and he had the resources, therefore, to produce a credible, balanced work instead of just a blatant bloodletting.
But it does sell.
An unrelenting and rapid-fire assault.......2006-05-22
Right or wrong, Richard Nixon has been singularly defined in biographies, commentaries, TV and film productions and, yes, even an opera, by his resignation in 1974 of the presidency of the United States. Not here. Just as author Anthony Summers did in his definitive analysis of another 20th century icon ("Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe"), he lays out more than 600 pages of incredibly minute attributions in a relentlessly negative yet saucy treatment of the nation's 37th president. Although not scandal, Summers' final product is, if nothing else, racily relentless and throughly negative. Through it all, we get more of Nixon's alleged misbehaviors and unethical and illegal acts than a truly defining psycho-profile of this truly dark - even scary - figure. This isn't to say that Summers' work isn't a contribution to the continuing Nixon saga. It is. If nothing else, Summers' "challenge" to other writers might be to throttle them out of 1974 - and for most Nixon commentators, if not all, it still is and always will be 1974 - to probe the man capable of orchestrating the alleged events that Summers lays out in this book. Among them: Nixon's only Senate campaign in 1950 against Helen Gahagan Douglas, she who was "pink right down to her underwear" and was ravaged by Nixon's defamatory and anti-Semitic and trademark smear ideology, was funded in part by mob money from Mickey Cohen. Just a few years earlier, as a junior member of Congress' obscene Communist witchhunt committee, Nixon stooped to the illegal altering of evidence to condemn his dogged nemisis, Alger Hiss, to four years in a federal prison. Another unethical, if outright illegal plot after another in a supposed link between Howard Hughes, Fidel Castro and - yes - Watergate is laid out. And while there's never been any direct evidence that Nixon ordered the break-in that led to his presidential self-destruction (although he clearly authorized its cover-up), Summers claims here Nixon okay'ed more than 100 other break-ins throughout his political career. While the reader gets more of Nixon's alleged but previously unknown examples of illegal and unethical conduct, we get fewer explanations of what has been elusive to virtually everyone studying the man: what drove him. But we do get some glimpses into the Nixon psyche that could account for what made the total man: an ambition with no goal that started as early as age six but whose goal targeted politics a few years later; a never-satisfied thirst for power that was abused to "punish" Nixon's "enemies" and for the purpose of holding onto that power; a descent into experimentation with Seconals, Dilantin, speed and Scotch; having as his favorite limo the SS110X which, coincidentally, was the one in which JFK was killed; and, maybe in a brief concession to his dark side, an attempt with "Paviovian technique" to become "a better person." By book's end, Summers makes one thing "perfectly clear:" there was definitely something wrong with Richard Nixon. What exactly is elusive. But Summers' bio is still an important and compelling contribution to the written body of the Nixon library, and we can only hope that post-Watergate writers and researchers will carry Summers' work further and do what any few Nixon-ites have: to try to define the man by his totality rather than by his single act of being the only president in U.S. history to resign the world's most powerful seat.
BEST book on Nixon.......2005-12-23
Anthony Summers has written a masterpiece; no other way to put it. Well written and researched--the best book on Nixon, bar none. Get this! P.S. He interviewed former Secret Service agents Art Godfrey and Jerry Behn (as have I)
Vince Palamara
Secret Service expert (History Channel, author of 2 books, in over 32 other author's books, etc.)
Unrewarding.......2005-12-10
There's a wealth of fascinating, behind-the-scenes detail to this book, but on the whole I found too many instances where the author was plugging the gaps with his own imagination. Unbiased works about Nixon are hard to find, and I didn't find one here. It would be refreshing to come across a text that seeks neither to vilify nor redeem Nixon's public image. Perhaps, given the damage he did to political idealism in this country, it simply isn't possible to approach him without an agenda. Or maybe we just need more time to go by before we try to digest his impact on American life.
A real headshaker...........2005-08-18
I new that Anthony Summers' books had a reputation of tearing apart its subjects. I liked Nixon and was afraid that this book was going to trash him. But, after reading the book and noting the extensive footnotes, I conclude that most of his reports must have a ring of truth to them. I had just finished reading Nixon's "In The Arena" and then started Summers' book. Summers painted a completely different picture of Nixon than Nixon painted for himself. It appears that Nixon really whitewashed himself in "In The Arena". I believe that Summers' book paints a more realistic picture of Nixon.
The only thing about the book that I didn't really like was that he would begin one chapter and expound upon the subject, then move into Nixon's latter years and how he still felt about the particular subject. Then, Summers would start a new chapter and it would go back to when Nixon was young and move forward again. I believe the book could have been better structured to read as an historical novel without the jumping around in time.
Nevertheless, worth reading if you enjoy Nixon history.
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Sri Lanka: The Arrogance of Power: Myths, Decadence & Murder
Rajan Hoole
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We hear "anti-American" on a daily basis, it seems. When does it indicate a serious threat to security? When is it merely a label that the Bush administration slaps on anyone who dares to disagree with its foreign policy?
Nancy Snow tackles not only the government's manipulation of the term, but also the broader use of U.S. propaganda for public relations. She further connects these to the tendency of U.S. administrations and media—past and present—to focus on projecting a better U.S. image rather than addressing the issues behind why the country's image is so poor, both at home and abroad.
Snow is an American propaganda expert and a former U.S. Information Agency and State Department official. If America truly cares what others think, she argues, it needs to get over itself as the "number-one country." The government needs to spend less time diverting public attention and more time enlisting the public to help improve foreign relations. It needs to involve all citizens, not just government-approved lackeys, "journalists" paid to talk nice, or the predictable influentials and elites typically involved in foreign affairs.
And the public needs to exercise its right to dissent—a critical power at the heart of democracy—rather than letting the government or the media halt foreign policy debates with labels, propaganda, and arrogant rhetoric.
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An excellent primer and a top pick for any debate on foreign relations policy past or present........2007-02-06
The Arrogance of American Power: What U.S. Leaders are Doing Wrong and Why It's Our Duty to Dissent narrows the focus to government propaganda techniques of both past and present administrations, creating a survey which is a top pick for both high school and college holdings on political science - particularly those interested in fostering debates on freedom. Professor Snow here argues America needs to get over itself as the 'number-one country', that it needs to enlist citizens to help improve foreign relations, and that it's the public's duty to participate by dissenting. An excellent primer and a top pick for any debate on foreign relations policy past or present.
Diane C. Donovan
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- Ecological Forest Use Will Save the Forests and Jobs
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What can a weekend gardener do about the conditions of the world's forests? Plenty. Respect for the land fosters universal values that inspire responsible use of lumber and wildlife resources. Ecoforestry explains what can be done on the personal and national levels. According to World Resources Institute, forests cover nearly 40 percent of Earth's land area. The plants provide oxygen to our planet and relieve it of excess carbon monoxide. Forests thrill us with their beauty and sustain a panoply of wildlife and plant life. The authors concur that our efforts toward conservation must take into account the future needs of our children and grandchildren, and that forestry practices must be consistent with the cycles and diversity of the natural forest.
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Ecoforestry focuses on the new paradigm in forestry - the philosophy, goals, policies, and practices of ecologically and economically sustainable forest use - including ecoforestry principles and practices; forest ecosystem components and restoration; wood and forest products certification; and current ecoforestry practitioners and techniques. Contributors include James Agee, Herb Hammond, Chris Maser, Nancy Turner, Arne Naess and Gary Snyder.
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Ecological Forest Use Will Save the Forests and Jobs.......1999-12-27
The book is a valuable guide to how humans can live, work, and play in forest ecosystems in a way that does not destroy forests. The authors have compiled a wide range of articles most of which were originally published by the Ecoforestry Institute in their Journal of Ecoforestry. The articles lay the philosophical base upon which ecoforestry is premised. Ecological forestry seems to be the solution to many of the environmental problems seen in forests and forestry today, a way to resolve many of the vexing issues of forestry. This book is a must read for all forest activists, foresters, academics, and people concerned with humans relationships with forests and nature.
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