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Excerpt from Gleanings and Remarks: Collected During Many Months of Residence at Buenos Ayres, and Within the Upper Country: With a Prefatory Account of the Expedition From England, Until the Surrender of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Under the Joint Command of Sir D. Baird, G. C. B. K. C. And Sir Home Popham, K. C. BAssuming this simile to himself the Author of the following Narrative has aptly preferred the humble title of a Gleaner, ...

Excerpt from Letters From Flanders: Written by 2nd Lieut. A. D. Gillespie Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to His Home PeopleIf he wished, he might have stayed in Oxford and taken up the work of fellow and tutor of a College, but he was very definite in his desire to come out into professional life and to read for the Bar, he wished particularly to devote himself to the study of International Law.He loved every hour of Winchester and Oxford a...

Excerpt from An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps, From Its Original Institution Down to the Present Era, 1803Never was military prowess more loudly called for, than at the present crisis - Ardour should be raised in every rank. 'it. Is a plant, which, by fostering attention ¿ourishes and grows, but if neglected, soon droops and dies. Courage is the natural birth-aright of an Englishman, and it needs only a directing hand, under Prov...

Excerpt from An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps, From Its Original Institution Down to the Present Era, 1803Never was military prowess more loudly called for, than at the present crisis - Ardour should be raised in every rank. 'it. Is a plant, which, by fostering attention ¿ourishes and grows, but if neglected, soon droops and dies. Courage is the natural birth-aright of an Englishman, and it needs only a directing hand, under Prov...

Gives a detailed evaluation of the last one hundred years of environmental law, as well as discussing the medieval period and the build up to the twentieth century~Debates how humanity could achieve the goal of sustainable development~Offers close analysis of factors such as population growth, habitat and species loss, unsustainable fishing, and alternative energy sources

International Environmental Law, Policy, and Ethics investigates the ethical and political justifications for the international legal regime protecting the environment, and analyses in detail the myriad challenges these justifications can face.

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bTitle:/b Gleanings and Remarks: collected during many months of residence at Buenos-Ayres, and within the Upper Country, with a prefatory account of the expedition from England, until the surrender of the ... Cape of Good Hope. With a map, etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 15...

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Excerpt from Gleanings and Remarks: Collected During Many Months of Residence at Buenos Ayres, and Within the Upper Country: With a Prefatory Account of the Expedition From England, Until the Surrender of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Under the Joint Command of Sir D. Baird, G. C. B. K. C. And Sir Home Popham, K. C. B The military traveller whom professional destiny throws amongst the different quarters of the globe may be justly compa...

Is 'sustainable development' a charade sold to an increasingly misled public? This book presents a wide-ranging, penetrating critique of sustainability and what it actually means. The author argues that despite the rhetoric of socially and environmentally sustainable development and the ever-increasing number of legislative environmental policies, the real issues such as consumption, population growth and equity are either sidestepped or manip...

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This volume seeks to provide the reader with a clear understanding to the way that protected areas are created, listed and managed in international law. In doing so, it provides a complete overview of the primary international and regional conventions in this area, and the decisions and resolutions that have come from them. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive examination of, inter alia, the World Heritage Convention, the Man and the Biosp...

This book offers a principal collection of all of the material necessary to understand the legal debates on climate change, ozone depletion and air pollution within their scientific and policy contexts.

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...