Tropical Forests: Some African and Asian Case Studies of Composition and Structure (Volume 22)
Author(s): J. Borota (Author)
Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
Publication Date: 21 Feb. 1991
Language: English
Print length: 286 pages
ISBN-10: 0444987681
ISBN-13: 9780444987686
Book Description
This publication deals with the composition and structure of both natural and artificially established tropical forests. After a general introduction, the role of tropical forests in the production of timber is discussed. Attention is then given to the structure of natural tropical forests, especially in Congo, Gabon, Ghana and Laos. The structure of artificially established forests is dealt with in another chapter. At the end, information is given on the thinning of such forest stands in Tanzania.
Author(s): Kate Macdonald (Editor), Nathan Waddell
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1 May 2013
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 282 pages
ISBN-10: 1848933967
ISBN-13: 9781848933965
Book Description
Considered a quintessentially ‘popular’ author, John Buchan was a writer of fiction, journalism, philosophy and Scottish history. By examining his engagement with empire, psychoanalysis and propaganda, the contributors to this volume place Buchan at the centre of the debate between popular culture and the modernist elite.
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‘The collection is an example of “middlebrow studies” at its strongest, and the volume stands as an invitation to further exploration of how Buchan’s work overlaps and engages with that of canonical modernist authors as well as prolific Victorian and Edwardian figures.’ SHARP News ‘The essays are a fascinating collection with several new areas exposed for examination.’ The John Buchan Journal ‘great stuff, convincing in its range of approaches – historical, stylistic, psychological, commercial – making full use of a by-now substantial biographical and critical archive. Its strength will surely also lie in motivating other scholars to explore neglected but perceptive fictionalist interpreters of this period, from Arnold Bennett to Eric Ambler.’ Christopher Harvie, University of Tubingen ‘offers a fine mixture of theoretical and archival research that provides the student of modernity with much to consider about John Buchan … there is much here too on the postwar era that will interest scholars studying the broader literary and social contexts of the years following World War I.’ English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
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