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  • #futuregen

    Lessons from a Small Country

    by Jane Davidson ...
    "What Wales is doing today, the world will do tomorrow.”—Nikhil Seth, UN Assistant Secretary GeneralThe story of how one small nation responded to global climate issues by radically rethinking public policy for future generationsIn #futuregen, Jane Davidson explains how, as Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing in Wales, she proposed the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act ... Read more

    $22.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Patrons of Paleontology

    How Government Support Shaped a Science

    by Jane P. Davidson ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    A history of North American and European governments supporting paleontology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the motivation behind it.In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    #futuregen

    Lessons from a Small Country

    by Jane Davidson ...
    Narrated by Jane Davidson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 52 min

    "What Wales is doing today, the world will do tomorrow.”—Nikhil Seth, UN Assistant Secretary GeneralThe story of how one small nation responded to global climate issues by radically rethinking public policy for future generationsIn #futuregen, Jane Davidson explains how, as Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing in Wales, she proposed the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Patrons of Paleontology

    How Government Support Shaped a Science

    by Jane P. Davidson ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of Paleontology, Jane Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund exploration, arguing ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Early Modern Supernatural

    The Dark Side of European Culture, 1400–1700

    by Jane P. Davidson ...
    Series series Praeger Series on the Early Modern World
    Devils, ghosts, poltergeists, werewolves, and witches are all covered in this book about the "dark side" of supernatural beliefs in early modern Europe, tapping period literature, folklore, art, and scholarly writings in its investigation.The dark side of early modern European culture could be deemed equal in historical significance to Christianity based on the hundreds of books that were printed ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • David Teniers the Younger

    by Jane P. Davidson ...
    For some time there has existed a need for a new account of the life and stylistic development of David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690). This need is made all the more obvious by the fact that Adolf Rosenberg's book, writ-ten in 1898, remains a most complete study of Teniers. 1 De Peyre's Biogra-phie Critique of 1910 added little information not already published by Rosenberg.2 A number of recent ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Old Mortality

    by Sir Walter Scott ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous as the `killing time'. Its central character, Henry Morton, joins the rebels in order to fight Scotland's royalist oppressors, little as he shares ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Companion to Food

    by Alan Davidson, Jane Davidson, Helen Saberi ...
    Series series Oxford Companions
    The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, first published in 1999, became, almost overnight, an immense success, winning prizes and accolades around the world. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity, with each page offering an infinity of perspectives, was recognized as unique. The study of food and food history is a new discipline, but one ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Music Practitioner

    Research for the Music Performer, Teacher and Listener

    Edited by Jane W. Davidson ...
    Useful work has been done in recent years in the areas of music psychology, philosophy and education, yet this is the first book to provide a wide assessment of what practical benefits this research can bring to the music practitioner. With 25 chapters by writers representing a broad range of perspectives, this volume is able to highlight many of the potential links between music research and ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • The Pilgrimage to Compostela in the Middle Ages

    A Book of Essays

    Edited by Linda Kay Davidson, Maryjane Dunn ...
    Nine new studies address the phenomenon of the medieval pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the legendary burying place of St. James. ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework

    Edited by Jane Chin Davidson, Amelia Jones ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to Art History
    A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework explores the ways specialists and institutions in the fine arts, curation, cultural studies, and art history have attempted to situate art in a more global framework since the 1980s. Offering analyses of the successes and setbacks of these efforts to globalize the art world, this innovative volume presents a new and exciting way of considering ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume II

    Applied Perspectives: Compositions and Performances

    Edited by Michael Halliwell, Stephanie Rocke, Jane Davidson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked. From dramatic plots driven by energetic producers and directors to the conflicts and triumphs experienced by all associated with opera’s staging to the reactions and critiques of audience members, emotion is omnipresent in opera. Yet few contemplate the impact that the customary cultural practices of specific times and ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD