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Aldous Huxley Green Inheritance: Saving the Plants of the World
University of California Press 2006-02-08 0520243595 / 9780520243590 Paperback Fine n/a Paperback
New. Fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.In this timely, comprehensive volume British botanist Huxley documents the remarkable contributions made by plants to world culture, the strains placed on these "green resources" today and the price we are paying for the loss of plant species and sustainable natural environments. Green Inheritance was first published in 1984 as part of a joint effort to focus attention on such issues by the World Wildlife Fund and the International Union for Conservation of Nature. In this revised edition for the 1990s Huxley writes clearly and intelligently, without pretension or botanical jargon, and provides a perfect layman's introduction to difficult choices. Saving the plants that save us, as he puts it, involves more than setting aside reserves for rain forests and pandas; it requires grass-roots education and action, government leadership and international cooperation to preserve genetic diversity built up by centuries of natural selection and human breeding. The author profiles dozens of plants whose discovery and development significantly changed human life--essential staple crops that feed the world, exotic herbs and spices, crops for industrial uses, medicinal plants, ornamentals, curiosities. The bottom line is that all life on earth depends on plants; their current rate of destruction endangers life. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist The late horticulturist Huxley wrote more than 30 books about plants, including an earlier survey of the world's plants. This new, invaluable, and more urgent incarnation addresses the fact that critical plant species are dying out at an alarming rate, a situation that continues to worsen with the passing of time. Beautifully produced and illustrated, Green Inheritance draws attention to the problems facing the planet at large as well as the ways each individual can conserve natural resources. Overall, the educational and wide-ranging text promotes an appreciation for the wondrous properties of plant life, from basic sustenance and curative powers to the ecology of insects and flowers. The elegance and descriptive power of the text combines with compelling visuals to show the interconnectedness of deserts, oceans, and polar ice caps. Readers will come away with an enhanced view of the natural world and heightened interest in assessing the current movement toward genetic engineering. Alice Joyce Copyright
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Huxley, Aldous Now More Than Ever (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint)
University of Texas Press 2000 0292731221 / 9780292731226 Hardcover Fine Fine Hardcover
New. Fine in publisher's cloth in like dust jacket. Shrink wrapped. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.More of a historical curiosity than a functional drama, this previously unpublished play by Huxley (1894$1963) offers readers another dimension to the creator of the novel Brave New World and the play The World of Light. Huxley!s three-act drama expresses the daughter!s outrage by contrasting the world of a wealthy 1920s speculator and his daughter with that of a poor, idealistic Communist. Though the rich daughter falls in love with the struggling activist, all ends badly when the financial walls tumble around the father, who subsequently kills himself. Huxley worked on the play for several decades, but it was never produced on the stage. Introductory material and textual annotations furnish the play!s context within the body of Huxley!s work. For literature and theater collections."J. Sara Paulk, Coastal Plain Reg. Lib., Tifton, GA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. ... Over the course of his long career, British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an uncompromising irreligion toward greater concern for the masses and the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley's thinking underpins the previously unpublished play "Now More Than Ever". Written in 1932-1933 just after Brave New World, "Now More Than Ever" is a response to the social, economic, and political upheavals of its time.Huxley's protagonist is an idealistic financier whose grandiose scheme for industrial renewal drives him to swindling and finally to suicide. His fate allows Huxley to expose the evils he perceives in free-market capitalism while pleading the case for national economic planning and the rationalisation of Britain's industrial base. This volume contains the full text of "Now More Than Ever", a play hitherto believed to be lost. A "thinker's play," it is the last of Huxley's major writings to be published and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer. The editors of this volume have annotated the play for contemporary readers. Their introduction sets the play in the context of Huxley's intellectual life. David Bradshaw is Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. James Sexton is a Lecturer in English at Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia.
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