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Birdscapes : birds in our imagination and experience
Jeremy Mynott considers the fascination with birds and birdlife that enriches so many lives. Drawing upon his own experiences as points of departure, Mynott explores different aspects of ornithology & the relationship between humans and birds.
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Thucydides
Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly sophisticated study of the nature of political power itself: its exercise and effects, its agents and victims, and the arguments through which it is defended and deployed. It is therefore increasingly read as a text in politics, international relations and political theory, whose students will find in Thucydides many striking contemporary resonances. This edition seeks to present the author and the text in their proper historical context. The new translation is particularly sensitive to the risks of anachronism, and the notes and extensive reference material provide students with all the necessary historical, cultural and linguistic background they need to engage with the text on its own terms.
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The war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians
Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly sophisticated study of the nature of political power itself: its exercise and effects, its agents and victims, and the arguments through which it is defended and deployed. It is therefore increasingly read as a text in politics, international relations and political theory, whose students will find in Thucydides many striking contemporary resonances. This edition seeks to present the author and the text in their proper historical context. The new translation is particularly sensitive to the risks of anachronism, and the notes and extensive reference material provide students with all the necessary historical, cultural and linguistic background they need to engage with the text on its own terms.
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Wonder: Some Reflections on John Clare and Henry David Thoreau
[...]the word crops up three times in 'The Stonepit',2 where the traveller is struck to be looking down from above on to the tops of trees and the birds' nests in a deep quarry; it occurs twice in 'The Ants',3 where Clare is marvelling at the organisation and industry of an ant colony; it is mentioned three times in 'November',4 where people both wonder and wander in the fog on the dull, dark days of that month,- three times again in 'The Squirrel's Nest',5 where Clare is puzzled by a construction of twigs in a tree that he first thinks is a bird's nest and then goes off wondering about it; and then once in 'Swordy Well', where he contrasts 'the wonders of great nature's plan' with the destructive power of man.6 In these and similar passages Clare is combining a number of notions later separated out in our culture, and this seems to me to be a characteristic of a certain kind of nature writing whose key feature is the habit of close attention. When aged just twenty, he made the following striking statement in a graduation address at Harvard on 30 August 1837, under the grand title, 'The Commercial Spirit of Modern Times: Considered in its influence on the Political, Moral and Literary Character of a Nation': This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient, more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used. [...]there is also a radically different strain in contemporary writing and thinking about the natural world that-often more out of desperation than conviction, I suspect-feels obliged to accept the premises of the prevailing political culture and justify the conservation of our natural heritage through the 'natural services' it provides that can be assigned a financial value. The argument is that natural systems, when properly valued, offer huge and quantifiable benefits to human welfare and economic prosperity, but are too often taken for granted or even regarded as a cost.
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Indulging in a flight of fancy
Mindful of the risk involved in a live performance, the BBC took the precaution of employing a certain Maude Gould (aka Madame Saberon), a professional siffleur, or bird impersonator, as a backup. Since the real nightingales had probably been scared off by the BBC's preparations, this was a sensible idea. The result is a wonderful rumination on birds and birders through space and time for anyone interested in our relationship with nature.
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