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FOREST
AND CIVILISATIONS
Lustre
Edition
Edited By Yoshinori Yasuda
This book is an attempt to reinterpret world history
and it presents a diversity of stories concerning the
relationship between the forest and human beings from
the viewpoint of environmental archaeology. Leading
scholars have conducted a fundamental enquiry into our
global environment. Their alternative cultural traditions
provide us with a fresh perspective from which critically
to clarify the assumptions in the western legacy that
have generated both the technological achievements and
the environmental problems so emblematic of Western
civilisation. Forest and Civilisations exposes us to
important ideas inherited from ancient peoples' relationship
with forests and gives us an opportunity to draw inspiration
from them in defining a new world view.
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Title: Forest
and Civilisations
Size:
9" x 11"
Pages:
200
Hard
Cover
Price: Rs. 1500.00
ISBN 81-7436-145-6 |
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Yoshinori Yasuda has been a professor at the International
Research Centre for Japanese Studies in Kyoto (IRCJS)
since 1994. He was also appointed professor at the Faculty
of Science, Kyoto University in 1997 and since then has
been a leader of the Yangtse River Civilisation Programme.
He won the Chunichi cultural prize. His numerous publications
are many books on environmental archaeology and related
subjects. |
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.Title: The Story of
.........Indian Tiger.The...
.Size:
9" x 12"
.Pages:
96
.Hard
Cover
.Price: Rs. 595.00
ISBN 81-7437-088-9
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THE
STORY OF INDIAN TIGER
By Kailash Sankhala
Kailash Sankhala, whose name is inextricably linked with
that of the Indian tiger, assesses Project Tiger and its
success in protecting the tiger in India from extinction.
Read about Project Tiger, set up as a conservation project
by the Government of India,and (in Sankhala's own words)
'see' this superb beast through Sankhala's superb photographs.
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BHARATPUR
By Ewans, et al
Located between Agra and Jaipur, the Keoladeo Ghana
National Park in Bharatpur is Asia's most spectacular
bird sanctuary. Its 29 square kilometres of lakes and
marsh-lands, woodland and scrub provide a home, permanent
or seasonal, for well over 300 species of birds. Some
storks, cranes and smaller birds are winter migrants
from Siberia, Central Asia or Europe; others are permanent
residents or local migrants from among the 1,200 species
identified in the subcontinent. In this book, vivid
descriptions of selected birds are supplemented with
photographs, a map and checklist.
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.Title:
Bharatpur
.Size:
9" x 12"
.Pages:
96
.Paperback
.Price:
Rs. 495.00
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Title:
Arjan Singh's Tiger
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.Size:
5 1/5" x 8 1/5"
.Pages:
160
.Hard
Cover
.Price:
Rs. 175.00
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ARJAN
SINGH'S TIGER BOOK
The fear of extinction of the glamorous jungle cat, the
tiger, is a spectre that haunts Arjan Singh, It is civilized
humanity's duty to ensure the survival of this great species,
which is a symbol of the great forests in which it lives.
A collection of writings on the tiger by contributors
from all walks of life; hunters-turned-conservationists,
photographers, filmmakers, all bound by the common interest
of preserving this species. |
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