Product Description: Life in rural Britain has changed beyond recognition since the beginning of the 20th century. Not only dramatic events such as the ban on hunting and mad cow disease but also the growth of the organic movement, changes in farming practices and increasing rural poverty have all had an effect on how we view the countryside and the people who live there...read more

Product Description: With recent media hysteria and public concern about BSE and genetically-modified crops, we could be forgiven for thinking that the upsurge of interest in organic farming is a reflection of modern debate, and a vindication of what left-wing alternative groups have been advocating for years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: John Macmurray's aims were radical, ambitious and challenging to reexamine the western philosophical tradition and call into question both its origins and inheritance. For Macmurray, western thought remains trapped in conventions which have ceased to have meaning...read more

Product Description: Modern farming methods threaten the environment in many ways: soil erosion, water pollution, the destruction of wildlife habitats, deforestation, and the deteriorating fertility of the land itself. A Future for the Land brings together the views of leading practitioners, writers, campaigners and politicians concerned with these issues...read more

Product Description: Are you looking for a bed and breakfast, guesthouse or hotel that serves organic food? Would you like to self-cater in a cottage on an organic farm and have an organic vegetable box delivered? Or would you prefer to camp on an organic smallholding with the possibility of buying the holding's own fresh organic produce? This completely revised and updated edition, with over 150 completely new entries, now includes a selection of organic places to stay in Ireland and gives you all the information you need for an 'organic holiday'...read more