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      • Trusted Partner
        Environmental factors
        October 2011

        Urban Pest Management

        An Environmental Perspective

        by Edited by Partho Dhang.

        Urban pest management has recently faced dramatic change: advances in research and formulation technology now shape the products available and how they are applied. Bringing together ideas from both academic and private enterprises, this book covers methods of pest control, their impacts on human health and the environment, and strategies for integrated management that limits the use of harmful chemicals, providing a practical resource for researchers and policy makers in pest management, urban health, medical entomology and environmental science.

      • Trusted Partner
        Medicine
        September 2019

        Natural Environments and Human Health

        by Alan Ewert, Denise Mitten, Jill Overholt

        The role natural environments play in human health and wellbeing is attracting increasing attention. There is growing medical evidence that access to the natural environment can prevent disease, aid recovery, tackle obesity and improve mental health. This book examines the history of natural environments being used for stress-reduction, enjoyment, aesthetics and catharsis, and traces the development of the connection between humans and the environment, and how they impact our personal and collective health.

      • Thriller / suspense
        August 2014

        The FARIS Affair

        by Gillian Jones

        The FARIS Affair An Eco-thriller with global and interplanetary dimensions.  Shares in a plc that markets bottled water seems a natural choice for the Ethical Portfolio of  London-based ‘Focus Asset Management’, where young graduate Anisha is a researcher for the ‘green team’.  That is until, in her researches Anisha stumbles across the shadowy organisation, FARIS whose members believe the human race has reached the limit of survival on planet earth and that it’s time to cut its losses and head for the stars. Led on by her natural curiosity and a desire to see far-flung and little visited places Anisha is faced by a series of revelations which stretch her credulity to breaking point. And falling headlong for a scientist from what she comes to see as the opposing camp adds an unanticipated emotional complication.  As Anisha becomes more entangled with FARIS she is faced with the question: for life on earth, is the glass half full or half empty?  What would be your answer?

      • Humour
        November 2015

        Fracktured!

        A Village Divided

        by Gillian Jones

        A small announcement in the evening news alerts a village in the South East of England to the threat of imminent fracking in its precious green fields. Locals come together to fight against chemical pollution of rivers and waterways but, as Dorothy, their matriarch says; ‘We need a water expert!” And this is where Anisha comes into the story. Sunning herself on a beach in Aqaba and heading for Petra to study the ancient water systems of the Nabateans, the phone call jolts her attention back to 21st century water affairs. Not everyone in the village is against fracking however and soon the locals split into two camps, while Anisha to finds herself torn apart in a different way as she gets to know the ambitious young Chief Exec of the would-be drilling company. This is the third in Gillian Jones’s ‘Water Trilogy’. We first met Anisha and Tom as they campaigned against the building of a dam in the rainforest of South America in Blade of Light. We followed Anisha through subterranean waterways in the Gulf States and further, into little-known enclaves of Central Asia, in The FARIS Affair. Now she is a professional and an expert in water affairs and, as battle lines are drawn in the Home Counties she finds herself in the middle of conflict in more ways than one.

      • Thriller / suspense
        August 2014

        Blade of Light

        Intrigue and suspense by the waters of Lake Titicaca

        by Gillian Jones

        Four students head off to Bolivia to protest about the building of a dam.  In Paraguay a gap-year backpacker goes missing.  Ripples of concern spread to an English village and into the boardrooms of the City of London.

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