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For over 100 years, people have been drawn to national parks by the promise of getting 'back to nature'. Australia has some of the oldest national parks in the world (the first park was created in 1879 just south of Sydney) and has more than any other country. They were distinctive for their emphasis on recreational use more than the protection of natural wonder. This focus on leisure activities has shaped the way in which Australians view the...

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Challenging the conventional trope that French environmentalism arose after WWII, Caroline Ford argues that a broad environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. In response to war, natural disasters, and imperialism, the bourgeoisie, along with politicians, engineers, naturalists, writers, and painters, took up environmental causes.

Jane, a doll with clothes and furniture of her own, is happy until her owner, Annie, grows up and puts her away. Years later, Annie takes Jane out and gives her to her daughterNand Jane is happy again. This text was written and illustrated by a 12-year-old.

Jane, a doll, has clothes and furniture of her own and a loving owner named Annie. When Annie grows up and puts Jane away, Jane is unhappy. Years later, Annie takes Jane out and gives her to her daughter Mandy. With even more clothes and furniture and a new loving owner Mandy, Jane is happy again. This book was written and illustrated by a 12-year-old.

Perhaps most intriguingly, Ford brings current debates concerning pluralism and cultural difference in France into sharp historical focus. The fact that women have been portrayed as the quintessential carriers of religion ever since France embraced laicite sheds light on problems faced by the secular French state today as it attempts to regulate religious expression - including emblems of Islam - in the public sphere.

Shark attacks and sewage slicks, lifesavers and surfers, amusement parks and beach camps - the beach is Sydney's most iconic landscape feature. Sydney Beaches tells the story of how Sydneysiders developed their love of the beach, from 19th-century picnickers to the surfing and sun-baking pioneers a century later.