Much of that growing demand for coastal recreation and tourism has focused on countries in South and Southeast Asia in the tourism megaregion that this book refers to as Tropical Asia. As such, the recreational disturbance of shorebirds in Asia is a serious conservation issue, at a time when populations of both migratory and non-migratory species of shorebirds are threatened and declining because of the loss of coastal habitat and increased human disturbance. Despite global awareness about...

Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an introduction by the editors, Dionne Brand, Rabindranath Maharaj, and Tessa McWatt.Contributors include: Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Madeleine Thien, M G Vassanji, Lawrence Hill, Pascale Q...

A collection of 5 articles/essays and 2 letters written by G.K. Chesterton in "The Century Illustrated Magazine". The pubilcation dates range from 1912-1923.