Product Description: Industrial innovation plays a critical role in achieving governments's environmental objectives. Through studies of the relationships between industry and regulators in the USA, Japan, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and France, key examples of success and failure in harnessing innovation are identified...read more

Product Description: From the BBC's The Really Wild Show comes this straightforward guide to more than 200 sites around Britain which encourage children's participation in wildlife activities. Maps of each region, and a gazetteer, are included, with information on animal sanctuaries, city farms, country parks, National Trust and English Heritage sites, nature reserves, wildlife parks, World Heritage sites and zoos...read more

Product Description: In Boccaccio's innovative text ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of storytelling. David Wallace guides the reader through their one hundred novelle, which explore both new and familiar conflicts with unprecendented subtlety, urgency and humor: everything from the struggle for domestic space, fought out between individual men and women, to the greater politics of the Mediterranean world where Christian and Arab meet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Recounts how Japan used prisoners of war to test biological weapons during World War II and explains how Japanese researchers escaped justice at the end of the war

Product Description: David Wallace's examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio's early writings provides an indispensable preface to and context for an informed appraisal of Chaucer's usage of Boccaccio. Previous studies of the relationship between the work of the two poets have tended to consider Chaucer's borrowings without making a thorough study of the traditions which shaped the Italian writer's work...read more