Chris Park

A beekeeper's guide to straw skep-building, including sections on bee history and mythology, practical skep beekeeping, and making honey and wax products. Dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, the bee skep is essentially an upturned lipwork basket with a small bee entrance near the base. Offering a less intensive industrialised environment than the box hives widely used today, skeps are friendlier to the bees' way of working and – properly used – can be better for their health and resilience. Perhaps you’ve considered moving away from box hives yourself and revitalising ancient beekeeping traditions? With no full-time skep-makers in the UK, the practice is on Heritage Craft’s Red List of endangered crafts so you may need to make your own. Master skep maker and beekeeper Chris Park helps you learn these revered skills with step-by-step photographic guidance on skep construction, as well as instructions for making the protective straw cone or 'hackle' to go over the top. He provides tips on settling swarms and managing colonies using traditional techniques, and for harvesting your honey and honeycomb, draining them into jars and producing mead and candles. Woven into this is a rich potted history of skep beekeeping, its folklore and heritage, and an exploration of honey’s medicinal properties, offering up a wealth of knowledge as you perfect your skep-making skills.

First published in 1989, Chernobyl: The Long Shadow offers a balanced review of what happened there, why and how it happened, and what the main lessons and implications of the accident are. It looks back on events during and after the disaster, in particular reviewing how it and the radiation fallout were dealt with in different countries and looks forward to how the incident might affect the nuclear power industry around the world. The book explores the significance of the accident within the Soviet Union, considers its impact on public confidence in nuclear power, and reviews what improvements are necessary in emergency planning throughout the rest of the world. It is written from an inter-disciplinary perspective; based on detailedscienctific research, which is described in non-specialist terms, it considers themes like attitudes to nuclear power and political reaction to the accident itself. It sets the Chernobyl accident into a proper context. Chernobyl: The Long Shadow will appeal to students and teachers of geography, environmental science, international politics, nuclear physics, and to anyone interested in current affairs and environmental problems.

This unusual and beautifully illustrated book gives us a unique window on 600 years of Dales history. Looking through the eyes of contemporary writers, we can see how perceptions, attitudes and even the landscape itself have changed over time.

Grab your safari gear and journey through a giant dino park with the Adventure Kids in this cool, fun coloring book for kids of all ages. Explore the Jurassic Age and feel the thrills and chills just like your favorite adventurers do

Adam Sedgwick was one of the leading English geologists in the early nineteenth century. This biography is aimed at the general reader who has an interest in nineteenth century history, with particular reference to the development of modern science (particularly geology), the battle between faith and science, the modernisation of university education, and the changing role of the church. It is written in jargon-free language, and includes a comprehensive bibliography and index. Sedgwick was born in Dent in Yorkshire, son of the local vicar, was educated at Sedbergh School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was ordained into the Church of England, and in 1818 was appointed Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge. Among many other claims to fame, he discovered and named the Cambrian and Devonian rock systems, taught geology to Charles Darwin, was a friend of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, campaigned against the slave trade, helped shape the reform of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, was a Canon at Norwich Cathedral alongside his university roles, and played a central role in the creation-evolution debate. He was a complex and fascinating character, who never dodged a good argument. He was a strong advocate of William Whewell's ideas about induction the search for truth, and was not afraid to ruffle feathers in the church hierarchy about reading the Genesis creation narrative too literally.

Humans have existed for more than 200,000 years, and we were intelligent but physically disadvantaged animals. With only our intelligence, we could not do much, since without resources, nothing practical could be done. Therefore we had to be in groups to survive in the harsh worlds, to defend ourselves and survive as a species, and this book will describe our evolutionary changes in the social life that still affects us now in the modern society

This book traces the history of St Thomas' Church in Lancaster England, from its origins in 1841 up to 2010. Highlights include the church's beginnings, its experience of both world wars and of renewal in the 1970s and 80s, and its adaptation to changing circumstances since the early 1990s.

First published in 1989, Chernobyl: The Long Shadow offers a balanced review of what happened there, why and how it happened, and what the main lessons and implications of the accident are. It looks back on events during and after the disaster, in particular reviewing how it and the radiation fallout were dealt with in different countries and looks forward to how the incident might affect the nuclear power industry around the world. The book explores the significance of the accident within the Soviet Union, considers its impact on public confidence in nuclear power, and reviews what improvements are necessary in emergency planning throughout the rest of the world. It is written from an inter-disciplinary perspective; based on detailedscienctific research, which is described in non-specialist terms, it considers themes like attitudes to nuclear power and political reaction to the accident itself. It sets the Chernobyl accident into a proper context. Chernobyl: The Long Shadow will appeal to students and teachers of geography, environmental science, international politics, nuclear physics, and to anyone interested in current affairs and environmental problems.

This book, the first in the field for two decades, looks at the relationships between geography and religion. It represents a synthesis of research by geographers of many countries, mainly since the 1960s. No previous book has tackled this emerging field from such a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, and never before have such a variety of detailed case studies been pulled together in so comparative or illuminating a way. Examples and case studies have been drawn from all the major world religions and from all continents from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Major themes covered in the book include the distribution of religion and the processes by which religion and religious ideas spread through space and time. Some of the important links between religion and population are also explored. A great deal of attention is focused on the visible manifestations of religion on the cultural landscape, including landscapes of worship and of death, and the whole field of sacred space and religious pilgrimage.

This book, the first in the field for two decades, looks at the relationships between geography and religion. It represents a synthesis of research by geographers of many countries, mainly since the 1960s. No previous book has tackled this emerging field from such a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, and never before have such a variety of detailed case studies been pulled together in so comparative or illuminating a way. Examples and case studies have been drawn from all the major world religions and from all continents from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Major themes covered in the book include the distribution of religion and the processes by which religion and religious ideas spread through space and time. Some of the important links between religion and population are also explored. A great deal of attention is focused on the visible manifestations of religion on the cultural landscape, including landscapes of worship and of death, and the whole field of sacred space and religious pilgrimage.