Most Popular Books by Richard Adams

With its spectacular beaches and charming towns, Cape Cod is known around the world as a vacation spot and a summer retreat for the well-to-do. But there is another Cape Cod, a hidden, hardscrabble, year-round world whose hunter-gatherer economy dates back to the Bay Colony. The world of the independent fisherman is one of constant peril, of arcane folkways and expert knowledge, of calculated risk and self-reliance -- and of freedom won daily through backbreaking, solitary work. It is a way of life deep in the American grain. Haunted by the numbers of family fishermen who have recently been forced to abandon the profession, Richard Adams Carey spent a year among a handful of men who stubbornly refuse to do so. Reminiscent of the work of William Warner and Joseph Mitchell, AGAINST THE TIDE is a masterly profile of four New England fishermen in which every page opens onto something more profound: maritime history, maritime ecology, and the poetic celebration of a special American place.

A quiet New England town is shattered by violence--and rises above it

This fully updated edition spells out what action school personnel should take when faced with specific physical, emotional and behavioral problems. Covering everything from the common cold to trauma, it helps school personnel make decisions that protect student health -- and prevent litigation. Plus, this new third edition offers expanded information on mental health, special education, teen pregnancy, STDs, and more.

The adventures of two young inexperienced Tygers who set out from Victorian England into the timeless unknown.

Raymond, a wandering minstrel, joins the forces massing to challenge the reign of Richard of York. His bravery in fighting for Henry Tudor''s cause begins a tradition in which he and his family become loyal and true servants to those who guide England through the sixteenth century.

Periodic information on fertilizer use by crops provides reference points that are widely used by public and private agencies and by individuals. Identification of changes in levels and patterns of fertilizer use is a necessary part of analysis of changes in farm technology and of farm adjustment problems closely related to these changes. The reference points provided by the estimates presented here, together with information on crop yield response to changing technology, are useful in projecting potentials in crop production and in projecting demand for fertilizer and other nonfarm inputs. This report includes estimates of use of principal plant nutrients on individual crops for the 50 States, and for State parts of agricultural subregions for the 48 contiguous States, for whole subregions, and for the United States by major regions.

This book argues for reform of the convention that, when politicians decide on a course of action, the general in supreme command obeys without question. The entire spread‐out chain of command is unified in the general, who offers the only connection between the military and politics. Offering the sole connection between the military and politics, only the general can turn political directions into military command and capacitate war. Thus, the general has unique opportunity to resist unconscionable direction to launch an unjust war or to conduct or expand war unjustly. This book argues for reform, so the general has the right in law to refuse direction which is lawful, but awful. The legal capacity to refuse would mean the general would be expected to act responsibly, not merely as the unresisting pawn of politics. Such reform, creating legal opportunity for the supreme command to refuse lawful but unconscionable directives, might avert unjust war. This book will be of much interest to students of the ethics of war, civil‐military relations, and international relations.

C''est dans les fourrés de collines verdoyantes et idylliques que se terrent parfois les plus terrifiantes menaces. C''est là aussi que va se dérouler cette vibrante odyssée de courage, de loyauté et de survie. Menés par le valeureux Hazel et le surprenant Fyveer, une poignée de braves choisissent de fuir l''inéluctable destruction de leur foyer. Prémonitions, malices et légendes vont guider ces héros face aux mille ennemis qui les guettent, et leur permettront peut-être de franchir les épreuves qui les séparent de leur terre promise : watership down. Mais l''aventure s''arrêtera-t-elle vraiment là ? Aimé et partagé par des millions de lecteurs à travers le monde l''envoûtant roman de Richard Adams fait partie de ces récits mythiques et hors du temps, une épopée sombre et violente, néanmoins parcourue d''espoir et de poésie. Vous sentirez le sang versé, vous tremblerez face aux dangers, vous craindrez la mort et par-dessus tout vous ressentirez l''irrépressible désir de savoir ce qui va se passer.

Plants and animals are discussed in the ways they adjust to each season.

Cessant d''être les Jeannot de notre enfance et le gibier des Raboliot, voici que les lapins deviennent pour la première fois les héros d''une épopée. Ce récit a la simplicité des grands mythes. Comme eux, il est tissé de symboles : le sang versé, l''herbe rase et l''herbe haute. l''oiseau noir et l''oiseau blanc, le grand chien qui vous pourchasse et qui vous sauve sans le savoir, l''eau qui noie ou qui vous porte, la " grande eau " que les lapins n''ont jamais vue et dont ils rêvent, et enfin ces innombrables petites fleurs des champs, avec lesquelles ils entretiennent une amitié complice et gourmande, incarnations fugaces du temps qui passe et de la Mort, leur éternelle compagne. Fable ? Œuvre de moraliste ? Livre de sagesse ? Richard Adams a simplement raconté une histoire - mais en lui prêtant une telle fraîcheur, une telle poésie et tant de mystérieux échos que nous croyons reconnaître une odyssée venue du fond des siècles. A nous de l''interpréter à notre façon, ou mieux de la lire avec des yeux d''enfant.

Examines the events of the Civil War through the eyes of General Robert E. Lee''s closest companion and devoted horse, Traveller.