A Friend of the Earth
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Does the earth need a friend
  • Silent Spring meets The Time Machine
  • Disturbing, but sticks in your brain
  • For Friends of Good Writing
  • Made me laugh, but left me feeling empty
A Friend of the Earth
T.C. Boyle
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0141002050
Release Date: 2001-08-28

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If, as we are frequently cautioned, ecological collapse is imminent, the future might someday resemble T.C. Boyle's vision of Southern California, circa 2025: strafing wind, extortionate heat, vast species extinction, and a ramshackle, dispirited populace. A more bleak backdrop--part Blade Runner, part Silent Spring--for his eighth novel is difficult to imagine. But the ever-mischievous, ever-inventive Boyle is all too willing to disoblige; and so, in extended homage to early Vonnegut, his Sierra Club nightmare is rendered, well, comically. Toss in streaks of unabashed sentimentality, a scattershot satire, and several signature narrative ambushes, and A Friend of the Earth only further embellishes the already prodigious Boyle reputation.

During the 1980s and '90s, Ty Tierwater had exchanged a sedately acquisitive existence--"the slow-rolling glacier of my old life, my criminal life, the life I led before I became a friend of the earth"--for a fairly ambivalent position on the front lines of an ecoterrorist posse called Earth Forever! The only complication is his dual penchant for empathy and ineptitude, exacerbated by a frustration that swells with accumulating incitements. After his daughter is taken from him, and his second wife, Andrea, becomes more committed to the cause than to their marriage, Ty finds solace in blind destruction. He serves his almost predictable terms in jail; he endures the eventual death--and martyrdom--of his activist daughter, Sierra. At 75, and a quarter of the way into the dismal and decayed 21st century, he unaccountably finds himself tending an eccentric rock star's private mini-zoo of ragged animals and wryly lamenting the collapse of his race. And then Andrea resurfaces--along with his long-fallow faith in love.

Old Testament digression stalks Ty throughout A Friend of the Earth, from a publicity-stunt-cum-Edenic-retreat during his heady Earth Forever! days to a chaotic menagerie roundup amidst flooding rainfall. Boyle's future, however, is less apocalyptic than resigned, more drearily pragmatic than angst-ridden. It's a world Ty ultimately finds untenable: a constricted diversity, ecological or ideological, proves stultifying, a fact he only dimly recognized while awash in his earlier radicalism. "To be a friend of the earth," he avers in retrospect, "you have to be an enemy of the people." Boyle's spirited tale sustains the brashness of Ty's convictions. --Ben Guterson

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Funny and touching, antic and affecting . . . while Boyle's humor is as black as ever, he demonstrates that satire can coexist with psychological realism, comedy with compassion." (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)

In the tradition of The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the universal questions of human love and the survival of the species. In the year 2025 global warming is a reality, the biosphere has collapsed, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a living as care-taker of a pop star's private zoo when his second ex-wife re-enters his life. .

. . Both gritty and surreal, A Friend of the Earth represents a high-water mark in Boyle's career-his deep streak of social concern is effortlessly blended here with genuine compassion for his characters and the spirit of sheer exhilarating playfulness readers have come to expect from his work.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Does the earth need a friend.......2007-03-08

I am a huge fan of TC Boyle's novels and A Friend of the Earth does not disappoint. I laughed out loud as I read, which is one of the draws for me to his work, it is so darn hilarious.It is also thought provoking but not the way I thought it would be...I found irony in the age old man vs nature struggle and discovered that I realize nature ALWAYS wins. We are doomed in many ways but what we do have is something nature can not take away...love.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

5 out of 5 stars Silent Spring meets The Time Machine.......2006-07-06

TC Boyle writes about way-out-there characters, and *A Friend of the Earth* is no exception. Ty, the main character, used to be a member of an eco-terrorism group like Earth First! (called here, Earth Forever!) before events in his own life changed him and the environment collapsed.

One thing that I really enjoy about TC Boyle's work in general and *A Friend of the Earth* in particular is the way Boyle contemplates time. Here, the book alternates chapters between Ty's life as a young father and then eco-terrorist in the 1980s and 1990s and events in the eco-ravaged world when Ty is a young-old person in 2025. In the intervening three decades, Ty has changed dramatically as a human being (though we can see the roots of his changes) and the world changes. Only 25 years ago, Reagan had just begun his presidency, Germany was two countries with a wall between them, and the biggest threat to our lives was the Soviet Union, the Iron Curtain, and enough nukes pointed at us to destroy the world 1000 times over. In 1990, 16 years ago, Clinton was in his first term, his opinion was that our greatest challenge in America was race relations, the Soviet Union was in shambles, and Berlin Wall rubble was being sold by mail order, because there was no Ebay. Five years ago, in July, 2001, everybody was getting rich on internet stocks, housing prices were stagnant, people were still arguing about hanging and dimpled chads, and we had two blissful months of navel-gazing left before we the public started worrying about Osama bin Ladan, radical Islamists, burkas, rape rooms, WMDs, and Middle Eastern wars. Time changes things. Time changes people. Boyle understands that better than most other writers and uses it in his novels.

In Boyle's book, Ty changes dramatically over the intervening years between the two time periods that the book examines. One of the major questions that Boyle explores and uses as a tension device is why Ty changed so much and what Sierra's (his daughter) fate was. By using these, Boyle has written a tightly woven, entertaining, tense book that, while it offers no pretty assurances or head-patting, does hold one's interest to the bitter end.

TK Kenyon
RABID, coming in 2007 from Kunati Book Publishers

4 out of 5 stars Disturbing, but sticks in your brain.......2006-05-06

While reading this book, I didn't enjoy it all that much, though I've liked others of his. Seemed a bit too soapboxish and not as funny as it was trying to be. However, snippets of the scenario painted in it (all the doomsayers on global climate change are right) have arisen unbidden in my mind several times since. To me, that's one sign of a good book, raising its rating from 3 stars to 4.

5 out of 5 stars For Friends of Good Writing.......2006-01-01

While it's true that the protagonist of this book is an eco-terrorist, he is also a father and husband and this is a novel primarily concerned with reconciling family life with personal responsibility to create a life that makes some kind of sense. In this Ty Tierwater is a self professed failure and so I don't believe Boyle intended this as a "message" novel. While Boyle's research adds immeasurably to the appeal of the story interpreting it exclusively through the lens of eco-politics is a mistake that will rob one of its considerable pleasures. (And to measure it by the conventions of science fiction is beside the point entirely.)

So why should you read this book? Because the sentences burst with flavor in your mouth. Also because it's a wonderfully crafted novel. The first person narration is convincing to the point that I completely identified with Ty even as I came to realize he was in many ways a self destructive crank likely to do as much harm as good to those around him. The book's time structure -- jumping from past to present -- is an effective technique for helping the reader trace evolving relationships (especially between Ty, wife Andrea, and daughter Sierra) and understand the impact of decisions over time. And finally, Ty tells his story with passion and intelligence in spite of an enroaching emotional exhaustion that matches the degradation fo the biosphere (a terrific act of authorial slight of hand, btw.)

Ecopolitics and craft aside, when you come right down to it the reason to read "A Friend of the Earth," is because Boyle creates an unforgettable character in Ty Tierwater. Love him or hate him, you won't forget him...or this book.

3 out of 5 stars Made me laugh, but left me feeling empty.......2005-11-01

"A Friend of the Earth" is a book about evironmentalism, the destruction of the planet, and personal decisions. It's about priorities, nihilism, sex, growing old, and the end of the world.
It's okay.
The book tells the story of a an eco-radical whose actions get his daughter taken away from him, his family on the run, and himself locked up in prison. It's about the world after it's all gone to pieces from global warming, and about the story's protagonist trying to save the last of the world's animals in the face of global warming-induced flooding, windstorms, and drought.
The story cuts back and forth between the late-1980s and the 2030s, and many of the parts set in the future flash back to the late-1990s to memories of his daughter who lived in a redwood a la Julia "Butterfly" Hill to try to save an endangered forest.
The book often made me laugh, and the writing was often worth underlining, but overall it left me emotionless and uncaring about the story, its characters, or the things it talked about. It was just kind of...blah, not deserving of its weird cameo in the movie "Secret Window," not deserving of much, really, and I probably won't be reading any more of T.C. Boyle's novels.
For those who read Michael Crichton's "State of Fear," this is a decent fictional counterpart to that one. That one dismissed global warming completely. This one claims it will destroy us all in a matter of thirty years. The truth is probably somewhere between the two.
Our Mutual Friend (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Down by the river, up from the river
  • Great Book Club Read!
  • Dickens at his best
  • Not worth every effort to read unless you've read rest of Dickens first
  • Our Mutual Friend was the last completed novel by the mutual friend of all readers: the inimitable Charles Dickens!
Our Mutual Friend (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens)
Charles Dickens
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0192545108

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Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickens completed and is, arguably, his darkest and most complex. The basic plot is vintage Dickens: an inheritance up for grabs, a murder, a rocky romance or two, plenty of skullduggery, and a host of unforgettable secondary characters. But in this final outing the author's heroes are more flawed, his villains more sympathetic, and the story as a whole more harrowing and less sentimental. The mood is set in the opening scene in which a riverman, Gaffer Hexam, and his daughter Lizzie troll the Thames searching for drowned men whose pockets Gaffer will rifle before turning the body over to the authorities. On this particular night Gaffer finds a corpse that is later identified as that of John Harmon, who was returning from abroad to claim a large fortune when he was apparently murdered and thrown into the river.

Harmon's death is the catalyst for everything else that happens in the novel. It seems the fortune was left to the young man on the condition that he marry a girl he'd never met, Bella Wilfer. His death, however, brings a new heir onto the scene, Nicodemus Boffin, the kind-hearted but low-born assistant to Harmon's father. Boffin and his wife adopt young Bella, who is determined to marry money, and also hire a mysterious young secretary, John Rokesmith, who takes an uncommon interest in their ward. Not content with just one plot, Dickens throws in a secondary love story featuring the riverman's daughter, Lizzie Hexam; a dissolute young upper-class lawyer, Eugene Wrayburn; and his rival, the headmaster Bradley Headstone. Dark as the novel is, Dickens is careful to leaven it with secondary characters who are as funny as they are menacing--blackmailing Silas Wegg and his accomplice Mr. Venus, the avaricious Lammles, and self-centered Charlie Hexam. Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens's most satisfying novels, and a fitting denouement to his prolific career. --Alix Wilber

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Dickens' last completed novel traces John Harmon's covert observation of Bella Wilfer, whom he must marry if he is to inherit a fortune.

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Charles Dickens's last completed novel tells the story of a young man who must marry a stranger in order to win his inheritance. Wanting to learn the lady's nature, John Harmon fakes his own death and takes on a new identity. As the complexities of the deceit are revealed, Dickens gives us his most profoundly cynical, yet brilliantly funny, insight into the corruption of wealth on human nature. 40 illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Down by the river, up from the river.......2007-07-18

The last completed novel by Dickens is also one of the darkest and, in my opinion, one of the best. The plot, as usual, is too dense and complex to be treatd here in detail. The story centers around one John Harmon, back from abroad to claim the inheritance from his deceased, horrible, and miser of a father. For reasons that are never explained (one of the several loose ends of the book), Old Harmon had set the condition that, in order for his son to receive the inheritance, he must marry a young, poor girl called Bella Wilfer, whom young Harmon had never met. One night, a guy whose trade was to recover things -and bodies- from the fetid Thames, along with his daughter, finds a corpse, which is later identified as that of John Harmon. Mysterious characters appear to have an interest in the affair, but the fact is that, missing the first-choice heir, the fortune must go to the Boffins, long time employees of Old Harmon. By the way, Old Harmon's source of fortune is a very strange one: he was a Dustman, apparently someone who trades in garbage and other discarded objects. The Boffins are an old, childless, good, charming, and ignorant couple. Feeling sorry for the death of beloved Johnny, and owing to a sense of reparation, they practically adopt Bella Wilfer. They also hire as their secretary an old tenant of the Wilfers, the mysterious John Rokesmith, who falls in love with the arrogant and pretentious Bella.

What follows is a mad, symphonic, convoluted tale of ambition, corruption, passion, crime, and revenge, as well as of confused identities. All in a tone of farce and black -but very funny- humor. Dickens paints his very own London, dark, wet, fetid, inhuman. The characters travel up and down the Thames, through St. James, the Temple, the City, etc., crossing time and again the dangerous river. They come and go all the time. The two young ladies, Bella and Lizzie Hexam, the daughter of the man who first recovered the body, are subject to mad passions, especially the latter. There are dozens of subplots, all worth reading. Dickens mocks just about every kind of people in London: business, politics, social habits. Most characters are mean and ridiculous. The vividness of the situations is witness to the enormous creative powers of this great writer.

Thre are too many characters to sketch them all here, but some memorable ones are: Miss Jenny Wren ("I know your tricks and your manners"), the dolls' dressmaker, smart, cynical, penetrating, beautiful and handicapped, as well as her pathetic drunkard of a father. Silas Wegg, "a man of letters and with a wooden leg", a sinister rascal who tries to dispossess the Boffins through blackmail, and his associate, Mr. Venus, embalmer and taxidermist, always sitting in his dark parlour, surrounded by phaetuses in bottles. Bradley Headstone, who literally gets crazy about Lizzie. Rogue Riderhood, the common criminal of the Thames. The most outrageous one is an usurer, a petulant and despicable pseudo-dandy called Fascination Fledgeby.

It's true: in contrast with most great writers of the XIX Century, Dickens does not create human beings. He creates cartoons. In fact, at least for me, some passages of the novel are more easily imagined as cartoons than as people. But, as Anthony Burgess put it, "Language and morality add dimensions to his cartoons and turn them into literature". This is an enormously funny book, well worth your dedication through its many pages. Some people criticize him for leaving subplots open and for not tying it all up close circle. Who cares, his power with words is extraordinary and his landscape of characters unforgettable.

5 out of 5 stars Great Book Club Read!.......2007-07-17

Great book club pick! Many plots to follow and tons of discussion. For people who typically read Oprah books, this is not an easy read. If you enjoy classics and can get through the period type of writing, this is a great book. I would read reviews first so you can get the general feel. Also good to note: Gets much easier after the first 250 pages. Hang in there and it is soooo worth it.
This should be a book taught in high school. Lots of issues of that time to discuss and learn from.

5 out of 5 stars Dickens at his best.......2007-05-02

This is by far my favorite novel by Dickens. I couldn't put it down. Dickens draws you in to his world like nobody else is able to do. I am still trying to find that feeling of satisfaction that Our Mutual friend gave me after I completed it. Amazing novel.

3 out of 5 stars Not worth every effort to read unless you've read rest of Dickens first.......2007-01-02

Difficult to get your head round and finish unless you really love Dickens - which I do. This is not one of his best and so by Dickens' standards a failure. It was the last novel he finished and it lacks the optimism and wit of many of his other works. If you have to read this for study purposes, good luck to you. If for leisure, I personally would read another Dickens, say David Copperfield, Hard Times, Great Expectations, Pickwick Papers, Bleak House or Little Dorrit.

5 out of 5 stars Our Mutual Friend was the last completed novel by the mutual friend of all readers: the inimitable Charles Dickens!.......2006-11-21

A dark and dangerous night along the foggy Thames. Lizzie Hexam and her father Gaffer retrive a dead man from the icy waters. During the next 900 pages the name of the victim will be explained. Along the way we will meet such characters as:
the nouveau riche family of the Veneerings. He becomes a Member of Parliament entertaining the fatuous Miss Tippins, the timorous Twemlow and an assorted miscellany of rogues (such as the greedy Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Lammle) in high Victorian satire worthy of Thackery in Vanity Fair.
The Golden Dustman Mr. Boffin who inherits the estate of the rich John Harmon is a slow-witted old man who gets the infamous Silas Wegg and the antiquarian Mr. Venus to sit with him on long evenings. Wegg reads Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to the old man while seeking ways to discovered hidden treasure in the dust heaps contained on the Boffin property.
Love stories abound. Bella Wilfer who falls in love with John Rokesmith (we learn his identity as the novel concludes) was affianced to the "late"
heir of the Harmon estated who is missing and presumed murdered.
Lizzie Hexam is courted by lawyer Eugene Wrayburn and the odious schoolmaster Bradley Headstone who has murder in his heart and lust on his mind.
The novel is dark with fine illustrations by Marcus Stone adding to the pleasures of this three decker.
One lacks the exuberance and joy of the earlier Dickens but in this late work one still marvels at the mastery of the genius of Dickens. Like a black widow spider he has the ability to tie all the plots together in a web of murder, intrigue, mystery and romance.
This 1865 novel will hold your interest; exciting your imagination and keep you up nights in quest of answers to this "novel noire" of long ago.
Listen To Your Body, Your Best Friend on Earth
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  • pleasant and good
  • Incredible book!
Listen To Your Body, Your Best Friend on Earth
Lise Bourbeau
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This book was written for those who have made a conscious decision to improve the quality of their lives and have decided to take control. The author provides the tools and the guidelines necessary for step by step personal development in every area of life. Based on the concept of Whole Mind Integration, the book is presented in five parts. Exercises at the end of each chapter provide the opportunity for guided practical application of the concepts presented.

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5 out of 5 stars pleasant and good.......2007-04-06

What a great and pleasent book. I strongly suggest this for everybody, just everybody, teenagers, parents, especially new parents,couples and singles. A very simple guide and explanation on how and why we are responsable for the course of our life, no matter what the past was.
I'm a single divorced man, father of a teen and truly enjoyed this reading.

5 out of 5 stars Incredible book!.......2000-05-25

This book is the best one I've read yet. It gave me tools to better my life in all sorts of ways - my relationships - my fears - my health problems. I don't blame others for what happens to me anymore. What a great feeling to know that I'm responsible for my own life and that I'm the only one that can change it. What makes this book different from all the others I read is that it doesn't only talk and explain problems but it also gives you the steps to get over it.
Ecology Crafts For Kids: 50 Great Ways to Make Friends with Planet Earth
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Good Resource - Lots of photos!
Ecology Crafts For Kids: 50 Great Ways to Make Friends with Planet Earth
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4 out of 5 stars Good Resource - Lots of photos!.......2000-04-13

Encourage your children to recycle and care for the environment with this book. It contains 50 ideas using items from nature (stones, sticks, plants, etc.) and recycled materials (cans, paper bags, newspapers, etc.) A few of their eco-friendly ideas include: license plate bird feeder, handprint giftwrap, a wooden house for bats, birch bark canoe, potato print shirts, mosaic flowerpots, sketch and press nature journals, paper bag books, cut and paste bottles and jars, corn husk sunflowers, papier mache pinata and hats, Eco party ideas, bottle gardens, natural cosmetics, and more.

Craft ideas range from easy to more challenging and are appropriate for a variety of age ranges, though elementary and middle school aged students would enjoy them the most. The book is filled with several photographs for each activity making it a hit with visual learners!

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My Very First Encyclopedia with Winnie the Pooh and Friends (Disney Learning)
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    My Very First Encyclopedia with Winnie the Pooh and Friends (Disney Learning)
    Thea Feldman
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    Rene Dubos, Friend of the Good Earth: Microbiologist, Medical Scientist, Environmentalist
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      Carol L. Moberg
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      Fire: Friend or Foe
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        Fire: Friend or Foe
        Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
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        Fire has frightened and fascinated human beings for centuries. Although we often think of fire as only hurtful, it can play an essential part in maintaining the natural balance of nature. As science explores the role of naturally occurring fires, we have become better skilled at utilizing fire and living alongside its dangers. Dorothy Hinshaw Patent's authoritative text -- coupled with William Munoz's spectacular photographs -- documents scientists' growing knowledge of the awesome power of fire. Index.
        Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time
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          ASIN: 0765312387
          Release Date: 2004-10-14

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          "This book, then, is the story of how a farmer's son from Scotland learned to peer into the deepest abysses of time. It is a drama of personality, landscape and ideas, of an intellectual revolution that shaped our world--and of a man whose vision, rooted in antiquity yet tinged with modern philosophies, was not only ahead of his own time but speaks to our new century."--From the ForewordIn the eighteenth century, the received wisdom, following Bishop Ussher's careful biblical calculations, was that the Earth was just six thousand years old. James Hutton, a gentleman farmer with a passion for rocks, knew that could not be the case. Looking at the formation of irregular strata in the layers of the Earth he boldly deduced that a much longer span of time would be required for the landscape he saw to have evolved. In the lusty and turbulent world of Enlightenment Scotland, he set out to prove it.He could not have achieved this without the help of his friends. Hutton's entourage in Edinburgh would turn out to be the leading thinkers of the age, including Erasmus Darwin, Adam Smith, James Watt, David Hume, and Joseph Black. But Hutton had his enemies, too. His geological theories would ignite profound religious debate and was condemned as "a wild and unnatural notion" that would lead to "skepticism, and at last to downright infidelity and atheism."Ultimately, however, his revelation was one of the most extraordinary and essential moments in scientific history. Hutton's discovery of deep time changed our view of humanity's place in the universe forever.Like Dava Sobel's bestselling Longitude, Ages In Chaos vividly captures a transcendent moment in the history of human accomplishment.
          The Protest Business?: Mobilising Campaign Groups (Issues in Environmental Politics)
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            The Protest Business?: Mobilising Campaign Groups (Issues in Environmental Politics)
            Grant Jordan , and William Maloney
            Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Paperback

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            ASIN: 0719043719

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            The central concern of this study is to examine why people choose to join campaigning groups, such as Friends of the Earth or Amnesty, in preference to political parties. Particular emphasis, however, is given to environmental campaign groups. Environmental issues gained increasing political importance in the 1980s, and the environment is subsequently mentioned in almost every policy development. There is now a high level of public interest in dozens of environmental pressure groups. In this new study of two of the best known campaigning groups Grant Jordan and William Maloney ask: why do people choose to join Friends of the Earth or Amnesty International? Who joins? How are they targeted? Why do some leave? Drawing on mainly British and American sources, the authors discuss the significance of the two groups for democracy, and comment on the current commitment of the public to campaigning.
            Earth's Wild Winds (Exploring Planet Earth)
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              Earth's Wild Winds (Exploring Planet Earth)
              Sandra Friend
              Manufacturer: 21st Century
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Library Binding

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              ASIN: 0761326731

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