Jasper Trails
This guidebook by M. B. Williams offers a concise exploration of Canada’s Jasper National Park.
This guidebook by M. B. Williams offers a concise exploration of Canada’s Jasper National Park.
This is the 1930 edition of a guidebook first published in 1927 and written by M. B. Williams. The scenic trail between Lake Louise, Alberta and Golden, British Columbia is the jumping-off point for a fawning tribute to the automobile.
Focusing on the southern Alberta Park that shares a border with Montana’s Glacier National Park, this travel guide, written by Mabel Bertha Williams, is from around 1927.
The 1936 Guardians of the Wild, the first book written by M. B. Williams, is also the first history of the Canadian national parks system. It was written and published in Great Britain, and Williams never mentions her own part in that history.
This 1924 travel guide, written by Mabel Berta Williams, is a compact, well-photographed guide to the new highway that vastly improved automobile travel in the Rocky Mountain parks.
This 1936 article by M. B. Williams is for England’s The Animals’ Friend magazine and aims to kindle interest in and enthusiasm for the establishment of national parks and sanctuaries in England.
Finn Arne Jørgensen examines the development of the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system, which has the highest return rates in the world, from 1970 to the present day. He reveals the challenges faced when the system was exported internationally and explores the critical role of technological infrastructures and consumer convenience in modern recycling.
Alternative Futures brings together 35 essays on India’s future, written by a diverse set of authors: activists, researchers, media persons, those who have influenced policies, and those working at the grassroots. Divided into four sections—Ecological Futures, Political Futures, Economic Futures, and Socio-Cultural Futures—the book covers a wide range of issues including environmental governance, biodiversity, democracy and power, law, agriculture, pastoralism, industry, languages, learning and education, knowledge, health and sexuality among others.
Birds in Our Lives is an account of bird conservation in India, written by conservationist Ashish Kothari. It educates the reader on the importance of birds in Indian culture and economy and highlights the imminent threats to their habitats and populations, as well as growing efforts to conserve birdlife.
Xenia Cherkaev and Elena Tipikina examine the institutions of the Stalinist state that planned the distribution, raising, and breeding of family dogs for military service. The investigate how the program affected human-dog relations.