Fifty Key Thinkers On The Environment

<P>Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolific author on environmental matters, has assembled a team of thirty-five expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures ¿ from all over the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are:</P><P></P><UL><P><LI>Philosophers such as Rousseau, Spinoza and Heidegger</LI><P></P><P><LI>Activists such as Chico Mendes</LI><P></P><P><LI>Literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordsworth</LI><P></P><P><LI>Major religious and spiritual figures such as the Buddha and St Francis of Assisi.</LI><P></P></UL><P></P><P>Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind¿s view and understanding of the physical world.</P>