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Informationen zum Autor HRH Prince Charles is first in line to the throne. His wide range of interests is reflected in 'The Prince's Charities', 20 not-for-profit organisations of which he is President. The organisations are active across areas including opportunity and enterprise, education, health and the built and natural environments. The Prince's concerns about developments in these fields have been elaborated in many speeches and articles but Harmony is the first time his philosophy has been explained. Tony Juniper is the Executive Director of Friends of the Earth and co-author of the award-winning PARROTS. He lives in Cambridge, and campaigns in the UK and worldwide on a broad range of environmental issues. IAN SKELLY is a much-loved BBC Radio 3 presenter with a passion for music and the arts. Before working at the BBC, he was an award-winning travel writer for The Observer. He is also a published writer on the arts. Klappentext In this cross-discipline work, the Prince of Wales calls upon his years of research and explores the way in which humans must work to restore the delicate balance with nature that we've lost in the centuries since the industrial revolution began, presenting a clear and thoughtful look at how this disassociation has triggered the greatest environmental crisis in history. *Also appeared in September Buyer's Notes* Zusammenfassung A practical guide to what we have lost in the modern world! why we have lost it and how easily it is to rediscover. Harmony is a blueprint for a more balanced! sustainable world that the human race must create to survive.
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'An important book...By promoting the idea of a revolution in consciousness as the remedy for contemporary ills the prince shows he is a modern man.' THE INDEPENDENT
'A bold and courageous book.' THE TELEGRAPH
'The breadth is panoramic... The book has an engaging candour, inviting the reader into a one-on-one conversation...Harmony reacquaints us with a sense of our collective spirit.' THE ECOLOGIST
'A remarkable fusion of philosophy, ecology, theology, artistry, biology and cosmology' SUNDAY TASMANIAN