A student's guide to Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City - a prescribed text for VCE English 2003.

In Inventing Nature, based on his study of diverse restoration efforts in North America, Matthias Gross argues that a profound change in social analysis must accompany the proper understanding of ecological restoration. No longer humans' laboratory, no longer sacred space, in the context of ecological restoration our physical surroundings must be understood as humans' partner and peer in the project of community-building. Inventing Nature offers a way past the social constructivist versus realist debate in the environmental social sciences.