Peter Cain: 5 books

‘Percy the Parrot – and Other Pet Subjects’ is a collection of humorous accounts and recollections with birds, animals and fish that have passed through the author ‘Captain’ Peter Cain’s life, with Percy, an African Grey parrot, and the antics he got up to being the main feature in the...

Percy the Parrot 2 - the bird's perspective is a 'fictional account of true events'. A humorous recollection of events from Percy's point of view which happened to him in Percy the Parrot - and other Pet Subjects. Book includes pictures and illustrations.

This book is an examination of the concept of ‘character’ as a moral marker in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its main purpose is to investigate how the ‘character talk’ that helped to shape elite Britons’ sense of themselves was used at this time to convince audiences,...

This edited volume in American constitutionalism places the Supreme Court’s declaration of same-sex marriage rights in U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) within the context of the Court’s developing understanding of the legal and social status of marriage and the family. Leading...

The quality and availability of fresh water are of critical importance to human and ecosystem health. Given its central role in the functioning of all living systems, water is arguably the mimportant of all natural resources. Produced biennially, The World's Water provides a timely examination...