Author : Diane Ackerman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307763315
Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth. “Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in.” —The New York Times
Author : George Monbiot
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 022620555X
As an investigative journalist, Monbiot found a mission in his ecological boredom, that of learning what it might take to impose a greater state of harmony between himself and nature. He was not one to romanticize undisturbed, primal landscapes, but rather in his attempts to satisfy his cravings for a richer, more authentic life, he came stumbled into the world of restoration and rewilding. When these concepts were first introduced in 2011, very recently, they focused on releasing captive animals into the wild. Soon the definition expanded to describe the reintroduction of animal and plant species to habitats from which they had been excised. Some people began using it to mean the rehabilitation not just of particular species, but of entire ecosystems: a restoration of wilderness. Rewilding recognizes that nature consists not just of a collection of species but also of their ever-shifting relationships with each other and with the physical environment. Ecologists have shown how the dynamics within communities are affected by even the seemingly minor changes in species assemblages. Predators and large herbivores have transformed entire landscapes, from the nature of the soil to the flow of rivers, the chemistry of the oceans, and the composition of the atmosphere. The complexity of earth systems is seemingly boundless."
Author : Moacyr Scliar
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Cloaked among the leopard skins in his father's Berlin fur shop, young Max Schmidt grows up dreaming of adventure and intrigue. When as a young man an illicit affair gets him denounced to the Nazi secret police, Max barely escapes on a freighter -- only to founder off the coast of South America. Trapped in a dinghy with a hungry jaguar, he believes his days are numbered -- until he washes ashore on the coast of Brazil prepared to begin life anew. But just when he thinks he has left behind the cats of his youth, another appears...and Max realizes the time has come to take his destiny into his own hands. Book jacket.
Author : Lisa Erspamer
Publisher : Crown/Archetype
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Pets
ISBN : 0804139660
The follow-up to A Letter to My Dog takes on cats, with celebrities writing letters of love and gratitude to their beloved pet felines. Alluring, elusive, mysterious—the cats in our lives are not always easy to get to know. But as with all pets, they have unique personalities and stories to tell. Alongside beautiful four-color photos of their cats, A Letter to My Cat collects personal letters from celebrities offering love and gratitude for all that their cats bring to their lives.
Author : Yoshio Nakae
Publisher : R I C Publications Asia Company Incorporated
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781741264432
Little Mouse has a new red vest that fits just right, until he lets Little Duck try it on, then Little Monkey, Little Sea Lion, and all the way up to Elephant.
Author : Eric Baratay
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781861892089
Wild animals have fascinated human observers since time immemorial. The story of our interest in collecting, classifying and dominating Nature so that its inner workings could be understood also looms large in the history of science, and thus it is surprising that the history of menageries, zoological gardens and the zoo as we know it today has been so poorly documented. This gap is addressed by Zoo, a comprehensive history of the zoo in the Western world.
Author : Yuko Fujigaki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319153536
This book is about the consequences of the Fukushima disaster in light of their technological, societal, political, cultural and environmental origins. The magnitude of the nuclear accident is investigated in this book in the contexts of politics, economy, and society. The authors scrutinize the relationships between science, technology and society leading to this accident. Further, the authors reveal how these relationships were constructed historically. This book provides a case analysis on the Fukushima disaster in political, societal, economic and cultural dimensions. In addition, analyses for historically grown relationships between different societal spheres mouthing into disasters are presented using examples of the Minamata disease (Mercury pollution), Itai-Itai Disease (Cadmium pollution), BSE, and GMOs. With this book, Yuko Fujigaki achieves to connect local and cultural peculiarities with generalized scientific information and practices in a coherent, logical fashion to a comprehensive volume on a very actual topic of global significance. In light of a globally increasing energy gap, this book has a distinct global relevance, providing an honest account on different triggers mouthing into the nuclear disaster. This book not only gives a scientific account. It also can also contribute to prevent future disasters starting from similar vectors.
Author : Eve Tavor Bannet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521856183
This lively, interdisciplinary book will change the way we read and interpret eighteenth-century letters.
Author : Evan Hughes
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1429973064
For the first time, here is Brooklyn's story through the eyes of its greatest storytellers. Like Paris in the twenties or postwar Greenwich Village, Brooklyn today is experiencing an extraordinary cultural boom. In recent years, writers of all stripes—from Jhumpa Lahiri, Jennifer Egan, and Colson Whitehead to Nicole Krauss and Jonathan Safran Foer—have flocked to its patchwork of distinctive neighborhoods. But as literary critic and journalist Evan Hughes reveals, the rich literary life now flourishing in Brooklyn is part of a larger, fascinating history. With a dynamic mix of literary biography and urban history, Hughes takes us on a tour of Brooklyn past and present and reveals that hiding in Walt Whitman's Fort Greene Park, Hart Crane's Brooklyn Bridge, the raw Williamsburg of Henry Miller's youth, Truman Capote's famed house on Willow Street, and the contested streets of Jonathan Lethem's Boerum Hill is the story of more than a century of life in America's cities. Literary Brooklyn is a prismatic investigation into a rich literary inheritance, but most of all it's a deep look into the beloved borough, a place as diverse and captivating as the people who walk its streets and write its stories.
Author : Nancy Luxon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780816695348
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Editor's Introduction -- Disorderly Families -- Introduction -- 1. Marital Discord -- LETTERS -- Households in Ruin -- The Imprisonment of Wives -- The Debauchery of Husbands -- The Tale of a Request -- 2. Parents and Children -- LETTERS -- The Disruption of Affairs -- Shameful Concubinage -- The Dishonor of Waywardness -- Domestic Violence -- Bad Apprentices -- Exiles -- Family Honor -- Parental Ethos, 1728: The Rationale for Sentiment -- Parental Ethos, 1758: The Duty to Educate -- 3. When Addressing the King -- Afterword to the English Edition -- Arlette Farge -- Notes -- Glossary of Places -- B -- C -- E -- F -- H -- I -- L -- M -- P -- Q -- S -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- Z
