A Road To Extinction
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A Road To Extinction
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Author : Jonathan Lawley
language : en
Publisher: Envelope Books
Release Date : 2024-06-03
A Road To Extinction written by Jonathan Lawley and has been published by Envelope Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-03 with Social Science categories.
The Jarawa, one of the oldest tribes of human beings in the world, are at risk of extinction because of a road that now runs through their forests in the Indian-administered Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal — and no one seems to care. Tourists take the road each day to try and get selfies with the tribespeople, who came from what is now Botswana over 60,000 years ago. Once proud of their independence, the Jarawa are now tempted with biscuits and trinkets, as if they were exotic animals in a human safari park. They cannot survive like this, and are already suffering from their loss of privacy. In this astonishing EnvelopeBooks publication, Jonathan Lawley returns to what was once a penal colony, built by the British to house mutineers from 1857 Indian Rebellion. He asks what responsibility colonial administrators like his own grandfather may have had for the sad plight of these palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, and what the Indian government should now be doing to protect them. Sumptuously illustrated with the author’s never-before-seen archive photographs and highly recommended by leading figures in the British media and government.
Path From Extinction
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
Release Date : 2004
Path From Extinction written by and has been published by Benchmark Education Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Children's plays categories.
Will Ursa, Og, and their neighbors travel along the path from extinction together, surviving the changes on Earth?
The Road To Extinction
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Author : Richard Fitter
language : en
Publisher: IUCN
Release Date : 1987
The Road To Extinction written by Richard Fitter and has been published by IUCN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Nature categories.
Styles Of Extinction Cormac Mccarthy S The Road
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Author : Julian Murphet
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-06-28
Styles Of Extinction Cormac Mccarthy S The Road written by Julian Murphet and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection shows how Cormac McCarthy's The Road reacts aesthetically to many of the ethical, ontological, and political concerns that define our times.
Our World
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Author : Anne Penson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Our World written by Anne Penson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Nature conservation categories.
The Sixth Extinction
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Author : Terry Glavin
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-06-10
The Sixth Extinction written by Terry Glavin and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-10 with Nature categories.
The Sixth Extinction is a haunting account of the age in which we live. Ecologists are calling it the Sixth Great Extinction, and the world isn't losing just its ecological legacy; also vanishing is a vast human legacy of languages and our ways of living, seeing, and knowing. Terry Glavin confirms that we are in the midst of a nearly unprecedented, catastrophic vanishing of animals, plants, and human cultures. He argues that the language of environmentalism is inadequate in describing the unraveling of the vast system in which all these extinctions are actually related. And he writes that we're no longer gaining knowledge with every generation. We're losing it. In the face of what he describes as a dark and gathering sameness upon the Earth, Glavin embarks on a global journey to meet the very things we're losing (a distinct species every ten minutes, a unique vegetable variety every six hours, an entire language every two weeks) and on the way encounters some of the world's wonderful, rare things: a human-sized salmon in Russia; a mysterious Sino-Tibetan song-language; a Malayan tiger, the last of its kind; and a strange tomato that tastes just like black cherry ice cream. And he finds hope in the most unlikely places---a macaw roost in Costa Rica; a small village in Ireland; a relic community of Norse whalers in the North Atlantic; the vault beneath the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew; and the throne room of the Angh of Longwa in the eastern Himalayas. A fresh narrative take on the usual doom and gloom environmentalism, The Sixth Extinction draws upon zoology, biology, ecology, anthropology, and mythology to share the joys hidden within the long human struggle to conserve the world's living things. Here, we find hope in what's left: the absolute and stunning beauty in the Earth's last cultures and creatures.
Global Climate Change And The Road To Extinction
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Author : James A. Kushner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Global Climate Change And The Road To Extinction written by James A. Kushner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Law categories.
As nations and corporations discuss and undertake reform measures to slow or reverse the trend of global warming, many questions arise: What strategies exist to reverse the problems caused by greenhouse gases collecting in our atmosphere? What steps can be taken to reduce emissions? This book looks at strategies that can, and in most cases must, be undertaken at the personal, corporate, and governmental levels of municipalities, counties, states, nations, and within the international community. This book is designed to look at broad changes that are necessary and to explore the specific policies and mechanisms that are needed to implement them. After reviewing the relevant science and potential consequences of global climate change, every facet of life is reviewed for sustainability to determine opportunities for reducing carbon emissions through alternative technology and conservation practices. The chapters explore these opportunities, and discuss the significance of our policies on agricultural and food, land use planning, brownfield development, redevelopment, consumption, economic development, education, emergency preparedness, energy, housing and construction, management of federal lands, seas, population, species protection, transportation, and water. The alternative to the strategies described is extinction.
The Extinction Gene
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Author : Robert Gross
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-04-29
The Extinction Gene written by Robert Gross and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-29 with Fiction categories.
A Nobel Prize winning scientist discovers that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by a DNA sequence triggered by global warming sixty million years ago. He now finds that the identical gene in recently extinct and endangered species is becoming active in human beings. He theorizes that current changes in the earth's environment have again triggered the DNA sequence to activity, but is murdered before he can present his findings. While trying to salvage the scientist's research; his assistant and his best friend are hunted across the mountains of western Mongolia by men willing to trade humanity's future for power and money.
Roads To Extinction
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Author : Philip Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Conference
Release Date : 1980
Roads To Extinction written by Philip Friedman and has been published by Conference this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with History categories.
A collection of articles, some of them published previously. Partial contents:
The Road
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Author : Cormac McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2019-03-07
The Road written by Cormac McCarthy and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-07 with Fiction categories.
The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves save the ash on the wind and cruel, lawless men stalk the roadside, lying in wait. Attempting to survive in this brave new world, the young boy and his protector have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves. They must keep walking. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Road is an incandescent novel, the story of a remarkable and profoundly moving journey. In this unflinching study of the best and worst of humankind, Cormac McCarthy boldly divines a future without hope, but one in which, miraculously, this young family finds tenderness. An exemplar of post-apocalyptic writing, The Road is a true modern classic, a masterful, moving and increasingly prescient novel. This edition is part of the Picador Collection, a series of the best in contemporary literature, inaugurated in Picador's 50th Anniversary year.