Avian Illuminations
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Avian Illuminations
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Author : Boria Sax
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2021-10-13
Avian Illuminations written by Boria Sax and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-13 with Nature categories.
An exquisitely illustrated journey through the complex and crucial relationship between humans and birds. Avian Illuminations examines the many roles birds have played in human society, from food, messengers, deities, and pets, to omens, muses, timekeepers, custodians, hunting companions, decorative motifs, and, most importantly, embodiments of our aspirations. Boria Sax narrates the history of our relationships with a host of bird species, including crows, owls, parrots, falcons, eagles, nightingales, hummingbirds, and many more. Along the way, Sax describes how birds’ nesting has symbolized human romance, how their flight has inspired inventors throughout history, and he concludes by showing that the interconnections between birds and humans are so manifold that a world without birds would effectively mean an end to human culture itself. Beautifully illustrated, Avian Illuminations is a superb overview of humanity’s long and rich association with our avian companions.
Winged Worlds
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Author : Olga Petri
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-06-26
Winged Worlds written by Olga Petri and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-26 with Science categories.
This edited collection explores our often-surprising modes of co-inhabiting the cultural and aerial worlds of birds. It focuses on our encounters with non-captive birds and the cultural geographies of feathered flight. This book offers a timely contribution to the more-than-human geographies of flight, space and territory. The chapters support an ethics of attention as a new basis for the conservation and cultivation of aerial habitats. Contributions adopt an interdisciplinary approach to the patterns of intrusion and escape that shape our encounters with birds and unsettle our traditionally terrestrial concepts of space. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of our shared lives with birds, ranging from scientific observation to the social media-enabled spectacle of co-habitation and spatial competition. Written in a thought-provoking style, this book seeks to address a dearth of critical perspectives on the cultural geographies of flight and its implications for the ways in which we understand common spaces around and above us in the context of any effort at conservation.
Ten Birds That Changed The World
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Author : Stephen Moss
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2023-02-28
Ten Birds That Changed The World written by Stephen Moss and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with Nature categories.
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religion and rituals; exploited them for their natural resources; and been inspired by them for our music, art and poetry. In Ten Birds that Changed the World, naturalist and author Stephen Moss tells the gripping story of this long and eventful relationship through ten key species from all seven of the world's continents. From Odin's faithful raven companions to Darwin's finches, and from the wild turkey of the Americas to the emperor penguin as potent symbol of the climate crisis, this is a fascinating, eye-opening and endlessly engaging work of natural history.
Illuminations
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Author : Alan Moore
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-11
Illuminations written by Alan Moore and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-11 with Fiction categories.
'A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving ... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality' NEIL GAIMAN 'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' ROLLING STONE In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work and features many never-before-published pieces, international bestselling author and legendary creator of From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics, Alan Moore, presents nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, each taking us deeper into the fantastical underside of reality. In A Hypothetical Lizard, two concubines in a brothel for fantastical specialists fall in love, with tragic ramifications. In Not Even Legend, a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In Illuminations, a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella What We Can Know About Thunderman, which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry over the last seventy-five years through several sometimes-naive and sometimes-maniacal people rising and falling on its career ladders, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business. From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that - a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic. 'One of the most significant fiction writers in English ... Moore's influence can be felt everywhere-in our literature, on our screens, in our politics' GUARDIAN Illuminations became a Sunday Times Top 5 Bestseller on 15th October 2022
Posthumanist Perspectives On Literary And Cultural Animals
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Author : Krishanu Maiti
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-09-11
Posthumanist Perspectives On Literary And Cultural Animals written by Krishanu Maiti and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-11 with Education categories.
This book offers Posthumanist readings of animal-centric literary and cultural texts. The contributors put the precepts and premises of humanism into question by seriously considering the animal presence in texts. The essays collected here focus primarily on literary and cultural texts from varied theoretically informed interdisciplinary perspectives advanced by critical approaches such as Critical Animal Studies and Posthumanism. Contributors select texts that cut across geographical and period boundaries and demonstrate how practices of close reading give rise to new ways of thinking about animals. By implicating the “animal turn” in the field of literary and cultural studies, this book urges us to problematize the separation of the human from other animals and rethink the hierarchical order of beings through close readings of select texts. It offers fresh perspectives on Posthumanist theory, inviting readers to revisit those criteria that created species’ difference from the early ages of human civilization. This book constitutes a rich and thorough scholarly resource on the politics of representation of animals in literature and culture. The essays in this book are empirically and theoretically informed and explore a range of dynamic, captivating, and highly relevant topics. Comprising over 15 chapters by a team of international contributors, this book is divided into four parts: Contestation over Species Hierarchy and CategorizationAnimal (Re)constructionsInterspecies RelationalitiesIntersectionality- Animal and Gender This book will be essential reading for students and researchers of Critical Animal Studies and Environmental Studies.
Religion And Nature Conservation
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Author : Radhika Borde
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-10-31
Religion And Nature Conservation written by Radhika Borde and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-31 with Nature categories.
This book presents a broad array of global case studies exploring the interaction between religion and the conservation of nature, from the viewpoints of the religious practitioners themselves. With conservation and religion often being championed as allies in the quest for a sustainable world where humans and nature flourish, this book provides a much-needed compendium of detailed examples where religion and conservation science have been brought together. Case studies cover a variety of religions, faiths and practices, including traditional, Indigenous, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto and Zoroastrianism. Importantly, this volume gives voice to the religious practitioners and adherents themselves. Beyond an exercise in anthropology, ethnobiology and comparative religion, the book is an applied work, seeking the answer to how in a world of nearly eight billion people, we might help our own species to prevent the extinction of life. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of nature conservation, environment and religion, cultural geography and ethnobiology, as well as practitioners and professionals working in conservation.
Between Light And Storm
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Author : Esther Woolfson
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2020-09-03
Between Light And Storm written by Esther Woolfson and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-03 with Nature categories.
Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in relation to the animal kingdom, and the consequences of our belief in human superiority. She explores our representation of animals in art, our consumption of them for food, our experiments on them for science, and our willingness to slaughter them for sport and fashion, as well as examining concepts of love and ownership. Drawing on philosophy and theology, art and history, as well as her own experience of living with animals and coming to know, love and respect them as individuals, Woolfson examines some of the most complex ethical issues surrounding our treatment of animals and argues passionately and persuasively for a more humble, more humane, relationship with the creatures who share our world.
The Art And Archaeology Of Human Engagements With Birds Of Prey
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Author : Robert J. Wallis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-05
The Art And Archaeology Of Human Engagements With Birds Of Prey written by Robert J. Wallis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-05 with Social Science categories.
Of all avian groups, birds of prey in particular have long been a prominent subject of fascination in many human societies. This book demonstrates that the art and materiality of human engagements with raptors has been significant through deep time and across the world, from earliest prehistory to Indigenous thinking in the present day. Drawing on a wide range of global case studies and a plurality of complementary perspectives, it explores the varied and fluid dynamics between humans and birds of prey as evidenced in this diverse art-historical and archaeological record. From their depictions as powerful beings in visual art and their important roles in Indigenous mythologies, to the significance of their body parts as active agents in religious rituals, the intentional deposition of their faunal remains and the display of their preserved bodies in museums, there is no doubt that birds of prey have been figures of great import for the shaping of human society and culture. However, several of the chapters in this volume are particularly concerned with looking beyond the culture–nature dichotomy and human-centred accounts to explore perspectival and other post-humanist thinking on human–raptor ontologies and epistemologies. The contributors recognize that human–raptor relationships are not driven exclusively by human intentionality, and that when these species meet they relate-to and become-with one another. This 'raptor-with-human'-focused approach allows for a productive re-framing of questions about human–raptor interstices, enables fresh thinking about established evidence and offers signposts for present and future intra-actions with birds of prey.
The Avian Pineal Gland
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Author : Valér Csernus
language : en
Publisher: Akademiai Kiads
Release Date : 2004
The Avian Pineal Gland written by Valér Csernus and has been published by Akademiai Kiads this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Medical categories.
It was only in the past few decades that we realized life is basically a coordinated interplay between cyclic biochemical processes in widely different forms and period of times. This recognition greatly altered our understanding on how living organisms function. The Avian Pineal Gland discusses one specific aspect of biological cycles: the mechanism of the circadian melatonin secretion from the chicken pineal gland. The plineal gland plays a key role in controlling circadian and seasonal rhythmic processes in virtually all vertebrate species. Also, the avian pineal gland is an excellent model for studying the mechanism of the circadian processes, since this organ is relatively simple in structure and it possesses all the known features of a fully functioning circadian biological clock.
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Author : Stephen Moss
language : zh-CN
Publisher: 臺灣商務印書館
Release Date : 2024-02-01
written by Stephen Moss and has been published by 臺灣商務印書館 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-01 with Nature categories.
人類的過去，與鳥緊密相依 鳥的未來，就是人類的未來 倫敦塔渡鴉、飛鴿傳書、感恩節火雞、達爾文雀、納粹黨之鷹…… 看鳥類如何影響文明進程，甚至改變世界！ 2023英國溫萊特自然寫作獎 （Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing） 決選入圍 ------------ 「從來沒有看過一本書，對這些似乎廣為人知的鳥種做這麼仔細的介紹──歷史的，文化的，生物的。令人愛不釋手！」 ──林思民，國立臺灣師範大學生命科學系教授 「《鳥類創世紀》帶領讀者進入一段引人深思的奇幻旅程，從古代神話傳說延伸至近代社會變遷，為我們揭示了人類與鳥類間糾纏且微妙的互動關係。」 ──吳宜蓉，歷史科普作家、教育學博士 「《鳥類創世紀》是一本探討鳥類與人類深刻聯繫的好書，充滿了借鳥鑑人之意，深入揭示了鳥類在人類的神話、日常生活、社會和歷史中所扮演的關鍵角色，巧妙地展現了人類與鳥類之間錯綜複雜的關係，不僅是鳥類學愛好者的珍貴資源，同時也是對自然與文化交織關係有興趣讀者的必讀之選。」 ──黃貞祥，清華大學生命科學系副教授、Gene思書齋版主 ------------ 本書講述一段漫長且扣人心弦的故事，跨越了整個人類歷史，介紹來自世界七大洲的主要鳥類。但為什麼是鳥？為什麼不是哺乳動物或飛蛾、甲蟲或蝴蝶、蜘蛛或蛇？這是因為隨著時間的推移，在世界上所有的野生動物中，鳥類是跟我們人類有著最密切、最深刻和最複雜關係的一個群體，加上它們無處不在，地球上沒有任何地方——從兩極到赤道——沒有鳥類的蹤跡。無論什麼季節，白天或黑夜，您都可以看到它們——而且在一年中的大部分時間裡，也能聽到它們的聲音。 作者對鳥類和野生動物充滿熱情，每一個細節和軼事都印證了他的知識深度。書中列舉了十種鳥，按時序排列，從諾亞方舟放出渡鴉開始，接著馴化生活在人類周圍的鴿子，到提供精神和社會寄託的火雞（至今仍是英國和歐洲聖誕盛宴以及北美感恩節的核心），而度度鳥是歷史上第一個被記錄下來、因人類活動而絕種的生物……達爾文從雀鳥身上看見演化，希特勒從老鷹身上鞏固權力；有的鳥靠糞便養活一個國家，有的鳥甚至能戰勝一個國家。這些鳥與我們人類許多基本事物息息相關，涉及神話、溝通交流、食物和家庭、滅絕、進化、農業、保護、政治和氣候變遷等歷史的核心面向。 鳥類與人類之間密切持久的關係，不僅改變了人類歷史的進程，也將為未來提供更好的發展基礎。