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On Extinction
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Author : Melanie Challenger
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2011-10-06
On Extinction written by Melanie Challenger and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-06 with Science categories.
In Cornwall, hiking around the half-buried ruins of an old tin mine, Melanie Challenger started to think about the things that have disappeared from our world. When the gigantic bones of mammoths were first excavated from the Siberian permafrost in the eighteenth century, scientists were forced to consider a terrifying possibility: many species that had once flourished on the Earth no longer existed. For the first time, humans had to contemplate the idea of extinction. Challenger became fascinated by this idea, and started to consider how we think about the things we have lost, and, indeed, how we come to lose them. From our destruction of the natural world to the human cultures that are rapidly dying out, On Extinction is a passionate exploration of these disappearances and why they should concern us. Challenger asks questions about how we've become destructive to our environment, our emotional responses to extinctions, and how these responses might shape our future relationship with nature. She travels to the abandoned whaling stations of South Georgia, the melting icescape of Antarctica and the Inuit camps of the Arctic, where she traces the links between human activities and environmental collapse. On Extinction is an account of Challenger's journey that brings together ideas about cultural, biological and industrial extinction in a beautiful, thought-provoking and ultimately hopeful book.
On Extinction
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Author : Melanie Challenger
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2012-12-01
On Extinction written by Melanie Challenger and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with Travel categories.
Realizing the link between her own estrangement from nature and the cultural shifts that led to a dramatic rise in extinctions, award–winning writer Melanie Challenger travels in search of the stories behind these losses. From an exploration of an abandoned mine in England to an Antarctic sea voyage to South Georgia's old whaling stations, from a sojourn in South America to a stay among an Inuit community in Canada, she uncovers species, cultures, and industries touched by extinction. Accompanying her on this journey are the thoughts of anthropologists, biologists, and philosophers who have come before her. Drawing on their words as well as firsthand witness and ancestral memory, Challenger traces the mindset that led to our destructiveness and proposes a path of redemption rooted in our emotional responses. This sobering yet illuminating book looks beyond natural devastation to examine "why" and "what's next."
On Extinction
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Author : Ben Ware
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2024-03-12
On Extinction written by Ben Ware and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12 with Philosophy categories.
On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face 'the end of all things', Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching. In fact, extinction is the very lens through which we should examine our current reality. Radical politics today should not be concerned with merely averting the worst but rather with beginning again at the end. To think about the future in this way is itself a form of liberation that might incubate the necessary radical solutions we need. Combining lessons from Kant, Hegel, Adorno, and Lacan, as well as drawing on popular culture and ecology, Ware recasts the most urgent issue of our times and resolves that we can only consider our collective end by treating it as a starting point.
Extinction
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Author : Paul B. Wignall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
Extinction written by Paul B. Wignall and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Science categories.
Extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, and nearly all the species that have ever existed have now disappeared. In this 'Very Short Introduction', Paul B. Wignall looks at the causes and nature of extinction events, what makes a species vulnerable, and the debates in modern science of the role of climate and humans.
On Extinction
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Author : Melanie Challenger
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2021-03-16
On Extinction written by Melanie Challenger and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-16 with Nature categories.
Realizing the link between her own estrangement from nature and the cultural shifts that led to a dramatic rise in extinctions, award–winning writer Melanie Challenger travels in search of the stories behind these losses. From an exploration of an abandoned mine in England to an Antarctic sea voyage to South Georgia's old whaling stations, from a sojourn in South America to a stay among an Inuit community in Canada, she uncovers species, cultures, and industries touched by extinction. Accompanying her on this journey are the thoughts of anthropologists, biologists, and philosophers who have come before her. Drawing on their words as well as firsthand witness and ancestral memory, Challenger traces the mindset that led to our destructiveness and proposes a path of redemption rooted in our emotional responses. This sobering yet illuminating book looks beyond natural devastation to examine "why" and "what's next."
On Extinction
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Author : Ben Ware
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2024-03-26
On Extinction written by Ben Ware and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-26 with Social Science categories.
"This path-breaking book by one of the sharpest minds in contemporary philosophy will live on for a very long time." —Dany Nobus, author of Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason Philosophy at the end of the world On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face ‘the end of all things’, Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching. In fact, extinction is the very lens through which we should examine our current reality. Radical politics today should not be concerned with merely averting the worst but rather with beginning again at the end. To think about the future in this way is itself a form of liberation that might incubate the necessary radical solutions we need. Combining lessons from Kant, Hegel, Adorno, and Lacan, as well as drawing on popular culture and ecology, Ware recasts the most urgent issue of our times and resolves that we can only consider our collective end by treating it as a starting point.
Notes On Extinction
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Author : Janice Deaner
language : en
Publisher: Plume
Release Date : 2003
Notes On Extinction written by Janice Deaner and has been published by Plume this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Americans categories.
The critically acclaimed author of "Where Blue Begins" and "The Body Spoken" returns with a novel of love and politics. Deaner explores the link between evolution and extinction, love and loss in this story of fulfillment and rediscovery of one's self.
Modeling Extinction
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Author : Mark E. J. Newman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2003
Modeling Extinction written by Mark E. J. Newman and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Mathematics categories.
Preface. 1. Extinction in the Fossil Record. 2. Fitness Landscape Model. 3. Self-Organized Critical Models. 4. Interspecies Connection Models. 5. Environmental Stress Models. 6. Non-equilibrium Models. 7. Summary. References. Index.
Extinction Studies
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Author : Deborah Bird Rose
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-02
Extinction Studies written by Deborah Bird Rose and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-02 with Nature categories.
Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each of the chapters in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, why it matters—and to whom.
Humans And Other Catastrophes
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Humans And Other Catastrophes written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biodiversity conservation categories.