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The Unnatural World
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Author : David Biello
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-12-12
The Unnatural World written by David Biello and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-12 with Nature categories.
An environmental journalist examines the world humanity has created through climate change and chronicles the scientists, billionaires, and ordinary people who are working toward saving the planet.
A Natural History Of The Unnatural World
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Author : Joel Levy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
A Natural History Of The Unnatural World written by Joel Levy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Animals, Mythical categories.
This imaginative guide uses first hand accounts, historical records, works of literature and art, and the imaginative insights of the scientifically trained author to detail the evolution, habits, life cycles, reproductive behaviour and specialised abilities of dozens of fabled beings.
The View From Lazy Point
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Author : Carl Safina
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2011-01-04
The View From Lazy Point written by Carl Safina and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Nature categories.
An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur fellow Carl Safina Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south to Antarctica, across the warm belly of the tropics from the Caribbean to the west Pacific, then home again. We meet Eskimos whose way of life is melting away, explore a secret global seed vault hidden above the Arctic Circle, investigate dilemmas facing foraging bears and breeding penguins, and sail to formerly devastated reefs that are resurrecting as fish graze the corals algae-free. "Each time science tightens a coil in the slack of our understanding," Safina writes, "it elaborates its fundamental discovery: connection." He shows how problems of the environment drive very real matters of human justice, well-being, and our prospects for peace. In Safina's hands, nature's continuous renewal points toward our future. His lively stories grant new insights into how our world is changing, and what our response ought to be.
Natural History Of The Unnatural World
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Author : Cryptozoological Society Staff
language : en
Publisher: Saint Martin's Griffin
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Unnatural Selection
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Author : Mara Hvistendahl
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2011
Unnatural Selection written by Mara Hvistendahl and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Political Science categories.
"Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval. Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them"--
The Discourse Of Nature In The Poetry Of Paul Celan
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Author : Rochelle Tobias
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2006-06-30
The Discourse Of Nature In The Poetry Of Paul Celan written by Rochelle Tobias and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
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Where The Water Goes
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Author : David Owen
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-04-11
Where The Water Goes written by David Owen and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-11 with Science categories.
“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.
The Discourse Of Nature In The Poetry Of Paul Celan
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Author : Rochelle Tobias
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2006-06-30
The Discourse Of Nature In The Poetry Of Paul Celan written by Rochelle Tobias and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
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The Unnatural History Of The Sea
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Author : Callum Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2009-01-05
The Unnatural History Of The Sea written by Callum Roberts and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-05 with History categories.
Humanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss years before the explorers set sail. As Callum M. Roberts reveals in The Unnatural History of the Sea, the oceans’ bounty didn’t disappear overnight. While today’s fishing industry is ruthlessly efficient, intense exploitation began not in the modern era, or even with the dawn of industrialization, but in the eleventh century in medieval Europe. Roberts explores this long and colorful history of commercial fishing, taking readers around the world and through the centuries to witness the transformation of the seas. Drawing on firsthand accounts of early explorers, pirates, merchants, fishers, and travelers, the book recreates the oceans of the past: waters teeming with whales, sea lions, sea otters, turtles, and giant fish. The abundance of marine life described by fifteenth century seafarers is almost unimaginable today, but Roberts both brings it alive and artfully traces its depletion. Collapsing fisheries, he shows, are simply the latest chapter in a long history of unfettered commercialization of the seas. The story does not end with an empty ocean. Instead, Roberts describes how we might restore the splendor and prosperity of the seas through smarter management of our resources and some simple restraint. From the coasts of Florida to New Zealand, marine reserves have fostered spectacular recovery of plants and animals to levels not seen in a century. They prove that history need not repeat itself: we can leave the oceans richer than we found them.
The Unnatural Nature Of Science
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Author : Lewis Wolpert
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-05-15
The Unnatural Nature Of Science written by Lewis Wolpert and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with Science categories.
This book shows that many of our understandings about scientific thought can be corrected once we realise just how "unnatural" science actually is. Quoting scientists from Aristotle to Einstein, the author argues that scientific ideas are, with rare exceptions, counter-intuitive and that common sense often makes no sense at all. A passionate advocate of the beauty and importance of science, the author examines a range of issues, including why science and technology are quite different, why psychoanalysis is not properly scientific and why philosophers and sociologists have made so little contribution to understanding science's true nature. He demonstrates the folly of holding scientists responsible for many of society's problems, and the equal folly of looking to science for a miracle cure.