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Tenacious Beasts

Author : Christopher J. Preston
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026254833X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Tenacious Beasts written by Christopher J. Preston and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet. The news about wildlife is dire—more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, however, there are also glimmers of hope and crucial lessons to be learned from animals that have defied global trends toward extinction: bears in Italy, bison in North America, whales in the Atlantic. These populations are back from the brink, some of them in numbers unimaginable in a century. How has this happened? What shifts in thinking did it demand? In crisp, transporting prose, Christopher Preston reveals the mysteries and challenges at the heart of these resurgences. Drawing on compelling personal stories from the researchers, Indigenous people, and activists who know the creatures best, Preston weaves together a gripping narrative of how some species are taking back vital, ecological roles. Each section of the book—farms, prairies, rivers, forests, oceans—offers a philosophical shift in how humans ought to think about animals, passionately advocating for the changes in attitude necessary for wildlife recovery. Tenacious Beasts is quintessential nature writing for the Anthropocene, touching on different facets of ecological restoration from Indigenous knowledge to rewilding practices. More important, perhaps, the book offers a road map—and a measure of hope—for a future in which humans and animals can once again coexist.

Tenacious Beasts

Author : Christopher James Preston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262372558
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Tenacious Beasts written by Christopher James Preston and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Conventional wisdom is that wild animals are being wiped out. But conventional wisdom skips some important details. Wildlife is rebounding. Not everywhere. Not every species. But a handful of wildlife populations have reached numbers unimaginable in a century. Red deer in Europe, bison in North America, humpback whales in the Atlantic. They have all seen their populations explode. They are back from the brink, numbering in the tens, or even hundreds, of thousands. Their return thrills those who have rooted for their recovery. It terrifies those who grew comfortable without them. This book tracks-and tries to understand-these dramatic rebounds. It shines a light on species returning to forests and farms, prairies and oceans, rivers and cities. It asks how these transformations can be happening and what they have to teach"--

Attitude Reconstruction

Author : Jude Bijou
Publisher : BookPros, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0984387900
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Attitude Reconstruction written by Jude Bijou and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if someone told you that you could discover the source of all your problems and address them head-on? How about if they told you that reconstructing your attitude would actually change your life? Author Jude Bijou combines contemporary psychology and ancient spiritual wisdom to provide a revolutionary theory of human behavior that will help you do just that. Her comprehensive blueprint will teach you to .identify and navigate the six primary emotions; .replace destructive thoughts with reliable truths; .access your deepest intuition; .communicate lovingly and effectively; .overcome harmful habits through step-by-step action. These concepts can be easily understood and integrated into your daily routine, regardless of your spiritual path, cultural background, age, or education. With practical tools, real-life examples, and everyday solutions for thirty-three destructive attitudes, Attitude Reconstruction can help you stop settling for sadness, anger, and fear, and infuse your life with love, peace, and joy.

Acts of the Heart

Author : Robert Sardello
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 1621511200
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Acts of the Heart written by Robert Sardello and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reading through this volume is to be taken on a journey. It is to walk with Robert Sardello on his journey as he pushes forward toward new realities. In a sense, each step is not so easy. The thinking often appears dense, the ideas often new and therefore disconcerting. But each individual piece, as the whole, is bathed in an aura --in a way, we may say it is bathed in soul; in love, in generosity, and friendship. Attending to these, we find the ideas and the new possibilities begin to make sense. We are moved to change our lives." -- Christopher Bamford (from his introduction) In these introductions, Robert Sardello introduces us to many people we may not otherwise have met and introduces us to many ways of being and thinking, which we didn't know before. The range of those we meet in these pages is staggering. At the same time, there is a sweet harmony and ever-unfolding deepening of a single theme. Miraculously, it pervades and shapes the entire sequence of those whom he presents, even though he often wrote in response to a request, and not initially on his own initiative. Robert writes of matters with which he has made a deep friendship, and out of that friendship he has received and participated in a communion of ideas. He is able to do this because he has entered the aspiration of those he is introducing at the deepest level, making their insights his own and deepening them in his own way. An introduction conveys a particular soul capacity. For Robert Sardello, "soul capacities" are of the essence of what he calls Spiritual Psychology. Together with the worlds and beings to which they correspond, it is such capacities that make us human and enable us to fulfill our human tasks. Reading these introductions is an astonishing experience. Within their short, individual compasses, they allow us to participate in Robert's own journey: to catch, as it were, the bird in flight and fly with it. That is, they map his journey --at least, that portion of it that began to unfold as his destiny began to crystallize. "Robert Sardello's insights navigate many hazardous abstractions, from the so-called New Age through the perennial philosophies. With Sophia as his muse, the 'current from the future' calls him, carrying its many imaginations as energy, the always-immediate now, and the truly new. Across these authors' writings, his visionary perspective deepens in dialogue with the different works as authored beings. For writings possess their own spirit, or how otherwise do they engender a unique spirit when reborn within our own imagination?" -- Scott R. Scribner (from his introduction)

God Of Slaughter 6 Anthology

Author : Ni Cang Tian
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
ISBN 13 : 799909515X
Total Pages : 1249 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book God Of Slaughter 6 Anthology written by Ni Cang Tian and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on with total page 1249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up parentless, Shi Yan, who was left with a large amount of inheritance money, bore a general disinterest in life. The only times he felt alive was when adrenaline coursed thorough his veins. He quickly found that extreme sports, bungyjumping, cave diving & skydiving, gave him the biggest kicks. The bigger the adrenaline kick, the closer he was to death, the more alive he felt. Waking up in a pile of dead bodies in an unknown land, after a diving adventure had ended disastrously, he quickly realizes the body he now possessed was not his own. Follow Shi Yan as he explores this new world where danger lurks around every corner, and death is only a breath away; a world in which Shi Yan could not feel any more alive.

Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Concepts of Community

Author : Kaoru Yamamoto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474250033
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Concepts of Community written by Kaoru Yamamoto and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Joseph Conrad's Concepts of Community uses Conrad's phrase 'strange fraternity' from The Rover as a starting point for an exploration of the concept of community in his writing, including his neglected vignettes and later stories. Drawing on the work of continental thinkers including Jacques Derrida, Jean Luc-Nancy and Hannah Arendt, Yamamoto offers original readings of Heart of Darkness, The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', The Rover and Suspense and the short stories "The Secret Sharer†?, "The Warrior's Soul†? and "The Duel†?. Working at the intersection between literature and philosophy, this is a unique and interdisciplinary engagement with Conrad's work.

Evolution: The Pattern

Author : Lucy Ahachynska
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1035845318
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Evolution: The Pattern written by Lucy Ahachynska and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of life is the fusion of two slightly different halves: fusion-fission, fusion-fission, fusion-fission... the rhythm of Life. In the beginning of all beginnings, an energetic proton and neutral neutron had fused into one whole. On planet Earth, the fusion took monumental proportions until the mating ritual has reached the highest conceivable degree. Love has a power to create life but also has a power to destroy it if its integrity is violated. Psychopath-men attack women, psychopath-women attack own children while breast, prostate and colorectal carcinomas are responsible for more than 20% human deaths whose incidence in great apes is less than 2%. Are humans on the decline? To find out this we have to unravel the mystery of the origin of life. Only if the sequence of the events in the story of life is correct, a pattern will emerge.

International Business Scholarship

Author : Jean J. Boddewyn
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0762314702
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book International Business Scholarship written by Jean J. Boddewyn and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-20 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The AIB Fellows Group includes top researchers, educators, and administrators in the IB field. This book covers the growth of several functional areas (marketing, advertising, and finance). It reviews problems of methodological rigor in IB research. It also traces the history and evolution of IB studies.

Defending Animals

Author : Kendra Coulter
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262048280
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Defending Animals written by Kendra Coulter and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the urgent struggle to protect animals from harm, cruelty, injustice, extinction, and their greatest threat—us. Beloved dogs and cats. Magnificent horses and mountain gorillas. Curious chickens. What do we actually do to protect animals from harm—and is it enough? This engaging book provides a unique and eye-opening exploration of the world of animal protection as people defend diverse animals from injustice and cruelty. From the streets of major US cities to remote farms and tropical forests, Defending Animals is a gritty and moving portrait of the real work of animal protection that takes place in communities, courtrooms, and boardrooms. Globally recognized expert Kendra Coulter takes readers across the different landscapes of animal protection to meet people and animals of all kinds, from cruelty investigators to forensic veterinarians, wildlife rehabilitators and conservation leaders to animal lawyers and entrepreneurs, each working in their own ways to defend animals. Bringing unparalleled research and a distinct and nuanced analytical viewpoint, Defending Animals shows that animal protection is not only physical, intellectual, and emotional work but also a labor so rooted in empathy and care that it just might bridge the vast divide between polarized people and help create a more humane future for us all.

The Conversation on Biotechnology

Author : Marc Zimmer
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421446154
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Conversation on Biotechnology written by Marc Zimmer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contributors to The Conversation, this collection of essays by leading experts in biotechnology provides foundational knowledge on a range of topics, from CRISPR gene sequencing to the ethics of GMOs and "designer babies." In The Conversation on Biotechnology, editor Marc Zimmer collects essays from The Conversation U.S. by top scholars and experts in the field, who present a primer on the latest biotechnology research, the overwhelming possibilities it offers, and the risks of its abuse. From an overview of CRISPR technology and gene editing in GMOs to the ethical questions surrounding "designer babies" and other applications of biotechnology in humans, it highlights the major implications biotechnology will bring for health and society. Topics range from the spectacular use of light to fire individual neurons in the brain to making plant-based meats; from curbing diseases with genetically modified mosquitoes to looking back on 40 years of opinions on IVF babies. The Critical Conversations series collects essays from top scholars on timely topics, including water, biotechnology, gender diversity, gun culture, and more, originally published on the independent news site The Conversation U.S. Contributors: Nathan Ahlgren, Ivan Anishchenko, Trine Antonsen, Jennifer Barfield, Pedro Belda-Ferre, Ari Berkowitz, Adeline Boettcher, Jason Delbourne, Kevin Doxzen, Mo Ebrahimkhani, Eleanor Feingold, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Cecile Janssens, Samira Kiani, Amanda Kowalczyk, Mariana Lamas, Andrew Lapworth, Rebecca Mackelprang, Kathleen Merrigan, Saman Naghieh, Sean Nee, Dimitri Perrin, Christopher Preston, Jason Rasgon, Penny Riggs, Jason Robert, Oliver Rogoyski, Gary Samore, Sahotra Sarkar, George E. Seidel, Patricia A. Stapleton, Craig W. Stevens, Paul B. Thompson, Christopher Tuggle, Vikramaditya G. Yadav, Marc Zimmer

The Sisterwitches: Book 7

Author : Katie Cross
Publisher : KC Writing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sisterwitches: Book 7 written by Katie Cross and published by KC Writing. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Constancy of Change Isadora has harbored a secret dream for years: she longs to work for the education office. Finally, her wish has manifested. Sort of. Intrigue at the castle sets Isadora and her Watcher magic on an expected path. Sanna's new friend, Damien, isn't what she expected. When they're forced to work together to save the forest and mountain dragons from starvation, Sanna has her own lessons to learn about what she really wants. Max is growing older, but that doesn't mean he's ready to retire. Right? He needs a break, not to forsake his career. Then again, maybe the High Priestess is right. He is tired. Can Max learn to let go of expectations, commitment, and forge a path to the real Maximillion Sinclair? Join our beloved Sisterwitches and Max in the next installment in THE SISTERWITCHES: Book 8. These slice-of-life stories will sweep you back to the world of the Dragonmaster and right into the heart of the witches we love best.

Light in the Dark

Author : Robert Marshall
Publisher : Canelo + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1800326416
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Light in the Dark written by Robert Marshall and published by Canelo + ORM. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary true story of survival and courage through the Holocaust. Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews escaped into a grim network of tunnels, living for fourteen months with the city's waste, the sudden floods, the fumes and the damp, the rats, the darkness, and the despair. Their only support was a lone sewer worker, an ex-criminal who constantly threatened to leave them. Many died; some falling into the rushing waters of the river, some simply of exhaustion. At one point the survivors found themselves trapped in a chamber, filling to the roof with storm-water. Yet survive they did, even infiltrating the camps above to find their missing relatives. When the Russians liberated Lvov, they emerged from the sewers filthy, bent double, emaciated, unrecognizable... but alive. This powerful story based on a long series of interviews, and a hitherto private diary, creates a blazing testimony to human faith and endurance.

John Betjeman

Author : Greg Morse
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782847332
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book John Betjeman written by Greg Morse and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Betjeman was undoubtedly the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. This book explores his identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, but also its architecture, religious faith and - more importantly - religious doubt.

Errata

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300080957
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Errata written by George Steiner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most noted and controversial thinkers, Steiner draws on episodes from his life to explore the central ideas and themes of his thinking and writing over seven decades, from languages to Homer to Jewishness.

A Philosophical Journey Into the Anthropocene

Author : Agostino Cera
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793630828
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophical Journey Into the Anthropocene written by Agostino Cera and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a philosophical journey into the Anthropocene that views this geological epoch as the potential métarécit of our age and the planetary framework within which technology becomes the environment for human life. The appropriate name for this epochal phenomenon is, as a result, not Anthropocene, but Technocene"--

The Synthetic Age

Author : Christopher J. Preston
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262537095
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Synthetic Age written by Christopher J. Preston and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering. We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics documenting melting glaciers and shrinking species counts. It signals a new geological epoch. In The Synthetic Age, Christopher Preston argues that what is most startling about this coming epoch is not only how much impact humans have had but, more important, how much deliberate shaping they will start to do. Emerging technologies promise to give us the power to take over some of Nature's most basic operations. It is not just that we are exiting the Holocene and entering the Anthropocene; it is that we are leaving behind the time in which planetary change is just the unintended consequence of unbridled industrialism. A world designed by engineers and technicians means the birth of the planet's first Synthetic Age. Preston describes a range of technologies that will reconfigure Earth's very metabolism: nanotechnologies that can restructure natural forms of matter; “molecular manufacturing” that offers unlimited repurposing; synthetic biology's potential to build, not just read, a genome; “biological mini-machines” that can outdesign evolution; the relocation and resurrection of species; and climate engineering attempts to manage solar radiation by synthesizing a volcanic haze, cool surface temperatures by increasing the brightness of clouds, and remove carbon from the atmosphere with artificial trees that capture carbon from the breeze. What does it mean when humans shift from being caretakers of the Earth to being shapers of it? And in whom should we trust to decide the contours of our synthetic future? These questions are too important to be left to the engineers.

The Descent

Author : Brant Wehde
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514426102
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book The Descent written by Brant Wehde and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes dreams don’t work out in life. But sometimes dreams work with us. A life holds little weight without appreciation, and everyone has different means to reach theirs. Some paths become perilous, and some verge right on the edge of doom. This story is about a man named Brant, who is a very optimistic soul but gets caught in a dark place in his life. His legs are strong, and he has the means to travel, but one day, he comes to his limit and finds that death is just a heartbeat away. After an unfortunate decision, he is plummeted into a dark world known as Hades. Still hearing his heart beating, he and a few others try to overcome their odds and fight back. Come along on a journey filled with monsters, friends, and foes. As fugitives, Brant and his newly found friends try to escape their sentence to Tartarus by somehow making it back to the world above. This crazy and foolhardy idea takes them on a journey in which they take together and sometimes alone. Temptation, frustration, and dangerous confrontations come to life in this story of these lonely and desperate souls. Not all endings are good, but with faith, one can light the way. Let’s see how far a light can shine. Even when it dims, it is still useful in a place without it.