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The Edge of Extinction

Author : Jules Pretty
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455030
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Extinction written by Jules Pretty and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge emerge a larger story about sustainability and the future of the planet. Pretty addresses not only current threats to natural and cultural diversity but also the unsustainability of modern lifestyles typical of industrialized countries. In a very real sense, Pretty discovers, what we manage to preserve now may well save us later.Jules Pretty's travels take him among the Maori people along the coasts of the Pacific, into the mountains of China, and across petroglyph-rich deserts of Australia. He treks with nomads over the continent-wide steppes of Tuva in southern Siberia, walks and boats in the wildlife-rich inland swamps of southern Africa, and experiences the Arctic with ice fishermen in Finland. He explores the coasts and inland marshes of eastern England and Northern Ireland and accompanies Innu people across the taiga’s snowy forests and the lakes of the Labrador interior. Pretty concludes his global journey immersed in the discrete cultures and landscapes embedded within the American landscape: the small farms of the Amish, the swamps of the Cajuns in the deep South, and the deserts of California.The diverse people Pretty meets in The Edge of Extinction display deep pride in their relationships with the land and are only willing to join with the modern world on their own terms. By the examples they set, they offer valuable lessons for anyone seeking to find harmony in a world cracking under the pressures of apparently insatiable consumption patterns of the affluent.

On the Edge of Extinction

Author : Claire Craig
Publisher : Blake Education
ISBN 13 : 9781865098319
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book On the Edge of Extinction written by Claire Craig and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2003 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up to 30 species become extinct every day. How do animals and plant species disappear from the face of the Earth? Find out about those already gone, those in danger now, and what is being done about it.

On the Edge of Extinction

Author : Royal Sutton
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1491841842
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book On the Edge of Extinction written by Royal Sutton and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was nearly the turn of the century. Not only was the century changing but the ways of life were changing. Many new inventions were making life easier. Electricity was becoming more and more available. Travel was becoming more comfortable and convenient. The awareness of the plight of the Native American Indians was more widely known. The Wounded Knee Massacre was a recent occurrence. As more and more people were exposed to the manner in which Indians were treated, attitudes changed. The Indian population had declined to its lowest ebb at the turn of the century. The Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha was an opportunity to show off many of the new inventions and to help the rest of the country be aware of the riches West of the Mississippi. One Frank A. Rinehart, the premier photographer in Omaha, was appointed the Official Photographer for the Trans-Mississippi Expo. At the last minute, it was decided to bring about 500 Indians to the Expo to show attendees the human side of this misunderstood people. Rinehart had the unique opportunity to produce photographic portraits of each of the Native Americans in attendance. "The Edge of Extinction" not only highlights some of those portraits of this handsome race, but also gives a view of life in Omaha, the commentary of the national press concerning the Trans-Mississippi, a look at the man who was Rinehart and more so as to help understand this time in the history of the Midwest.

Watching, from the Edge of Extinction

Author : Beverly Peterson Stearns
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300084696
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Watching, from the Edge of Extinction written by Beverly Peterson Stearns and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation In this mesmerizing series of interviews with dedicated people who work to save endangered species throughout the world, an alarming truth emerges: the obstacles of human politics, greed, corruption, folly, and hypocrisy can present as much danger to a species' survival as biological causes. The dramatic lessons of this book shed new light on the problems of declining species and offer hope that we may yet change their fate.

Poems from the Edge of Extinction

Author : Chris McCabe
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473693012
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Poems from the Edge of Extinction written by Chris McCabe and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honours Award for Best of Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards. One language is falling silent every two weeks. Half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will be lost by the end of this century. With the loss of these languages, we also lose the unique poetic traditions of their speakers and writers. Poems from the Edge of Extinction gathers together 50 poems in languages from around the world that have been identified as endangered; it is a celebration of our linguistic diversity and a reminder of our commonalities and the fundamental role verbal art plays in human life around the world. With poems by influential, award-winning poets such as US poet laureate Joy Harjo, Hawad, Valzhyna Mort, and Jackie Kay, this anthology offers a unique insight into both languages and poetry, taking the reader on an emotional, life-affirming journey into the culture of these beautiful languages. Each poem appears in its original form, alongside an English translation, and is accompanied by a commentary about the language, the poet and the poem - in a vibrant celebration of life, diversity, language, and the enduring power of poetry. This timely collection is passionately edited by widely published poet and UK National Poetry Librarian, Chris McCabe, who is also the founder of the Endangered Poetry Project, a major project launched by London's Southbank Centre to collect poetry in the world's disappearing languages, and introduced by Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Director of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme and the Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS University of London, and Dr Martin Orwin, Senior Lecturer in Somali and Amharic, SOAS University of London. Languages included in the book: Assyrian; Belarusian; Chimiini; Irish Gaelic; Maori; Navajo; Patua; Rotuman; Saami; Scottish Gaelic; Welsh; Yiddish; Zoque. Poets included in the book: Joy Harjo; Hawad; Jackie Kay; Aurélia Lassaque; Nineb Lamassu; Gearóid Mac Lochlainn; Valzhyna Mort; Laura Tohe; Taniel Varoujan; Avrom Sutzkever.

Animals on the Verge of Extinction

Author : Karen O'Connor
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1433997177
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Animals on the Verge of Extinction written by Karen O'Connor and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, readers discover what people and governments are doing to protect endangered species and their habitats.

Edge of Extinction #1: The Ark Plan

Author : Laura Martin
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062416243
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Edge of Extinction #1: The Ark Plan written by Laura Martin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jurassic World meets Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in this epic new middle grade series full of heart-pounding action and breathtaking chills! "Amazing adventures!" raves Brightly.com as they recommend Edge of Extinction as a 2016 Holiday Gift for Tween Readers. One hundred and fifty years ago, the first dinosaurs were cloned. Soon after, they replaced humans at the top of the food chain. The only way to survive was to move into underground compounds. . . . Five years ago, Sky Mundy’s father vanished from North Compound without a trace. Now she has just stumbled on a clue that not only suggests his disappearance is just the tip of an even larger mystery, but also points directly to the surface. To find her dad—and possibly even save the world—Sky and her best friend, Shawn, must break out of their underground home and venture topside to a land reclaimed by nature and ruled by dinosaurs. Perfect for fans of Brandon Mull, Lisa McMann, and Rick Riordan, this exhilarating debut novel follows two courageous friends who must survive in a lost world that’s as dangerous as they’ve always feared but also unlike anything they could ever have imagined.

From the Edge of Extinction

Author : Darryl Stewart
Publisher : Frederick Warne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Edge of Extinction written by Darryl Stewart and published by Frederick Warne Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Brink of Extinction

Author : Edward C. Wolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book On the Brink of Extinction written by Edward C. Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction; A biologically depleted world; Exploring terra incognita; Reweaving the web of life; Evolutionary responsibility; Notes.

Pedagogy at the End of the World

Author : jessie l. beier
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031410572
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Pedagogy at the End of the World written by jessie l. beier and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interrogates the ways in which “end of the world” thinking has come to define and delimit pedagogical approaches in Anthropocene times. Chapters unfold through a series of speculative studies of educational futurity—sustainable futures, energy futures, working futures—each of which is positioned as an experimental site for probing the limits of pedagogical unthinkability so as to speculate, through concept creation, on unthought educational trajectories. Specifically, the book is oriented towards the creation of pedagogical concepts that work to problematize and resituate questions of educational futurity in relation to the planetary realities raised by today’s pressing extinction events. It is from this experimentation that a weird pedagogy emerges, that is, an experimental pedagogical anti-model, a speculative program for the unprogrammable that seeks to counter-actualize potentials of and for unthinking pedagogy at the (so-called) end of the world.

The Edge of Extinction

Author : Claire Craig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760866962
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Extinction written by Claire Craig and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do species of animals disappear from the face of the earth? Find out about those already gone, those in danger now, and some that have been saved from extinction.

Dawn of Extinction

Author : F Henry Catmull
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 198458118X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Dawn of Extinction written by F Henry Catmull and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plot of this book is about aliens communicating with earth people and trying to make atomic energy to power their spaceships and eventually make an atomic bomb. “I know it seems weird but that explains why the caretakers, who were really aliens looked like us,” Bill answered. “Somehow they have learned how to take a human body and transform their bodies into ours”. Bill discovers a way to exterminate them, and just as he thinks they have been eradicated, he is beamed up by a spaceship. The alien introduces himself as Bodar and begins by saying, “We are facing a desperate situation because our sun is not putting off enough energy”. “Next to the planet Juno on one side is Zenok and on the other side is Alexis.” “This planet is closer to the sun.” “Since we formed an alliance with the planet Zenok, the two planets have decided to take over the planet Alexis.” With this introduction, Bill finds that they need him to create an atomic bomb. To persuade him they tell him his three children’s bodies were taken from the earth to the planet Zenok to be changed into aliens. They will help him get them back if he helps them. Who is going to be extinct? You find this out at the end of the book.

American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene

Author : Gary Haynes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402087934
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene written by Gary Haynes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains summaries of facts, theories, and unsolved problems pertaining to the unexplained extinction of dozens of genera of mostly large terrestrial mammals, which occurred ca. 13,000 calendar years ago in North America and about 1,000 years later in South America. Another equally mysterious wave of extinctions affected large Caribbean islands around 5,000 years ago. The coupling of these extinctions with the earliest appearance of human beings has led to the suggestion that foraging humans are to blame, although major climatic shifts were also taking place in the Americas during some of the extinctions. The last published volume with similar (but not identical) themes -- Extinctions in Near Time -- appeared in 1999; since then a great deal of innovative, exciting new research has been done but has not yet been compiled and summarized. Different chapters in this volume provide in-depth resumés of the chronology of the extinctions in North and South America, the possible insights into animal ecology provided by studies of stable isotopes and anatomical/physiological characteristics such as growth increments in mammoth and mastodont tusks, the clues from taphonomic research about large-mammal biology, the applications of dating methods to the extinctions debate, and archeological controversies concerning human hunting of large mammals.

Balancing on the Brink of Extinction

Author : Kathryn A. Kohm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Balancing on the Brink of Extinction written by Kathryn A. Kohm and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balancing on the Brink of Extinction presents a comprehensive overview of the Endangered Species Act -- its conception, history, and potential for protecting the remaining endangered species.

Flames of Extinction

Author : John Pickrell
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642832022
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Flames of Extinction written by John Pickrell and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over Australia's 2019-20 Black Summer bushfire season, scientists estimate that more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced. Many species - koalas, the regent honeyeater, glossy black cockatoo, the platypus - are inching towards extinction at the hands of mega-blazes and the changing climate behind them. In Flames of Extinction, award-winning science writer John Pickrell investigates the effects of the 2019-2020 bushfires on Australian wildlife and ecosystems. Journeying across the firegrounds, Pickrell explores the stories of creatures that escaped the flames, the wildlife workers who rescued them, and the conservationists, land managers, Aboriginal rangers, ecologists and firefighters on the front line of the climate catastrophe. He also reveals the radical new conservation methods being trialled to save as many species as possible from the very precipice of extinction.

The Bridge at the Edge of the World

Author : James Gustave Speth
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300151152
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Bridge at the Edge of the World written by James Gustave Speth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an analysis of modern capitalism and its impact on the global environmental crises, and discusses how the transformation of current economic and political systems can lead to environmental sustainability.

The End of Memory

Author : Miroslav Volf
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802829899
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The End of Memory written by Miroslav Volf and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one forget atrocities? Should one forgive abusers? Ought we not hope for the final reconciliation of all the wronged and all wrongdoers alike, even if it means spending eternity with perpetrators of evil? We live in an age when it is generally accepted that past wrongs -- genocides, terrorist attacks, bald personal injustices -- should be constantly remembered. But Miroslav Volf here proposes the radical idea that "letting go" of such memories -- after a certain point and under certain conditions -- may actually be the appropriate course of action. While agreeing with the claim that to remember a wrongdoing is to struggle against it, Volf notes that there are too many ways to remember wrongly, perpetuating the evil committed rather than guarding against it. In this way, the just sword of memory often severs the very good it seeks to defend. He argues that remembering rightly has implications not only for the individual but also for the wrongdoer and for the larger community. Volfs personal stories of persecution offer a compelling backdrop for his search for theological resources to make memories a wellspring of healing rather than a source of deepening pain and animosity. Controversial, thoughtful, and incisively reasoned, "The End of Memory" begins a conversation hard to ignore.