Supernavigators
Supernavigators

Author: David Barrie

Publisher: The Experiment

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1615196692

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“Just astonishing . . . Our natural navigational capacities are no match for those of the supernavigators in this eye-opening book.”—Frans de Waal, The New York Times Book Review Publisher's note: Supernavigators was published in the UK under the title Incredible Journeys. Animals plainly know where they’re going, but how they know has remained a stubborn mystery—until now. Supernavigators is a globe-trotting voyage of discovery alongside astounding animals of every stripe: dung beetles that steer by the Milky Way, box jellyfish that can see above the water (with a few of their twenty-four eyes), sea turtles that sense Earth’s magnetic field, and many more. David Barrie consults animal behaviorists and Nobel Prize–winning scientists to catch us up on the cutting edge of animal intelligence—revealing these wonders in a whole new light.

Just Like Family
Just Like Family

Author: Andrea Laurent-Simpson

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2021-07-13

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1479852627

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"A first-of-its kind, in-depth investigation into how companion animals and their humans have carved out a new type of family - the multi-species family - in which identities like parent, child, grandparent, and sibling transcend species to create new forms of kinship"--

Loren Eiseley’s Writing across the Nature and Culture Divide
Loren Eiseley’s Writing across the Nature and Culture Divide

Author: Qianqian Cheng

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-12-15

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1666902489

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For the twentieth-century naturalist and poet Loren Eiseley, the relationship between human beings and the natural world has become unnatural, divided by the era of modern technology. Loren Eiseley’s Writing across the Nature and Culture Divide analyses how the philosopher of science becomes a boundary crosser in time and space. Qianqian Cheng points to Eiseley’s method of uniting science and the humanities to reflect on human evolution and the past and future role of science with a visionary and poetic imagination. Seizing the connectedness of living beings, Eiseley, and now Cheng, makes us aware of the presence of nature even in daily urban life. Qianqian Cheng unveils Eiseley’s merits, showing the poet as a necessary voice in the urgent mission to make individuals realize their responsibility to respond ethically to the living world.

Beyond Words
Beyond Words

Author: Carl Safina

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0805098887

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Hailed conservationist Carl Safina examines animal personhood as told through the inspired narrative portraits of elephants, wolves, and dolphins

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography

Author: Dydia DeLyser

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1412919916

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The process of learning qualitative research has altered dramatically and this Handbook explores the growth, change, and complexity within the topic and looks back over its history to assess the current state of the art, and indicate possible future directions. Moving beyond textbook rehearsals of standard issues, the book examines key methodological debates and conflicts, approaching them in a critical, discursive manner.

Made From This Earth
Made From This Earth

Author: Vera Norwood

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1469617447

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The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms. In Made From This Earth, Vera Norwood explores the relationship of women to the natural environment through the work of writers, illustrators, landscape and garden designers, ornithologists, botanists, biologists, and conservationists. Norwood begins by showing that the study and promotion of botany was an activity deemed appropriate for women in the early 1800s. After highlighting the work of nineteenth-century scientific illustrators and garden designers, she focuses on nature's advocates such as Rachel Carson and Dian Fossey who differed strongly with men on both women's "nature" and the value of the natural world. These women challenged the dominant, male-controlled ideologies, often framing their critique with reference to values arising from the female experience. Norwood concludes with an analysis of the utopian solutions posed by ecofeminists, the most recent group of women to contest men over the meaning and value of nature.