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Domesticated : evolution in a man-made world / by Francis, Richard C.,1953-author.(CARDINAL)461976;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-457) and index.House fox -- Dogs -- Cats -- Other predators -- Evolutionary interlude -- Pigs -- Cattle -- Sheep and goats -- Reindeer -- Camels -- Horses -- Rodents -- Humans. Part I, Evolution -- Humans. Part II, Sociality -- The Anthropocene.Draws on history, archaeology, anthropology, and twenty-first-century ideas in biology to explain domestication as an evolutionary process.
Subjects: Animals and civilization.; Domestic animals; Domestic animals; Domestication.; Human-animal relationships;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 8
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Tamed : ten species that changed our world / by Roberts, Alice,1973-author.(CARDINAL)425103;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-348) and index.In Tamed, Alice Roberts uncovers the deep history of ten familiar species with incredible wild pasts, dogs, apples and wheat; cattle, potatoes and chickens; rice, maize and horses and, finally, humans. She reveals how becoming part of our world changed these animals and plants, and shows how they became our allies, essential to the survival and success of our own species. Enlightening, wide-ranging and endlessly fascinating, Tamed encompasses thousands of years of history and archaeology alongside cutting-edge genetics and anthropology. Yet it is also a deeply personal journey that changes how we see ourselves and the species on which we have left our mark.
Subjects: Animals; Animals and civilization.; Domestic animals; Plants, Cultivated; Domestication.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Primitive culture : researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, art, and custom / by Tylor, Edward B.(Edward Burnett),1832-1917.(CARDINAL)710688;
Subjects: Myths.; Animism.; Civilization; Language and languages.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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An history of the earth, and animated nature / by Goldsmith, Oliver,1730?-1774.(CARDINAL)146997;
Subjects: Zoology.; Physical geography;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A history of the earth, and animated nature. / by Goldsmith, Oliver,1730?-1774.(CARDINAL)146997;
Subjects: Zoology.; Physical geography.; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Anime and philosophy : wide eyed wonder / by Steiff, Josef.(CARDINAL)548662; Tamplin, Tristan D.(CARDINAL)490992;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Accidental Anime / MARGO COUGHLIN ZIMMERMAN -- Body. Take a Ride on the Catbus / SHANA HEINRICY -- The Making of Killer Cuties / CHRISTIE BARBER, MIO BRYCE, and JASON DAVIS -- Just a Ghost in a Shell? / ANGUS MCBLANE -- Mind. I Am Tetsuo / BENJAMIN STEVENS -- The CPU Has Its Reasons / JOHN HARTUNG -- Eye Am / JOSEF STEIFF -- Spirit. Nothing that Happens Is Ever Forgotten / CARI CALLIS -- Did Santa Die on the Cross? / ADAM BARKMAN -- Why Nice Princesses Don't Always Finish Last / DANIEL HAAS -- Conflict. Just War Is No Gouf / LOUIS MELANðCON -- The Search for Vengeance / IAN M. PETERS -- The Possibility of Perfection / ANDREW TERJESEN -- Heroes. Alchemic Heroes / BENJAMIN CHANDLER -- Astro Boy and the Atomic Age / ALICIA GIBSON -- Grave of the Child Hero / HAL SHIPMAN -- Devils. Human Alchemy and the Deadly Sins of Capitalism / D.E. WITTKOWER -- Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Sex and Were Afraid to Watch / ANDREW A. DOWD -- The Devil Within / SARA LIVINGSTON -- Future Perfect. Cyborg Songs for an Existential Crisis / SARAH PENICKA-SMITH -- Cyborg Goddess / DAN DINELLO -- It's the End of the Species as We Know It, and I Feel Anxious / ANDREW WELLS GARNAR -- Special Features. Alternate Ending: Bide Your Time and Hold Out Hope / TRISTAN D. TAMPLIN.
Subjects: Animated films; Animated television programs;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Natural histories : 25 extraordinary species that have changed our world / by Westwood, Brett,author.(CARDINAL)658892; Moss, Stephen,1960-author.(CARDINAL)326326;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-412) and index.Accompanying Radio 4's acclaimed six-month series with the Natural History Museum, Natural Histories tells the story of our relationship with the natural world. Each chapter focuses on a different creature or species, and the exploration of our reaction to them casts a fascinating light on us--the lion offers a starting point to discussing our relationship with power; the great white shark with fear; coral with the idea of paradise; and the mandrake with poisons. In the expert hands of Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss, this is translated into an imaginative and inspiring book, full of great stories. Natural Histories will bring you face to face with the natural world in all its wonder, complexity and invention
Subjects: Human-animal relationships; Human-plant relationships; Animals and civilization.; Plants and civilization.; Natural history.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lion's historian : Africa's animal past / by Swart, Sandraauthor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.""Until the lion has a historian of his own, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." Sandra Swart takes up the challenge of that African proverb and, with this book, becomes the lion's historian. As a species, humans are not alone; but our history has been written as though we were. Swart insists on a multispecies retelling of our more-than-human past as she reconstructs a shifting series of significant interspecies relationships, from quirky, idiosyncratic connections to others that triggered major changes. Embracing a radical interdisciplinarity informed by a background in history and environmental studies, Swart combines the natural sciences with the social sciences, oral history, indigenous knowledge, and archival research. She blends current thinking about animal sentience, agency, cognition, and emotion to offer a new way to understand animals' role in our shared history. The animals in this book-baboons, cows, elephants, hippos, horses, jackals, lions, Nazi cattle, okapi, police dogs,quagga, sheep, and white ants-exemplify different facets of our shared past. With this animal-centric lens, decades of research are brought together in a collection that takes animals seriously. It is a book with claws and fangs, tearing through conventional narratives to ask, Are we prepared to move beyond the convention that "history" is the story of only our own species? The entanglements between humans and other animals have shaped our past, but they suggest something more. The possibility of our shared future pivots on a reckoning with our shared pasts. Swart shows what human-animal history can do, not only to understand our place in the world better but to make our world-however slightly-a better place"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Human-animal relationships; Animals and civilization; Animals;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The encyclopedia of animated cartoons / by Lenburg, Jeff.(CARDINAL)152286; Lenburg, Jeff.Encyclopedia of animated cartoon series.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 455) and index.
Subjects: Animated films;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Oyster : a world history / by Smith, Drew.(CARDINAL)685695;
Prologue : The craic -- pt. 1. Ancient times . In the beginning. Of pearls & gods ; Biology ; Fabulous legends : megaliths, Celts & Phoenicians ; Edible bones : Greeks & Romans -- pt. 2. Old World. England ; Brython ;- France -- pt. 3. New World. The first Americans ; Tales of the Chesapeake ; The South ; The West & Canada ; South Seas -- pt. 4. Modern times. The science -- Epilogue."Oysters are older than us, older than grass. They have been present at every turn of human history back to the Neolithic. They have inspired writers, painters and cooks, sustained whole communities, and fashioned legend and history. Their pearls funded empires and created slavery. The evidence oysters leave behind suggests there was a seafaring empire along the coast of Western Europe long before the Romans, and that the world was perhaps colonised not from west to east but from south to north. We were not cavemen at all, but covemen, exploring along the coastlines, because oysters were a sign of a safe and healthy marine economy. Oysters have played an intriguing part in the evolution of the world both as one of the healthiest foods we can eat and also with their perennial reputation as aphrodisiacs. Drew Smith takes us on a fascinating journey from the dawn of time right up to the present day, exposing the scandal of what has happened to the oyster in the UK, showing how it has become a symbol for environmentalism in the USA and describing the hopes for aquaculture emanating from Japan and Korea."--Publisher's Description.
Subjects: Animals and civilization.; Cooking (Oysters); Oysters.; Oysters; Oysters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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