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The Neanderthal's necklace : in search of the first thinkers / by Arsuaga, Juan Luis de.(CARDINAL)730287; Klatt, Andy.(CARDINAL)668175; Sastre, Juan Carlos.(CARDINAL)660091;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-326) and index.
Subjects: Human ecology.; Human evolution.; Neanderthals.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Coming into animal presence / by Lane, John,author.(CARDINAL)532144;
"John Lane continues his exploration of the intersection of the human imagination with the world of other animals in a companion volume to COYOTE SETTLES THE SOUTH (2016) and NEIGHBORHOOD HAWKS (2019). Each of these fifteen pieces--some more formal essays, some journalism, and some stories of Lane's encounters with wild animals in wild places--explores the diversity and the mystery of what's often been called "the more than human world." In each piece there is always animal presence, sometimes central and sometimes peripheral. In one piece the Columbian mammoth comes back to trouble the contemporary political landscape of South Carolina. In another, he ponders the fate of a wing-shot goose finding a last refuge in the Lane family's tiny frog pond. In another, Lane ventures into an abandoned Zimbabwean gold mine alone to check on the status of a common genet, a shy carnivore"--
Subjects: Human ecology.; Human-animal relationships.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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At every depth : our growing knowledge of the changing oceans / by Hill, Tessa,author.(CARDINAL)389385; Simons, Eric,author.(CARDINAL)559855;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue -- The tidepool -- The reef -- The forest -- The garden -- The abundant ocean -- The open ocean -- The polar worlds -- The Deep -- Epilogue."This book follows nine different places in the ocean, from close and accessible to remote and forbidding: tidepools, coral reefs, shellfish farms, kelp forests, a fishing area in the North Atlantic, remote islands of the Pacific, the North Pacific Garbage Patch, the deep sea, and finally the Arctic and Antarctic poles. In each place, the authors delve into the science of how we understand the ocean, and the history of the human connection to these special places. Together, these nine places allow Hill and Simons to explore the breadth of human knowledge about the sea, offering us entry points for better understanding multiple patterns of observation and different fields of science. Each chapter centers on a couple or a few ocean scientists who study the particular ocean area. These researchers have a relationship to the ocean that has shifted drastically in the last few years as they have become witnesses to its most radical change in human history. The ocean has other key observers too, who are also part of this story: Indigenous people who have tried to maintain their relationship with the sea through centuries of human and environmental mistreatment; shellfish farmers and fishermen who earn their living on the water; and finally, sailors and citizen scientists whose connection has been forged over countless hours spent in the swirling embrace of the ocean"--
Subjects: Oceanography.; Marine ecology.; Human ecology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Conservative environmentalism : reassessing the means, redefining the ends / by Dunn, James R.,1921-(CARDINAL)210694; Kinney, John E.(CARDINAL)210693;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264) and index.1200L
Subjects: Environmentalism.; Human ecology.; Social ecology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Life changing : how humans are altering life on Earth / by Pilcher, Helen,author.(CARDINAL)630197; Agoston, Amy,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The wolf that rolled over -- Strategic moos and golden gnus -- Super salmon and spider-goats -- Game of clones -- Screwworms and suicide possums -- The age of the chicken -- Sea-monkeys and pizzly bears -- Darwin's moth -- Resilient reefs -- Love island -- Pigs and purple emperors -- The new ark.For the last three billion years or so, life on Earth was shaped by natural forces. Evolution tended to happen slowly, with species crafted across millennia. Then, a few hundred thousand years ago, along came a bolshie, big-brained, bipedal primate we now call Homo sapiens, and with that, the Earth's natural history came to an abrupt end. We are now living through the post-natural phase, where humans have become the leading force shaping evolution. This thought-provoking book considers the many ways that we've altered the DNA of living things and changed the fate of life on earth. We have carved chihuahuas from wolves and fancy chickens from jungle fowl. We've added spider genes to goats and coral genes to tropical fish. It's possible to buy genetically-modified pets, eat genetically-modified fish and watch cloned ponies thunder up and down the polo field. Now, as our global dominance grows, our influence extends far beyond these species. As we warm our world and radically reshape the biosphere, we affect the evolution of all living things, near and far, from the emergence of novel hybrids such as the pizzly bear, to the entirely new strains of animals and plants that are evolving at breakneck speed to cope with their altered environment. In Life Changing, Helen introduces us to these post-natural creations and talks to the scientists who create, study and tend to them. At a time when the future of so many species is uncertain, we meet some of the conservationists seeking to steer evolution onto firmer footings with novel methods like the 'spermcopter', coral IVF and plans to release wild elephants into Denmark. Helen explores the changing relationship between humans and the natural world, and reveals how, with evidence-based thinking, humans can help life change for the better.
Subjects: Human-animal relationships.; Human ecology.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The last hours of ancient sunlight : the fate of the world and what we can do before it's too late / by Hartmann, Thom,1951-(CARDINAL)265942;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-368) and index.
Subjects: Human ecology.; Human ecology; Environmental protection.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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The last hours of ancient sunlight : waking up to personal and global transformation / by Hartmann, Thom,1951-(CARDINAL)265942;
Subjects: Human ecology.; Human ecology; Environmental protection.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A big history : from the Big Bang to the present / by Brown, Cynthia Stokes,author.(DLC)n 84175159 ;
Subjects: World history.; Human ecology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The comedy of survival; studies in literary ecology / by Meeker, Joseph W.(CARDINAL)153721;
Bibliography: pages 203-210.
Subjects: Human ecology in literature.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Overshoot : the ecological basis of revolutionary change / by Catton, William R.,Jr.,1926-2015.(CARDINAL)511221;
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Subjects: Human ecology.; Social change.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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