Автор: Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker Название: Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates ISBN: 1469652897 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469652894 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3072.00 р. 4389.00-30% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: What we eat, where it is from, and how it is produced are vital questions in today's America. We think seriously about food because it is freighted with the hopes, fears, and anxieties of modern life. Yet critiques of food and food systems all too often sprawl into jeremiads against modernity itself, while supporters of the status quo refuse to acknowledge the problems with today's methods of food production and distribution. Food Fights sheds new light on these crucial debates, using a historical lens. Its essays take strong positions, even arguing with one another, as they explore the many themes and tensions that define how we understand our food—from the promises and failures of agricultural technology to the politics of taste.
In addition to the editors, contributors include Ken Albala, Amy Bentley, Charlotte Biltekoff, Peter A. Coclanis, Tracey Deutsch, S. Margot Finn, Rachel Laudan, Sarah Ludington, Margaret Mellon, Steve Striffler, and Robert T. Valgenti.
Автор: Raby Megan Название: American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science ISBN: 1469635593 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469635590 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 12415.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From these outposts of U.S. science, a growing community of American ""tropical biologists"" developed both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern discourse of biodiversity.Considering U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the Spanish-American War through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this study combines the history of science, environmental history, and the history of U.S.–Caribbean and Latin American relations. In doing so, Raby sheds new light on the origins of contemporary scientific and environmentalist thought and brings to the forefront a surprisingly neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire.
Автор: Guisan, Antoine (universite De Lausanne, Switzerland) Thuiller, Wilfried Zimmermann, Niklaus E. Название: Habitat suitability and distribution models ISBN: 0521765137 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521765138 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 16632.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book introduces the key stages of niche-based habitat suitability model building, evaluation and prediction. Extensive examples using R support students and researchers to quantify ecological niches and predict species distributions with their own data. A website at www.unil.ch/hsdm contains example codes and supporting material.
Название: Animism in rainforest and tundra ISBN: 0857454684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857454683 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 16988.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged ‘western’ understandings of man’s place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also ‘things’ such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and personhood characteristic of the two areas. The contributors conducted their ethnographic fieldwork among peoples undergoing transformative processes of their lived environments, such as the depletion of natural resources and migration to urban centers. They describe here fundamental relational modes that are being tested in the face of change, presenting groundbreaking research on personhood and agency in shamanic societies and contributing to our global understanding of social and cultural change and continuity.
Описание: Wild pigs and peccaries play important cultural and ecological roles in many parts of the world. Most species are threatened, but some have become pests. This first comprehensive work on wild pigs and peccaries includes case studies, population assessments, disease ecology, and domestication for researchers, wildlife managers and students.
Автор: Black, C.f. Название: Mosaic of indigenous legal thought ISBN: 1138223840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138223844 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers an Indigenous supplement to the rich and growing area of visual legal scholarship. Organized around three narratives, each with an associated politico-poetic reading, the book addresses three major global issues: climate change, the trade in human body parts and bio-policing. Manifesting and engaging the traditional storytelling mode of classical Indigenous ontology, these narratives convey legal and political knowledge, not merely through logical argument, but rather through the feelings of law and the understanding of lawful behaviour produced by their rhythm. Through its own performativity, therefore, the book demonstrates how classical Indigenous legal traditions remain vital to the now pressing challenge of making peace with the earth.
Автор: Blaire Steven Название: The Biology of Arid Soils ISBN: 311041998X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110419986 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 18586.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Soils have been called the most complex microbial ecosystems on Earth. A single gram of soil can harbor millions of microbial cells and thousands of species. However, certain soil environments, such as those experiencing dramatic change exposing new initial soils or that are limited in precipitation, limit the number of species able to survive in these systems. In this respect, these environments offer unparalleled opportunities to uncover the factors that control the development and maintenance of complex microbial ecosystems. This book collects chapters that discuss the abiotic factors that structure arid and initial soil communities as well as the diversity and structure of the biological communities in these soils from viruses to plants.
Описание: A Love Story. Dr. David Reynolds, a young American vascular surgeon, receives an invitation to practice surgery in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. His only hesitation is his Jewish background, even though he changed his name and stopped practicing Judaism 22 years ago. When he travels there and meets Jamila, the vibrant nurse who will be part of his surgical team, his reservations vanish. She is a Saudi princess and her father is powerful in the Kingdom, but she and David fall deeply in love. David converts to Islam to marry Jamila. After their marriage, when Davids true background is revealed, Jamilas father feels profoundly
Автор: Howard-Zophy, Angela Название: Redefining the New Woman, 1920-1963 ISBN: 0815327145 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815327141 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 18374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This book will highlight advanced techniques that were recently used for studying microorganisms in extreme environments. Recent technological leaps in the study of microorganisms in the environment now make it possible to comprehensively study microbes in the environment. Extreme environments could benefit from the application of these techniques, but many challenges such as low biomass, low activity and slow growth has prevented their wide adoption. This book will review recent application of state-of-the-art techniques in extreme environments, helping researcher and graduate students get a better knowledge of the tools available.
Автор: Keddy Paul a., Laughlin Daniel C. Название: A Framework for Community Ecology ISBN: 1316512606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316512609 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 22864.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How are communities assembled from species pools? This pressing question underlies a broad array of practical problems in ecology and environmental science, including the restoration of damaged landscapes, management of protected areas, and protection of threatened species. Ideal for students, and researchers working with ecological communities.
Название: Adaptive food webs ISBN: 1107182115 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107182110 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13622.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presenting new approaches to studying food webs, this book uses practical management and policy examples to demonstrate the theory behind ecosystem management decisions and the broader issue of sustainability. All the information readers need to use food web analyses as a tool for understanding and quantifying transition processes is provided.
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