Описание: Founded amid the urban commotion of Washington, DC, before the dawn of the twentieth century, the National Zoological Park opened to “preserve, teach, and conduct research about the animal world.” Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo is a study of this important cultural landmark from 1887 to 1920. Centered on the animals themselves, each chapter looks from a different angle at the influential science of popular zoology in order to shed new light on the complex, entangled relationships between humans and animals.
Daniel Vandersommers’s goal is twofold. First, through narrative, he shows how zoo animals always ran away from the zoo. This is meant literally—animals escaped frequently—but even more so, figuratively. Living, breathing, historical zoo animals ran away from their cultural constructions, and these constructions ran away from the living bodies they were made to represent. The author shows that the resulting gaps produced by runaway animals contain concealed, distorted, and erased histories worthy of uncovering.
Second, Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo demonstrates how the popular zoology fostered by the National Zoo shaped every aspect of American science, culture, and conservation during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Between the 1880s and World War I, as intellectuals debated Darwinism and scientists institutionalized the laboratory, zoological parks suddenly appeared at the heart of nearly every major American city, captivating tens of millions of visitors. Vandersommers follows stories previously hidden within the National Zoo in order to help us reconsider the place of zoos and their inhabitants in the twenty-first century.
Автор: Sherwonit Bill Название: Animal Stories: Encounters with Alaska`s Wildlife ISBN: 1941821359 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781941821350 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Essays of memorable, astonishing-and in some instances, life-changing-encounters with wild animals. A reminder that nature`s wondrous wild surrounds us all the time, wherever we live, if we`ll only open our senses and pay attention.
Автор: Sherwonit Bill Название: Animal Stories: Encounters with Alaska`s Wildlife ISBN: 1941821081 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781941821084 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2482.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Essays of memorable, astonishing-and in some instances, life-changing-encounters with wild animals. A reminder that nature`s wondrous wild surrounds us all the time, wherever we live, if we`ll only open our senses and pay attention.
Автор: Parkinson, Claire Название: Animals, anthropomorphism and mediated encounters ISBN: 0367195739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367195731 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book critically investigates the pervasiveness of anthropomorphised animals in popular culture. It sheds light on everyday encounters with visual representations of anthropomorphised animals and considers how attributing other animals with humanlike qualities speaks to a complex set of power relations.
Автор: Vetlesen, Arne Johan (university Of Oslo, Norway) Название: Animal lives and why they matter ISBN: 1032330023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032330020 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5970.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Parkinson, Claire (Edge Hill University, United Kingdom) Название: Animals, Anthropomorphism and Mediated Encounters ISBN: 0367785293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367785291 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6736.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book critically investigates the pervasiveness of anthropomorphised animals in popular culture. It sheds light on everyday encounters with visual representations of anthropomorphised animals and considers how attributing other animals with humanlike qualities speaks to a complex set of power relations.
Автор: Vetlesen, Arne Johan (university Of Oslo, Norway) Название: Animal lives and why they matter ISBN: 1032330015 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032330013 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 18374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book engages with the changing ways in which we, as a society and culture, look upon and interact with animals, stressing how much animals differ among themselves.
Описание: As big as 1,78,000 football fields, Nepals first protected national park is home to over 550 species of birds; awe-inspiring animals, such as greater one-horned rhinoceroses, Bengal tigers, clouded leopards; and a confident, brave girl called Sita. Sita dreams of being a nature guide like her baba. With a spring in her step and a group of eager tourists, she unravels the secrets of the forest. But when she wanders astray and comes face to face with a mamma rhino, will this eight-year-old be able to listen to the stillness of the jungle? Join this young Nepali as she takes you on a tour of the magnificent UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Автор: Cardwell Kitty F., Bailey Keith L. Название: Tactical Sciences for Biosecurity in Animal and Plant Systems ISBN: 1799879356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781799879350 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31046.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Focuses on the tactical sciences needed to succeed in the biosecurity objectives of preventing plant and animal pathogens from entering or leaving the United States. The book explores a divergence of tactics between plant and animal exotic disease response. Topics covered include animal pests and pathogens, tactical management, and early detection.
Автор: Cardwell Kitty F., Bailey Keith L. Название: Tactical Sciences for Biosecurity in Animal and Plant Systems ISBN: 1799879364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781799879367 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23978.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Focuses on the tactical sciences needed to succeed in the biosecurity objectives of preventing plant and animal pathogens from entering or leaving the United States. This book explores a divergence of tactics between plant and animal exotic disease response.
Описание: Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues - anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio - were conquered, and details the important role that veterinary scientists played. The narrative is driven by astonishing events that centered on animal disease: the influenza pandemic of 1872, discovery of the causes of anthrax and tuberculosis in the 1880s, conquest of Texas cattle fever and then yellow fever, German anthrax attacks on the United States during World War I, the tuberculin war of 1931, Japanese biological warfare in the 1940s, and today's bioterror dangers.
Veterinary science in the rural Midwest arose from agriculture, but in urban Philadelphia it came from medicine; similar differences occurred in Canada between Toronto and Montreal. As land-grant colleges were established after the American Civil War, individual states followed divergent pathways in supporting veterinary science. Some employed a trade school curriculum that taught agriculturalists to empirically treat animal diseases and others emphasized a curriculum tied to science. This pattern continued for a century, but today some institutions have moved back to the trade school philosophy. Avoiding lessons of the 1910 Flexner Report on medical education reform, university-associated veterinary schools are being approved that do not have control of their own veterinary hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, and research institutes - components that are critical for training students in science. Underlying this change were twin idiosyncrasies of culture - disbelief in science and distrust of government - that spawned scientology, creationism, anti-vaccination movements, and other anti-science scams.
As new infectious plagues continue to arise, Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues details the strategies we learned defeating plagues from 1860 to 1960 - and the essential role veterinary science played. To defeat the plagues of today it is essential we avoid the digital cocoon of disbelief in science and cultural stasis now threatening progress.
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