Author: Terry O'Connor
Publisher: Animal Turn
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
For thousands of years, humans have categorized animals as either domestic or wild. And yet, around the world, a more nuanced relationship exists, that of commensal animals, species that have adapted to our homes, our towns, and our artificial landscapes, finding ways to gain benefit from our activities and so becoming an important part of our everyday lives. A fascinating investigation, this text draws on archaeological records to explore human-animal relations.
Animals as Neighbors
Author: Terry O'Connor
Publisher: Animal Turn
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
For thousands of years, humans have categorized animals as either domestic or wild. And yet, around the world, a more nuanced relationship exists, that of commensal animals, species that have adapted to our homes, our towns, and our artificial landscapes, finding ways to gain benefit from our activities and so becoming an important part of our everyday lives. A fascinating investigation, this text draws on archaeological records to explore human-animal relations.
Publisher: Animal Turn
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
For thousands of years, humans have categorized animals as either domestic or wild. And yet, around the world, a more nuanced relationship exists, that of commensal animals, species that have adapted to our homes, our towns, and our artificial landscapes, finding ways to gain benefit from our activities and so becoming an important part of our everyday lives. A fascinating investigation, this text draws on archaeological records to explore human-animal relations.
Looking at Animals in Human History
Author: Linda Kalof
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861893345
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Taking in a wide range of visual and textual materials, Linda Kalof in Looking at Animals in Human History unearths many surprising and revealing examples of our depictions of animals.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861893345
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Taking in a wide range of visual and textual materials, Linda Kalof in Looking at Animals in Human History unearths many surprising and revealing examples of our depictions of animals.
Phases of Animal Life Past and Present
Author: Richard Lydekker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal physiology
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal physiology
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A Gap in Nature
Author: Tim Fridtjof Flannery
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 9780871137975
Category : Extinct animals
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A short description of the extinct animal along with a color drawing.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 9780871137975
Category : Extinct animals
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A short description of the extinct animal along with a color drawing.
Animals Through Chinese History
Author: Roel Sterckx
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This innovative collection opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. This title is also available as Open Access.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This innovative collection opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. This title is also available as Open Access.
Lost Animals
Author: John Whitfield
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588346986
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Meet the incredible animals that have disappeared due to competition, mass extinctions, hunting, and human activity. Lost Animals brings back to life some of the most charismatic creatures to inhabit the planet. It captures the imagination with more than 200 incredible photographs, artworks of fossils, and scientific drawings of charming creatures like dodos, paraceratherium (the largest land mammal), spinosaurus (the biggest carnivorous dinosaur), placeoderm fishes (the sharks of their day), and more! Lost Animals is a captivating documentation of evolution and extinction. Each chapter focuses on a specific time in Earth's history, from the Cambrian explosion (the most intense surge of evolution the world has ever experienced) to present times, with profiles of the key species that lived then. From long extinct animals to Lazarus species--animals that were thought to be extinct before being rediscovered--this book takes readers on a journey through Earth's natural history, highlighting the world's biggest animal losses and its moments of conservational hope.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588346986
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Meet the incredible animals that have disappeared due to competition, mass extinctions, hunting, and human activity. Lost Animals brings back to life some of the most charismatic creatures to inhabit the planet. It captures the imagination with more than 200 incredible photographs, artworks of fossils, and scientific drawings of charming creatures like dodos, paraceratherium (the largest land mammal), spinosaurus (the biggest carnivorous dinosaur), placeoderm fishes (the sharks of their day), and more! Lost Animals is a captivating documentation of evolution and extinction. Each chapter focuses on a specific time in Earth's history, from the Cambrian explosion (the most intense surge of evolution the world has ever experienced) to present times, with profiles of the key species that lived then. From long extinct animals to Lazarus species--animals that were thought to be extinct before being rediscovered--this book takes readers on a journey through Earth's natural history, highlighting the world's biggest animal losses and its moments of conservational hope.
Animals of the Past
Author: Frederic A. Lucas
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Animals of the Past" by Frederic A. Lucas. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Animals of the Past" by Frederic A. Lucas. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Other Animals
Author: Jane T. Costlow
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822973723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The lives of animals in Russia are intrinsically linked to cultural, political and psychological transformations of the imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras. Other Animals examines the interaction of animals and humans in Russian literature, art, and life from the eighteenth century until the present. The chapters explore the unique nature of the Russian experience in a range of human-animal relationships through tales of cruelty, interspecies communion and compassion, and efforts to either overcome or establish the human-animal divide. Four themes run through the volume: the prevalence of animals in utopian visions; the ways in which Russians have incorporated and sometimes challenged Western sensibilities and practices, such as the humane treatment of animals and the inclusion of animals in urban domestic life; the quest to identify and at times exploit the physiological basis of human and animal behavior and the ideological implications of these practices; and the breakdown of traditional human-animal hierarchies and categories during times of revolutionary upheaval, social transformation, or disintegration.From failed Soviet attempts to transplant the seminomadic Sami and their reindeer herds onto collective farms, to performance artist Oleg Kulik's scandalous portrayal of Pavlov's dogs as a parody of the Soviet "new man," to novelist Tatyana Tolstaya's post-cataclysmic future world of hybrid animal species and their disaffection from the past, Other Animals presents a completely new perspective on Russian and Soviet history. It also offers a fascinating look into the Russian psyche as seen through human interactions with animals.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822973723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The lives of animals in Russia are intrinsically linked to cultural, political and psychological transformations of the imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras. Other Animals examines the interaction of animals and humans in Russian literature, art, and life from the eighteenth century until the present. The chapters explore the unique nature of the Russian experience in a range of human-animal relationships through tales of cruelty, interspecies communion and compassion, and efforts to either overcome or establish the human-animal divide. Four themes run through the volume: the prevalence of animals in utopian visions; the ways in which Russians have incorporated and sometimes challenged Western sensibilities and practices, such as the humane treatment of animals and the inclusion of animals in urban domestic life; the quest to identify and at times exploit the physiological basis of human and animal behavior and the ideological implications of these practices; and the breakdown of traditional human-animal hierarchies and categories during times of revolutionary upheaval, social transformation, or disintegration.From failed Soviet attempts to transplant the seminomadic Sami and their reindeer herds onto collective farms, to performance artist Oleg Kulik's scandalous portrayal of Pavlov's dogs as a parody of the Soviet "new man," to novelist Tatyana Tolstaya's post-cataclysmic future world of hybrid animal species and their disaffection from the past, Other Animals presents a completely new perspective on Russian and Soviet history. It also offers a fascinating look into the Russian psyche as seen through human interactions with animals.
Beastly Natures
Author: Dorothee Brantz
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813929474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Jacket.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813929474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Jacket.
Small and Tall Tales of Extinct Animals
Author: Hélène Rajcak
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877579066
Category : Animals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fascinating journey around the world of extinct animals, combining cartoons with naturalist drawings, and mythology with science.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877579066
Category : Animals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fascinating journey around the world of extinct animals, combining cartoons with naturalist drawings, and mythology with science.