The Animal and Its Environment
Title | The Animal and Its Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Lancelot Alexander Borradaile |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Animals, Nature and Albert Schweitzer
Title | Animals, Nature and Albert Schweitzer PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Schweitzer |
Publisher | Flying Fox Press |
Pages | 119 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Animal welfare |
ISBN | 0961722541 |
Shows, primarily through Schweitzer's own words, his philosophy on the man-animal-nature relationship.
A Gap in Nature
Title | A Gap in Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Fridtjof Flannery |
Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Extinct animals |
ISBN | 9780871137975 |
A short description of the extinct animal along with a color drawing.
Wild by Nature
Title | Wild by Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea L. Smalley |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2017-06-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1421422352 |
"Wild by Nature answers the question: how did indigenous animals shape the course of colonization in English America? The book argues that animals acted as obstacles to colonization because their wildness was at odds with Anglo-American legal assertions of possession. Animals and their pursuers transgressed the legal lines officials drew to demarcate colonizers' sovereignty and control over the landscape. Consequently, wild creatures became legal actors in the colonizing process--the subjects of statutes, the issues in court cases, and the parties to treaties--as authorities struggled to both contain and preserve the wildness that made those animals so valuable to English settler societies in North America in the first place. Only after wild creatures were brought under the state's legal ownership and control could the land be rationally organized and possessed. The book examines the colonization of American animals as a separate strand interwoven into a larger story of English colonizing in North America. As such, it proceeds along a different and longer timeline than other colonial histories, tracing a path through various wild animal frontiers from the seventeenth-century Chesapeake into the southern backcountry in the eighteenth century and across the Appalachians in the early nineteenth to end in the southern plains in the decades after the Civil War. Along the way, it maps out an argumentative arc that describes three manifestations of colonization as it variously applied to beavers, wolves, fish, deer, and bison. Wild by Nature engages broad questions about the environment, law, and society in early America"--
Baby Wild Animals
Title | Baby Wild Animals PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Heritage House Publishing Co |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2015-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1772030902 |
A sweet little book for kids about baby animals.
Being Animal
Title | Being Animal PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Peterson |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2013-05-21 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0231534264 |
For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. Conducting the first examination of animals' place in popular and scholarly thinking about nature, Anna L. Peterson builds a nature ethic that conceives of nonhuman animals as active subjects who are simultaneously parts of both nature and human society. Peterson explores the tensions between humans and animals, nature and culture, animals and nature, and domesticity and wildness. She uses our intimate connections with companion animals to examine nature more broadly. Companion animals are liminal creatures straddling the boundary between human society and wilderness, revealing much about the mutually constitutive relationships binding humans and nature together. Through her paradigm-shifting reflections, Peterson disrupts the artificial boundaries between two seemingly distinct categories, underscoring their fluid and continuous character.
Beyond Words
Title | Beyond Words PDF eBook |
Author | Marta Williams |
Publisher | New World Library |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2010-10-14 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1577317165 |
In this powerful follow-up to her groundbreaking book, Learning Their Language, Marta Williams presents fascinating stories that explore the connections among humans, nature, and animals and demonstrates the effective and life-enhancing techniques of intuitive communication.