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Harnessing new enthusiasm for Nan Shepherd's writing, The Living World asks how literature might help us reimagine humanity's place on earth in the midst of our ecological crisis. The first book to examine Shepherd's writing through an ecocritical lens, it reveals forgotten details about the scientific, political and philosophical climate of early twentieth century Scotland, and offers new insights into Shepherd's distinctive environmental thought. More than this, this book reveals how Shepherd's ways of relating to complex, interconnected ecologies predate many of the core themes and concerns of the multi-disciplinary environmental humanities, and may inform their future development. Broken down into chapters focusing on themes of place, ecology, environmentalism, Deep Time, vital matter and selfhood, The Living World offers the first integrated study of Shepherd's writing and legacy, making the work of this philosopher, feminist, amateur ecologist, geologist, and innovative modernist, accessible and relevant to a new community of readers.
This atlas reveals the ever-changing patterns of life on Earth. It explains where plants and animals live, and why they exist where they do. On a global scale, the atlas charts the physical forces that have shaped the Earth, and the biological processes that have determined the life of the planet.
Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth. As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch. Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.
What will your 100-year life look like? A new edition of the international bestseller, featuring a new preface 'Brilliant, timely, original, well written and utterly terrifying' Niall Ferguson Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time? Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse – life expectancy is rising, final-salary pensions are vanishing, and increasing numbers of people are juggling multiple careers. Whether you are 18, 45 or 60, you will need to do things very differently from previous generations and learn to structure your life in completely new ways. The 100-Year Life is here to help. Drawing on the unique pairing of their experience in psychology and economics, Lynda Gratton and Andrew J. Scott offer a broad-ranging analysis as well as a raft of solutions, showing how to rethink your finances, your education, your career and your relationships and create a fulfilling 100-year life. · How can you fashion a career and life path that defines you and your values and creates a shifting balance between work and leisure? · What are the most effective ways of boosting your physical and mental health over a longer and more dynamic lifespan? · How can you make the most of your intangible assets – such as family and friends – as you build a productive, longer life? · In a multiple-stage life how can you learn to make the transitions that will be so crucial and experiment with new ways of living, working and learning? Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and featuring a new preface, The 100-Year Life is a wake-up call that describes what to expect and considers the choices and options that you will face. It is also fundamentally a call to action for individuals, politicians, firms and governments and offers the clearest demonstration that a 100-year life can be a wonderful and inspiring one.
To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and naturecultures. Matters of Care contests the view that care is something only humans do, and argues for extending to non-humans the consideration of agencies and communities that make the living web of care by considering how care circulates in the natural world. The first of the book’s two parts, “Knowledge Politics,” defines the motivations for expanding the ethico-political meanings of care, focusing on discussions in science and technology that engage with sociotechnical assemblages and objects as lively, politically charged “things.” The second part, “Speculative Ethics in Antiecological Times,” considers everyday ecologies of sustaining and perpetuating life for their potential to transform our entrenched relations to natural worlds as “resources.” From the ethics and politics of care to experiential research on care to feminist science and technology studies, Matters of Care is a singular contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary debate that expands agency beyond the human to ask how our understandings of care must shift if we broaden the world.
Living World, Journal of the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists' Club is an annual publication of the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists' Club featuring studies and observations on natural history carried out in Trinidad and Tobago, and in countries in the Caribbean Basin.The 2017 Living World contains a Guest Editorial, nine research papers, six nature notes, one report and a book review. The articles cover a wide range of animal taxa including insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. This year we are honoured to receive a Guest Editorial from John Agard describing our national responsibility to reduce carbon emissions. Living World content is also freely available on our website www.ttfnc.orgTable of ContentsResearch PapersChara sp. an Unfamiliar Algal Element in our BiodiversityE. Julian Duncan, Judy Rouse-Miller Six New Records of Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) from Trinidad, West IndiesMatthew J.W. Cock, Scott Alston-SmithOccurrence of Fibropapilloma Tumours on Green Sea Turtles, Chelonia mydas in Trinidad, West IndiesMichelle Cazabon-Mannette, Ayanna Carla N. PhillipsMoths (Lepidoptera) from the Five Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Including New Country RecordsMatthew J.W. CockCitizen-based Observations on Shark and Mobulid Species in Tobago,West IndiesLanya Fanovich, Neil D. Cook, Ryan S. Mohammed, Aljoscha WothkeAquatic Fauna of Three Rivers in Northeast Tobago, West Indies: Updated Species Assemblages and DistributionsRyan S. Mohammed, Nicholas Mohammed, Amy Elizabeth Deacon, Luke V. RostantColours and Spots: Do they Tell the Story of an Ocelot's Origin?Kerresha Khan, Saiyaad H. Ali, Ryan S. Mohammed Notes on the Lepidoptera of Huevos, Trinidad and TobagoKris Sookdeo, Matthew J.W. Cock Urban Ant Fauna of Port of Spain, Trinidad, West IndiesChristopher K. Starr, Shane T. Ballah Nature Notes New Localities for the Introduced Anolis wattsi (Squamata: Dactyloidae) on Trinidad, West Indies Adam Fifi, Renoir J. Auguste First Record of the Dragonfly Erythemis attala (Selys in Sagra, 1857) (Odonata: Libellulida) for Trinidad, West Indies Rakesh Bhukal The Solitary Wasp Trypoxylon albitarse (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) is Now in Tobago, West Indies Christopher K. Starr, Rakesh Bhukal Sightings of Trachemys scripta elegans (Reptilia: Emydidae), a New Potential Aquatic Alien Invasive Species in Trinidad, West Indies Ryan S. Mohammed, Kerresha Khan, Saiyaad H. Ali Further Expansion of the Range of the Frog Eleutherodactylus johnstonei (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) in Trinidad and Tobago, with a Note on Reproduction J. Roger Downie, Mark S. Greener, Renoir J. Auguste, Pauline A. Geerah An Updated Distribution of the Frog Adenomera cf hylaedactla (Anura: Leptodactylidae) on Trinidad, West Indies Renoir J. Auguste ReportsFourteenth Report of the Trinidad and Tobago Birds Status and Distribution Committee Records Submitted During 2016Martyn Kenefick Book ReviewThe Dragonflies & Damselflies of Trinidad & Tobago - John MichalskiRakesh Bhukal
We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that surrounds us, they are the origin of the oxygen that animates us. Plants embody the most direct, elementary connection that life can establish with the world. In this highly original book, Emanuele Coccia argues that, as the very creator of atmosphere, plants occupy the fundamental position from which we should analyze all elements of life. From this standpoint, we can no longer perceive the world as a simple collection of objects or as a universal space containing all things, but as the site of a veritable metaphysical mixture. Since our atmosphere is rendered possible through plants alone, life only perpetuates itself through the very circle of consumption undertaken by plants. In other words, life exists only insofar as it consumes other life, removing any moral or ethical considerations from the equation. In contrast to trends of thought that discuss nature and the cosmos in general terms, Coccia’s account brings the infinitely small together with the infinitely big, offering a radical redefinition of the place of humanity within the realm of life.
Until the middle of this century, it was completely unclear whether life had any kind of inorganic basis. The discovery of the first secret of life, the molecular structure of DNA, solved that particular riddle.
A game-changing book on the origins of life, called the most important scientific discovery 'since the Copernican revolution' in The Observer.
Today's students will face the unprecedented challenges of a rapidly warming world, including emerging diseases, food shortages, drought, and waterlogged cities. How do we prepare 9.5 billion people for life in the Anthropocene, to thrive in this uncharted and more chaotic future? Answers are being developed in universities, preschools, professional schools, and even prisons around the world. In the latest volume of State of the World, a diverse group of education experts share innovative approaches to teaching and learning in a new era. EarthEd will inspire anyone who wants to prepare students not only for the storms ahead but to become the next generation of sustainability leaders.