Our Beleaguered Species

Author : Elizabeth Crouch Zelman
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502769336
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Beleaguered Species written by Elizabeth Crouch Zelman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can anthropology contribute to understanding today's world? How can knowledge about our origins as upright apes help our species solve its current challenges? Are there grounds for hope for ourselves and Planet Earth? As Homo sapiens, we have the cognitive and emotional capacity to understand our limitations and strengths. Can we tap into our strengths to find pathways ahead for our beleaguered species? A better question: Will we do so? In Our Beleaguered Species: Beyond Tribalism, Dr. Zelman explores how we became tribalistic when our ancestors were defenseless social primates living in small scattered groups, and how our very different interconnected world of today calls for using our other gifts from evolution. These include adaptability, creativity, symbolic language, and concern for the well-being and fair treatment of those outside our particular circles. To build a viable future for ourselves and other living things, we must nurture and treasure this portion of our evolutionary legacy. As members of a social species with the ability to deceive and harm as well as love our neighbors, we have the means to create havoc or harmony. Over the years, using our culture-language complex, we have done both. Tribalism in its several guises (racism, religious sectarianism, sexism, and more) is a major obstacle to furthering human well-being and reducing destruction of lives and resources that comprise the web of life on our shared planet. Today, having transformed the world of our ancestors, the challenges we face require using our diversity to build a balanced, global approach. We must move beyond tribalism. The author outlines prescriptions for such an endeavor, using a broad anthropological perspective and drawing from studies of the brain and behavior, environment, economic and political institutions, institutionalized inequalities, and the humanities. In her final chapter, she describes some ways we might regain a sense of our place in nature, not above it, and construct a sense of meaning from this understanding.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife, and Oceans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book H.R. 1367, Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Conservation Act of 2001 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife, and Oceans and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife, and Oceans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book H.R. 3331, the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Conservation Act; H.R. 3390, the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Conservation Act; H.R. 3516, to Prohibit Pelagic Longline Fishing in the Exclusive Economic Zone in the Atlantic Ocean written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife, and Oceans and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1710 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1826 pages
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Download or read book Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1972 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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Total Pages : 1316 pages
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Download or read book Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1972 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Hart
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1915294584
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hedgelands [US Edition] written by Christopher Hart and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On this joyous journey around the wild edges of Britain, celebrated author Christopher Hart takes us through the life, ecology and history of the humble countryside hedge and how it is inextricably woven into our language, landscape and culture. Hedges – or hedgerows – have long been an integral part of the British landscape. An ancient, human-made boundary, hedgerows have become a critically important haven for wildlife and are now being recognised as one of the greatest ‘edge’ habitats on Earth. Britain boasts 400,000 kilometres of hedgerows, but has lost 50 per cent of them since the Second World War and their slow deterioration today is becoming a huge threat to the ecosystem. In Hedgelands, Christopher Hart shares the history of the hedge, highlighting the hawthorn and hazel of ancient hedgerows, and reveals its abundance of wildlife, from the elusive dunnock to the iconic nightingale, the industrious hedgehog to the miniscule harvest mouse. He demonstrates how this true environmental hero and powerful climate ally can help rebuild species-rich, resilient havens for birds, mammals and insects. Hedges play a vital role in mature woodland, grassland and even wetland, all of which can offer us much-needed ecological diversity and carbon sequestration. Through rewilding a patch of land in southwest England, Christopher shows us how easy, joyful and rewarding it is to restore even the smallest stretch of hedge. Whether you live in the country or the city, Hedgelands shares how simple actions can make a huge difference to the future of our precious hedges – and environment. “What’s good for us is good for nature, and what’s good for nature is good for us. And nowhere is this more true than in the bustling, flourishing, flowering, fruiting and altogether glorious native British hedge.”—Christopher Hart

Author : Kirkpatrick Sale
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820322059
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dwellers in the Land written by Kirkpatrick Sale and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a world structured around ecological and cultural diversity, rather than national and political parameters. In response to present and impending ecological and economic crises, Kirkpatrick Sale offers a definitive introduction to the unique concept of bioregionalism, an alternative way of organizing society to create smaller scale, more ecologically sound, individually responsive communities with renewable economies and cultures. He emphasizes, among many other factors, the concept of regionalism through natural population division, settlement near and stewardship of watershed areas, and the importance of communal ownership of and responsibility for the land. Dwellers in the Land focuses on the realistic development of these bioregionally focused communities and the places where they are established to create a society that is both ecologically sustainable and satisfying to its inhabitants.

Author : Jaime G. Corvalan, MD, FACS
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450060021
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Bedside Manner written by Jaime G. Corvalan, MD, FACS and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of “Beyond Bedside Manner” isn't simply to maintain your optimal physical body - it's to actively participate in the blessings of an increased life span by moving us towards higher levels of consciousness. The soul needs a physical body in which to live out its adventure - the human experience - as it seeks to fulfill its specific, transcendent purpose. The soul needs time to unfold its meaning to bring forth a new consciousness. “Beyond Bedside Manner” brings you everything you need to know to maintain your body so your soul may thrive and achieve its purpose.

Author : Mary Reynolds
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1643261959
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Are the ARK written by Mary Reynolds and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reynolds gives us a much-needed reason for hope. The gardener, the conservationist, the city planner, and the nature lover will all be inspired for this wonderful book shows how thousands of even small wildlife friendly gardens can provide habitat for embattled wildlife around the world.” —Jane Goodall, Phd, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace Individuals can’t save the world alone. But if millions of us work together to save our own patch of earth—then we really have a shot. How do we do it? With Acts of Restorative Kindness (ARK). An ARK is a restored, native ecosystem. It’s a thriving patch of native plants and creatures that have been allowed and supported to re-establish in the earth's intelligent, successional process of natural restoration. Over time, this becomes a pantry and a habitat for our pollinators and wild creatures who are in desperate need of support. These ARKs will become the seeding grounds for our planet’s new story. They will be sanctuaries for our shared kin—the rooted and unrooted—and safe havens for the magic and abundance of the natural world. Most importantly, the ARK-building actions are within our control and laid out here in We Are the ARK. In these inspiring pages, discover how one person’s actions can effect big change in this world. Even the tiniest postage stamp patch of land matters! Together we are building a patchwork quilt of life that will wrap its way around this planet.