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  • Oceaning

    Governing Marine Life with Drones

    de Adam Fish ...
    Series series Elements
    Drones are revolutionizing ocean conservation. By flying closer and seeing more, drones enhance intimate contact between ocean scientists and activists and marine life. In the process, new dependencies between nature, technology, and humans emerge, and a paradox becomes apparent: Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? In Oceaning, Adam Fish answers this question ... Leer más

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    How Sound Rules Life Under Water

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  • Wayfinding

    The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World

    In this "marvel of storytelling," a journalist pursues the mysteries of human navigation across continents and deep within the brain ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision—especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. In ... Leer más

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  • Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

    Edición de Matthew Schneider-Mayerson ...
    In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine.This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ... Leer más

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  • The Deepest Map

    The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans

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  • Dangerous Earth

    What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More

    de Ellen Prager ...
    "A fascinating and riveting read that really succeeds in bringing you right to the cutting edge of open questions in the earth sciences." —Leon Vlieger, Inquisitive BiologistToday, we know more than ever before about the powerful forces that can cause catastrophe, but significant questions remain. Why can't we better predict some natural disasters? What do scientists know about them already? What ... Leer más

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  • The Wake of Crows

    Living and Dying in Shared Worlds

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
    Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated cities to suburbs and farms. Across these diverse landscapes, many species of crow are doing well: their intelligent and adaptive ways of life have allowed them to thrive amid human-driven transformations. Indeed, crows are frequently disliked for their success, seen as ... Leer más

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  • Geography

    Series series The Study of Science III
    As the study of the diverse environments and places of Earth’s surface, geography seeks to answer the questions of why things are as they are, where they are. This insightful volume delves into physical geography, which is concerned with places, and human geography, which deals with the people in the placeshow and why they live where they do, and how their social, economic, and cultural ... Leer más

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  • Flight Ways

    Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
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  • In the Shadow of the Palms

    More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua

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  • Vanishing Fish

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  • The Anthropology of Extinction

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