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E-BooksQueer Environmentality Ecology, Evolution, and Sexuality in American Literature



Queer Environmentality Ecology, Evolution, and Sexuality in American Literature
Free Download Queer Environmentality: Ecology, Evolution, and Sexuality in American Literature By Robert Azzarello
2012 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 113826864X | PDF | 2 MB
Offering a model for meaningful dialogue between queer studies and environmental studies, Robert Azzarello's book traces a queer-environmental lineage in American Romantic and post-Romantic literature. Azzarello challenges the notion that reading environmental literature is unsatisfying in terms of aesthetics and proposes an understanding of literary environmentalism that is rich in poetic complexity. With the term "queer environmentality," Azzarello points towards a queer sensibility in the history of environmental literature to balance the dominant narrative that reading environmental literature is tantamount to witnessing a spectacular dramatization of heterosexual teleology. Azzarello's study treats four key figures in the American literary tradition: Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, and Djuna Barnes. Each of these writers problematizes conventional notions of the strange matrix between the human, the natural, and the sexual. They brilliantly demonstrate the ways in which the queer project and the environmental project are always connected or, put another way, show that questions and politics of human sexuality are always entwined with those associated with the other-than-human world.



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E-BooksFor Earth's Sake Toward a Compassionate Ecology



For Earth's Sake Toward a Compassionate Ecology
Free Download For Earth's Sake: Toward a Compassionate Ecology By Stephen Bede Scharper; Simon Appolloni
2013 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 2896465219 | EPUB | 7 MB
Well-known Catholic environmentalist Stephen Scharper challenges us to rethink and repair our relationship with the earth.We are bombarded by stories about environmental devastation and climate change. While scientists present their findings and governments wrestle with how to address the problems, we can feel helpless, angry, confused or sad. This book can help.In reflecting upon the faith and fate of the Earth, Stephen Scharper reminds us that humans are part of the environment and encourages us to change our relationship to the planet. By engaging our minds, bodies and hearts, we can explore our faith from the point of view of the oppressed, alienating and suffering of our world in a self-critical way that is open to other ways of knowing the world.With a superb foreword by James Orbinski M.D. and an engaging introduction by Simon Appolloni PhD, the book promises to excite your passion for Earth.



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E-BooksEcology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat Crossroads as Ritual



Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat Crossroads as Ritual
Free Download Joyce White, "Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual "
English | ISBN: 1793646635 | 2022 | 176 pages | EPUB, PDF | 434 KB + 2 MB
Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual employs nature, literary tradition, and the cosmogram to examine Danticat's fiction as textual sites imbued with ritual and conducive for healing and clarifying Africana diasporic consciousness.



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E-BooksEcology of Wild Bird Diseases



Ecology of Wild Bird Diseases
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English | 2024 | ISBN: 0815379455 | 400 Pages | PDF (True) | 26 MB
The book focuses on the ecology of the most important infectious diseases of wild avian hosts, especially those with high morbidity and mortality rates. Disease ecology is an important scientific approach to study the relationships and interactions between living organisms, their environment, and potential pathogens. Birds have high diversity, and the very special ability to fly and migrate. They migrate over long distances, and share ecosystems with other animals, even humans. They serve as the most important natural source of several pathogens with zoonotic potential. Bird-pathogen interactions are increasingly changing due to the continuous anthropogenic disturbances in habitats and ecosystems. With intensified climate change and improved environmental conditions for vectors, as well as higher susceptibility of avian hosts due to simultaneous exposure to environmental stressors (e.g., contamination, food limitation, etc.), the probability of emerging new infections and their expansion into new territories increase tremendously. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that neglected ecological and epidemiological interactions between wildlife, domestic animals and humans are paramount to global health.



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E-BooksBaby Boomer Diet Body Ecology's Guide to Growing Younger



Baby Boomer Diet Body Ecology's Guide to Growing Younger
Free Download Donna Gates, "Baby Boomer Diet: Body Ecology's Guide to Growing Younger"
English | 2011 | pages: 433 | ISBN: 1848508077, 1401935451 | EPUB | 2,6 mb
As baby boomers, we're a generation that has transformed society. How will we redefine aging? This book provides a blueprint for restoring a vital friendship with our bodies and, in turn, renewing our bond with the earth. It shows us how we can live fuller, healthier, more meaningful lives.A fascinating blend of cutting-edge medical information, practical health advice, and spiritual wisdom, "The Baby Boomer Diet" is relevant for people of any age. Written by Donna Gates-theoriginator of Body Ecology, a world-renowned system of healing-this long-awaited book suggests that we don't simply have to age gracefully, we can age with "panache." "What's Inside This Groundbreaking Book: "Anti-aging remedies that will make you feel and look younger The missing piece to all traditional diet programsInsight into why we age and how we can prevent itLittle-known wellness secrets that address the stresses and pressures of our modern worldWays to apply Body Ecology's seven universal principles to the health challenges associated with agingSuperfood recommendations for increased energy, vitality, and disease prevention



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E-BooksHill P Biotremology Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution 2024




Hill P  Biotremology  Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution 2024

Hill P Biotremology Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution 2024 | 17.22 MB
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E-BooksAdvances in the Ecology of Stream–Dwelling Salmonids



Advances in the Ecology of Stream–Dwelling Salmonids
Free Download Advances in the Ecology of Stream-Dwelling Salmonids by Javier Lobon-Cervia, Phaedra Budy, Robert Gresswell
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 733 Pages | ISBN : 3031443888 | 112.4 MB
Many salmonids inhabit streams during the whole, or a substantial part of their lifetime. Streams, as networks of cold waters running over rifles, pools and tables of gravel, pebble and stony substratum, are fed by rainfall and snowmelt and may be subject to spates and droughts. Hence, these lotic systems are heterogeneous by nature and vary substantially in temperature and discharge along their environmental gradients. In these habitats, salmonids encounter suitable reproductive and feeding habitats where they exhibit a dizzying array of life‐history traits and an overwhelming variability in size, growth and density. Essentially predators upon organisms drifting across the water column, they become apex piscivores at large sizes. They may also serve as prey for aquatic macroinvertebrates at the youngest stages, and as they grow, they may become prey for birds and mammals. In addition, many populations play a major role in the recycling of biogeochemical elements critical for the trophic dynamics of their home streams. Empirical assessment of the ecological functioning of stream salmonids has been a tireless endeavor since the pioneer studies by Allen (1951), Chapman (1966), McFadden (1964) and Northcote (1966) further enhanced by the IBP (1964-1974; Gerking 1967) and extended to experimental approaches during the last decades (Northcote Lobon-Cervia 2010, Lobon-Cervia & Sanz 2017, Kershner et al. 2019). It has become increasingly apparent that streams are severely threatened by human abuse and misuse, including over-extraction, diversion, damming and pollution, in addition to the more recent threat of global warming. Furthermore, salmonids themselves are threatened by genetic introgressions, diseases, and parasites related to uncontrolled introductions of individuals from aquaculture, and over-exploitation by angling. These threats have triggered important social and political concerns, to the extent of becoming research priorities for major agencies and institutions. In this context, we attempt to add an overview to this endeavor by updating and summarizing the documented ecology of stream-living salmonids, with reference to the factors and mechanisms underlying the growth, density and life history that interact to determine the size, number, and distribution of individuals encountered in any wild population.



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E-BooksAcoustic Profiles A Sound Ecology of the Cinema



Acoustic Profiles A Sound Ecology of the Cinema
Free Download Randolph Jordan, "Acoustic Profiles: A Sound Ecology of the Cinema "
English | ISBN: 0190226072 | 2023 | 254 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 11 MB
In Acoustic Profiles, author Randolph Jordan proposes a new model for image-sound analysis that incorporates the vocabulary and methods of environmental studies, specifically exploring the potential of a model based on acoustic ecology. Jordan uses close readings of films to connect the diverse fields of architecture, environmental studies, art history, the history of modernity, and media studies through the tenets of acoustic ecology. In relating ways of thinking about sound from acoustic ecology to film studies and vice versa, Acoustic Profiles takes an interdisciplinary approach to inspire readers to experience cinematic art as a motivator of greater environmental purposes and to understand the role of the media in achieving those purposes.



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E-BooksFreshwater and Marine Ecology



Freshwater and Marine Ecology
Free Download Freshwater and Marine Ecology by Ulrich Sommer
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 444 Pages | ISBN : 3031424581 | 72.8 MB
Freshwater and Marine Ecology is an introduction to the field of aquatic ecology, integrating the conceptually and methodologically widely overlapping fields of limnology and biological oceanography. It is structured like most textbooks of general ecology, leading from more elemental entities (individuals having to cope with their environment) to increasingly overarching entities, from populations over communities and ecosystems to the biogeochemistry of the entire planet and, finally, an overview over the major human impacts on the aquatic components of the earth system. The book provides examples for all major theoretical concepts of general ecology while the usual ecology textbooks have a strong terrestrial bias and rely only on few aquatic examples. This book takes the contrasting approach, motivated by the fact the fact that life originated from aquatic systems and that surface waters cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface. The choice of studies used as examples in Freshwater and Marine Ecology provides a balanced mix of freshwater and marine studies, of field observations, experimental and modeling studies. The readers are confronted with very recent work leading to the forefront of contemporaneous research but also with classic studies which laid the foundations of theory development in the field. Freshwater and Marine Ecology is a comprehensive text ideally serving for undergraduate courses in biological oceanography, limnology, and ecology, but also for advanced students, teachers and scientists who had limited exposure to aquatic sciences and/or ecology during their studies.



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E-BooksEarly Modern Media Ecology



Early Modern Media Ecology
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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009298100 | 144 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
The early modern world was as enigmatic as it was dynamic. New epistemologies and technologies, open controversies about the world and afterworld, encounters with various cultures, and numerous forms of entertainment wetted the appetite for ever-new sensational experiences, an emerging visual language, and different social constellations. Thaumaturgy, the art of making wonder, was the historical term under which many of these forms were subsumed: encompassing everything from magic lanterns to puppets to fireworks, and deliberately mingling the spheres of commercial entertainment, art, and religion. But thaumaturgy was not just an idle pastime but a vital field of cultural and intercultural negotiation. This Element introduces this field and suggests a new form of historiography-media ecology-which focuses on connections, formations, and transformations and takes a global perspective.



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