Tag: Decay

Free Download Tom Nurmi, "Magnificent Decay: Melville and Ecology "
English | ISBN: 081394502X | 2020 | 294 pages | AZW3 | 13 MB
What is Melville beyond the whale? Long celebrated for his stories of the sea, Melville was also fascinated by the interrelations between living species and planetary systems, a perspective informing his work in ways we now term "ecological." By reading Melville in the context of nineteenth-century science, Tom Nurmi contends that he may best be understood as a proto-ecologist who innovatively engages with the entanglement of human and nonhuman realms.

Free Download A Short History of Decay (Audiobook)
English | December 17, 2022 | ASIN: B0BQ8PJNGH | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 2m | 438 MB
Author: E. M. Cioran | Narrator: Rick Adamson
Dissects Man’s decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces. "To miss reading this book would be a deprivation."-Los Angeles Times
E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today’s world in the context of human history-focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science-in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe.

Free Download Growth and Decay of Coral Reefs
by Vine, Peter J.;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032371951 | 195 pages | True PDF EPUB | 87.33 MB
Growth and Decay of Coral Reefs: Fifty Years of Learning describes how coral reefs have alternately flourished and declined over the last 50 years and the dynamics of these changes. The study is based on recordings at 30 different locations along the Sudanese coast, visited by the author between 1971 and 1973. Beyond the Red Sea’s desert shores lie some of the richest and most diverse coral reefs on our planet. Over a thousand species of reef fishes, matched by a similar abundance of living corals, creating habitats scientists were only just beginning to understand. The complexity of the interrelations was truly mesmerizing. A single intervention, such as removal of a key species, could cause the whole community to collapse. Healthy corals were transformed into green weed-smothered reefs, accompanied by the loss of both corals and fish. Based on the author’s observations of how knowledge and perspectives have changed over the last 50 years, this book highlights lessons learned from historical records that may help maintain and reestablish coral reefs in the years to come. Topics covered include: CORAL REEF FISH Fish surveys CORAL REEF PROFILES Coral growth rates Coral distribution Corals on ‘Cousteau garage’ CORAL THREATS Climate change Coral bleaching Coral diseases Coral sponges Terpios hoshinota Coral predators Coral urchins CORAL – ALGAE CORAL RESEARCH and more …