Tag: Extinction

Radical Ecology in the Face of the Anthropocene Extinction A New and Urgent Philosophy for Complexity in the Social Sci


Free Download John A. Smith, "Radical Ecology in the Face of the Anthropocene Extinction: A New and Urgent Philosophy for Complexity in the Social Sci"
English | ISBN: 1032508116 | 2024 | 196 pages | EPUB | 1004 KB
This book has two interlocking ambitions. The first is to steer what we purposefully call the idioms of critical philosophy towards a more ecologically informed paradigm. The second is to recognise that what has rightly come to be called The Anthropocene extinction is not and cannot be treated as simply a scientific fact but rather a socio-political and ecological dispute of immense complexity.

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Prehistoric Australasia Visions of Evolution and Extinction


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English | April 3rd, 2023 | ISBN: 064310805X | 264 pages | True EPUB | 91.71 MB
For most of the past 300 million years, the world’s continents were interlinked as the supercontinents Pangaea and then Gondwana. Around 50 million years ago, Australia tore itself free from Antarctica to become the huge, splendidly isolated island it is today. Over time, its creatures began to evolve in ways not seen anywhere else on Earth, with tree-climbing crocodiles, gigantic venomous lizards, walking omnivorous bats and flesh-eating kangaroos roaming the continent.

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Eating to Extinction The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, Vintage Edition


Free Download Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, Vintage Edition by Dan Saladino
English | April 25th, 2023 | ISBN: 1784709689 | 464 pages | True EPUB | 3.68 MB
Winner of the Wainwright Prize 2022, this is an astonishing journey through the past, present and future of food, showing why reclaiming a diverse food culture is vital for our future. Now with a new preface.

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Education for Extinction American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CRK98ZSF | 2024 | 18 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 536 MB
Author: David Wallace Adams
Narrator: Paul Boehmer

The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of extinction. In the words of one official: "Kill the Indian and save the man." This fully revised edition of Education for Extinction offers the only comprehensive account of this dispiriting effort, and incorporates the last twenty-five years of scholarship.

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The Tusks of Extinction [Audiobook]


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English | January 16, 2024 | ASIN: B0CS3W1KPL | M4B@64 kbps | 4 hours | 112 MB
Author: Ray Nayler | Narrators: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.

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The Tusks of Extinction


Free Download The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
English | January 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1250855527 | True EPUB | 112 pages | 2.2 MB
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.

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