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Against the Grain By:Richard Manning Published on 2005-02-01 by North Point Press In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Against the Grain, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years. The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature's. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, ...

The Burning Season By:Andrew Revkin Published on 2004-09-30 by Island Press In this reissue of the environmental classic The Burning Season, with a new introduction by the author, Andrew Revkin artfully interweaves the moving story of Chico Mendes's struggle with the broader natural and human history of the world's largest tropical rain forest. |It became clear,| writes Revkin, acclaimed science reporter for The New York Times, |that the murder was a microcosm of the larger crime: the unbridled destruction of the last great reservoir of biological diversity on Earth.| In his life and untimely death, Mendes forever altered the course of development in the Amazon, and he has since become a model for environmental campaigners everywhere. This Book was ranked at 28 by Google Books for keyword Amazon Book Review Blog. Book ID of The Burning Season's Books is gvwC4Ojo9fEC, Book which was written byAndrew Revkinhave ETAG "SXganR80LfA" Book which was published by Island...

A Song for the River By:Philip Connors Published on 2018-09-18 by Cinco Puntos Press From one of the last fire lookouts in America comes this sequel to the award-winning Fire Season—a story of calamity and resilience in the world’s first Wilderness. A dozen years into his dream job keeping watch over the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico, Philip Connors bore witness to the wildfire he had always feared: a conflagration that forced him off his mountain by helicopter, and changed forever the forest and watershed he loved. It was merely one of many transformations that arrived in quick succession, not just fire and flood but illness, divorce, the death of a fellow lookout in a freak accident, and a tragic plane crash that rocked the community he called home. At its core an elegy for a friend he cherished like a brother, A Song for the River opens into celebration of a landscape redolent with meaning—and the river that runs through it. Connors channels the voices of the voiceless in a praise s...

The Economics of Deforestation in the Amazon By:João S. Campari Published on 2005-01-01 by Edward Elgar Publishing This provocative new book presents the results of twenty years of research on deforestation in the Amazon. By carefully observing the changing character of human settlements and their association with deforestation over such a prolonged period, the author is able to reject much of the 'perceived wisdom'. This Book was ranked at 26 by Google Books for keyword Amazon Book Review Blog. Book ID of The Economics of Deforestation in the Amazon's Books is P6k-6rsy7toC, Book which was written byJoão S. Camparihave ETAG "2vZBJHy1ZLM" Book which was published by Edward Elgar Publishing since 2005-01-01 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781845425517 and ISBN 10 Code is 1845425510 Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "256 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryNature This Book was rated by Raters a...