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Hedgehogs, Killing, and Kindness
Hedgehogs, Killing, and Kindness
The Contradictions of Care in Conservation Practice
ISBN: 9780262548106
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 14, 2024
How our understanding of and relationship to hedgehogs reveals the complex interactions between culture, technology, bodies, conservation, and care for other animals.
Tenacious Beasts
Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
ISBN: 9780262548335
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet.
Imperfection
A Natural History
ISBN: 9780262548359
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
In praise of imperfection: how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies.
Methuselah's Zoo
What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives
ISBN: 9780262547178
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
Stories of long-lived animal species—from thousand-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks—and what they might teach us about human health and longevity.
The Story of Life in 10 1/2 Species
The Story of Life in 10 1/2 Species
ISBN: 9780262044486
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 20, 2020
Souvenirs of the planet: Ten (and a half) life forms, each of which explains a key aspect of life on Earth.
The Art of Naming
ISBN: 9780262537032
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 26, 2019
From Tyrannosaurus rex to Heteropoda davidbowie: scientific naming as a joyful and creative act.
Rock, Bone, and Ruin
An Optimist's Guide to the Historical Sciences
ISBN: 9780262037266
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 16, 2018
An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past.
Hedgehogs, Killing, and Kindness
Hedgehogs, Killing, and Kindness
The Contradictions of Care in Conservation Practice
ISBN: 9780262548106
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 14, 2024
How our understanding of and relationship to hedgehogs reveals the complex interactions between culture, technology, bodies, conservation, and care for other animals.
Tenacious Beasts
Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
ISBN: 9780262548335
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet.
Imperfection
A Natural History
ISBN: 9780262548359
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
In praise of imperfection: how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies.
Methuselah's Zoo
What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives
ISBN: 9780262547178
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
Stories of long-lived animal species—from thousand-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks—and what they might teach us about human health and longevity.
The Story of Life in 10 1/2 Species
The Story of Life in 10 1/2 Species
ISBN: 9780262044486
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 20, 2020
Souvenirs of the planet: Ten (and a half) life forms, each of which explains a key aspect of life on Earth.
The Art of Naming
ISBN: 9780262537032
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 26, 2019
From Tyrannosaurus rex to Heteropoda davidbowie: scientific naming as a joyful and creative act.
Rock, Bone, and Ruin
An Optimist's Guide to the Historical Sciences
ISBN: 9780262037266
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 16, 2018
An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past.