Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality
Autor Jules Howarden Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 mar 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472915078
ISBN-10: 1472915070
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 8pp colour section
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Sigma
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472915070
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 8pp colour section
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Sigma
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Cutting
edge,
with
interviews
with
leading
scientists
in
the
field
Notă biografică
Jules
Howardis
a
zoologist,
writer,
blogger
and
broadcaster.
He
writes
on
a
host
of
topics
relating
to
zoology
and
wildlife
conservation,
writing
regularly
forBBC
Wildlife
Magazineandthe
Guardian,
and
on
radio
and
TV
including
BBC
Breakfast,
Sunday
Brunch,
Springwatch
and
BBC
5
Live.
Jules
also
runs
a
social
enterprise
that
has
brought
100,000
young
people
closer
to
the
natural
world.Death
on
Earthis
his
second
book,
following
2014'sSex
on
Earth.www.juleshoward.co.uk
/
@juleshoward
Cuprins
IntroductionPART
1:
THIS
IS
A
DEAD
FROGChapter
1:
Life
and
Death
in
the
UniverseChapter
2:
Senescence
and
What
Waits
for
the
Lucky
FewChapter
3:
Fear
and
Loathing
in
BirchwoodChapter
4:
Free
Radicals
and
the
Secrets
WithinChapter
5:
This
is
a
Dead
FrogPART
2:
THE
EXPERIMENTAL
PIG
PHASEChapter
6:
The
Circus
under
the
TentChapter
7:
Sex
and
Death:
The
Contract
KillerChapter
8:
Coffee
with
the
Widow-makerChapter
9:
Suicide,
Snowy
Owls
and
the
Executioner
InsiderChapter
10:
This
is
Not
a
SheepChapter
11:
The
Grotto
Salamander
and
the
GuanoChapter
12:
The
Horrid
Ground-weaverChapter
13:
Dark
MattersPART
3:
JOURNEY
TO
THE
END
OF
THE
SHITATITEChapter
14:
Bring
out
your
Dead
AntsChapter
15:
Mourning
has
BrokenChapter
16:
Who
Wants
to
Live
Forever?Chapter
17:
No,
this
is
a
Dead
FrogEpilogue:
The
Meaning
of
the
Loa
LoaAcknowledgementsIndex
Recenzii
An
altogether
eye-opening,
engaging,
and
enjoyably
humorous
(but
never
distasteful)
guided
tour
through
the
world
of
death.
What becomes clear in this impossibly bouncy, Tiggerish work is that living things have more ways of dying than we could ever imagine.
... funny, clever, but also chock full of science ... a book that's a genuinepleasureto read.
A fascinating read that offers incredible snippets about how life is never wasted, and provides a fresh, less gloomy outlook on our ultimate fate.
Death on Earthfizzes with with life. Howard, whether dressed in waterproof trousers to protect him from rotting pig flesh, or clutching a dead magpie to his chest while looking for a suitable place to watch it decay, makes for the most extraordinary psychopomp. I cried with laughter as he tackled this most persistent of taboos, and yet at the same time was strangely moved by the intensity of his care. It has been oddly reassuring to walk alongside Jules on his exploration of the last great frontier.
Jules Howard celebrates wonderful, vibrant life in the face of death. Drawing on what we can learn from the living, from the cells in your body to geriatric clams and naked mole rats, he allows us to approach and even appreciate why lives, like all good stories, have endings.
Hidden in a breezy overview of death in the animal kingdom rages a life-and-death war that puts into perspective our human struggles with mortality.Death on Earthgives us insight into who we are and why we are special - and not so special - when compared to our animal brethren.
What becomes clear in this impossibly bouncy, Tiggerish work is that living things have more ways of dying than we could ever imagine.
... funny, clever, but also chock full of science ... a book that's a genuinepleasureto read.
A fascinating read that offers incredible snippets about how life is never wasted, and provides a fresh, less gloomy outlook on our ultimate fate.
Death on Earthfizzes with with life. Howard, whether dressed in waterproof trousers to protect him from rotting pig flesh, or clutching a dead magpie to his chest while looking for a suitable place to watch it decay, makes for the most extraordinary psychopomp. I cried with laughter as he tackled this most persistent of taboos, and yet at the same time was strangely moved by the intensity of his care. It has been oddly reassuring to walk alongside Jules on his exploration of the last great frontier.
Jules Howard celebrates wonderful, vibrant life in the face of death. Drawing on what we can learn from the living, from the cells in your body to geriatric clams and naked mole rats, he allows us to approach and even appreciate why lives, like all good stories, have endings.
Hidden in a breezy overview of death in the animal kingdom rages a life-and-death war that puts into perspective our human struggles with mortality.Death on Earthgives us insight into who we are and why we are special - and not so special - when compared to our animal brethren.