Extinction and Memorial Culture: Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene 9781000900040, 9781032326375, 9781032326382, 9781003315957, 1000900045

Extinction and Memorial Culture 9781032326375, 9781032326382, 9781003315957, 1032326379

This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures. It brings togeth

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Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene 9781771667760

Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that

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The Anthropology of Extinction: Essays on Culture and Species Death 9780253005458, 9780253357137, 9780253223647, 2011024026, 0253005450

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Averting Extinction: Reconstructing Endangered Species Recovery 9780300239102

The black-footed ferret, once thought extinct, was rediscovered in Wyoming in 1981. In this book, Susan Clark tells the

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Writing Our Extinction: Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical Science 1503633004, 9781503633001

Mid-twentieth-century developments in science and technology produced new understandings and images of the planet that c

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Genetics and the Extinction of Species: DNA and the Conservation of Biodiversity 9780691224039, 0691009708, 0691009716

Darwin's Origin of Species and Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species have been the cornerstones of m

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Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene 9780226354613

We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded—by scientists, by the media, by popular culture—of the looming thr

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Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation 9780674972957

Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservati

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Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction 9780231537445

Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify th

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Standing between Life and Extinction: Ethics and Ecology of Conserving Aquatic Species in North American Deserts 9780226694504

North American deserts—lands of little water—have long been home to a surprising diversity of aquatic life, from fish to

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