Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction [Audiobook] download free by Thom Van Dooren
- Listen audiobook: Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction
- Author: Thom Van Dooren
- Release date: 2016/12/13
- Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780231166195
- Rating: 8.88 of 10
- Votes: 411
- Review by: Haylee Ashby
- Review rating: 7.1 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/15
- Duration: 2H37M17S in 256 kbps (41.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-01
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, WMA, Apple Lossless, MPEG4 (compression LZ, BZ, TAR.BZ2, ZIP, RAR, CHM, LHA)
- Total pages original book: 208
- Includes a PDF summary of 19 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M58S (3.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from the world-the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking care of their young and grieving their dead.He bolsters his studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a rapidly changing world.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Endangered Species & Extinction Of Species, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Philosophy, Birds (ornithology), Philosophy Of Science, Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology, Conservation Of The Environment, Wildlife: Birds & Birdwatching
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 24.06 USD
- Dimensions: 152x229x12.7mm
- Weight: 294.84g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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