On Extinction

How We Became Estranged From Nature

by Melanie Challenger
language: english
Publisher: Granta Books, October of 2011 ‧
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How do we think about the things we have lost? Why have we become so estranged from Nature? What are our emotional responses to extinction, and how can those responses help to shape our future relationship with the natural world?

On Extinction

How We Became Estranged From Nature

by Melanie Challenger

Property Description
ISBN: 9781847081872
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date: October of 2011
Language: English
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Format: Book
Collection: Step-By-Step Collection
Categories: Books in English > Science > Ecology
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9781847081872

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Melanie Challenger

Melanie Challenger estudou língua e literatura inglesa na Universidade de Oxford e trabalha como investigadora da história da humanidade e do mundo natural, e da filosofia ambiental. Autora de On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature, foi premiada com o Darwin Now Award do British Council pela investigação dos inuítes canadianos e com uma bolsa do Arts Council e da British Antarctic Survey pelo seu estudo da história da caça à baleia. É a anfitriã do podcast «Enter the Psychosphere», onde mergulha no mundo das inteligências diversificadas existentes no planeta em conversas com convidados como Peter Godfrey-Smith e Daniel Dennett.

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