Kategoria BISAC: Nature >> Ecosystems & Habitats - Forests & Rainforests

Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes from the vantage point of the world's largest tropical rainforest.

Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, Nicholas Kawa examines how pre-Columbian Amerindians and contemporary rural Amazonians have shaped their environment, describing in vivid detail their use and management of the region's soils,...

Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes from the vantage point of the world's largest tropical rainforest.

Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, Nicholas Kawa examines how pre-Columbian Amerindians and contemporary rural Amazonians have shaped their environment, describing in vivid detail their use and management of the region's soils,...

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Rainforest Frogs profiles ten exotic and endangered amphibian species with haiku poetry by Caley Vickerman, and is beautifully illustrated by Mark Lerer. The book is designed and edited by Susan Newman with a foreword by herpetologist and zoologist, Franco Andreone.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Franco Andreone

Blue Poison Dart frog

Amazon Milk frog

Yellow-Banded Poison Dart frog

Northern Glass frog

Tiger's Tree frog

Golden Mantella

Red-Eyed Tree frog

Flat-Head Bromeliad Tree frog