Author: Jonathan Balcombe
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0230552277
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous, grim struggle for survival and the avoidance of pain. Instead it suggests that creatures from birds to baboons feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes, leading animal behavior researcher Jonathan Balcombe proposes that the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ethical ramifications for both science and society.
Pleasurable Kingdom
Author: Jonathan Balcombe
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0230552277
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous, grim struggle for survival and the avoidance of pain. Instead it suggests that creatures from birds to baboons feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes, leading animal behavior researcher Jonathan Balcombe proposes that the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ethical ramifications for both science and society.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0230552277
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous, grim struggle for survival and the avoidance of pain. Instead it suggests that creatures from birds to baboons feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes, leading animal behavior researcher Jonathan Balcombe proposes that the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ethical ramifications for both science and society.
Parade of the Animal Kingdom
Author: Robert William Hegner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
This book describes briefly the numerous forms of life in the animal kingdom, and is arranged by representative species type.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
This book describes briefly the numerous forms of life in the animal kingdom, and is arranged by representative species type.
The Mineral Kingdom
Author: Reinhard Brauns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineralogy
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineralogy
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Nature's Second Kingdom
Author: François Delaporte
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780262540407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Nature's Second Kingdom charts the concepts and practices of eighteenth-century discourses on 'vegetality,' the 'whatever it is' which is peculiar to plants.
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780262540407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Nature's Second Kingdom charts the concepts and practices of eighteenth-century discourses on 'vegetality,' the 'whatever it is' which is peculiar to plants.
Five Kingdoms
Author: Lynn Margulis
Publisher: Henry Holt
ISBN: 9780716730279
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
An all-inclusive catalogue of the world's living diversity, Five Kingdoms defines and describes the major divisions, or phyla, of nature's five great kingdoms - bacteria, protoctists, animals, fungi, and plants - using a modern classification scheme that is consistent with both the fossil record and molecular data. Generously illustrated and remarkably easy to follow, it not only allows readers to sample the full range of life forms inhabiting our planet but to familiarize themselves with the taxonomic theories by which all organisms' origins and distinctive characteristics are traced and classified.
Publisher: Henry Holt
ISBN: 9780716730279
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
An all-inclusive catalogue of the world's living diversity, Five Kingdoms defines and describes the major divisions, or phyla, of nature's five great kingdoms - bacteria, protoctists, animals, fungi, and plants - using a modern classification scheme that is consistent with both the fossil record and molecular data. Generously illustrated and remarkably easy to follow, it not only allows readers to sample the full range of life forms inhabiting our planet but to familiarize themselves with the taxonomic theories by which all organisms' origins and distinctive characteristics are traced and classified.
The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom
Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cleistogamy
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cleistogamy
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The 5 Kingdoms of Nature
Author: Gunter Pauli
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781644490723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781644490723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Nature of the Beasts
Author: Ian Jared Miller
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520377524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan’s emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution—at once museum, laboratory, and prison—of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan’s first modern zoo, Tokyo’s Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan’s rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. As the first zoological garden in the world not built under the sway of a Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not only as a staple attraction in the nation’s capital—an institutional marker of national accomplishment—but also as a site for the propagation of a new “natural” order that was scientifically verifiable and evolutionarily foreordained. As the Japanese empire grew, Ueno became one of the primary sites of imperialist spectacle, a microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a single day. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of Imperial Japan’s unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today it remains one of Japan’s most frequently visited places. But instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks us to question our exploitation of the planet’s resources.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520377524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan’s emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution—at once museum, laboratory, and prison—of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan’s first modern zoo, Tokyo’s Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan’s rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. As the first zoological garden in the world not built under the sway of a Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not only as a staple attraction in the nation’s capital—an institutional marker of national accomplishment—but also as a site for the propagation of a new “natural” order that was scientifically verifiable and evolutionarily foreordained. As the Japanese empire grew, Ueno became one of the primary sites of imperialist spectacle, a microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a single day. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of Imperial Japan’s unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today it remains one of Japan’s most frequently visited places. But instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks us to question our exploitation of the planet’s resources.
The Treasury of Botany
Rediscovering Faith
Author: Myles Munroe
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 0768496705
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
What is true faith? In The Power of Kingdom Faith, Dr. Myles Munroe strips away the common errors and misconceptions surrounding faith to reveal the nature, character, and power of true faith, or, Kingdom faith. Kingdom faith trusts not in the promises of God but in the God who promises; seeks not the blessings of God, but the God who blesses. Kingdom faith will always be tested, but because it places its trust in the King of the universe, will always prevail under testing. Kingdom faith, therefore is a triumphant faith that will overcome the world.
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 0768496705
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
What is true faith? In The Power of Kingdom Faith, Dr. Myles Munroe strips away the common errors and misconceptions surrounding faith to reveal the nature, character, and power of true faith, or, Kingdom faith. Kingdom faith trusts not in the promises of God but in the God who promises; seeks not the blessings of God, but the God who blesses. Kingdom faith will always be tested, but because it places its trust in the King of the universe, will always prevail under testing. Kingdom faith, therefore is a triumphant faith that will overcome the world.