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The World I See 2
(Hardcover)
Bace Flores; Cover design or artwork by Miruna-Oana Craciun
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R539
Discovery Miles 5 390
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Victorian Naturalist; 56
(Hardcover)
A H S (Arthur Henry Shakespe Lucas, F G a (Francis George Allm Barnard, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria
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R898
Discovery Miles 8 980
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Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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Autumn is a time of transformation. Crisp, clear days mark summer's
close and usher in a new season with its rich scents and vivid
palette, leaves flaming red and gold by day, bonfires and fireworks
lighting up the lengthening nights. There is abundance, as humans
and animals make stores for the winter; and there is decay, which
gives rise to the next cycle of life. In prose and poetry from
across the British Isles, Autumn captures both the exhilaration and
the melancholy of this turning point in the year. Featuring
original writing by Horatio Clare, John Lewis-Stempel and Amy
Liptrot, classic extracts from the work of Ted Hughes, Helen
Macdonald and Nan Shepherd, and a wealth of fresh new voices,
Autumn is an evocative celebration of the year's decline - and new
beginnings.
Get submerged in the amazing world of sharks! Your expert host,
award-winning marine biologist Dr. David Shiffman, will show you
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How do we live ethical lives alongside others? A fascinating,
mind-expanding exploration of our moral universe
We have always lived with ethically significant others, whether they
are the pets we keep, the gods we believe in or the machines we are
endowing with life. How should we treat them as our world changes?
In Animals, Robots, Gods, acclaimed anthropologist Webb Keane provides
a new vision of ethics, defined less by our minds, religion or society,
and more by our interactions with those around us. Drawing on
ground-breaking research by fieldworkers around the world, he explores
the underpinnings of our moral universe. Along the way we investigate
the ethical dilemmas of South Asian animal rights activists, Balinese
cockfighters, Japanese robot fanciers -- even macho cowboys. We meet a
hunter in the Yukon who explains his prey generously gives itself up to
him; a cancer sufferer in Thailand who sees his tumour as a
reincarnated ox; a computer that gets you to confess your anxieties as
if you were on the psychiatrist's couch.
With charm, wit and insight, Keane offers us a better understanding of
our doubts and certainties, showing how centuries of conversations
between us and non-humans inform our conceptions of morality, and will
continue to guide us in the age of AI and beyond.
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