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Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss. An endling is the last known individual of a species; when that individual dies, the species becomes extinct. These "last individuals" are poignant characters in the stories that humans tell themselves about today's Anthropocene. In this evocative work, Lydia Pyne explores how discussion about endlings-how we tell their histories-draws on deep traditions of storytelling across a variety of narrative types that go well beyond the science of these species' biology or their evolutionary history. Endlings provides a useful and thoughtful discussion of species concepts: how species start and how (and why) they end, what it means to be a "charismatic" species, the effects of rewilding, and what makes species extinction different in this era. From Benjamin the thylacine to Celia the ibex to Lonesome George the Galápagos tortoise, endlings, Pyne shows, have the power to shape how we think about grief, mourning, and loss amid the world's sixth mass extinction.

Communication in biology. --- Extinction (Biology) --- Species. --- Speciation (Biology) --- Biology --- Genetics --- Hybridization --- Organisms --- Animals --- Extirpation (Biology) --- Extinct animals --- Extinction --- Extirpation --- Nature & the natural world: general interest

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"This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems. In an attempt to bridge disciplinary divides, the essays in this volume address the challenge in studying the intersection of biophysical and human sociocultural systems in the age of the Anthropocene. Featuring contributions from authors in a rich diversity of disciplines--from toxicology to archaeology to philosophy--this book is an excellent resource for students and scholars studying both freshwater systems and the Anthropocene"--Provided by publisher.

Rivers --- Human ecology --- Environmental aspects. --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Brooks --- Creeks --- Runs (Rivers) --- Streams --- Bodies of water --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- agency. --- anthropocene. --- blue nile basin. --- case study. --- chicago river. --- city state. --- drainage. --- ecological. --- ecology. --- ecosystem. --- engineering. --- ethics. --- ethnography. --- flooding. --- great flood. --- immigration. --- landscape. --- natural history. --- natural world. --- nile river. --- public ecology. --- rivers. --- riverscape. --- scholars. --- seine river. --- society. --- water system. --- waterways. --- western europe. --- world history. --- Human ecology.

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Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically. What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of the most pressing problems faced by the nuclear power industry, and current U.S. government policy is to bury "radwastes" in specially designed deep repositories. K. S. Shrader-Frechette argues that this policy is profoundly misguided on both scientific and ethical grounds. Scientifically-because we cannot trust the precision of 10,000-year predictions that promise containment of the waste. Ethically-because geological disposal ignores the rights of present and future generations to equal treatment, due process, and free informed consent. Shrader-Frechette focuses her argument on the world's first proposed high-level radioactive waste facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Analyzing a mass of technical literature, she demonstrates the weaknesses in the professional risk-assessors' arguments that claim the site is sufficiently safe for such a plan. We should postpone the question of geological disposal for at least a century and use monitored, retrievable, above-ground storage of the waste until then. Her message regarding radwaste is clear: what you can't see can hurt you.

Radioactive waste disposal in the ground-- Environmental aspects. --- Radioactive waste disposal in the ground --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Environmental aspects --- Risk assessment --- Environmental aspects. --- Risk assessment. --- Burial of radioactive wastes --- Ground radioactive waste disposal --- Underground radioactive waste disposal --- Hazardous waste sites --- Waste disposal in the ground --- Radioactive waste repositories --- Déchets radioactifs --- Elimination dans le sol --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Evaluation du risque --- Radioactive waste disposal --- american history. --- consent. --- due process. --- ethics. --- geology. --- government. --- half life. --- health and safety. --- legal issues. --- liability. --- morals. --- natural history. --- natural world. --- nevada. --- nuclear power. --- nuclear waste. --- political. --- politics. --- pollution. --- public health. --- radioactive waste. --- radwaste. --- respiratory illness. --- science. --- scientific. --- united states history. --- us government. --- us history. --- yucca mountain.

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In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory.Drawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new.

7.074 "15/16" --- 7:33 --- 069 <09> --- 094:5 --- 094:5 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- 069 <09> Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea--Geschiedenis van ... --- Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea--Geschiedenis van ... --- 7:33 Kunst. Ruimtelijke ordening. Architectuur. Sport en spel-:-Economie. Economische wetenschappen. Staatshuishoudkunde --(algemeen) --- Kunst. Ruimtelijke ordening. Architectuur. Sport en spel-:-Economie. Economische wetenschappen. Staatshuishoudkunde --(algemeen) --- 7.074 "15/16" Kunstverzameling. Activiteiten van verzamelaars--?"15/16" --- Kunstverzameling. Activiteiten van verzamelaars--?"15/16" --- History of civilization --- anno 1500-1799 --- Italy --- Renaissance --- cabinets of curiosities [rooms] --- science --- Nature --- Art --- anno 1500-1599 --- Natural history museums -- Europe -- History. --- Natural history museums -- Italy -- History. --- Science museums -- Europe -- History. --- Science museums -- Italy -- History. --- Science museums --- Natural history museums --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- Natural history --- Science --- Science centers --- Museums --- History --- History. --- Sciences --- Sciences naturelles --- Musées --- Histoire --- Musées --- science [modern discipline] --- Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea--Geschiedenis van .. --- Sciences - Musées - Italie - Histoire --- Sciences - Musées - Europe - Histoire --- Sciences naturelles - Musées - Italie - Histoire --- Sciences naturelles - Musées - Europe - Histoire --- Science museums - Italy - History --- Science museums - Europe - History --- Natural history museums - Italy - History --- Natural history museums - Europe - History --- Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea--Geschiedenis van --- 1500s. --- academic. --- ancient world. --- archival. --- archives. --- art museum. --- baroque. --- biology. --- european history. --- experiment. --- humanist. --- life science. --- modern world. --- museum. --- natural history museum. --- natural history. --- natural world. --- reconstruction. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- renaissance. --- scholarly. --- science. --- scientific revolution. --- university. --- collecting, Italy --- naturaliën --- collecting curiosities