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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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Investigations into the cultural significance of that most familiar and charismatic group of animals, bears.

Bears --- Bears in art. --- Bears (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Ursidae --- Carnivora --- History. --- Folklore. --- Animal Imagery. --- Animal Symbolism. --- Bears. --- Conservation. --- Cultural Heritage. --- Cultural Significance. --- Environmental Awareness. --- Environmental Themes. --- Ethnography. --- Human-Animal Relationship. --- Natural World. --- Nature. --- Wildlife Conservation. --- Wildlife.

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Treeshrews suffer from chronic mistaken identity: they are not shrews, and most are not found in trees. These squirrel-sized, brownish mammals with large, dark, lashless eyes were at one time thought to be primates. Even though most scientists now believe them to belong in their own mammalian order, Scandentia, they still are thought to resemble some of the earliest mammals, which lived alongside the dinosaurs. This book describes the results of the first comparative study of the ecology of treeshrews in the wild. Noted tropical mammalogist Louise H. Emmons conducted this pathbreaking study in the rainforests of Borneo as she tracked and observed six species of treeshrews. Emmons meticulously describes their habitat, diet, nesting habits, home range, activity patterns, social behavior, and many other facets of their lives. She also discusses a particularly interesting aspect of treeshrews: their enigmatic parental care system, which is unique among mammals.

Tupaiidae. --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Vertebrates --- Tupaiidae --- Squirrel shrews --- Tree shrews --- Treeshrews --- Scandentia --- Borneo. --- ancient animals. --- ancient mammals. --- animal behavior. --- animal communication. --- animal diet. --- animal habitat. --- animal life. --- animal lovers. --- animal species. --- animal studies. --- animals. --- diet. --- geography. --- habitat. --- mammalogist. --- mammals. --- natural history. --- natural world. --- nesting. --- rainforest. --- regional. --- social behavior. --- treeshrews. --- world history.

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On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric of Motives, among other works, was an innovative and original thinker who worked at the intersection of sociology, psychology, literary theory, and semiotics. This book, a selection of fourteen representative pieces of his productive later years, addresses many important themes Burke tackled throughout his career such as logology (his attempt to find a universal language theory and methodology), technology, and ecology. The essays also elaborate Burke's notions about creativity and its relation to stress, language and its literary uses, the relation of mind and body, and more. Provocative, idiosyncratic, and erudite, On Human Nature makes a significant statement about cultural linguistics and is an important rounding-out of the Burkean corpus.

Criticism --- Philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Humanities --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Criticism. --- Philosophy. --- archetype. --- conservation. --- correspondence. --- creativity. --- cultural critic. --- cultural linguistics. --- ecology. --- environment. --- essays. --- great thinkers. --- human nature. --- language. --- linguistics. --- literary theory. --- logology. --- marginalia. --- mind and body. --- natural world. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- psychology. --- rhetoric. --- semiotics. --- social commentary. --- sociology. --- stress. --- technology. --- universal language theory.

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Robert Thayer brings the concepts and promises of the growing bioregional movement to a wide audience in a book that passionately urges us to discover "where we are" as an antidote to our rootless, stressful modern lives. Life Place is a provocative meditation on bioregionalism and what it means to live, work, eat, and play in relation to naturally, rather than politically, defined areas. In it, Thayer gives a richly textured portrait of his own home, the Putah-Cache watershed in California's Sacramento Valley, demonstrating how bioregionalism can be practiced in everyday life. Written in a lively anecdotal style and expressing a profound love of place, this book is a guide to the personal rewards and the social benefits of re-inhabiting the natural world on a local scale. In LifePlace, Thayer shares what he has learned over the course of thirty years about the Sacramento Valley's geography, minerals, flora, and fauna; its relation to fire, agriculture, and water; and its indigenous peoples, farmers, and artists. He shows how the spirit of bioregionalism springs from learning the history of a place, from participating in its local economy, from living in housing designed in the context of the region. He asks: How can we instill a love of place and knowledge of the local into our education system? How can the economy become more responsive to the ecology of region? This valuable book is also a window onto current writing on bioregionalism, introducing the ideas of its most notable proponents in accessible and highly engaging prose. At the same time that it gives an entirely new appreciation of California's Central Valley, LifePlace shows how we can move toward a new way of being, thinking, and acting in the world that can lead to a sustainable, harmonious, and more satisfying future.

Bioregionalism. --- Environmentalism --- Human ecology --- bioregional movement. --- bioregionalism. --- california. --- case study. --- environmental studies. --- fauna and flora. --- indigenous peoples. --- local agriculture. --- local economies. --- local geography. --- local living. --- local residents. --- modern lives. --- natural living. --- natural world. --- nonfiction. --- place history. --- putah cache watershed. --- regional ecology. --- regional history. --- sacramento valley. --- social and cultural. --- sustainable business. --- sustainable living. --- textbooks. --- work and play. --- working locally.