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Nature underfoot : living with beetles, crabgrass, fruit flies, and other tiny life around us /

Fruit flies, silverfish, dandelions, and crabgrass are the bane of many people and the target of numerous chemical and physical eradication efforts. In this compelling reassessment of the relationship between humans and the natural world, John Hainze, an entomologist and former pesticide developer,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hainze, John (Autor)
Otros Autores: Mele, Angela (Ilustrador)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One. Anthropocene Winners
  • Two. Nature at Work
  • Three. Inadvertent Domestication: The Pets We Didn't Want
  • Four. Anthropocene Invasions
  • Five. The Unlucky: Anthropocene Extinctions
  • Six. Human Exceptionalism?
  • Seven. Coexistence
  • Eight. Valuing Our Anthropocene Partners
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index