The Dead Heart of Australia
Author | : John Walter Gregory |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Walter Gregory |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Caroline Arnold |
Publisher | : StarWalk Kids Media |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2014-05-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1623347858 |
A look at the unique fossils of prehistoric Australian creatures. The story follows the journey of a museum exhibit, on loan from Australia, as it is is shipped, assembled, and displayed in a Los Angeles museum.
Author | : Alison Bashford |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Cosmology |
ISBN | : 0226828603 |
"This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese, South and Southeast Asian, Pacific, Islamic, and Indigenous conceptions of earth's origin and makeup. Together the chapters ask: How have different ideas about the sacred, animate, and earthly changed modern environmental science? How have different world traditions understood human and geological origins? How does the inclusion of multiple cosmologies change the meaning of the Anthropocene and the ongoing global climate crisis? By thinking carefully through and with other cosmologies, New Earth Histories sets a new agenda for history. The chapters consider debates about the age and structure of the earth, how humans and earth systems interact, and empire is conceived in multiple traditions. The methods the authors deploy are diverse-from cultural history, visual and material studies, and ethnography, to name a few-and the effect is to highlight how earth knowledge emerged from historically specific situations. New Earth Histories provides both a framework for studying science at a global scale and fascinating examples to educate as well as inspire future work. Essential reading for students and scholars of earth science history, environmental humanities, history of science and religion, and science and empire"--
Author | : Anthony Nanson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1350114936 |
Linking the ongoing ecological crisis with contemporary conditions of alienation and disenchantment in modern society, this book investigates the capacity of oral storytelling to reconnect people to the natural world and enchant and renew their experience of nature, place and their own existence in the world. Anthony Nanson offers an in-depth examination of how a diverse ecosystem of oral stories and the dynamics of storytelling as an activity can catalyse different kinds of conversation and motivation, helping us resist the discourse of powerful vested interests. Detailed analysis of traditional, true-life and fictional stories shows how spoken narrative language can imbue landscapes, creatures and experiences with enchantment and mediate between the inner world of consciousness and outer world of ecology and community. A pioneering ecolinguistic and ecocritical study of oral storytelling in the modern world, Storytelling and Ecology offers insight into the ways that sharing stories in each other's embodied presence can open up spaces for transformation in our relationships with the ecological world around us.
Author | : Steve Webb |
Publisher | : Newnes |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2013-02-27 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0124078400 |
Extinctions have always occurred and always will, so what is so surprising about the megafauna extinctions? They were caused by humans and were the first of many extinctions that eventually led to the extinction of the Moa, Steller's Sea Cow, the Dodo, Great Auk and countless other species great and small, all attributed to human agency. Therefore, the megafauna were humans' first great impact on the planet. There is now an increasing realization that the 'blitzkrieg' view of these extinctions may have been wrong. A growing body of evidence and long-term field work is beginning to show that at least Australia's megafauna did not succumb to human agency, not because humans probably did not hunt the odd animal but because the an infinitely more logical reason lies in the climatic conditions of the Quaternary Ice Ages and the affect they had on continental geography, environment, climate and, most importantly, the biogeography of the megafauna. This book presents the evidence of this theory, demonstrating the biogeographic approach to Australia's megafauna extinction. - Written clearly to benefit a diverse level of readers, from those with a passing interest to professionals in the field. - Examines future climate change and its effects on the planet by looking at examples buried in the past - Presents new evidence from extensive field research
Author | : Michael Newton |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2016-10-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786491531 |
On every continent and in every nation, animals unrecognized by modern science are reported on a daily basis. People passionately pursue these creatures--the name given to their field of study is cryptozoology. Coined in the 1950s, the term literally means the science of hidden animals. When the International Society of Cryptozoology (ISC) was formed in 1982, the founders declared that the branch of science is also concerned with "the possible existence of known animals in areas where they are not supposed to occur (either now or in the past) as well as the unknown persistence of presumed extinct animals to the present time or to the recent past...what makes an animal of interest to cryptology is that it is unexpected." This reference work presents a "flesh and blood" view of cryptozoology. Here, 2,744 entries are listed, the majority of which each describe one specific creature or type of creature. Other entries cover 742 places where unnamed cryptids are said to appear; profiles of 77 groups and 112 individuals who have contributed to the field; descriptions of objects and events important to the subject; and essays on cryptotourism and hoaxes, for example. Appendices offer a timeline of zoological discoveries, annotated lists of movies and television series with cryptozoological themes, a list of crypto-fiction titles and a list of Internet websites devoted to cryptozoology.
Author | : Robert Hood |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0809572311 |
The first much-anticipated sequel to the award-winning anthology Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales. Stories of impossible dimension, startling invention and big-budget spectacle by an international line-up of authors!
Author | : James Cowan |
Publisher | : Element Books, Limited |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Metaphysical approach to Aboriginal spirituality; totemism; rock art and sand sculpture; mythology; Rainbow Snake; death.