Author: Mary Ellen Hannibal File Type: epub Citizen science might just be our last, best chance to fight extinction. But is there really hope for threatened species? Mary Ellen Hannibal needed to find out. Hannibal, an award-winning writer and emerging emissary from scientists to the public, sets out to become a citizen scientist herself. In search of vanishing species, she wades into tide pools, follows hawks, and scours mountains. The data she collects will help environmental researchbut her most precious discovery might be her fellow citizen scientists a heroic cast of volunteers devoting long hours to helping scientists measureand even slowtodays unprecedented mass extinction. A consummate reporter, Hannibal digs into the origins of the tech-savvy citizen science movementtracing it back through centuries of amateur observation by writers and naturalists. Prompted by her novelist fathers sudden death, she also examines her own past and discovers a family legacy of looking closely at the world. Her personal loss only fuels her quest to bear witness to life, and so she ultimately returns her gaze to the wealth of species still left to fight for. Combining research and memoir in impassioned prose, Citizen Scientist is a literary event, a blueprint for action, and the story of how one woman rescues herself from an odyssey of losswith a new kind of science.**ReviewA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2016 A 2016 Nautilus Award winner in Ecology & Environment A 2017 Northern California Book Award finalist Inspired by the likes of marine biologist Ed Ricketts, [Mary Ellen Hannibal] records starfish die-offs, meets the geeks who track deforestation, and plans a web-based supercommunity of citizen scientists to counter what many are calling the sixth great extinction. A cogent call to action.Nature Intelligent and impassioned, Citizen Scientist is essential reading for anyone interested in the natural world.San Francisco Chronicle Author and avid citizen scientist Mary Ellen Hannibal traces an astonishing diversity of volunteer-enabled projects. . . .Citizen Scientistmade me want to jump off the couch and download everything from the Spotter Pro app, intended to keep ships from colliding with whales, to Story Maps, which allows users to create and annotate interactive maps.Science [A] celebration of nonexperts contributions to science.Scientific American Part personal adventure story and natural history, Hannibal proves herself to be an inspiring writer.Foreword Hannibal has a conversational writing style that moves quickly from topic to topic, punctuated with humorous and thoughtful asides. . . .Although centered in California, the book has a global message Humans have much in common with the species were trying to save.Science News Readers of popular science, especially those with a literary bent, will enjoy this heartfelt argument for citizen sciencethat it might be our last, best hope for solving myriad environmental predicaments.Library Journal The idea that science is something for a caste of high priests to attend to is simply wrong Science is all around us, and we each can revel in its pleasures and processes. This is a stirring, empowering narrative.Bill McKibben, author ofEaarth Species are going extinct a thousand times faster than they should. But how do we know which, and where, and why? No expensive machine counts biodiversity. Our knowledge comes from the citizen scientist. Thats you and me, armed with a notebook or a smartphoneand with the priceless attributes of passion and curiosity. This book tells that story brilliantly.Stuart Pimm, Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University Deeply informed and highly readable, this is as much a soul-search as a book about science. Fortunately for us, Mary Ellen Hannibal locates some luminous souls who, by the light of their knowledge and determination, can lead us out of these dark times for life on Earth.Carl Safina, author ofBeyond Words What Animals Think and Feel What an extraordinary book! Mary Ellen Hannibal weaves together natural history, cutting-edge technology, and her own adventures into a story that is certain to inspire.Amy Stewart, author ofThe Drunken Botanist An informative, emotional, and fascinating account of a personal journey to ecological citizen science.Muki Haklay, co-director of Extreme Citizen Science, University College London One of Hannibals themes in this ambitious new book is the double narrative, or the contradiction between what we tell ourselves we are doing every day and what is really going on.She explains that empires have been built on a biotic cleansing of species, the loss of which now threatens the very foundation of our lives.Hannibal poses citizen science, or the contribution of amateurs to research, as a platform not only for change, but also as a new way of seeing without the old blinders.Invoking literary, historic, and scientific touchstones, and telling a personal story as well, she provides what citizen scientists John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts called the toto picture. We cant afford to see the Earth any other way.Paul R. Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies and the president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford UniversityAbout the Author Mary Ellen Hannibal is an award-winning writer and sought-after speaker with a gift for connecting the scientific community to the public. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, and Elle, among many other outlets. She is an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, a Stanford Media Fellow, and a recipient of the National Association of Science Writers Science and Society Award. She lives in San Francisco.

Author: Chris Fowler File Type: pdf Bringing together a wealth of research in social and cultural anthropology, philosophy and related fields, this is the first book to address the contribution that an understanding of personhood can make to our interpretations of the pastApplying an anthropological approach to detailed case studies from European prehistoric archaeology, the book explores the connection between people, animals, objects, their societies and environments and investigates the relationship that jointly produces bodies, persons, communities and artefacts.The Archaeology of Personhood examines the characteristics that define a person as a category of being, highlights how definitions of personhood are culturally variable and explores how that variation is connected to human uses of material culture.ReviewWithout doubt a worthwhile addition to the corpus of archaeological theoretical publications. www.PalArch.nlAbout the AuthorChris Fowler held a Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship during 2000-2002 at the University of Manchester, where he now lectures. He is a specialist in the British Neolithic and archaeological theory, particularly focussing on concepts of the person and approaches to identity in the past Bringing together a wealth of research in social and cultural anthropology, philosophy and related fields, this is the first book to address the contribution that an understanding of personhood can make to our interpretations of the pastApplying an anthropological approach to detailed case studies from European prehistoric archaeology, the book explores the connection between people, animals, objects, their societies and environments and investigates the relationship that jointly produces bodies, persons, communities and artefacts.The Archaeology of Personhood examines the characteristics that define a person as a category of being, highlights how definitions of personhood are culturally variable and explores how that variation is connected to human uses of material culture.

Author: Ioannis Liritzis File Type: pdf This edited volume offers archaeologists and archaeometrists the latest technical information, the fundamentals of provenance studies, instrumentation used in these investigations, and strategies for the dating and interpretation of archaeological materials in glass studies. The contributors discuss recent advances in obsidian hydration dating, secondary ion mass spectrometry, and infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy, focusing on the application of these technologies to a variety of glass forms and incorporating studies that look at the social and economic strategies of past cultures.With examples from Greece, the Middle East, Italy, Peru, Bolivia, Russia, Africa, and the Pacific region, provenance studies look at regional patterns of glass acquisition, production, and exchange, providing examples that use one or more instrumental methods to characterize materials from ancient societies.Extensive figures and tables included.**

Author: Emmanuel Falque File Type: pdf Emmanuel Falques The Wedding Feast of the Lamb represents a turning point in his thought. Here, Falque links philosophy and theology in an original fashion that allows us to see the full effect of theologys backlash against philosophy. By attending closely to the incarnation and the eucharist, Falque develops a new concept of the body and of love By avoiding the common mistake of angelism--consciousness without body--Falque considers the depths to which our humanity reflects animality, or body without consciousness. He shows the continued relevance of the question How can this man give us his flesh to eat? (John 652), especially to philosophy. We need to question the meaning of this is my body in a way that responds to the needs of our time (Vatican II). Because of the ways that Hoc est corpus meum has shaped our culture and our modernity, this is a problem both for religious belief and for culture.