Snakes in American Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Snakes in American Culture write by Jesse C. Donahue. This book was released on 2019-01-28. Snakes in American Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The literature on snakes is manifold but overwhelmingly centered on the natural sciences. Little has been published about them in the fields of popular culture or the history of medicine. Focusing primarily on American culture and history from the 1800s, this study draws on a wide range of sources--including newspaper archives, medical journals, and archives from the Smithsonian Institute--to examine the complex relationship between snakes and humans.
Snakes in American Culture
Snakes in American Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Snakes in American Culture write by Jesse C. Donahue. This book was released on 2019-01-25. Snakes in American Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The literature on snakes is manifold but overwhelmingly centered on the natural sciences. Little has been published about them in the fields of popular culture or the history of medicine. Focusing primarily on American culture and history from the 1800s, this study draws on a wide range of sources--including newspaper archives, medical journals, and archives from the Smithsonian Institute--to examine the complex relationship between snakes and humans.
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Don't Sleep, There are Snakes write by Daniel Everett. This book was released on 2010-07-09. Don't Sleep, There are Snakes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahãs, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world. Everett describes how he began to realise that his discoveries about the Pirahã language opened up a new way of understanding how language works in our minds and in our lives, and that this way was utterly at odds with Noam Chomsky's universally accepted linguistic theories. The perils of passionate academic opposition were then swiftly conjoined to those of the Amazon in a debate whose outcome has yet to be won. Everett's views are most recently discussed in Tom Wolfe's bestselling The Kingdom of Speech. Adventure, personal enlightenment and the makings of a scientific revolution proceed together in this vivid, funny and moving book.
North American Watersnakes
North American Watersnakes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook North American Watersnakes write by J. Whitfield Gibbons. This book was released on 2004. North American Watersnakes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many people fear snakes, and watersnakes in particular have one of the worst reputations of any snake found in North America. Some species are commonly mistaken for venomous cottonmouths, and a few may eat popular game fishes. Unfortunately, few people realize the important roles many watersnakes play in natural ecosystems and, consequently, they are still persecuted in many regions today. Seeking to overcome common misperceptions, J. Whitfield Gibbons and Michael E. Dorcas have compiled North American Watersnakes, the first comprehensive study of all fourteen species of watersnakes found in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Cuba. Individual species accounts explore all aspects of the natural history of watersnakes in North America, including their behavior, physiology, life history, ecology, and conservation. Almost 100 color photographs accompany the text, illustrating all 14 species and nearly all subspecies. Supplementing the species accounts are detailed color maps depicting each species distribution and stunning black-and-white drawings by Peri Mason. Easy-to-use keys help readers to identify specimens at hand.
Landscape with Reptile
Landscape with Reptile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscape with Reptile write by Thomas Palmer. This book was released on 2018. Landscape with Reptile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this entertaining book, first published in 1992, Thomas Palmer introduces us to a community of rattlesnakes nestled in the heart of the urban Northeast. Recognizing the unexpected proximity of rattlers in our urban environs, he examines the ecology, evolution, folklore, New England history, and American culture that surround this native species.
