The Wake of Crows - 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 The Wake of Crows write by Thom van Dooren. This book was released on 2019-10-01. The Wake of Crows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated cities to suburbs and farms. Across these diverse landscapes, many species of crow are doing well: their intelligent and adaptive ways of life have allowed them to thrive amid human-driven transformations. Indeed, crows are frequently disliked for their success, seen as pests, threats, and scavengers on the detritus of human life. But among the vast variety of crows, there are also critically endangered species that are barely hanging on to existence, some of them the subjects of passionate conservation efforts. The Wake of Crows is an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows. Focusing on five key sites, Thom van Dooren asks how we might live well with crows in a changing world. He explores contemporary possibilities for shared life emerging in the context of ongoing processes of globalization, colonization, urbanization, and climate change. Moving among these diverse contexts, this book tells stories of extermination and extinction alongside fragile efforts to better understand and make room for other species. Grounded in the careful work of paying attention to particular crows and their people, The Wake of Crows is an effort to imagine and put into practice a multispecies ethics. In so doing, van Dooren explores some of the possibilities that still exist for living and dying well on this damaged planet.
A Wake of Crows
A Wake of Crows - 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 A Wake of Crows write by Kate Evans. This book was released on 2022-04-07. A Wake of Crows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Donna Morris has chosen to do her probationary year as detective constable in the small seaside town of Scarborough. But on her first day, a body is found in the woods: the corpse of Henrik Grünttor presents itself as that of a homeless man, dead from his own drug use. However, until recently, Grünttor had been working at the local GCHQ centre on the Russian section and the postmortem reveals the cause of his death to be uncertain. Now in her early fifties, Donna has her own reasons for wanting to be in Scarborough, ones she would prefer to keep from her colleagues. For she's not been drawn there by the landscape or the light, or even the beach, but to be closer to her wayward daughter - a daughter serving time in the nearby prison for GBH. Yet beyond even this, Donna hides another secret: she grew up in East Berlin, escaping across the wall in the early 1980s. Due to the circumstances of her past Donna is drawn to the dead man whose background is not dissimilar to hers... and her persistence reveals there are several people who wanted Grünttor dead -- and gathered around him in his final days like a wake of crows...
A World in a Shell
A World in a Shell - 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 A World in a Shell write by Thom van Dooren. This book was released on 2023-10-17. A World in a Shell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the trails of Hawai‘i’s snails to explore the simultaneously biological and cultural significance of extinction. In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet snails are disappearing faster than any other species. In A World in a Shell, Thom van Dooren offers a collection of snail stories from Hawai‘i—once home to more than 750 species of land snails, almost two-thirds of which are now gone. Following snail trails through forests, laboratories, museums, and even a military training facility, and meeting with scientists and Native Hawaiians, van Dooren explores ongoing processes of ecological and cultural loss as they are woven through with possibilities for hope, care, mourning, and resilience. Van Dooren recounts the fascinating history of snail decline in the Hawaiian Islands: from deforestation for agriculture, timber, and more, through the nineteenth century shell collecting mania of missionary settlers, and on to the contemporary impacts of introduced predators. Along the way he asks how both snail loss and conservation efforts have been tangled up with larger processes of colonization, militarization, and globalization. These snail stories provide a potent window into ongoing global process of environmental and cultural change, including the largely unnoticed disappearance of countless snails, insects, and other less charismatic species. Ultimately, van Dooren seeks to cultivate a sense of wonder and appreciation for our damaged planet, revealing the world of possibilities and relationships that lies coiled within a snail’s shell.
Who Crows?
Who Crows? - 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 Who Crows? write by Guido Genechten. This book was released on 2020-03-03. Who Crows? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A merry music book for little animal lovers ages 2 and up.
A Gathering of Crows
A Gathering of Crows - 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 A Gathering of Crows write by Brian Keene. This book was released on 2011-03. A Gathering of Crows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Five mysterious figures are coming to Brinkley Springs, a quiet little town that some say is dying. They have existed for centuries, only coming out to destroy, kill, and feed. They bring terror and carnage and leave blood and death. Levi Stotzfus, an ex-amish magus, is the only one who can stop them.
