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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nigel rothfels”
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  • Savages and Beasts

    The Birth of the Modern Zoo

    by Nigel Rothfels ...
    Series series Animals, History, Culture
    Now completely revised! A history of the modern zoo.In this revised edition of Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck, the most successful dealer in exotic animals in the nineteenth century. Building from his core business in animals, Hagenbeck eventually became even more famous for his large ethnographic ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Elephant Trails

    A History of Animals and Cultures

    by Nigel Rothfels ...
    Series series Animals, History, Culture
    Why have elephants—and our preconceptions about them—been central to so much of human thought?From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient rock art in Africa and India to burning pyres of confiscated tusks, our thoughts about elephants tell a story of human history. In Elephant Trails, Nigel Rothfels argues that, over millennia, we have made elephants into both monsters and miracles as ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Increasing Legal Rights for Zoo Animals

    Justice on the Ark

    by Jesse Donahue, Susan Margulis, Michael Morris, Mary Murray, Govindasamy Agoramoorthy, Ron Kagan, Donald E. Moore III ...
    We are on the precipice of momentous legal changes for animals that may soon give some of them rights of personhood and citizenship. Companion animals in particular are gaining rights to public representation in government, access to housing, inheritance, and increased protection through the criminal justice system. Nonhuman primates used as research subjects are also gaining limited rights of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Elephant House

    by Dick Blau, Nigel Rothfels ...
    Series series Animalibus
    In Elephant House, photographer Dick Blau and historian Nigel Rothfels offer a thought-provoking study of the Oregon Zoo’s Asian Elephant Building and the daily routines of its residents—human and pachyderm alike. Without an agenda beyond a desire to build a deeper understanding of this enigmatic environment, Elephant House is the result of the authors’ unique creative collaboration and explores ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • The Traveler

    One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris

    by Andrea Wulf ...
    **Step into the life and times of George Forster, the eighteenth-century naturalist who sailed the world and made waves with his revolutionary ideas about humanity and freedom—from the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature."[A] thrilling biography-cum-adventure story." —Hampton Sides, author of The Wide Wide Sea“Enthralling. Superb. The Traveler is hypnotically successful and wonderfully ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Art of Naming

    by Michael Ohl ...
    Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer ...
    Exploring scientific naming as a joyful and creative act—from a lizard named after Jim Morrison to the Ampulex dementor wasps inspired by Harry Potter!Tyrannosaurus rex. Homo sapiens. Heteropoda davidbowie. There are about 1.8 million discovered and named plant and animal species, and millions more still to be discovered. Naming is the necessary next step after discovery; it is through the naming ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cow

    A Bovine Biography

    by Florian Werner ...
    Translated by Doris Ecker ...
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  • Wood

    A History

    by Joachim Radkau ...
    Ötzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could medieval cathedral-builders or today's construction companies. From time immemorial, the skill of the human hand has developed by working wood, so much so that we might say that the handling of wood is a basic element in the history of the human body. The fear of a future wood famine became a panic in the ... Read more

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  • Batik: From the Courts of Java and Sumatra

    by Rudolf G. Smend, Harmen C. Veldhuisen, Brigitte Khan Majlis ...
    With beautiful full-color Batik cloths and extensive historical and cultural commentary, Batik: From the Courts of Java and Sumatra is a fundamental work in the field of Indonesian art and culture.Batik occupies a special position in Indonesia. The extraordinary photographs of cloths and prints in this book demonstrate why batik is the stuff of textile legend. These 71 batik designs, taken from ... Read more

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  • Birdmania

    A Remarkable Passion for Birds

    by Bernd Brunner ...
    Translated by Jane Billinghurst ...
    "An exquisitely beautiful book ...These stories about birds are ultimately reflections on the curious nature of humanity itself"—Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for HawkThere is no denying that many people are crazy for birds. Packed with intriguing facts and exquisite and rare artwork, Birdmania showcases an eclectic and fascinating selection of bird devotees who would do anything for their ... Read more

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  • Alexander von Humboldt

    A Concise Biography

    by Andreas W. Daum ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Alexander von Humboldt (1769―1859). A Prussian nobleman born into the age of European Enlightenment, Humboldt was a contemporary of Napoleon, Simón Bolívar, and Charles Darwin. As a naturalist and scholar ... Read more

    $17.99 USD