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Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology (Posthumanities)

Because the early 19th century, while entomologists first popularized the original organic and behavioral features of bugs, technological innovators and theorists have proposed bugs as templates for quite a lot of applied sciences. In Insect Media, Jussi Parikka analyzes how insect sorts of social organization-swarms, hives, webs, and disbursed intelligence-have been used to constitution sleek media applied sciences and the community society, supplying an intensive new point of view at the interconnection of biology and know-how.

Opportunities Beyond Carbon

"Ever considering that a former Astronomer Royal introduced that area trip is most unlikely we've got came across how you can delay the longer term. yet there are far better activities with carbon than surroundings it alight. This great ebook explores one of the most interesting alternatives-for a destiny replete with power, sustainability and selection.

Letters from Alabama: Chiefly Relating to Natural History (Library Alabama Classics)

This new and greater version of Letters from Alabama deals a precious window into pioneer Alabama and the panorama and life-forms encountered by way of early settlers of the country. Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), a British naturalist, left domestic at age seventeen and made his approach to Alabama in 1838. He used to be hired by means of pass judgement on Reuben Saffold and different planters close to friendly Hill in Dallas County as a instructor for roughly a dozen in their kids, yet his vital curiosity used to be typical historical past.

River Mersey: From Source to Sea

Water is lifestyles and Heaven s present. the following Rivers Goyt and Tame develop into Mersey. Flowing transparent From Stockport to the ocean The Mersey springs to existence within the centre of Stockport, fed by way of the Tame and Goyt rivers, which tumble down from the guts of the height District and the wild moors of the Pennines. Its 70-mile trip to the ocean takes it via business and advertisement landscapes, leafy residential suburbs, historical water meadows, secure wetlands and the large expanse of its tidal estuary.