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Jean-François Berger
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The Copepodologist's Cabinet
Copepod crustaceans are the most numerous multicellular animals on earth. They occur in every free-living and parasitic aquatic niche. Copepods have been known since the time of Aristotle, yet there has never been a history of the study of copepods. This volume, the first in a planned three-volume series, reviews the discoveries of copepods to 1832, the year that the two distinct branches, the free-living copepods (long-known as insects) and the parasitic copepods (thought to be molluscs or worms) were finally acknowledged as members of the same Class Crustacea. The narrative includes the biographies of 90 early copepodologists and recounts their most important contributions to science. Port...
Pig Earth
With this haunting first volume in his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women; of calves born and pigs slaughtered; of summer haymaking and long dark winters of rest; of the message of forgiveness from a dead father to his prodigal son; and of the marvelous Lucie Cabrol, exiled to a hut high in the mountains, an inexorable part of the lives of men who have known her. Above all, this masterpiece of sensuous description and profound moral resonance is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.
Côte à côte ou face à face
De 1949 à 2003, 72 photographies retracent la vie de ces voisins, Israéliens et Palestiniens, qui vivent si mal ensemble.
Des climats et des hommes
Climatologues, glaciologues, archéologues et historiens confrontent leurs travaux pour ébaucher une histoire du climat sur plusieurs millions d'années et appréhender les effets des variations climatiques sur les sociétés humaines. Les changements climatiques ont-ils favorisé le peuplement de la planète ? À quelle époque le Sahara s'est-il désertifié ? Comment les civilisations de l'Antiquité se sont-elles adaptées aux crises climatiques ? Pourquoi l'agriculture a-t-elle été possible au Groenland pendant le haut Moyen Âge ? Que nous apprennent les dates des vendanges, la récession des glaciers ou la variation des cernes de croissance des arbres à travers les siècles ? Comm...
Opera in the Age of Rousseau
A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.
Bursting the Limits of Time
In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this relatively brief period, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freu...
