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Natural Interests
Challenging the conventional wisdom that French environmentalism can be dated only to the post-1945 period, Caroline Ford argues that a broadly shared environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. Natural Interests unearths the distinctive features of French environmentalism, in which a large and varied cast of social actors played a role. Besides scientific advances and colonial expansion, nostalgia for a vanishing pastoral countryside and anxiety over the pressing dangers of environmental degradation were important factors in the success of this movement. Over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, war, political upheaval, and natural disasters—especially the devastating f...
Dimensions of the Fantastic
Not to be confused with fantasy or the supernatural, the fantastic is in actuality its own beast and perhaps the most deeply frightening of all narrative modes. From Dracula and Nightmare on Elm Street, to Carrie and Them, the fantastic has become an ideal vehicle to denounce deep cultural dysfunctions that affect not only the way we understand reality, but also how we construct it. This work studies the various dimensions of the fantastic mode, examining the influences of iconic authors such as H.P. Lovecraft and Jean Ray, and addressing key narrations such as Guy de Maupasasant's The Horla and Jordan Peele's Get Out. It explains why the fantastic is not about ghosts or monsters, but about the incomprehensible sides of our own reality, and the terrifying unknown.
The Savant and the State
This debate, Fox argues, became a contest for the hearts and minds of the French citizenry.
Lost Land of the Dodo
The Mascarene islands in the southern Indian Ocean - Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues - were once home to an extraordinary range of birds and reptiles. Evolving on these isolated volcanic islands in the absence of mammalian predators or competitors, the land was dominated by giant tortoises, parrots, skinks and geckos, burrowing boas, flightless rails & herons, and of course (in Mauritius) the Dodo. Uninhabited and only discovered in the 1500s, colonisation by European settlers in the 1600s led to dramatic changes in the ecology of the islands; the birds and tortoises were slaughtered indiscriminately while introduced rats, cats, pigs and monkeys destroyed their eggs, the once-extensive for...
Luminous Creatures
Naturalists in antiquity worked hard to dispel fanciful ideas about the meaning of living lights, but remained bewildered by them. Even Charles Darwin was perplexed by the chaotic diversity of luminous organisms, which he found difficult to reconcile with his evolutionary theory. It fell to naturalists and scientists to make sense of the dazzling displays of fireflies and other organisms. In Luminous Creatures Michel Anctil shows how mythical perceptions of bioluminescence gradually gave way to a scientific understanding of its mechanisms, functions, and evolution, and to the recognition of its usefulness for biomedical and other applied fields. Following the rise of the modern scientific me...
Edges of Exposure
In the industrialized nations of the global North, well-funded agencies like the CDC attend to citizens' health, monitoring and treating for toxic poisons like lead. How do the under-resourced nations of the global South meet such challenges? In Edges of Exposure, Noémi Tousignant traces the work of toxicologists in Senegal as they have sought to warn of and remediate the presence of heavy metals and other poisons in their communities. Situating recent toxic scandals within histories of science and regulation in postcolonial Africa, Tousignant shows how decolonization and structural adjustment have impacted toxicity and toxicology research. Ultimately, as Tousignant reveals, scientists' capacity to conduct research—as determined by material working conditions, levels of public investment, and their creative but not always successful efforts to make visible the harm of toxic poisons—affects their ability to keep equipment, labs, projects, and careers going.
Las vidas paralelas de Georges Cuvier y Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Las coincidencias espaciales y temporales en las vidas de Cuvier y Hegel son sorprendentes, aunque han sido ignoradas hasta la fecha. Nacieron como súbditos del mismo estado (Württemberg) con una diferencia de un año. Murieron durante la primera epidemia de cólera que sacudió Europa, con una diferencia de meses. Compartieron amigos y una fobia, la Naturphilosophie, que de hecho podría considerarse como tercer protagonista de esta obra. Ese movimiento idealista, fundamentalmente alemán, con vertientes científicas y filosóficas, fue sometido a duras críticas por ambos personajes.
American Journal of Veterinary Research
Vols. for 1956- include selected papers from the proceedings of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Longtemps l'œuvre de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre a été considérée d’un point de vue strictement esthétique et limitée presque exclusivement à Paul et Virginie, le grand succès du Havrais. Ce volume fait le pari d’explorer tous ses écrits dans leur complexité culturelle, qui doit autant à l’éducation littéraire de Bernardin qu’à l’humanisme pragmatique des ingénieurs des Ponts et Chaussées qui l’ont formé et dont il hérite. De la réflexion sur l’environnement ou le paysage à certains positionnements éthiques liés au concept de biosphère en passant par le rôle matriciel de la littérature dans l’expression de l’expérience humaine, rien de ce qui retien...
