David Waltner-Toews

The Origin of Feces

What Excrement Tells Us about Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society

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Produktbeschreibung

An entertaining exploration of excrement, which approaches the subject from evolutionary, ecological and cultural perspectives.

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From its birth in the primordial ooze to dung beetles, from bug frass, cat scats and flush toilets to global trade, pandemics and energy, this is the awesome, troubled, unexpurgated life story of shit.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ECW Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 131mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9781770411166
• ISBN-10: 177041116X
• Artikelnr.: 36725271

Autorenporträt

David Waltner-Toews is a veterinarian and epidemiologist. He is the author of The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases That Jump from Animals to People (Greystone Books, 2007) and Food, Sex and Salmonella: Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick (Greystone Books, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Dung Beetles and the Girl on the Airplane
Chapter 1 : What from the Tongue Falls
Chapter 2 : The List of Ingredients and an Inventory
Chapter 3 : On the Origin of Feces
Chapter 4 : Turds of Endearment: What Excrement Means to Animals
Chapter 5 : MapQuest to Diarrhea: The Fecal-Oral Route
Chapter 6 : Hercules and All That Crapper
Chapter 7 : The Other Dark Matter
Chapter 8 : Making Sense of Excrement’s Wicked Complexity
Chapter 9 : Know Shit: A Way Forward
Acknowledgments
Digging Deeper : Hold Your Nose and Dive In (A Selected Bibliography)