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“…Given the increasing concerns regarding issues of anthropogenic factors affecting these animals, it is not surprising that the majority of chapters in this book deal with this subject…”

“…Though the emphasis of this book is on use of this technique in skin diseases in humans, a few articles on skin biopsy in animals have been included to acquaint the reader to the interrelationship of various scientific disciplines. …”

“…The application of an electric field impulse and its influence on the immune responses of animals by increasing different elements of the immune response is discussed. …”

“…Therefore, metals that are harmful to aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems pose a significant threat to plants, animals, and human health. As such, there is increased interest in mitigating the harmful environmental impacts of heavy metals. …”

“…Host David Attenborough visits the great environmental regions of the planet to examine how plants and animals adapt to their surroundings and how otherwise unrelated organisms, molded by similar conditions, develop similar techniques for solving problems of survival…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : the West, storytelling animals, and the hunt as performance -- Act 1: Actors and agents : the cultural ecology of hunter's paradise. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Addiction -- Afterlife -- Age -- America -- American Revolution -- Animals -- Atheism -- Bible: value of -- Bible: accuracy of the text -- Bible: exegesis of -- Bible: Old Testament -- Bible: revision of -- Calvinism -- Catholicism -- Catholicism: Jesuits -- Chaplains -- Children -- Christianity -- Christianity: Christian nation -- Church and state -- Clergy -- Communion -- Conscience: see liberty of conscience -- Consolation -- Constitution of the United States -- Creeds -- Crime and punishment -- Death -- Deism -- Divorce -- Ecumenicism -- Education -- Episcopalians -- Faith -- Fast and Thanksgiving days -- God -- Grief -- Hell -- Indians: see Native Americans -- Islam -- Jesus -- Jews -- Laws -- Liberty of conscience -- Marriage -- Millennium -- Miracles -- Missionary and Bible societies -- Morality -- Native Americans -- New England -- Oaths -- Patriotism -- Paul, the apostle -- Persecution -- Plato -- The poor -- Prayer -- Presbyterians -- Proclamations: see fast and Thanksgiving days -- Profanity -- Prophecy -- Providence -- Quakers -- Reason -- Religion, freedom of: see liberty of conscience -- Religion: propensity of humans for -- Religion: social utility of -- Republicanism -- Rights -- Sabbath -- Sin -- Slavery -- Trinity -- Unitarianism -- Universalism -- Virgin Mary -- War -- Women…”

“…Helens: Life From Zero" that tracks the recovery of plants and animals that were in the volcano blast zone. USGS eruption movie The Portland screening will be followed by a Q-and-A session with a US Forest Service ecologist and USGS hydrologist, both of whom were chronicled in the movie…”

“…We follow this little boy’s fairytale of dreams and reality; when he is out fishing, playing and meeting with wild animals in the wilderness of Norway. In the end, at the most beautiful part of the film – the fox that has followed the boy, is shot, and a forestry-machine drops into the wilderness, bringing you back to the reality of the adult boy (man) – who is also the presenter - telling that we’re not doing enough for our environment. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Minimal empiricism and the order of justification -- Minimal empiricism : introductory -- Minimal empiricism : some initial difficulties -- McDowell's empiricism : overview and prospective -- The simple model of empirical content -- The order of justification -- From the complex to the simple model of empirical content -- Experience and causation -- Causation and the complex model of empirical content -- The threat of Anomalous Monism -- Causation in the space of reasons -- Nature and supernature -- Rampant and naturalized platonisms -- Realmoflaw causation and the myth of the given -- Experience and judgement -- McDowell's transcendental argument -- Judgement and freedom -- Knowledge and the opportunity to know -- Knowledge and infallibility -- Ayer on perceptual error -- Experience and selfconsciousness -- The highest common factor conception of experience -- McDowell's individualism -- Externalism and the individual -- Externalism and the order of justification -- The mental lives of infants and animals -- Two species of mentality -- Mentality and the transcendental argument -- Objections to McDowell's account -- Conceptual consciousness and the Private Language Argument -- Not a something, but not a nothing either -- Feeling pain and feeling a pain -- Mentality and conceptual sophistication -- Two species of mentality revisited -- Mentality and propositional content -- Diagnosis and treatment -- The ailment : Kantian transcendental idealism -- Sense, reference, and concepts -- Propositions and states of affairs -- Concepts and nominalism -- Wittgenstein and ultrarealism -- Ultrarealism and universals -- The world's own language -- Combining objects and concepts at the level of reference -- Locating propositions at the level of reference -- The problem of falsity -- Truth and intrinsicism -- Der Mensch spricht nicht allein -- Epilogue: the unity of the proposition…”

“…Beginning with a history of wildlife toxicology and data interpretation, chapters cover a wide range of contaminants and their hazardous and lethal concentrations in various animals including DDT, Dioxins, PCBs, and PBDEs in aquatic organisms; methylmurcury, selenium, and trace metals in fishes and aquatic invertebrates; and pharmaceuticals and organic contaminants in marine mammals. …”
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“…Este libro describe numerosos y sorprendentes trabajos de campo realizados por estudiosos del comportamiento animal a lo largo de medio mundo con ejemplos que incluyen desde avispas a ballenas, desde pulpos a chimpancés. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Taylor -- Thinking like a jaguar : carnal hermeneutics, touch, and the limits of language / Brian Treanor -- Sensing the call of other animals : carnal hermeneutics and the ethico-moral imagination / Melissa Fitzpatrick -- The embodied human being in touch with the world : Richard Kearney and Hedwig Conrad-Martius in conversation / Christina M. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sólo lo que en una especie animal -- 2. En relación con el color de la piel -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Deconstrucción y totalitarismo -- POLÍTICA ANIMAL -- BIBLIOGRAFÍA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dimonis i meravelles (contes meravellosos) ; Del gall a l'ase (històries d'animals) ; Històries per tremolar (ogres i bruixes) ; Quan els déus dominaven la terra (mitologia) ; Què dieu d'extravagant? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Shuten Doji (drunken demon): a medieval story of the carnivalesque and the rise of warriors and fall of oni -- Women spurned, revenge of oni women: gender and space -- Yamauba, the mountain ogress: old hag to voluptuous mother -- Oni in urban culture: de-demonization of the oni -- The oni and Japanese identity: enemies of the Japanese empire in and out of the imperial army -- Sex, violence, and victimization: modern oni and lonely Japanese -- Oni in manga, anime, and film -- Oni without negatives: selfless and surrealistic oni…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…chapter 1 Recoding life: information and the biopolitical -- chapter 2 Rethinking the biopolitical -- chapter 3 Read, write, standardise -- chapter 4 Crossing boundaries: the global politics of access and plant as species of lifeTM -- chapter 5 Animal genetic resources as a global matter of concern -- chapter 6 Recoding synthetic life : from openness to (free as in) freedom -- chapter 7 Re-thinking the age of biology: biomass, biohacking, and open-source seeds -- chapter 8 The re-articulation of biopolitical theory in an era of informatics…”