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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162662803321

Autore

Massey Alana

Titolo

All the lives I want : essays about my best friends who happen to be famous strangers / / Alana Massey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Grand Central Publishing, , 2017

ISBN

1-4555-6587-3

1-4555-4364-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 242 pages)

Classificazione

BIO007000BIO026000BIO022000SOC041000LCO010000

Disciplina

305.420973

Soggetti

Women - United States - Social conditions - 21st century

Celebrities - United States - History - 21st century

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

"From columnist and critic Alana Massey, a collection of essays examining the intersection of the personal with pop culture through the lives of pivotal female figures--from Sylvia Plath to Britney Spears--in the spirit of Chuck Klosterman, with the heart of a true fan.  Mixing Didion's affected cool with moments of giddy celebrity worship, Massey examines the lives of the women who reflect our greatest aspirations and darkest fears back onto us. These essays are personal without being confessional and clever in a way that invites readers into the joke. A cultural critique and a finely wrought fan letter, interwoven with stories that are achingly personal, All the lives I want is also an exploration of mental illness, the sex industry, and the dangers of loving too hard. But it is, above all, a paean to the celebrities who have shaped a generation of women--from Scarlett Johansson to Amber Rose, Lil' Kim, Anjelica Huston, Lana Del Rey, Anna Nicole Smith and many more. These reflections aim to reimagine these women's legacies, and in the process, teach us new ways of forgiving ourselves"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910806198003321

Autore

Spironello Wilson R

Titolo

Amazonian Mammals : Current Knowledge and Conservation Priorities / / edited by Wilson R. Spironello, Adrian A. Barnett, Jessica W. Lynch, Paulo E. D. Bobrowiec, Sarah A. Boyle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9783031430718

3031430719

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (483 pages)

Collana

Biomedical and Life Sciences Series

Altri autori (Persone)

BarnettAdrian

LynchJessica W

BobrowiecPaulo E. D

BoyleSarah A

Disciplina

599.09811

Soggetti

Conservation biology

Ecology

Bioinformatics

Conservation Biology

Computational and Systems Biology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Why This Book on Amazonian Mammals Is Needed -- Xenarthrans of Brazilian Amazon: Recent Discoveries, Knowledge Gaps, and Conservation Concerns -- Biodiversity and Conservation of Bats in the Brazilian Amazonia - With a Review of the Last 10 Years of Research -- Primates of Brazilian Amazonia: Knowledge, Research Gaps and Conservation Priorities -- Claws and Fangs: Carnivore Abundance and the Conservation Importance of Amazonia -- Mammalian Megafauna: A Cross-continental Comparison in Research Output -- Amazonian Aquatic Mammals: Existing Knowledge, Current Threats and Future Studies -- Historical Commercial Hunting of Mammals in Amazonia -- Subsistence Hunting and Wild Meat Trade -- Management of Subsistence Hunting of Mammals in Amazonia: A Case Study in Loreto, Peru -- Showing and Saving: The Challenges and Opportunities of



Mammal-based Tourism in Brazilian Amazonia -- Large-scale Land-use Changes and the Amazonian Mammal Biota -- Habitat Fragmentation Impacts on Amazonian Non-volant Mammals -- Bat Responses to Anthropogenic Forest Fragmentation: Insights from an Amazonian Fragmentation Experiment in Brazil -- Infectious Diseases: A Threat to the Conservation of Amazonian Mammal Species -- Mining Impacts on Aquatic Mammals of the Brazilian Amazon -- Chapter Effects of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Ecosystems and Biodiversity, Especially on Amazonian Mammals -- Conservation Strategies for Mammals in Brazilian Amazonia: Future Studies at Local, Regional and Global Scales.

Sommario/riassunto

The mammal fauna of the Brazilian Amazon is one of the most diverse on Earth with over 450 known species. Bringing together more than 70 of the world’s top experts on Amazonian mammals, this book unites, for the first time, up-to-date data on the current state of knowledge on the ecology of all groups of non-rodent mammals in the Brazilian Amazon, analyses the effectiveness of current conservation programmes and identifies research and conservation priorities for the future.