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UNINA9910465566203321 |
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Autore |
Reid Robin Spencer |
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Savannas of our birth [[electronic resource] ] : people, wildlife, and change in East Africa / / Robin S. Reid |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
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1-283-54319-2 |
9786613855640 |
0-520-95407-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (411 p.) |
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Savanna ecology - Africa, East |
Land use - Environmental aspects - Africa, East |
Pastoral systems - Environmental aspects - Africa, East |
Savannas - Africa, East |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter One. Searching for the Middle Ground -- Chapter Two. Savannas of Our Birth -- Chapter Three. Pastoral People, Livestock, and Wildlife -- Chapter Four. Moving Continents, Varying Climate, and Abundant Wildlife: Drivers of Human Evolution? -- Chapter Five. Ecosystem Engineers Come of Age -- Chapter Six. Can Pastoral People and Livestock Enrich Savanna Landscapes? -- Chapter Seven. When Coexistence Turns into Conflict -- Chapter Eight. The Serengeti- Mara: "Wild Africa" or Ancient Land of People? -- Chapter Nine. Amboseli: "Cattle Create Trees, Elephants Create Grassland" in the Shadow of Kilimanjaro -- Chapter Ten. The Kaputiei Plains: The Last Days of an Urban Savanna? -- Chapter Eleven. Ngorongoro: A Grand Experiment of People and Wildlife -- Chapter Twelve. Savannas of Our Future: Finding Diversity in the Middle Ground -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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This book tells the sweeping story of the role that East African savannas played in human evolution, how people, livestock, and wildlife interact in the region today, and how these relationships might shift as |
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the climate warms, the world globalizes, and human populations grow.Our ancient human ancestors were nurtured by African savannas, which today support pastoral peoples and the last remnants of great Pleistocene herds of large mammals. Why has this wildlife thrived best where they live side-by-side with humans? Ecologist Robin S. Reid delves into the evidence to find that herding is often compatible with wildlife, and that pastoral land use sometimes enriches savanna landscapes and encourages biodiversity. Her balanced, scientific, and accessible examination of the current state of the relationships among the region's wildlife and people holds critical lessons for the future of conservation around the world. |
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UNINA9910452982503321 |
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Autore |
Chardonnens László Sándor |
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Anglo-Saxon prognostics [[electronic resource] ] : 900-1100 : study and texts / / by László Sándor Chardonnens |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007 |
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1-281-92634-5 |
9786611926342 |
90-474-2042-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (624 p.) |
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Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; v. 153 |
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Prophecies |
Forecasting |
English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Preliminary material / L.S. Chardonnens -- Introduction / L.S. Chardonnens -- Chapter One. Prognostics defined / L.S. Chardonnens -- Chapter Two. The manuscript context / L.S. Chardonnens -- Chapter Three. Language, date and place of origin of english manuscripts containing prognostics / L.S. Chardonnens -- Chapter |
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Four. Superstition and prognostication / L.S. Chardonnens -- Chapter Five. Intended Use Of Prognostic texts / L.S. Chardonnens -- Conclusion / L.S. Chardonnens -- Text edition / L.S. Chardonnens -- Appendix One. Handlist of prognostics in english manuscripts of the ninth to twelfth centuries / L.S. Chardonnens -- Appendix Two. Reference list / L.S. Chardonnens -- Appendix Three. Concordance to anglo-saxon prognostics / L.S. Chardonnens -- Appendix Four. Values, dates, composition / L.S. Chardonnens -- Bibliography / L.S. Chardonnens -- Index of names / L.S. Chardonnens -- Index of subjects / L.S. Chardonnens. |
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Recent scholarship on the Anglo-Saxon prognostics has tried to place these texts within the realm of folklore and medicine, inspired largely by studies and editions from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By analysing prognostic material in its manuscript context, this book offers a novel approach to the status and purpose of prognostic texts in the early Middle Ages with particular attention to the Anglo-Saxon tradition. From this perspective, it emerges that prognostication in Anglo-Saxon England was not folkloric but a scholarly pursuit by monks not primarily interested in the medical aspects of prognostication. In addition, this book offers, for the first time, a comprehensive edition of prognostics in Old English and Latin from Anglo-Saxon and early post-Conquest manuscripts. Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History , volume 3 |
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