Mosquitopia : The Place of Pests in a Healthy World / / edited by Marcus Hall, Dan Tamïr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910774603503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), , 2022
• ISBN: 1-000-43508-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 289 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: Routledge environmental humanities
• Disciplina: 595.772
• Soggetti: Mosquitoes as carriers of disease; Mosquitoes - Control - Equipment and supplies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited volume brings together natural scientists, social scientists and humanists to assess if (or how) we may begin to coexist harmoniously with the mosquito. The mosquito is humanity's deadliest animal, killing over a million people each year by transmitting malaria, yellow fever, Zika and several other diseases. Yet of the 3500 species of mosquito on earth, only a few dozen of them are really dangerous-so that the question arises as to whether humans and their mosquito foe can learn to live peacefully with one another. Chapters assess polarizing arguments for conserving and preserving mosquitoes, as well as for controlling and killing them, elaborating on possible consequences of both strategies. This book provides informed answers to the dual question: could we eliminate mosquitoes, and should we? Offering insights spanning the technical to the philosophical, this is the 'go to' book for exploring humanity's many relationships with the mosquito-which becomes a journey to finding better ways to inhabit the natural world. Mosquitopia will be of interest to anyone wanting to explore dependencies between human health and natural systems, while offering novel perspectives to health planners, medical experts, environmentalists and animal rights advocates.

The mind of a thief / / Patti Miller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817378003321
• Autore: Miller Patti
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: St Lucia, Qld., : University of Queensland Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0-7022-4818-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 900.00
• Soggetti: Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Wellington (N.S.W.) - History; Wiradjuri (Australian people) - Australia - Wellington (N.S.W.) - History; History; Wellington (N.S.W.) History; Wellington (N NSW SI55-04)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Author biography; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Map; 1 Blackfellas; 2 Wiradjuri Land; 3 Identity Terror; 4 Dreaming; 5 Heading Home - and Leaving; 6 Keeping Out of Trouble; 7 Memory and Place; 8 The Common and Nanima Reserve; 9 In Search of an Inland Sea; 10 Who Will Talk to Me?; 11 The Mind of a Thief; 12 The Missionaries' Diaries; 13 More Inclined to Read than Work; 14 Living at Nanima Reserve; 15 Thieving Ancestors; 16 Whose Native Title?; 17 A Wild Irishman; 18 Gold; 19 Native Title Fight; 20 Native Title Histories; 21 Patrick Reidy and the Wiradjuri; 22 The Town Historian; 23 Elders Usurped24 The Niece of Jimmy Governor; 25 Trying to Talk to Rose; 26 Searching for the Bora; 27 Not Taking Nonsense; 28 A Wiradjuri Man; 29 Identity; 30 Who Belongs?; 31 Australia Day; 32 Sacred Sites; 33 What Happens in Wellington; 34 Country Rose; 35 Native Title; Epilogue; Acknowledgements
• Sommario/riassunto: <P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>Exploring the history of the Wiradjuri people, the conflict of colonization, their mythologies, and their attachment to the land, author Patti Miller reveals both her own story and the position of Aboriginal people in today's society in this fascinating memoir. For 40,000 years, the Central New South Wales area of Wellington was Aboriginal Wiradjuri land. ; Following the arrival of white men, it became a penal settlement, a mission station, a gold-mining town, and a farming center with a history of white comfort and black marginalization. In the l