Eating animals
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Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain to his children why people eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them.
October 2010
Eating animals
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Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain to his children why people eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them.
Animal logic
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Photographer Richard Barnes has spent more than ten years documenting the way we assemble, contain, and catalog the natural world. Barnes's behind-the-scenes photographs are haunting reminders that there is nothing natural about a natural history museum. Barnes's first monograph, collects four related species of his photographic work that touch on themes relevant to(...)
Animal logic
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Photographer Richard Barnes has spent more than ten years documenting the way we assemble, contain, and catalog the natural world. Barnes's behind-the-scenes photographs are haunting reminders that there is nothing natural about a natural history museum. Barnes's first monograph, collects four related species of his photographic work that touch on themes relevant to science, history, archaeology, and architecture. Through his lens sights and objects normally hidden from public view—half-installed dioramas, partially wrapped specimens, anatomical models, exploded skulls, and taxidermied animals in shipping crates—take on a strange beauty.
Photography monographs
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Au-delà de l'étude des techniques et matériaux utilisés dans les constructions animales, comparée aux exemples d'architecture, cet ouvrage introduit des informations sur les comportements animaux en relation avec leur habitat.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
February 2008, Paris
Analogies architecture animale
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Au-delà de l'étude des techniques et matériaux utilisés dans les constructions animales, comparée aux exemples d'architecture, cet ouvrage introduit des informations sur les comportements animaux en relation avec leur habitat.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Dans ce livre de contes absolument pas pour enfants, quatre beaux animaux racontent leurs aventures où la soif de sexe, de sang et d’orgueil transforme les villes en zoos et l’homme en bête féroce. À Moncton, un joueur de hockey junior majeur est catapulté dans une crise politique grave lorsqu’il couche avec une femme entretenant des liens étroits avec l’équipe(...)
November 2012
Ménageries : histoires d'animaux
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Dans ce livre de contes absolument pas pour enfants, quatre beaux animaux racontent leurs aventures où la soif de sexe, de sang et d’orgueil transforme les villes en zoos et l’homme en bête féroce. À Moncton, un joueur de hockey junior majeur est catapulté dans une crise politique grave lorsqu’il couche avec une femme entretenant des liens étroits avec l’équipe locale. À Saint-Hyacinthe, une femme apprend à ses dépens qu’un bain de minuit dans la rivière Yamaska peut provoquer de graves effets secondaires. Dans le Village, un bear séropositif s’amourache d’un jeune homme et devient prêt à tout pour le faire passer dans son « équipe ». À Victoriaville, une étudiante s’en prend à la barmaid étoile du bar le plus populaire de la ville pour tenter de sauver son couple. Tout ça illustré en couleur, comme dans les livres de Disney.
Rop van Mierlo: wild animals
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Amsterdam based, graphic designer Rop van Mierlo recently published his colourful work in a book appropriately called Wild Animals. This title, which has a separate English and Dutch edition, collects several of van Mierlo's joyous en colourful painting of animals. The designer's loose and free spirited wet-on-wet painting style makes for an upbeat book which holds a(...)
Rop van Mierlo: wild animals
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Amsterdam based, graphic designer Rop van Mierlo recently published his colourful work in a book appropriately called Wild Animals. This title, which has a separate English and Dutch edition, collects several of van Mierlo's joyous en colourful painting of animals. The designer's loose and free spirited wet-on-wet painting style makes for an upbeat book which holds a collection of wild and not-so wild animals for young and old to look at and admire.
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The open: man and animal
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In The Open, contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the “human” has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether. In an argument that ranges from ancient Greek, Christian, and Jewish texts to twentieth-century thinkers such as Heidegger,(...)
The open: man and animal
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In The Open, contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the “human” has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether. In an argument that ranges from ancient Greek, Christian, and Jewish texts to twentieth-century thinkers such as Heidegger, Benjamin, and Kojève, Agamben examines the ways in which the distinction between man and animal has been manufactured by the logical presuppositions of Western thought, and he investigates the profound implications that the man/animal distinction has had for disciplines as seemingly disparate as philosophy, law, anthropology, medicine, and politics.
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Birds and other animals
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The masterful drawings of Pablo Picasso are used to teach animal recognition in this artful, read-aloud board book. "Birds & other animals" takes children through Picasso's series of single-line animal drawings, beginning and ending with various kinds of birds. The cleverly whimsical charm of Picasso's sketches keeps readers engaged, while the accompanying text enriches(...)
Birds and other animals
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The masterful drawings of Pablo Picasso are used to teach animal recognition in this artful, read-aloud board book. "Birds & other animals" takes children through Picasso's series of single-line animal drawings, beginning and ending with various kinds of birds. The cleverly whimsical charm of Picasso's sketches keeps readers engaged, while the accompanying text enriches the experience with conversational commentary. Readers will not only broaden their visual definitions of which animals are which, but also grow familiar with fine art in this relevant and relatable third title in the 'First Concepts with Fine Artists' series. Includes a read-aloud 'about the artist'.
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A quirky trend of building designs inspired by bizarre animals has emerged in the last few years. Why and how has this happened? Is it because of new technical possibilities in materials and structural engineering? Or is the answer to be found in new social preoccupations in science? After a brief look at the historical precedents, the book focuses on contemporary(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
November 2003, London
Zoomorphic : new animal architecture
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A quirky trend of building designs inspired by bizarre animals has emerged in the last few years. Why and how has this happened? Is it because of new technical possibilities in materials and structural engineering? Or is the answer to be found in new social preoccupations in science? After a brief look at the historical precedents, the book focuses on contemporary examples from around the world and shows the various ways in which the organic/animal forms inform the architectural ones. Featured architects include Frank Gehry, Michael Sorkin, and Greg Lynn.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
All the animals were angry
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In a series of lightly drawn illustrations, William Wondriska tells a delightful story that gently reminds adults and children alike of the importance of tolerance. It’s hard to keep your calm when there’s nothing to do and the heat of the jungle is insufferable. Try asking the animals of William Wondriska, who make the huge mistake of pointing out each other’s(...)
All the animals were angry
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In a series of lightly drawn illustrations, William Wondriska tells a delightful story that gently reminds adults and children alike of the importance of tolerance. It’s hard to keep your calm when there’s nothing to do and the heat of the jungle is insufferable. Try asking the animals of William Wondriska, who make the huge mistake of pointing out each other’s shortcomings! The lion accuses the tortoise of being too slow, the tortoise accuses the elephant of being too bulky, the elephant accuses the ant of being too small, and so on. This goes on all day until in the end a kind dove comes down from the sky to restore harmony, and remind everyone that sometimes it’s good to be bulky, slow and even small.
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"Animal metropolis" brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, fish on display in the Dominion(...)
Environment and environmental theory
February 2017
Animal metropolis: histories of human-animal relations in urban Canada
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"Animal metropolis" brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, fish on display in the Dominion Fisheries Museum, and the racialized memory of Jumbo the elephant in St. Thomas, Ontario. Others examine the bodily intimacies of shared urban spaces: the regulation of rabid dogs in Banff, the maternal politics of pure milk in Hamilton and the circulation of tetanus bacilli from horse to human in Toronto. Another considers the marginalization of women in Canada’s animal welfare movement. The authors collectively push forward from a historiography that features nonhuman animals as objects within human-centered inquiries to a historiography that considers the eclectic contacts, exchanges, and cohabitation of human and nonhuman animals.
Environment and environmental theory