The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society - Couverture souple

Waltner-Toews, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 177041116X ISBN 13 : 9781770411166

Editeur : ECW Press,Canada, 2013

Synopsis

The Origin of Feces takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids management boardrooms into the fresh air of everyone's lives. With insight and wit, David Waltner-Toews explores what has been too often ignored and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives -- evolutionary, ecological, and cultural -- The Origin of Feces shows us how integral excrement is to biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food production and distribution, and global ecosystems. From the primordial ooze to dung beetles, from bug frass, cat scats, and flush toilets to global trade, pandemics, and energy, this is the awesome, troubled, unexpurgated story of feces.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Waltner-Toews is a veterinarian and epidemiologist. He is the author of The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases That Jump from Animals to People (Greystone Books, 2007) and Food, Sex and Salmonella: Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick (Greystone Books, 2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ECW Press,Canada
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 177041116X
• ISBN 13: 9781770411166
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 206
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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