Like its predecessors, this volume alternately informs, delights, moves, and astonishes. The former, a cultural and environmental historian, acquits herself admirably, distilling fact from fiction, employing supple and incisive prose, and trailing casual acumen in her measured wake.". "The latest monograph in the winning Animal series—truly natural histories, each title a
- Title : Rhinoceros (Reaktion Books - Animal)
- Author : Kelly Enright
- Rating : 4.64 (482 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-2-10
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 224 Pages
- Asin : 1861893744
- Language : English
Like its predecessors, this volume alternately informs, delights, moves, and astonishes. The former, a cultural and environmental historian, acquits herself admirably, distilling fact from fiction, employing supple and incisive prose, and trailing casual acumen in her measured wake.". "The latest monograph in the winning Animal series—truly natural histories, each title a wide-ranging look at a single creature, replete with splendid illustrations—is perhaps the finest yet. Success here owes as much to author as to subjectEnright also considers portrayals of the animal in film, literature, and art, all in the service of discovering whether the reputed savagery of the rhino is a reality or a legacy of its mythic past.
A wide-ranging, highly illustrated study, Rhinoceros will be essential for scholars and animal lovers alike. . The rhinoceros’s horn and massive leathery frame belie its docile and solitary nature, causing the animal to be consistently perceived by humans as a monster to be feared. Kelly Enright now deftly sifts fact from fiction in Rhinoceros.
Enright chronicles the vexed interactions between humans and rhinos, from early sightings that mistook the rhinoceros for the mythical unicorn to the eighteenth-century display of the rhinoceros in Europe as a wonder of nature and its introduction to the American public in 1830. The rhinoceros has long been a prized hunting object as well, whether for its horn as a valuable ingredient in Asian medicine or as a coveted trophy by nineteenth-century big-game hunters such as Theodore Roosevelt, and the book explains how such practices have led to the rhino’s status as an endangered speciesThe story also follows Danny's emotions. He then applies these results to H1 functions, showing that such functions cannot vanish on a set of positive Lebesgue measure on the circle without being identically zero. He is somewhat charismatic as a tortured soul who failed in his job of protecting his President. To put these painting in scientific order - to put all your ducks in a row, so to speak, as some recent editions do would destroy the sense of discovery and surprise that Audubon intended. Anyone who thinks buying organic food will solve the problem needs to read this book--the whole system of subsidies, price supports and food retailing necessarily means more huge corporate farms and slaughterhouses, more pesticides, more food contamination. The author proves a theorem of Hardy and Littlewood on H1 functions of bounded variation and a theorem of Hardy on the growth of the Fourier coefficients of an H1 functions. The author studies the algebra A of continuous functions on the closed unit disk which are analytic on the open disk in chapter 6. He also discusses other forces of nature such as the PDO, or Pacific Decadal Oscillation, which seems to correlate fairly well with recent temperature changes. It might be painful to talk about your experiences, but that is how many people find
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