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  title info:
    title: Flight ways
    sub title: life and loss at the edge of extinction
  name:
    name part: Van Dooren, Thom
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 193 pages) ; illustrations.
  abstract: "A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his own ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from the world -- the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking care of their young and grieving their dead. He bolsters his studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a rapidly changing world"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Introduction: telling lively stories at the edge of extinction -- Fledging albatrosses: flight ways and wasted generations -- Circling vultures: life and death at the dull edge of extinction -- Urban penguins: stories for lost places -- Breeding cranes: the violent-care of captive life -- Mourning crows: grief in a shared world -- Epilogue: a call for stories.
  note: Thom van Dooren.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Birds
    topic: Extinction
  subject:
    topic: NATURE / Animals / Birds
  subject:
    topic: NATURE / Birdwatching Guides
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Ornithology
  subject:
    topic: Birds
    topic: Extinction
  subject:
    topic: Australian
  classification: QL677.4 .V36 2014eb
  classification: 598.13/8
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Flight ways
    name:
      name part: Van Dooren, Thom, 1980-
    identifier: (DLC) 2013044351
    identifier: (OCoLC)863195528
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Critical perspectives on animals
  identifier: 9780231537445 (electronic book)
  identifier: 0231537441 (electronic book)
  identifier: 9780231166188 (cloth)
  identifier: 0231166184 (cloth)
  identifier: 2013044351
  identifier: 630A8410-FD35-4B23-999A-6DE4384F2D95 OverDrive, Inc.
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: TEFOD
    record creation date: 140513
    record change date: 20250816212541.3
    record identifier: in00003442716
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng