Body Ecology

OLSEN, ANDREA; ELDER, JOHN (FOREWORD). Body And Earth: An Experiential Guide. Middlebury College Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2002. ISBN: 1584650109

272 pages. An inspired synthesis of scientific detail and creative perception offers new insights into the relationship between body and earth. "Body is our first environment," writes Andrea Olsen. "It is the medium through which we know the earth." In a remarkable integration of environmental science, biology, meditation, and creative expression, Olsen, a dancer who teaches in the environmental studies program at Middlebury College, offers a guide to a holistic understanding of person and place. Part workbook, part exploration, Body and Earth considers the question of how we can best, most responsibly inhabit both our bodies and our planet. Olsen displays an easy command of fields as diverse as geology, biochemistry, ecology, and anatomy as she explores the ways in which our bodies are derived from and connected to the natural world. But Body and Earth is not just a lesson, it is also an investigation. Arranged as a 31-day program, the book offers not only a wealth of scientific information, but also exercises for both exploring the body and connecting with place; illustrations and works of art that illuminate each chapter's themes; and Olsen's own meditations and reflections, connecting the topics to her personal history and experience. Olsen insists that neither body nor landscape are separate from our fundamental selves, but in a culture which views the body as a mechanism to be trained and the landscape as a resource to be exploited, we need to learn to see again their fundamental wholeness and interconnection. Through hard data, reflection, exercises, and inspiration, Body and Earth offers a guide to responsible stewardship of both our planet and our persons. Andrea Olsen is Professor of Dance and faculty member in the Environmental Studies Program at Middlebury College. Author of Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy, she also performs, teaches yoga and creative writing, and offers workshops worldwide. Softcover. Brand new book.

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OLSEN, ANDREA; MCKIBBEN, BILL (FOREWORD). Body And Earth: An Experiential Guide. University Press of New England: 2010.

272 pages. "Body is our first environment," writes Andrea Olsen. "It is the medium through which we know the earth." In a remarkable integration of environmental science, biology, meditation, and creative expression, Olsen, a dancer who teaches in the environmental studies program at Middlebury College, offers a guide to a holistic understanding of person and place. Part workbook, part exploration, Body and Earth considers the question of how we can best, most responsibly inhabit both our bodies and our planet. Olsen displays an easy command of fields as diverse as geology, biochemistry, ecology, and anatomy as she explores the ways in which our bodies are derived from and connected to the natural world. But Body and Earth is not just a lesson, it is also an investigation. Arranged as a 31-day program, the book offers not only a wealth of scientific information, but also exercises for both exploring the body and connecting with place; illustrations and works of art that illuminate each chapter's themes; and Olsen's own meditations and reflections, connecting the topics to her personal history and experience. Olsen insists that neither body nor landscape are separate from our fundamental selves, but in a culture which views the body as a mechanism to be trained and the landscape as a resource to be exploited, we need to learn to see again their fundamental wholeness and interconnection. Through hard data, reflection, exercises, and inspiration, Body and Earth offers a guide to responsible stewardship of both our planet and our persons. Author Photo Softcover. Brand new book.

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PILLERI,G. INVESTIGATIONS ON CETACEA vol.10,

Berne 1979,366 pp.,b&w photos/textill./tables, contents Pilleri,G. a.o. Skull, sonar, field and swimming behaviour of Ischyrorhynchus vanbenedeni (Ameghino, 1891) and taxonomical position of the genera Ischyrorhynchus, Saurodelphis, Anisodelphis and Pontoplanodes + Taxonomic status of the Dolphin of Cortesi, Tursiops cortesi (Keferstein 1834) from the lower pliocene of Northern Italy / Peixun,Ch. a.o. Distribution, ecology, behaviour and conservation of the Dolphins of the Middle Reaches of Changjiang (Yangtze) River (Wuhan-Yueyang) / Pilleri,G. a.o. How the Finless Porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis) carries its calves on its back, and the function of the denticulate area of the skin, as observed in the Changjiang River, China / Zhou,K. a.o. Observations on the Baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) and the Finless Porpoise (neophocaena asiaeorientalis) in the Changjiang River between Nanjing and Taiyangzhou, with remarks on some physiological adaptations of the Baiji to its environment / Pilleri,G. a.o. Precarious situation of the dolphin population (Platanista indi Blyth 1859) in the Punjab, upstream of the Taunsa Barrage, Indus River + Observations on the dolphins in the indus Delta (Sousa Plumbea and Neophocaena phocaenoides) in winter 1978-1979 + Observations on the ecology of Inia geoffrensis from the Rio Apure, Venezuela + Sonar field patterns in Cetaceans, feeding behaviour and the functional signifiucance of the Pterygoschisis + The sonar field of Inia geoffrensis / Hua Minglon The design of an underrwater projector with cylindrical ceramic ring / Chien Jinde A Piezoelectric disk projector on thickness vibration with operating frequency 200 khz / Sukhovskaya,L.I. Morpho-functional characteristics of the larynx in Balaenopteridae / Arvy,L. the abdominal bones of Cetaceans / Cave,A.J.E. Tonsillar formation in the Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) / Gihr,M. a.o. Interspective body length - body weight ratio and body weight - brain weight ratio in Cetacea / De Monte,T. a.o. Cetacean hematologyI: Hemoglobin + Cetacean hematology II:The blood cells / Gibson,D.I. a.o. The Helminth-Parasites of cetaceans in the collection of the british Museum (Natural History) / Arvy,L. Trichnosis in Cetaceans / Pilleri,G. a.o. Pehr Osbeck and the discovery of the Chinese White Dolphin (Sousa chinesis Osbeck 1765) + The Chinese river Dolphin (Lipodes vexillifer) in poetry, literature and legend + The indian River Dolphins in the Babur-Nama miniatures, the moral edicts of King Asoka and ancient Indian litterature, legends and superstitions concerning the Amazon Dolphin (code A-69/A-79)

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John M. Last. Public Health and Human Ecology. McGraw-Hill Professional, 3/28/1998.
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