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Origin of Feces, The: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society - Softcover
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An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters 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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SHORTLISTED FOR THE DIAGRAM PRIZE FOR ODDEST BOOK TITLE 2014
'As the author of this informative book tells us, the fact that it is a bit impolite to use the word says a lot about our failure to think about how important s**t is to our survival. As he remarks, 'there are things we don t talk about, even if we are sitting on a pile of it,' and with a neat turn of phrase he gives us an important message: 'How can we unleash the incredible power of excrement if we don t know s**t?'' - Science Spin
'What struck me as I was doing research for the book was the profound way in which excrement is embedded in ecological (and, by extension, cultural) relationships' --New Humanist
'There are plenty of puns, jokes and anecdotes, but the underlying message of how management of natural waste can provide a solution to environmental challenges is a serious one.' --The Biologist
'There are plenty of puns, jokes and anecdotes, but the underlying message of how management of natural waste can provide a solution to environmental challenges is a serious one.' --The Biologist
About the Author
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" and "Food, Sex and Salmonella: Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick." He lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
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- PublisherECW Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 177041116X
- ISBN 13 9781770411166
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages220
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