Bethany Brookshir - Pests How Humans Create Animal Villains - New Pa

Pages Count - 297. Binding type - Perfect.
About this Item

The item is a book Paperback
The Author Name is Bethany Brookshire
The Title is Pests : How Humans Create Animal Villains

Condition New

Other Comments
Pages Count - 297. Binding type - Perfect.


Product Description -
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals aEURoepestsaEUR? and others notaEUR"from cats to rats, elephants to pigeonsaEUR"and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural worldA squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. When animals pop up where we donaEURt expect or want them, we respond with fear, rage, or simple annoyance. ItaEURs no longer an animal. ItaEURs a pest. At the intersection of science, history, and narrative journalism, Pests is not a simple call to look closer at our urban ecosystem. ItaEURs not a natural history of the animals we hate. Instead, this book is about us. ItaEURs about what calling an animal a pest says about people, how we live, and what we want. ItaEURs a story about human nature, and how we categorize the animals in our midst, including bears and coyotes, sparrows and snakes. Pet or pest? In many cases, itaEURs entirely a question of perspective. Bethany BrookshireaEURs deeply researched and entirely entertaining book will show readers what there is to venerate in vermin, and help them appreciate how these animals have clawed their way to success as we did everything we could to ensure their failure. In the process, we will learn how the pests that annoy us tell us far more about humanity than they do about the animals themselves.A

We Use Stock Images
Because we have over 2 million items for sale we have to use stock images, this listing does not include the actual image of the item for sale. The purchase of this specific item is made with the understanding that the image shown in this listing is a stock image and not the actual item for sale. For example: some of our stock images include stickers, labels, price tags, hyper stickers, obi's, promotional messages, signatures and or writing which may not be available in the actual item.

When possible we will add details of the items we are selling to help buyers know what is included in the item for sale. The details are provided automatically from our central master database and can sometimes be wrong.

Books are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, not for sale, promotional, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versions. The Book you receive could be any of these editions or variations. If you are looking for a specific edition or version please contact us to verify what we are selling.

Gift Ideas
This is a great gift idea.

Hours of Service
We have many warehouses, some of the warehouses process orders seven days a week, but the Administration Support Staff are located at a head office location, outside of the warehouses, and typically work only Monday to Friday.

Location ID 555z

iHaveit SKU ID 157657737