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050 00 $aGE195$b.E38 1998
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aEisenberg, Evan.
245 14 $aThe ecology of Eden /$cEvan Eisenberg.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c1998.
300 $axxiv, 612 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 559-593) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: Persons from Porlock --$gPart 1.$tWaves.$tThe marriage of grass and man: A look at the logic of husbandry, from wheat's point of view ;$tAxis powers: Long before humankind, alliances of species were conquering the world ;$tDirt cheap: The rise and fall of the soil community, and the cost of modern farming ;$tThe new Pangaea: Biological invasion: How ships and airplanes erode the diversity of life ;$tThe human mushroom: The odd ecology of fossil fuel, and why getting energy is a risky business ;$tLife on the edge: The tricky, and partly illusory, transition from nature to culture --$gPart 2.$tThe mountain and the tower.$tThe mountain of the gods: Canaan: The heart of the world is wilderness ;$tThe Tower of Babel: Mesopotamia: The heart of the world is the city ;$tThe fiery sword: Israel: In making our paradise we unmake Eden, and so expel ourselves --$tThe rivers of Eden: How streams and pools of wildness keep civilization alive ;$tStorming the mountain: Gilgamesh and Enki: The triumph over nature and its bitter, or salty, aftertaste ;$tThe highways of Rome: From a Hebrew god tied to place, to the perils of Western universalism.
505 80 $gPart 3.$tIdylls.$tArcadia: In search of the perfect midpoint between city and wilderness ;$tLost illusions: Summer places and their discontents; and some lessons from the real Arcadia ;$tThe walled garden: Persia: What the garden walls out, and how its pattern soothes the divided soul ;$tPatting nature on the head: Greek gardens, or the lack thereof, and the Roman empire of greenery ;$tThe cloister and the plow: The Middle Ages: contemplating heaven while mastering the earth ; Bringing a statue to life: The Renaissance garden as refuge from plague, proletarians, and paradox ; Leaping the fence: Sun King and Ice Age: coal, capital, colonies, and the English landscape garden ; Westward in Eden: The real American experiment: a direct relation to nature, culture be damned ; A goddess quantified: Gaia, chaos, complexity: The nervous alliance of science and myth --$gPart 4.$tEarth jazz.$tManagers and fetishers: Two schools that dominate the current debate, and why both are wrong ;$tBebop: In search of a musical model for our collaboration with nature ;$tThe wild garden: From rain forest to desert, indigenous peoples have learned to learn from nature ;$tThe tree of life: It's not the fiascos of biotechnology that we should fear, but its successes ;$tThe tree of knowledge: Finding the garden in the machine -- without being lulled by "soft technology" ;$tThe urban animal: A second look at the city, which ought to be nature's best friend ;$tReclaiming Arcadia: Another second look: suburbs, summer homes, and how they may be redeemed ;$tTwo networks: Hedgerows, greenbelts, wildlife corridors: the geometry of wildness ;$tHot and cool: The challenge of global warming, and why nature is never spent ;$tThe foothills of Eden: A look back over the ground we have covered, and a view from heaven.
520 $aPresents new perspectives on present-day environmental problems by examining the changing nature of humankind's belief in a paradise and the ways we have disguised our actual dealings with nature.
590 $bArchive
650 0 $aEnvironmentalism.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aEisenberg, Evan.$tEcology of Eden.$dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998$w(OCoLC)605385392
776 08 $iOnline version:$aEisenberg, Evan.$tEcology of Eden.$dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998$w(OCoLC)631994851
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