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Author: Edward O., Wilson ,
Piotr Naskrecki
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 18.70cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.701kg
ISBN: 9781476747415
ISBN 10: 1476747415
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 22 April 2014
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Wilson suggests that our tired planet, managed wisely, can still demonstrate an enormous capacity for regeneration. . . . [his] prose consistently strikes a note of transcendence, and one sees a hint of that, too, in the pictures of Gorongosa by Piotr Nasrecki that accompany the text. --Danny Heitman The Christian Science Monitor Entomologist E.O. Wilson chronicles both the shifting ecology of Gorongosa after the war and how researchers are trying to repair the damage. . . . Naskrecki's images are a delight, capturing the spirit of the recovering landscape and its animals, great and small. . . . Ultimately, the book is a cautionary tale about how human affairs are fundamentally entangled with the natural world. --Allison Bohac Science News [Wilson is] The world's greatest living naturalist. --Justin Moyer The Washington Post Wilson describes in language that is both poetic and scientific a kind of parable of what is possible in the realm of environmental protection. . . . By destroying the natural world, we are destroying ourselves. Our blindness to this reality is the most crucial and fundamental fact of the world today. A Window on Eternity brings this reality into focus in a lucid and disarmingly gentle manner. It is a fitting capstone to Wilson's exceptional career. --David Edmund Moody The Huffington Post The father of sociobiology and one of the most prolific science writers of our time, Edward O. Wilson is back with a new book that explores a slice of wilderness in deepest Africa. . . . As usual, Wilson's observations carry more weight than the descriptions of a simple naturalist. In A Window on Eternity, he invites us to glimpse ourselves in the mirror of one of Earth's few remaining wildernesses. --Bob Grant The Scientist A Window on Eternity revels in biodiversity and nature's inventiveness. . . . Wilson plants his defiant flag defending biodiversity in a place once so brutally despoiled that its recovery is truly momentous. --Stuart Pimm Nature
A Window on Eternity revels in biodiversity and nature's inventiveness. . . . Wilson plants his defiant flag defending biodiversity in a place once so brutally despoiled that its recovery is truly momentous. --Stuart Pimm Nature
Author Information
Edward O. Wilson is generally recognized as one of the world’s leading scientists. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of many influential books, including The Diversity of Life, Naturalist, The Ants, and Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. He is currently Honorary Curator in Entomology and University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University.
