The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
Awards:   Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Ecology/Environment) 2014
Author:   David Waltner-Toews
Publisher:   ECW Press,Canada
Edition:   No Edition
ISBN:  

9781770411166


Pages:   206
Publication Date:   01 May 2013
Format:   Paperback
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The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society


Awards

  • Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Ecology/Environment) 2014

Overview

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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Author:   David Waltner-Toews
Publisher:   ECW Press,Canada
Imprint:   ECW Press,Canada
Edition:   No Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 20.90cm
Weight:   0.229kg
ISBN:  

9781770411166


ISBN 10:   177041116
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   01 May 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface: Dung Beetles and the Girl on the Airplane Chapter 1 : What from the Tongue Falls Chapter 2 : The List of Ingredients and an Inventory Chapter 3 : On the Origin of Feces Chapter 4 : Turds of Endearment: What Excrement Means to Animals Chapter 5 : MapQuest to Diarrhea: The Fecal-Oral Route Chapter 6 : Hercules and All That Crapper Chapter 7 : The Other Dark Matter Chapter 8 : Making Sense of Excrement’s Wicked Complexity Chapter 9 : Know Shit: A Way Forward Acknowledgments Digging Deeper : Hold Your Nose and Dive In (A Selected Bibliography)

Reviews

Until you read this, you really won't know sh*t. -- Publisher's Weekly


[A]stonishingly readable and interesting. -- Svenska Dagbladet


Author Information

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 (Greystone Books, 2007) and Food, Sex and Salmonella: Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick (Greystone Books, 2008).

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