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How often have you thought to yourself that there has to be more, and that at this point in your life it may be time to discover what that something else is? None of us are getting any younger, and perhaps for some it is time to make that change...that Exit...from the current day to day. This book provides some insight into what an Exit is all about and what it may look like, written by someone who has himself just taken an Exit and moved o...

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A savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution"--

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A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws.

Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life's overlords, but we are instead at its mercy. In the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the power of natural selection to create biodiversity, and even the surprising life of the London Undergroun...

A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws.

Biologist Rob Dunn takes readers on a tour of our precarious dependence on ten species ranging from bananas to chickens--all of which are just a bug or a virus away from a collapse.

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Dieses Buch lässt einen das eigene Zuhause mit anderen Augen sehen. Selbst wenn die Böden blitzsauber sind und das Haus leer erscheint, sind unsere Häuser voller Leben. In Nie alleine zu Haus stellt uns der Biologe Rob Dunn die fast 200.000 Arten vor, die bei uns zu Hause leben, von den ägyptischen Mehlmotten in unseren Schränken über die Kamelgrillen in unseren Kellern bis hin zum Laktobazillus, der auf unseren Küchenarbeitsplatten lebt. Währ...

With generous helpings of warmth and wit, Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez offer bold new perspectives on why food is enjoyable and how the pursuit of delicious flavors has guided the course of human history. They consider the role that flavor may have played in the invention of the first tools, the extinction of giant mammals, the evolution of the world's most delicious and fatty fruits, the creation of beer, and our own sociality. Along the way, ...