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Russell Sharman

    Questa autrice si definisce una scrittrice di natura e scienza, che esplora le intricate connessioni tra umanità, indagine scientifica e mondo naturale. Il suo lavoro fonde abilmente elementi di mito e celebrazione, addentrandosi in una vasta gamma di argomenti che vanno dalle preoccupazioni ecologiche alla vasta storia umana. Attraverso la sua prosa evocativa, celebra la straordinaria bellezza e complessità della natura, dai fiori più piccoli alle sfide globali più significative, invitando i lettori a contemplare il proprio posto all'interno di questa esistenza interconnessa.

    Głód Historia nienaturalna
    Hunger
    Diary of a Citizen Scientist
    Within Our Grasp
    • Within Our Grasp

      • 324pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      "An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it. From the much-admired writer of luminous prose and humane heart, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished nature writing. A healthy Earth requires healthy children. Yet nearly one fourth of the world's children--one in four--are stunted physically and mentally due to a lack of food or nutrients. These children do not die but endure a lifetime of diminished potential. In the past thirty years, writes Sharman Russell in Within Our Grasp, we have seen a revolution in how we treat these sick children, and how, with a new understanding of the human body and approach to nutrition, along with new ways to reach out to hungry mothers and babies, we have gone from unwittingly killing the severely malnourished child to bringing him/her back to health through a "miracle" ready-to-eat therapeutic food. Intertwined with stories of scientists and nutrition experts on the front lines of finding a means of putting an end to malnutrition for good, Russell writes of her travels to Malawi, one of the poorest and least-developed countries in the world (80% of Malawians are farmers subsisting on less than an acre, coping with erratic weather patterns due to global warming, with 50% living below the poverty line and 42% of children being affected by lack of food or nutrients), the site of pathbreaking, cutting-edge research into childhood malnutrition. As she writes of her personal exploration of new friendships and insights in a country known as "the warm heart of Africa," Russell describes the programs that are working best to reduce childhood stunting and explores how feeding and malnutrition of our children are connected to climate change; how vitamins and minerals are preventing these harmful effects; why the empowerment of women is the most effective single factor in eliminating childhood malnutrition; and what the costs are of ending childhood malnutrition"-- Provided by publisher

      Within Our Grasp
    • In the exploding world of citizen science, hundreds of thousands of volunteers are monitoring climate change, tracking bird migration, counting stardust for NASA or excavating mastodons. The sheer number of citizen scientists, combined with new technology, has begun to shape how research is conducted. Diary of a Citizen Scientist is a timely exploration of this phenomenon.

      Diary of a Citizen Scientist
    • Hunger

      • 262pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. Sharman Apt Russell explores the range of this primal experience

      Hunger
    • Głodu nie da się zignorować. Głód mówi ci, byś wziął to, czego potrzebujesz. Głód każe ci wyciągnąć rękę. Twój mózg, żołądek, twoje komórki są głodne. To one rozbijają materię na drobne części i to one przetwarzają ją w coś innego, w kształt twojego życia. Nie da się żyć bez głodu. Nie da się żyć z głodem. Od głodu zaczyna się twój kontakt ze światem. Ta niezwykła książka opowiada o zjawisku głodu z perspektywy różnych dziedzin wiedzy: fizjologii, antropologii, historii, filozofii, religioznawstwa, nauk społecznych, a nawet literatury pięknej. Sugestywna narracja, która nie unika elementów szokujących, ma na celu wzbudzić w czytelniku refleksję i poruszyć sumienie. Uczucie głodu jest naszym podstawowym doświadczeniem. A jednak wiemy z historii, że zdolność przystosowawcza człowieka wobec tego uczucia graniczy czasem z cudem. Autorka opisuje, w jaki sposób na przestrzeni wieków głód wykorzystywany był do wyrażenia duchowego lub politycznego stanowiska. Opisuje też wielkie klęski głodu, jakich doświadczały grupy ludności i całe narody na skutek niesprzyjających warunków ekonomicznych, biologicznych, klimatycznych a także politycznych.

      Głód Historia nienaturalna