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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward O Wilson |
| ISBN: | 0393062171 9780393062175 |
| OCLC Number: | 69241402 |
| Description: | viii, 175 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. The creation. -- Letter to a Southern Baptist Pastor: Salutation -- Ascending to nature -- What is nature? -- Why care? -- Alien invaders from Planet Earth -- Two magnificent animals -- Wild nature and human nature -- pt. 2. Decline and redemption. -- The pauperization of earth -- Denial and its risks -- End game -- pt. 3. What science has learned. -- Biology is the study of nature -- The fundamental laws of biology -- Exploration of a little-known planet -- pt. 4. Teaching the creation. -- How to learn biology and how to teach it -- How to raise a naturalist -- Citizen science -- pt. 5. Reaching across. -- An alliance for life. |
| Responsibility: | Edward O. Wilson. |
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Abstract:
Proposes an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity. This book is written in the form of a letter to a Southern Baptist Minister with personal anecdotes from the author's life.
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