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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: D. Graham BurnettPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 1.50cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 2.30cm Weight: 1.106kg ISBN: 9780226100579ISBN 10: 022610057 Pages: 824 Publication Date: 24 September 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsA very good book. --Larry McMurtry Harper's """A remarkable book, an astounding piece of research."" (David Blackburn, Guardian) ""By questioning the very nature of our scientific interest in the whale, Burnett has set the tone for a new century of discovery-and, one hopes, recovery."" (Nature) ""In other hands it might have yielded a story as dry as dust, but this historian has an eye for small, telling details, resulting in an intriguing book full of paradoxes and unlikely heroes."" (Tim Flannery, New York Review of Books) ""A very good book."" (Larry McMurtry, Harper's) ""A sweeping, important study of cetacean science and policy.... A gifted and often very funny writer, D. Graham Burnett bristles at the restrictions of academic rigor but does not abandon them.... His greatest service is to tell a story that helps us understand the present-day political obstacles to addressing key environmental questions."" (New York Times Book Review)""" A remarkable book, an astounding piece of research. (David Blackburn, Guardian) By questioning the very nature of our scientific interest in the whale, Burnett has set the tone for a new century of discovery-and, one hopes, recovery. (Nature) In other hands it might have yielded a story as dry as dust, but this historian has an eye for small, telling details, resulting in an intriguing book full of paradoxes and unlikely heroes. (Tim Flannery, New York Review of Books) A very good book. (Larry McMurtry, Harper's) A sweeping, important study of cetacean science and policy.... A gifted and often very funny writer, D. Graham Burnett bristles at the restrictions of academic rigor but does not abandon them.... His greatest service is to tell a story that helps us understand the present-day political obstacles to addressing key environmental questions. (New York Times Book Review) Author InformationD. Graham Burnett is professor of history and history of science at Princeton University, where he teaches in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities and directs graduate studies in the Program in History of Science. He is an editor at Cabinet magazine and the author of four books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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