THE ORIGIN OF FECES: WHAT EXCREMENT TELLS US ABOUT EVOLUTION, ECOLOGY, AND A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY
Book ID/图书代码： 00110913B60847
English Summary/英文概要： An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters
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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一部有趣的和具有啟發性地探索我們為何浪費的問題的科普書。
《排泄物的起源》探索了每個人的生命中那隱秘當地、孩子便盆培訓手冊和生物固體的管理董事會的一項重要課題。運用深邃的洞察力和獨有的智慧，作者大衛 · 沃特納 涂維斯探討了我們日常所常常被忽略的問題，並為我們更深入地瞭解人類和動物糞便，提供了具有說服力的論據。從不同的角度來探討這一問題，— — 進化、生態和文化 — — 《排泄物的起源》向我們展示了我們部分的糞便是如何涵蓋了生物多樣性、農業、公共衛生、食品生產和分銷，和全球生態系統的問題。從原始的軟泥到糞便清潔工金龜甲蟲，從幼蟲的糞便、 貓的糞便和抽水馬桶到全球貿易、流行病和能源，這是令人敬畏，令人有些困惑的，一部詳盡的糞便故事。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：SHORTLISTED FOR THE DIAGRAM PRIZE FOR ODDEST BOOK TITLE 2014
’As the author of this informative book tells us, the fact that it is a bit impolite to use the word says a lot about our failure to think about how important s**t is to our survival. As he remarks, ’there are things we don t talk about, even if we are sitting on a pile of it,’ and with a neat turn of phrase he gives us an important message: ’How can we unleash the incredible power of excrement if we don t know s**t?’’ - Science Spin
About the Author/作者介绍： 大衛 · 沃特納 涂維斯是一位獸醫和流行病學家。他是的《小雞的反擊：從動物到人類的流行恐慌和致命疾病》（格雷斯通出版社，2007年）和 《食物、性和沙門氏菌：為什麼我們的食物是使我們生病》（格雷斯通書，2008年）。這兩本書的作者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).
Format:电子手稿
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