در سایه دندان‌تیغی: گرمایش جهانی، ریشه‌های نخستین آمریکایی‌ها و جانوران وحشتناک پلیستوسن

Whether he's skewing the fallacies of the war on drugs or illuminating the dark crevices of secret government, maverick commentator Alexander Cockburn's erudite and extemporaneous style warms the hearts of even the stodgiest cynics of the left. "Doug Peacock, as ever, walks point for all of us. Not since Bill McKibbens The End of Nature has a book of such import been presented to readers. Peacocks intelligence defies measure. His is a beautiful, feral heart, always robust, relentless with its love and desire for the human race to survive, and be sculpted by the coming hard to learn a magnificent humility, even so late in the game. Doug Peacocks mind is a marvelthere could be no more generous act than the writing of this book. It is a crowning achievement in a long career sent in service of beauty and the dignity of life."Rick Bass, author of Why I Came West and The Lives of Rocks Our climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain, probably fiery, and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North America, when people first colonized this continent. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the huge glaciers of the Late Pleistocene. In this brand new landscape, humans managed to adapt to unfamiliar habitats and dangerous creatures in the midst of a wildly fluctuating climate. What was it like to live with huge pack-hunting lions, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and gigantic short-faced bears, to hunt now extinct horses, camels, and mammoth? Are there lessons for modern people lingering along this ancient trail? The shifting weather patterns of todaywhat we call "global warming"will far exceed anything our ancestors previously faced. Doug Peacock's latest narrative explores the full circle of climate change, from the death of the megafauna to the depletion of the ozone, in a deeply personal story that takes readers from Peacock's participation in an archeological dig for early Clovis remains in Livingston, MT, near his home, to the death of the local whitebark pine trees in the same region, as a result of changes in the migration pattern of pine beetles with the warming seasons. Writer and adventurer Doug Peacock has spent the past fifty years wandering the earth's wildest places, studying grizzly bears and advocating for the preservation of wilderness. He is the author of Grizzly Years ; Baja ; and Walking It Off and co-author of The Essential Grizzly . Peacock was named a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2011 Lannan Fellow. In Oakland, California on March 24, 2015 a fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other businesses. Please consider visiting the AK Press website to learn more about the fundraiser to help them and their neighbors. 'Doug Peacock, as ever, walks point for all of us. Not since Bill McKibben's The End of Nature has a book of such import been presented to readers. Peacock's intelligence defies measure. His is a beautiful, feral heart, always robust, relentless with its love and desire for the human race to survive, and be sculpted by the coming hard times: to learn a magnificent humility, even so late in the game. Doug Peacock's mind is a marvel—there could be no more generous act than the writing of this book. It is a crowning achievement in a long career sent in service of beauty and the dignity of life.'—Rick Bass, author of Why I Came West and The Lives of RocksOur climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain, probably fiery, and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North America, when people first colonized this continent. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the huge glaciers of the Late Pleistocene. In this brand new landscape, humans managed to adapt to unfamiliar habitats and dangerous creatures in the midst of a wildly fluctuating climate. What was it like to live with huge pack-hunting lions, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and gigantic short-faced bears, to hunt now extinct horses, camels, and mammoth? Are there lessons for modern people lingering along this ancient trail?The shifting weather patterns of today—what we call'global warming'—will far exceed anything our ancestors previously faced. Doug Peacock's latest narrative explores the full circle of climate change, from the death of the megafauna to the depletion of the ozone, in a deeply personal story that takes readers from Peacock's participation in an archeological dig for early Clovis remains in Livingston, MT, near his home, to the death of the local whitebark pine trees in the same region, as a result of changes in the migration pattern of pine beetles with the warming seasons.Writer and adventurer Doug Peacock has spent the past fifty years wandering the earth's wildest places, studying grizzly bears and advocating for the preservation of wilderness. He is the author of Grizzly Years; Baja; and Walking It Off and co-author of The Essential Grizzly. Peacock was named a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2011 Lannan Fellow. For The Past 12,000 Years, The Earth Has Experienced A Relatively Stable Climate. Today, That Predictability Has Ended, And Global Warming Is Our New Reality. Yet Such Shifting Weather Patterns Threatened Homo Sapiens Once Before, Right Here In North America As The Continent Was First Being Colonized. About 15,000 Years Ago, The Weather Began To Warm, Melting The Glaciers Of The Late Pleistocene And Driving The Beasts Of The Ice Age Toward Extinction. In This New Landscape, Humans Managed To Adapt To Unfamiliar Habitats And Dangerous Creatures In The Midst Of A Wildly Fluctuating Climate. Are There Lessons For Modern People Lingering Along This Ancient Trail? The Author Explores The Full Range Of Climate Change, From The Death Of The Pleistocene Megafauna To The Disappearance Of Today's Ice. Repatriation And The Greatest Adventure -- Sidebar: A Note On Dating And Carbon-14 -- The Liar Of The Short-faced Bear : Forbidding Glaciers, Man-eating Predators And Poisonous Plants In Ice-age America -- Archaeology And The Shape Of The Journey -- Invisible People: Life Before The Pre-last Glacial Maximum : Ice-age People In The Far North Of Siberia And America -- Mingled Fates Of Homo Sapiens And Ursus Arctos Horribilis : Grizzly Bears As Proxy For Early Human Occupation Of The Americas -- Braving The Northwest Coast During The Time Of Icebergs : Maritime Learning And Innovation In North America -- Pre-clovis People : The Significance Of People In The Contiguous American States Before Clovis -- Clovis : The Great American Invention? -- Endgame : Late Pleistocene Extinction And The Sudden Sunset Of Clovis. Doug Peacock. Includes Bibliographical References : (p .207-213 And Index). The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. David H. Price outlines the ethical implications of appropriating this traditional academic discourse for use by embedded, militarized research teams.Price's inquiry into past relationships between anthropologists and the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon provides the historical base for this expose of the current abuses of anthropology by military and intelligence agencies. Weaponizing Anthropology explores the ways that recent shifts in funding sources for university students threaten academic freedom, as new secretive CIA-linked fellowship programs rapidly infiltrate American university campuses. Price examines the specific uses of anthropological knowledge in military doctrine that have appeared in a new generation of counterinsurgency manuals and paramilitary social science units like the Human Terrain Teams.David H. Price is the author of Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists and Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War. He is a member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists and teaches at St. Martin's College in Lacey, Washington. 4e de couv.: In the years since September 11, 2001, David Price has been at the forefront of public debates over the ethical and political issues raised by using anthropology for America's terror wars. Weaponizing Anthropology critically details the rapid militarization of anthropology and incursions by the CIA and other intelligence agencies onto American university campuses. Price combines his expert knowledge of the history of anthropologists' collaborations with military and intelligence agencies with an activist stance opposing current efforts to weaponize anthropology in global counterinsurgency campaigns. With the rapid growth of American military operations relying on cultural knowledge as a strategic tool for conquest and control, disciplinary loyalties aligning anthropologists with the peoples they study are strained in new ways as military sponsors seek to transform research subjects into targets and collaborators. Weaponizing Anthropology presents political and ethical critiques of a new generation of counterinsurgency programs like Human Terrain Systems, and a broad range of new academic funding programs like the Minerva Consortium, the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program, and the Intelligence Community Centers of Academic Excellence, that now bring the CIA and Pentagon onto university campuses. Weaponizing Anthropology is a concise and profound critique of the rapid transformation of American social science into an appendage of the National Security State 'weaponizing Anthropology' Documents How Anthropological Knowlege And Ethnographic Methods Are Harnessed By Military And Intelligence Agencies In Post-9/11 America To Placate Hostile Foreign Populations. Politics, Ethics, And The Military Intelligence Complex's Quiet Triumphal Return To Campus: War Is A Force That Gives Anthropology Ethics ; The Cia's University Spies : Prisp, Icsp, Nsep, And The Big Payback ; Social Science In Harness : The Gravitational Distortions Of The Minerva Consortium ; Silent Coup : How The Cia Welcomed Itself Back Onto American University Campuses Without Public Protest -- Manuals : Deconstructing The Texts Of Cultural Warfare: The Leaky Ship Of Human Terrain Systems ; Commandeering Scholarship : The New Counterinsurgency Manual, Anthropology, And Academic Pillaging ; The Military Leveraging Of Cultural Knowledge : The 2004 Stryker Report Evaluating Iraq Failures ; Rendering Cultural Complexities As Stereotype : Anthropological Reflections On The Special Forces Advisor Guide -- Counterinsurgency Theories, Fantasies, And Harsh Realities: Human Terrain Dissenter : Inside Human Terrain Team Training's Heart Of Darkness ; Going Native : Hollywood's Human Terrain Avatars ; Problems Of Counterinsurgent Anthropological Theory : Or, By The Time A Military Relies On Counterinsurgency For Foreign Victories It Has Already Lost ; Working For Robots : Human Terrain, Anthropologists And The War In Afghanistan. David H. Price. The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. David H. Price outlines the ethical implications of appropriating this traditional academic discourse for use by embedded, militarized research teams. Price's inquiry into past relationships between anthropologists and the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon provides the historical base for this expose of the current abuses of anthropology by military and intelligence agencies. Weaponizing Anthropology explores the ways that recent shifts in funding sources for university students threaten academic freedom, as new secretive CIA-linked fellowship programs rapidly infiltrate American university campuses. Price examines the specific uses of anthropological knowledge in military doctrine that have appeared in a new generation of counterinsurgency manuals and paramilitary social science units like the Human Terrain Teams. "Doug Peacock, as ever, walks point for all of us. Not since Bill McKibben's The End of Nature has a book of such import been presented to readers. Peacock's intelligence defies measure. His is a beautiful, feral heart, always robust, relentless with its love and desire for the human race to survive, and be sculpted by the coming hard times: to learn a magnificent humility, even so late in the game. Doug Peacock's mind is a marvel—there could be no more generous act than the writing of this book. It is a crowning achievement in a long career sent in service of beauty and the dignity of life."—Rick Bass, author of Why I Came West and The Lives of Rocks Our climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain, probably fiery, and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North America, when people first colonized this continent. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the... This is a "wittiest of" maverick commentator Alexander Cockburn recent talks. Whether he's skewering the fallacies of the drug war or illuminating the dark crevices of secret government, his erudite and extemporaneous style warms the hearts of even the stodgiest cynics of the left. Alexander Cockburn writes a weekly column for The Nation and is the founding editor of the bi-monthly journal Counterpunch. His books include Whiteout: The CIA Drugs and The Press, Five Days That Shook the World, Corruptions of Empire and Washington Babylon .