Screen LibraryMonster of God：the man-eating predator in the jungles of history and the mind
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W.W. Norton,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 513 p.: maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0393051404 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | Q958 |
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Q958.12 Q959.808 |
| Call Number: | Q959.808/Q16 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-479) and index. The food chain of power and glory -- Once there were lions -- The muskrat conundrum -- Leviathan with a hook -- Shadow of the nine-toed bear -- The teeth and the meat -- Perestroika -- Science fiction ending. Publisher's description: For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above₇so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem. Casting his expert eye over |