Craig Holdrege, director of The Nature Institute, has studied the elephant for many years, and brought these studies to a culmination in a research trip to Africa where he was able to observe these remarkable animals in their natural habitat. The reader will be able to experience how the elephant is a unique being that expresses itself in every aspect of its anatomy, physiology, and behavior.

The Flexible Giant: Seeing the Elephant Whole

Craig Holdrege

The Nature Institute

In this dramatic and compelling group of essays, Steve Talbott explores the necessities and trials, the virtues and temptations, of the increasingly sophisticated technological accomplishments of our lives. He traces the long journey from Odysseus, "man of many devices," to the Silicon Valley "man of many gadgets." Talbott discusses the lessons we can learn from the dissolution of the Amazon basin cultures under the impact of western civilization. He articulates the concept of an "ecological conversation," which can lead to more substantial relations between humanity and nature.

In the Belly of the Beast: Technology, Nature and the Human Prospect

Steve Talbott

This book provides a comprehensive picture of the giraffe's biology and ecology as well as the complex and and controversial issue of its evolution. Through oversimplified evolutionary theory the giraffe has been reduced, in effect, to a long neck that exemplifies how evolution is supposed to work (Darwin) and not supposed to work (Lamarck). It has become a caricature. To resurrect the giraffe to the status of the wonderful creature it is, Holdrege presents unique perspectives on the giraffe as a whole organism. Neither card-carrying Darwinists nor Creationists will be happy with this book, since its intention is to break through the strictures of narrowly confined conceptions of the giraffe and of evolution.

The Giraffe's Long Neck: From Evolutionary Fable to Whole Organism

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The Flexible Giant: Seeing the Elephant Whole

In the Belly of the Beast: Technology, Nature and the Human Prospect

The Giraffe's Long Neck: From Evolutionary Fable to Whole Organism