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The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us about Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
Contributor(s): Waltner-Toews, David (Author)

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 ISBN: 177041116X     ISBN-13: 9781770411166
Publisher: ECW Press
OUR PRICE: $16.10  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - General
- Science | Life Sciences - Evolution
- Science | Life Sciences - Ecology
Dewey: 573.49
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.34" W x 8.2" L (0.50 lbs) 232 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Ecology
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Awards: Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal Winner, Ecology/Environment, 2014
Review Citations: Discover 05/01/2013 pg. 24
Quill & Quire 05/01/2013 pg. 26
Publishers Weekly 05/06/2013
Shelf Awareness 05/31/2013
 
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Publisher Description:
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.
 
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