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1. Ed , Yong

Un mondo immenso. Come i sensi degli animali rivelano i regni nascosti intorno a noi

La Terra pullula di stimoli diversi: immagini, suoni, vibrazioni, odori, sapori, campi elettrici e magnetici sono ovunque. Ma ogni animale, compreso l'uomo, è racchiuso all'interno della propria bolla sensoriale e perciò riesce a percepire solo un minuscolo frammento dello sconfinato mondo che ci circonda. Ed Yong si spinge, e ci porta, oltre i limiti dei nostri sensi, permettendoci di cogliere le nuvole di odori, le onde elettromagnetiche, gli impulsi e i cambi di pressione attorno a noi. In questo affascinante racconto incontriamo scarafaggi attratti dal fuoco, tartarughe in grado di tracciare i campi magnetici della Terra, pesci che riempiono i fiumi di messaggi elettrici ed esseri umani che utilizzano sonar come i pipistrelli. Scopriamo che la faccia squamosa di un coccodrillo è sensibile come la punta delle nostre dita, impariamo cosa vedono le api nei fiori, cosa sentono gli uccelli nelle loro melodie e cosa odorano i cani per strada, mentre continuiamo a interrogarci sui tanti misteri del mondo animale che rimangono tuttora irrisolti. Un mondo immenso è un libro documentato, rigoroso e divertente, che fa provare la gioia della scoperta e ci conduce in quello che per Marcel Proust era "l'unico vero viaggio", quello fatto non per visitare terre sconosciute, ma per poter vedere con altri occhi.

1. Ed Yong
2. Rebecca Mills

Immense World, An

1. Ed Yong
2. Rebecca Mills

An Immense World (Young Readers Edition)

How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic

"An exciting, deep, and moving contribution to Disability Studies. How to be Disabled in a Pandemic is a model for real-time pandemic theorizing that includes the most affected—as subjects, interlocutors, collaborators, and authors. This eloquent record of the brutal first years of Covid is set in its early epicenter of New York City. The holdings and methods of this impressive anthology will inform the ways we continue to engage with the critical connections between Covid, illness, disability, and place in the future." (Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNY) "So many forces want us to forget about the pandemic, to say that it's over and not a concern anymore. How To Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the wisdom of disabled oracles who resisted and challenged the system during the first three years of the pandemic in New York City. After reading this book, it'll leave you wondering what could have happened if our ableist society centered disabled people and took them seriously." (Alice Wong, author of Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life) "Captures the history and textures of our present moment during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, using the best ethnographic tools to take us into New York City's most impacted spaces and communities. In the process, How to be Disabled in a Pandemic opens up new paths of inquiry about chronic illness, institutional violence, accessibility, and mutual aid. A must-read for disability activists and scholars." (Aimi Hamraie, author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability) "Required reading for anyone who wants to understand the impact of COVID-19 in the United States. To be living with a disability in this country is to be a disposable person in the eyes of the state, even with the rights struggled for by generations of people living with disabilities. Over the past half-decade, New York City and the US implemented policies that made life more dangerous for disabled people, but disabled communities, of which there are many, figured out ways forward together to fight for their own survival—they will not be silent." (Gregg Gonsalves, Yale University) "This volume chronicles the experiences and activism of disabled people in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic and includes contributions from scholars, writers and organizers." (Ms. Magazine)