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Diane Ackerman

Ackerman, Diane

A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these "guests," and human names for the animals, it's no wonder that the zoo's code name b...

Ackerman, Diane

Tras el sonado éxito de "Una historia natural de los sentidos", Diane Ackerman ha usado su personalísimo talento para explorar el mayor de los talentos: el escurridizo, eterno y siempre interesante asunto del amor. El resultado es cien por cien Ackerman: una espléndida, seria, científica, poética y juguetona vista panorámica de las muchas formas y caras del amor. Ackerman bebe ...

Ackerman, Diane

Humans have "subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness." We tinker with nature at every opportunity; we garden the planet with our preferred species of plants and animals, many of them invasive; and we have even altered the climate, threatening our own extinction. Yet we reckon with our ...