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The Aliens Among Us

How Invasive Species Are Transforming the Planet - and Ourselves

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From an award-winning adventure and science journalist comes an eye-opening exploration of a burgeoning environmental phenomenon and the science coalescing around it. Leslie Anthony leads listeners on adventures physical and philosophical as he explores how and why invasive species are hijacking ecosystems around the globe.

Weaving science, travel, history, and humor with diverse examples to chart and describe the phases of species invasion and human response, Anthony introduces field researchers and managers who seek to understand the biological, social, and economic aspects of this complex issue, and whose work collectively suggests the emergence of a global shadow economy centered on invasives.

With tales of pythons in the Everglades, Asian carp and lamprey in the Great Lakes, Japanese knotweed seemingly everywhere, and the invasive organisms we don't see - pathogens and microbes such as the Zika virus - this book rivets attention on a new ecological reality.

©2017 Leslie Anthony (P)2017 Tantor Animals Biological Sciences Environment Outdoors & Nature Science Conservation Witty Ecosystem Adventure Natural History Africa Pollution Habitat
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Sorry... couldn't cope with this narrator! The reading style was highly annoying and seemed inappropriate for a science book. I'll read it myself though.

Great subject, shame about the reader

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