Alanna Mitchell spent fourteen years as a writer covering science and the environment at the Globe and Mail. She is the author of Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World’s Environmental Hotspots, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Prologue | p. IX |
The last best place on earth | p. 1 |
Reading the vital signs: Oxygen | p. 16 |
Reading the vital signs: pH | p. 35 |
Reading the vital signs: Metabolism | p. 46 |
Reading the vital signs: Fecundity | p. 59 |
Reading the vital signs: Life force | p. 75 |
Reading the vital signs: Medical history | p. 90 |
Reading the vital sign that is China | p. 102 |
Reading the vital signs: Adaptability | p. 114 |
Finding hope | p. 122 |
Epilogue: A call for wisdom | p. 133 |
Acknowledgments | p. 137 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 139 |
Index | p. 153 |
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