Turtles are in the class Reptilia, which includes snakes, crocodiles, and lizards. Marine turtles belong to the order Testudines, the first specimens date back 220 million years. Marine turtles are thought to have come from land turtles and freshwater turtles that lived about 230 million years ago in the Cretaceous period. The earliest sea turtle ancestor found so far is Desmatochelys padil…
This introductory chapter explains why organic waste composting is con-sidered as one of the best examples to demonstrate the benefits of nexus thinking. Current literature is rich with information covering various aspects of composting process. However, it mainly represents two distinct fields: waste from the manage-ment point of view and soil/agriculture from the nutrient recycling point of v…
In what follows I discuss unreadability and its relation to reading and interpretation of experimental literature. What precisely does unread-ability mean? Where can it be located? How far does it impede reading and can it be overcome? I want to address these questions within the frameworks of narratology and literary pragmatics, and suggest that in som…