Vital Ties Colin A. Palmer Nature is as much a

Nature is as much a social entity as a physical one

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These are the sauropods: centerpieces of museums and gentle giants of the distant past

James Marten has crafted a compelling and highly original biography of the Sixth Wisconsin in war and peace

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Vital Ties Colin A. Palmer Nature is as much aVital Ties depicts an emergent form of intimacy with the dead mediated by digital technologies. In southern Australia, a game developer crafts a virtual reality experience, reuniting his best friend with an avatar of his late father. In northern California, a woman creates a smartphone app to log moments in which her deceased mother appears. In Chicago, a high school teacher visits her late brother's Facebook page, hypnotized by the shifting content