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Insectopedia

By Hugh , Raffles

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books
Year
2010
ISBN
9780307379726, 0307379728
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
11 MB (11155714 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
x, 465 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Zoology--General;Human-ani

Description

In the beginning-- -- Air -- Beauty -- Chernobyl -- Death -- Evolution -- Fever/dream -- Generosity (the happy times) -- Heads and how to use them -- The ineffable -- Jews -- Kafka -- Language -- My nightmares -- Nepal -- On January 8, 2008, Abdou Mahamane was driving through Niamey-- -- Il Parco delle Cascine on Ascension Sunday -- The quality of queerness is not strange enough -- The deepest of reveries -- Sex -- Temptation -- The unseen -- Vision -- The sound of global warming -- Ex libris, exempla -- Yearnings -- Zen and the art of Zzz's.;Deftly combining the anecdotal and the scientific, Raffles offers a stunningly original exploration of the beautiful, ancient, successful, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different insect species with which we share this world.

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