E-book
Insectopedia
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307379726 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 0307379728 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (x, 465 p.) : ill. (some col.), maps. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-438) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console |
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| Subject: | Insects Human-animal relationships |
| Genre: | EBOOK. Electronic books. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
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.
