Insectopedia

Raffles, Hugh

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Pantheon Books, 2010

0375423869 / 9780375423864

Da: Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller, New Castle, CO, U.S.A.Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

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An x-library copy. A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world. For as long as humans have existed, insects have existed, too. Wherever we?ve traveled, they?ve traveled, too. Yet we hardly know them, not even the ones we?re closest to: those that eat our food, share our beds, and live in our homes. Organizing his book alphabetically with one entry for each letter, weaving together brief vignettes, meditations, and extended essays, Hugh Raffles embarks on a mesmerizing exploration of history and science, anthropology and travel, economics, philosophy, and popular culture to show us how insects have triggered our obsessions, stirred our passions, and beguiled our imaginations. Raffles offers us a glimpse into the high-stakes world of Chinese cricket fighting, the deceptive courtship rites of the dance fly, the intriguing possibilities of queer insect sex, the vital and vicious role locusts play in the famines of west Africa, how beetles deformed by Chernobyl inspired art, and how our desire and disgust for insects has prompted our own aberrant behavior. Deftly fusing the literary and the scientific, Hugh Raffles has given us an essential book of reference that is also a fascination of the highest order.…

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Titolo
Insectopedia
Autore
Raffles, Hugh
Editore
Pantheon Books
Anno di pubblicazione
2010
Condizione
Good
Sovraccoperta
Good
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0375423869
ISBN 13
9780375423864
Peso dell'articolo
29 once
Dimensioni
6x1x9
Cataloghi dei venditori
Natural History

Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

New Castle, CO, U.S.A.

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