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Insectopedia / Hugh Raffles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raffles, Hugh, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Insects.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Physical Description:
- x, 465 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2010]
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-438) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780375423864
- 0375423869
- OCLC:
- 422760341
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