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Insectopedia /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Raffles, Hugh, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, [2010]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Insecta.
Human-animal relationships.
Insects.
Table of 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