Insectopedia

Raffles, Hugh 1958- (Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 1400096960 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781400096961 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0375423869 (hc.)
ISBN: 9780375423864 (hc.)
Physical Description: x, 465 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm
print
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c2010.

Content descriptions

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.