Insectopedia / Hugh Raffles.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 465 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781400096961
- 595.7 RAF 22
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595.7 HAM 702 The Fauna of British India : | 595.7 INS The Insects of Australia : | 595.7 INS The Insects of Australia : | 595.7 RAF Insectopedia / | 595.7 ROO The fauna of India and the adjacent countries : | 595.7 SAI Indian bumblebees | 595.7 SAI Indian bumblebees |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-438) and index.
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.
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.
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