Raffles, Hugh,  1958- <br/><br/>
Insectopedia / 
Hugh Raffles. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Pantheon Books,  2010. 
 - x, 465 p. :  ill. (some col.), maps ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-438) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781400096961 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Insects.<br/>Human-animal relationships.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>595.7 RAF