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Insectopedia
de Raffles, Hugh
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Muy bueno
- ISBN 10
- 0375423869
- ISBN 13
- 9780375423864
- Librería
-
Simi Valley, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Pantheon, 2010-03-23. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.5000 9.3000 6.4000. First Edition / First Printing as identified with ""1"" in the full number line.
Sinopsis
A stunningly original exploration of the beautiful, ancient, successful, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with which we share this world. For as long as humans have been here, insects have been here. Yet we hardly know them, not even the ones we’re closest to: the insects that eat our food, share our beds, live in our homes. Organizing his book alphabetically, with one entry for each letter, weaving together brief vignettes, meditations, and extended essays, Hugh Raffles uses the prism of history and science, anthropology and travel, economics and popular culture to show how insects have triggered our obsessions, stirred our fears, and beguiled our imaginations. Raffles provides a glimpse into the ritualized world of Chinese cricket fighting, the deceptive courtship rituals of the dance fly, the vital and vicious role locusts play in the famines that afflict the African continent, the queer sexual practices among insects, the obsession of Japan’s entire culture with insects, how insects deformed by Chernobyl inspired art, and how our unease with insects has prompted aberrant behavior of our own. Deftly combining the anecdotal and the scientific, Raffles has given us an essential book of reference that is, as well, a fascination of the highest order. - [Goodreads][1] [1]: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6989298
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Detalles
- Librería
- Schwabe Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- mon0002820645
- Título
- Insectopedia
- Autor
- Raffles, Hugh
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0375423869
- ISBN 13
- 9780375423864
- Editorial
- Pantheon
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2010-03-23
- Tamaño
- 1.5000 9.3000 6.4000
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Book;
- X weight
- 1.8000 lb
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Schwabe Books
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Simi Valley, California
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