Résumé
2004 Independent Publisher Book Award For Best Book In The Science Category
2003 Biological Science Winner In The Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Of The American Association Of Publishers
Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow soldiers-and you will have entered an insect world once beyond imagining, a world observed and described down to its tiniest astonishing detail by Thomas Eisner.
L'auteur - Thomas Eisner
Thomas Eisner is Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University. In 1994 he was awarded the National Medal of Science. His film Secret Weapons won the Grand Award at the New York Film Festival and was named Best Science Film by the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Sommaire
- Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
- Prologue
- Bombardier
- Vinegaroons and Other Wizards
- Wonders from Wonderland
- Masters of Deception
- Ambulatory Spray Guns
- Tales from the Website
- The Circumventers
- The Opportunists
- The Love Potion
- The Sweet Smell of Success
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration Credits
- Index
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| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |
| Auteur(s) | Thomas Eisner |
| Parution | 12/10/2005 |
| Nb. de pages | 448 |
| Format | 20 x 23,5 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 1179g |
| Intérieur | Quadri |
| EAN13 | 9780674018273 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-674-01827-3 |
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