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Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Spiders
Eleanor Spicer Rice
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Description for Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Spiders
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages, 72 color plates. BIC Classification: WNCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152. .
Spiders have a problem, and it's us. Despite their magnificent talents for crafting webs, capturing mosquitoes, and camouflage, for millennia arachnophobia has hampered our ability to appreciate these eight-legged and -eyed marvels. No longer! In this witty, accessible, and beautifully illustrated guide, Eleanor Spicer Rice and Christopher M. Buddle metamorphose creepy-crawly revulsion into spider wonder. Emerging from ambitious citizen science project Your Wild Life (an initiative based at North Carolina State University), Dr. Eleanor's Book of Spiders with Chris Buddle provides an eye-opening arachnological overview of the natural history of species most noted by project participants, showcasing some of the ... Read more
Spiders have a problem, and it's us. Despite their magnificent talents for crafting webs, capturing mosquitoes, and camouflage, for millennia arachnophobia has hampered our ability to appreciate these eight-legged and -eyed marvels. No longer! In this witty, accessible, and beautifully illustrated guide, Eleanor Spicer Rice and Christopher M. Buddle metamorphose creepy-crawly revulsion into spider wonder. Emerging from ambitious citizen science project Your Wild Life (an initiative based at North Carolina State University), Dr. Eleanor's Book of Spiders with Chris Buddle provides an eye-opening arachnological overview of the natural history of species most noted by project participants, showcasing some of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226332253
SKU
V9780226332253
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Ref
99-15
About Eleanor Spicer Rice
Eleanor Spicer Rice (www.verdantword.com) is an entomologist and writer. Christopher M. Buddle is associate professor in the Department of Natural Resource Science at McGill University, where he studies the biodiversity of spiders and insects.
Reviews for Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Spiders
Spicer Rice's style is clear, fluid, and engaging.
Carl Zimmer National Geographic's The Loom Spicer Rice makes complex topics easy to understand with minimal jargon. The species descriptions seem like stories about eccentric and entertaining relatives.
Gwen Pearson WIRED
Carl Zimmer National Geographic's The Loom Spicer Rice makes complex topics easy to understand with minimal jargon. The species descriptions seem like stories about eccentric and entertaining relatives.
Gwen Pearson WIRED