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15%OFFThomas Eisner - Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures - 9780674024038 - V9780674024038
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Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures

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Description for Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures Paperback. Chronicles the diverse and often astonishing defensive strategies that have allowed insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures not just to survive, but to thrive. Num Pages: 384 pages, 350 color illustrations, 150 chemical formulas. BIC Classification: PSVT7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 760.

Mostly tiny, infinitely delicate, and short-lived, insects and their relatives--arthropods--nonetheless outnumber all their fellow creatures on earth. How lowly arthropods achieved this unlikely preeminence is a story deftly and colorfully told in this follow-up to the award-winning For Love of Insects. Part handbook, part field guide, part photo album, Secret Weapons chronicles the diverse and often astonishing defensive strategies that have allowed insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures not just to survive, but to thrive.

In sixty-nine chapters, each brilliantly illustrated with photographs culled from Thomas Eisner's legendary collection, we meet a largely North American cast ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674024038
SKU
V9780674024038
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99-1

About Thomas Eisner
Thomas Eisner was J.G. 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. Maria Eisner is Research Associate of Biology at Cornell ... Read more

Reviews for Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures
Secret Weapons will fascinate and occupy students and scientists indefinitely! Indeed anyone interested in how nature functions
the many special interactions that make ecosystems work
will thoroughly enjoy this fine volume.
Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden This is by far the most beautiful and instructive book on behavioral chemical ecology I have seen. It is ... Read more

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