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100 1 $aRaffles, Hugh,$d1958-
245 10 $aInsectopedia /$cHugh Raffles.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$cc2010.
300 $ax, 465 p. :$bill. (some col.), maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [387]-438) and index.
505 0 $aIn 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.
520 $aDeftly 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.
650 0 $aInsects.
650 0 $aHuman-animal relationships.