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Entomology

Spider Webs Behavior, Function, and Evolution

Eberhard William

ISBN: HB: 9780226534602, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
704 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 195 halftones, 97 line drawings

In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical...

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Entomology

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Spiders

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Buddle Christopher M.,

ISBN: PB: 9780226332253, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 72 colour plates

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 thi...

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Entomology

Dancing Bees Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language

Munz Tania

ISBN: PB: 9780226526508, ISBN: HB: 9780226020860, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 7 line drawings

We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators – and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) discovered during World War II, b...

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Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Wild Alex, Dunn Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226445816, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
96 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 96 colour plates

Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects – with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark – as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike...

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Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants of California

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Wild Alex, Dunn Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226351537, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
80 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 78 colour plates

Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects – with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark – as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike...

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Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants of Chicago

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Wild Alex, Dunn Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226266800, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 66 colour plates

Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects – with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark – as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike...

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Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants of New York City

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Wild Alex, Dunn Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226351674, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
80 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 77 colour plates

Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects – with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark – as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike...

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Entomology

Infested How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World

Borel Brooke

ISBN: PB: 9780226361086, ISBN: HB: 9780226041933, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones, 6 line drawings

Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel beds are tiny bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to surrender to a vu...

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Entomology

Planet of the Bugs Evolution and the Rise of Insects

Shaw Scott Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226325750, ISBN: HB: 9780226163611, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 31 halftones

Dinosaurs, however toothy, did not rule the earth – and neither do humans. But what were and are the true potentates of our planet? Insects, says Scott Richard Shaw – millions and millions of insect species. Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient...

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Entomology

Cockroach Papers A Compendium of History and Lore

Schweid Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226260471, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
208 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 21 halftones

Skittering figures of urban legend – and a ubiquitous reality – cockroaches are nearly as abhorred as they are ancient. Even as our efforts to exterminate them have developed into ever more complex forms of chemical warfare, roaches' basic design of...

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