Author: Sarah Albee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802734227
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A funny, insightful exploration of the clash between the human and insect worlds - to sometimes disastrous results
Bugged
Author: Sarah Albee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802734227
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A funny, insightful exploration of the clash between the human and insect worlds - to sometimes disastrous results
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802734227
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A funny, insightful exploration of the clash between the human and insect worlds - to sometimes disastrous results
Bugged
Author: David MacNeal
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250095506
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant life for over 400 million years. In fact, our world is essentially run by bugs--there are 1.4 billion for every human on the planet. In Bugged, journalist David MacNeal takes us on an off-beat scientific journey that weaves together history, travel, and culture in order to define our relationship with these mini-monsters"--Amazon.com.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250095506
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant life for over 400 million years. In fact, our world is essentially run by bugs--there are 1.4 billion for every human on the planet. In Bugged, journalist David MacNeal takes us on an off-beat scientific journey that weaves together history, travel, and culture in order to define our relationship with these mini-monsters"--Amazon.com.
Bugged
Author: David MacNeal
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250095514
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This history of insects is “entomology at its most enchanting . . . MacNeal is a witty, informed guide to a world of winged and scuttling wonders” (Nature). Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant life for over 400 million years. In fact, our world is essentially run by bugs—there are 1.4 billion for every human on the planet. In Bugged, journalist David MacNeal takes us on an offbeat scientific journey that weaves together history, travel, and culture in order to define our relationship with these mini-monsters. MacNeal introduces a cast of bug-lovers—from a woman facilitating tarantula sex and an exterminator nursing bedbugs (on his own blood) to a kingpin of the black market insect trade and a “maggotologist” —who obsess over the crucial role insects play in our everyday lives. Just like bugs, this book is global in its scope, diversity, and intrigue. Hands-on with pet beetles in Japan, releasing lab-raised mosquitoes in Brazil, beekeeping on a Greek island, or using urine and antlers as ancient means of pest control, MacNeal’s quest will entertain the squeamish and brave alike. Demonstrating insects’ amazingly complex mechanics, he strings together varied interactions we humans have with them, like extermination, epidemics, and biomimicry. And, when the journey comes to an end, MacNeal examines their commercial role in our world in an effort to help us ultimately cherish (and maybe even eat) bugs. “Mr. MacNeal has an admirable talent for explaining science and nature in comprehensible language.” —The Wall Street Journal “Creepy, beautiful, icky and amazing.” —Penny Le Couteur, author of Napoleon’s Button “MacNeal delivers a joy-filled dose of science, reminding readers that the strange and alien creatures in our midst are not to be feared, but celebrated.” —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250095514
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This history of insects is “entomology at its most enchanting . . . MacNeal is a witty, informed guide to a world of winged and scuttling wonders” (Nature). Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant life for over 400 million years. In fact, our world is essentially run by bugs—there are 1.4 billion for every human on the planet. In Bugged, journalist David MacNeal takes us on an offbeat scientific journey that weaves together history, travel, and culture in order to define our relationship with these mini-monsters. MacNeal introduces a cast of bug-lovers—from a woman facilitating tarantula sex and an exterminator nursing bedbugs (on his own blood) to a kingpin of the black market insect trade and a “maggotologist” —who obsess over the crucial role insects play in our everyday lives. Just like bugs, this book is global in its scope, diversity, and intrigue. Hands-on with pet beetles in Japan, releasing lab-raised mosquitoes in Brazil, beekeeping on a Greek island, or using urine and antlers as ancient means of pest control, MacNeal’s quest will entertain the squeamish and brave alike. Demonstrating insects’ amazingly complex mechanics, he strings together varied interactions we humans have with them, like extermination, epidemics, and biomimicry. And, when the journey comes to an end, MacNeal examines their commercial role in our world in an effort to help us ultimately cherish (and maybe even eat) bugs. “Mr. MacNeal has an admirable talent for explaining science and nature in comprehensible language.” —The Wall Street Journal “Creepy, beautiful, icky and amazing.” —Penny Le Couteur, author of Napoleon’s Button “MacNeal delivers a joy-filled dose of science, reminding readers that the strange and alien creatures in our midst are not to be feared, but celebrated.” —Publishers Weekly
Bugged
Author: Sarah Albee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802734235
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The creators of Poop Happened! share an irreverent, fact-filled chronicle of the rivalry between the human and insect worlds that draws on myriad disciplines to explain the varying roles that bugs have played in building and toppling empires as well as the bug stories behind infamous disasters. Simultaneous.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802734235
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The creators of Poop Happened! share an irreverent, fact-filled chronicle of the rivalry between the human and insect worlds that draws on myriad disciplines to explain the varying roles that bugs have played in building and toppling empires as well as the bug stories behind infamous disasters. Simultaneous.
Bugged-Out Insects
Author: Margaret J. Anderson
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1464502870
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Explores a variety of unusual insects, including locusts, army ants, and scarab beetles, and examines their biological make-up, environment, and behavior.
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1464502870
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Explores a variety of unusual insects, including locusts, army ants, and scarab beetles, and examines their biological make-up, environment, and behavior.
Surprising Facts: Getting Bugged
Author:
Publisher: Remedia Publications
ISBN: 1596392630
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher: Remedia Publications
ISBN: 1596392630
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
What Bugged the Dinosaurs?
Author: George Poinar Jr.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400835690
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Millions of years ago in the Cretaceous period, the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex--with its dagger-like teeth for tearing its prey to ribbons--was undoubtedly the fiercest carnivore to roam the Earth. Yet as What Bugged the Dinosaurs? reveals, T. rex was not the only killer. George and Roberta Poinar show how insects--from biting sand flies to disease-causing parasites--dominated life on the planet and played a significant role in the life and death of the dinosaurs. The Poinars bring the age of the dinosaurs marvelously to life. Analyzing exotic insects fossilized in Cretaceous amber at three major deposits in Lebanon, Burma, and Canada, they reconstruct the complex ecology of a hostile prehistoric world inhabited by voracious swarms of insects. The Poinars draw upon tantalizing new evidence from their amazing discoveries of disease-producing vertebrate pathogens in Cretaceous blood-sucking flies, as well as intestinal worms and protozoa found in fossilized dinosaur excrement, to provide a unique view of how insects infected with malaria, leishmania, and other pathogens, together with intestinal parasites, could have devastated dinosaur populations. A scientific adventure story from the authors whose research inspired Jurassic Park, What Bugged the Dinosaurs?? offers compelling evidence of how insects directly and indirectly contributed to the dinosaurs' demise.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400835690
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Millions of years ago in the Cretaceous period, the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex--with its dagger-like teeth for tearing its prey to ribbons--was undoubtedly the fiercest carnivore to roam the Earth. Yet as What Bugged the Dinosaurs? reveals, T. rex was not the only killer. George and Roberta Poinar show how insects--from biting sand flies to disease-causing parasites--dominated life on the planet and played a significant role in the life and death of the dinosaurs. The Poinars bring the age of the dinosaurs marvelously to life. Analyzing exotic insects fossilized in Cretaceous amber at three major deposits in Lebanon, Burma, and Canada, they reconstruct the complex ecology of a hostile prehistoric world inhabited by voracious swarms of insects. The Poinars draw upon tantalizing new evidence from their amazing discoveries of disease-producing vertebrate pathogens in Cretaceous blood-sucking flies, as well as intestinal worms and protozoa found in fossilized dinosaur excrement, to provide a unique view of how insects infected with malaria, leishmania, and other pathogens, together with intestinal parasites, could have devastated dinosaur populations. A scientific adventure story from the authors whose research inspired Jurassic Park, What Bugged the Dinosaurs?? offers compelling evidence of how insects directly and indirectly contributed to the dinosaurs' demise.
Bugged!
Author: Michelle Knudsen
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1635927404
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Bzzzz! The mosquitoes are attacking and Riley’s on the run! Can he find a way to make himself bug-proof—once and for all?
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1635927404
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Bzzzz! The mosquitoes are attacking and Riley’s on the run! Can he find a way to make himself bug-proof—once and for all?
Is Your Computer Bugged?
Author: Glenn G. Jacobs
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435797523
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
This book provides the basic techniques for making personal computers resistant to cyber attack. It can help prevent the devastating personal and financial consequences of cyber criminal activity. While focused on the Windows 7 operating system, the techniques detailed in this book also apply to Apple OS-X and Linux.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435797523
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
This book provides the basic techniques for making personal computers resistant to cyber attack. It can help prevent the devastating personal and financial consequences of cyber criminal activity. While focused on the Windows 7 operating system, the techniques detailed in this book also apply to Apple OS-X and Linux.
Bugged!
Author: Turtleback Books
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780606347938
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780606347938
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description