Author: Wings of Success
Publisher: Aldo Press
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Enraged with how the termites have eaten up your antique furniture? Can't wait to have them exterminated completely from the face of the Earth?
Author: Briton Hadden
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
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Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1452
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
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Category : Business and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 1458
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Author: Lisa Margonelli
Publisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374712387
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates the environmental and economic impact termites inflict on human societies in this fascinating examination of one of nature’s most misunderstood insects. Are we more like termites than we ever imagined? In Underbug, the award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli introduces us to the enigmatic creatures that collectively outweigh human beings ten to one and consume $40 billion worth of valuable stuff annually—and yet, in Margonelli’s telling, seem weirdly familiar. Over the course of a decade-long obsession with the little bugs, Margonelli pokes around termite mounds and high-tech research facilities, closely watching biologists, roboticists, and geneticists. Her globe-trotting journey veers into uncharted territory, from evolutionary theory to Edwardian science literature to the military industrial complex. What begins as a natural history of the termite becomes a personal exploration of the unnatural future we’re building, with darker observations on power, technology, historical trauma, and the limits of human cognition. Whether in Namibia or Cambridge, Arizona or Australia, Margonelli turns up astounding facts and raises provocative questions. Is a termite an individual or a unit of a superorganism? Can we harness the termite’s properties to change the world? If we build termite-like swarming robots, will they inevitably destroy us? Is it possible to think without having a mind? Underbug burrows into these questions and many others—unearthing disquieting answers about the world’s most underrated insect and what it means to be human.
Author: United States. Congress Senate
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Languages : en
Pages : 630
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