Secret Weapons - Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, Other Many Legged Creatures

Informationen zum Autor 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 University. Melody Siegler is Associate Professor of Biology at Emory University. Klappentext Part handbook, part field guide, part photo album, Secret Weapons , the follow-up to the award-winning For Love of Insects , 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. Zusammenfassung Part handbook! part field guide! part photo album! Secret Weapons! the follow-up to the award-winning For Love of Insects! 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 17642206

Product details

• Authors: Maria Eisner, Thomas Eisner, Thomas Eisner Eisner, Eisner Maria, Eisner Thomas, Melody Siegler, Siegler Melody
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2007
• EAN: 9780674024038
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02403-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology, Insects (entomology)