Never home alone : from microbes to millipedes, camel crickets, and honeybees, the natural history of where we live /
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Published: |
Basic Books,
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Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
Publication Dates: | 2018. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First edition. |
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Item Description: |
"November 2018"--Title page verso. Includes index. |
Carrier Form: | vii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
ISBN: |
9781541645769 (hardcover) : 1541645766 (hardcover) |
Index Number: | QH309 |
CLC: | Q1-49 |
Call Number: | Q1-49/D923 |
Contents: | Prologue : Homo indoorus -- Wonder -- The hot spring in the basement -- Seeing in the dark -- Absence as a disease -- Bathing in a stream of life -- The problem with abundance -- The farsighted ecologist -- What good is a camel cricket? -- The problem with cockroaches is us -- Look what the cat dragged in -- Gardening the bodies of babies -- The flavor of biodiversity. |