Primary Format: Paper | |
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ISBN: | 9781611685329 |
Published: | 04/01/2014 |
Pages: | 152 |
Size: | 8.5 x 9 in. |
Subject(s): | Nature & Environment |
Art and Architecture of Insects
David M. Phillips
Paper: $24.95"Phillips's delightful coffee-table volume reveals nature as architect in an ordered yet somehow whimsical world."
Publisher's Weekly
Phillips’s delightful coffee-table volume reveals nature as architect in an ordered yet somehow whimsical world.
—Publishers Weekly
An eye-opening tour of the unseen marvels of insect form and design as revealed in finely sculptured detail and artistic beauty by the scanning electron microscope. . . . This book will make you really see living insects for the wonderful creatures they are.
—Sidney L. Tamm, professor emeritus of biology, Boston University
A fascinating window on the variation in insect form, bolstered by an authoritative but appealingly nontechnical account of its relation to function that answers the question, How can flies walk upside down on the ceiling?
—J. Michael Bedford, professor emeritus, Weill Cornell Medical College
Written in a lively and accessible style, [this book] will appeal to entomologists and zoologists, as well as to students of biology and the general reader curious about the fascinating world of insects.
—Maria-Elisa Perotti, professor emeritus, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Milan
The book is a masterpiece; a rare combination of science, art, and humor. Some of the insects pose as though gesturing to us.
—Ruth Shalgi, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
DAVID M. PHILLIPS was a biomedical researcher at the Population Council in New York City. He is now retired and living with his wife Robin and their pets in Barnstable, Mass. He has published over 200 papers in scientific journals. His microscopy photographs have appeared in hundreds of scholarly journals.