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- The earwig's tail : a modern bestiary of multi-legged legends / by Berenbaum, M.(May);
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-180) and index.The beasts -- The Aerodynamically Unsound Bumble Bee -- The Brain-Boring Earwig -- The California Tongue Cockroach -- The Domesticated Crab Louse -- The Extinction-Prevention Bee -- The Filter-Lens Fly -- The Genetically Modified Frankenbug -- The Headless Cockroach -- The Iraqi Camel Spider -- The Jumping Face Bug -- The Kissing Bug -- The "Locust" -- The Mate-Eating Mantis -- The Nuclear Cockroach -- The Olympian Flea -- The Prognosticating Woollyworm -- The Queen Bee -- The Right-Handed Ant -- The Sex-Enhancing Spanishfly -- The Toilet Spider -- The Unslakable Mosquito -- The Venomous Daddylonglegs -- The Wing-Flapping Chaos Butterfly -- The X-ray-Induced Giant Insect -- The Yogurt Beetle -- The Zapper Bug.
- Subjects: Insects; Arthropoda; Errors, Scientific.; Common fallacies.;
- © 2009., Harvard University Press,
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- The complete Ice Age : how climate change shaped the world / by Fagan, Brian M.;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-233) and index.Discovering the Ice Age / Brian Fagan -- Searching for clues / Brian Fagan -- How the Ice Age began / Mark Maslin -- The climatic rollercoaster / Mark Maslin -- The human story / John Hoffecker -- The Ice Age bestiary / Hannah O'Regan -- After the ice / Brian Fagan -- Hot or cold future? / Mark Maslin."In this book, leading scientists weave a compelling story out of the most up-to-date discoveries in different fields of Ice Age research." "As the glaciers melted 10,000 years ago, our ancestors faced a staggering sea-level rise of 120 metres, far in excess of the relatively modest rise predicted for the 21st century. The final chapter issues a stark warning about the future of our planet and the consequences of our profligate lifestyles." "Magnificently illustrated with dramatic landscape photography, fossil remains of our ancestors and Ice Age beasts, and specially commissioned explanatory diagrams, The Complete Ice Age shows both the fragility of our climate system and the power of humans to adapt to the most extreme environmental challenges."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects: Glacial epoch.; Climatic changes.; Prehistoric peoples.; Human beings; Paleoecology.; Paleoecology; Paleontology; Global warming.;
- © 2009., Thames & Hudson,
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- White : the history of a color / by Pastoureau, Michel,1947-author.aut; Gladding, Jody,1955-translator.trl;
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-234).As a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own right, just like red, blue, green, or yellow--and, like them, white has its own intriguing history. In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau, a celebrated authority on the history of colors, presents a fascinating visual, social, and cultural history of the color white in European societies, from antiquity to today. Illustrated throughout with a wealth of captivating images ranging from the ancient world to the twenty-first century, White examines the evolving place, perception, and meaning of this deceptively simple but complex hue in art, fashion, literature, religion, science, and everyday life across the millennia. Before the seventeenth century, white's status as a true color was never contested. On the contrary, from antiquity until the height of the Middle Ages, white formed with red and black a chromatic triad that played a central role in life and art. Nor has white always been thought of as the opposite of black. Through the Middle Ages, the true opposite of white was red. White also has an especially rich symbolic history, and the color has often been associated with purity, virginity, innocence, wisdom, peace, beauty, and cleanliness. With its striking design and compelling text, White is a colorful history of a surprisingly vivid and various color.
- Subjects: White.; Symbolism of colors; Color; Color; White in art.;
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- Mommy angst : motherhood in American popular culture / by Hall, Ann C.,1959-; Bishop, Mardia.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.This revealing work looks at representations of motherhood from a wide range of pop culture sources to explore larger questions about the image and self-image of mothers in the United States.--From publisher description.
- Subjects: Motherhood; Mutterschaft <Motiv>; Massenkultur.;
- © c2009., Praeger,
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- Black : the history of a color / by Pastoureau, Michel,1947-;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-210).In the beginning was black : from the beginning to the year 1000 -- Mythologies of darkness -- From darkness to colors -- From palette to lexicon -- Death and its color -- The black bird -- Black, white, red -- In the devil's palette : tenth to thirteenth centuries -- The devil and his images -- The devil and his colors -- A disturbing bestiary -- To dispel the darkness -- The monk's quarrel: white versus black -- A new color order: the coat of arms -- Who was the black knight? -- A fashionable color : Fourteenth to sixteenth centuries -- The colors of the skin -- The Christianization of dark skin -- Jesus with the dyer -- Dyeing in black -- The color's moral code -- The luxury of princes -- The gray of hope -- The birth of the world in black and white : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Ink and paper -- Color in black and white -- Hachures and guillochures -- The color war -- The Protestant dress code -- A very somber century -- The return of the devil -- New speculations, new classifications -- A new order of colors -- All the colors of black : eighteenth to twenty-first centuries -- The triumph of color -- The age of enlightenment -- The poetics of melancholy -- The age of coal and factories -- Regarding images -- A modern color -- A dangerous color?
- Subjects: Black.; Color; Color; Symbolism of colors; Black in art.;
- © c2009., Princeton University Press,
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