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14%OFFJustin O. Schmidt - The Sting of the Wild - 9781421419282 - V9781421419282
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The Sting of the Wild

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Description for The Sting of the Wild Hardback. With colorful descriptions of each venom's sensation and a story that leaves you tingling with awe, The Sting of the Wild's one-of-a-kind style will quickly penetrate your imagination. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 colour plates. BIC Classification: PS; PSVT7; WNCN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. .
Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it's a brave exploration, others shake their heads in disbelief. His goal? To compare the impacts of stinging insects on humans, mainly using himself as the test case. In The Sting of the Wild, the colorful Dr. Schmidt takes us on a journey inside the lives of stinging insects. He explains how and why they attack and reveals the powerful punch they can deliver with a small venom gland and a sting, the name for the apparatus that delivers the venom. We learn which insects ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421419282
SKU
V9781421419282
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Ref
99-49

About Justin O. Schmidt
Justin O. Schmidt is a biologist at the Southwestern Biological Institute and is associated with the Department of Entomology at the University of Arizona. He is the coeditor of Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators.

Reviews for The Sting of the Wild
Schmidt's tales will prove infectiously engaging even to entomophobes.
Publishers Weekly
Even though the pain-laced topic might leave you wincing, Schmidt's engaging and entertaining writing makes for a tale worth reading.
Scientific American
[Schmidt's] low-down on sting biochemistry and physiology is relentlessly zestful, even as he recounts the swelling, burning consequences of his curiosity.
Nature ... Read more

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