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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 500
Fabric Type: 9780786886678
Legal Disclaimer: 0786886676
Maximum Color Depth: Hyperion
Metal Type: Hyperion
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 256
Total External Bays Free: 2002-05
Total Firewire Ports: Hyperion
Total Parallel Ports: May 15, 2002
Hyperion
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Product Description:
In this lively and comprehensive portrait of the mosquito, its role in history, and its threat to mankind, Spielman and DAntonio take a mosquitos-eye view of nature and man. They show us how mosquitoes breed, live, mate, and die, and introduce us to their enemies, both natural and man-made. The authors present tragic and often grotesque examples of how the mosquito has insinuated itself into human history, from the malaria that devastated invaders of ancient Rome to the current widespread West Nile fever panic. Filled with little-known facts and remarkable anecdotes that bring this tiny being into larger focus, Mosquito offers fascinating, alarming, and convincing evidence that the sooner we get to know this pesky insect, the better off well be.
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TO read the book is very good to let the commoment people know something about mosquito and the protection methods.
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I had only one question I wanted answered by this book -- why do mosquitos bite some people (such as me!) and not others. It was never addressed.
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I wanted to like this book, and the first chapter, I admit, was . . . well, infectious! But after chapter 2, the writing (col)lapsed into repetition, general assertions,vague hand-waving, and lack of descriptive, telling details, both scientific or anecdotal. The tone and diction are inconsistent, now scholarly, detached language, now cautionary common slang. Unbelievably,one of the key terms -- "disease vector" -- is never even defined!! This book reads like a C+ term paper hastily pulled from ... Read More
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Perhaps I was merely spoiled by the book I read right before reading this one (Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif), but I found this book thoroughly mediocre both in content and style. The author constantly shifts between 3rd person narrator/teacher, man-on-the-scene, and editorializer, without spending sufficient time as any one of them. In fact, I was often disappointed by the brevity with which each of the book's subtopics was explored. It weighs in at a sparse ~225 pages, large print.
Unless ... Read More
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This book was written by a scientist and a journalist yet it was never clear to me what the contribution of the journalist was. The book writing showed knowledge, but not skills. The few attempts to make the reading captivating felt forced.
The content was great however and it was never tedious. It is just that some books really get you captivated regardless of the topic and this is not one of those books.
I wish it had covered a bit more about the different types of mosquitoes, and ... Read More
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