{"product_id":"secret-weapons-thomas-eisner-9780674024038","title":"Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures","description":"\u003cp\u003eMostly tiny, infinitely delicate, and short-lived, insects and their relatives--arthropods--nonetheless outnumber all their fellow creatures on earth. How lowly arthropods achieved this unlikely preeminence is a story deftly and colorfully told in this follow-up to the award-winning \u003ci\u003eFor Love of Insects\u003c\/i\u003e. Part handbook, part field guide, part photo album, \u003ci\u003eSecret Weapons\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the diverse and often astonishing defensive strategies that have allowed insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures not just to survive, but to thrive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn sixty-nine chapters, each brilliantly illustrated with photographs culled from Thomas Eisner's legendary collection, we meet a largely North American cast of arthropods--as well as a few of their kin from Australia, Europe, and Asia--and observe at firsthand the nature and extent of the defenses that lie at the root of their evolutionary success. Here are the cockroaches and termites, the carpenter ants and honeybees, and all the miniature creatures in between, deploying their sprays and venom, froth and feces, camouflage and sticky coatings. And along with a marvelous bug's-eye view of how these secret weapons actually work, here is a close-up look at the science behind them, from taxonomy to chemical formulas, as well as an appendix with instructions for studying chemical defenses at home. Whether dipped into here and there or read cover to cover, \u003ci\u003eSecret Weapons\u003c\/i\u003e will prove invaluable to hands-on researchers and amateur naturalists alike, and will captivate any reader for whom nature is a source of wonder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Eisner,Maria Eisner,Melody Siegler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674024036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674024038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.08w x 0.78d","brand":"Thomas Eisner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47579600093439,"sku":"9780674024038","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_22d96480-aed7-4810-ae63-4afdedbe89cc.jpg?v=1763875320","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/secret-weapons-thomas-eisner-9780674024038","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}