Sex on Six Legs
Sex on Six Legs

Author: Marlene Zuk

Publisher: HMH

Published: 2011-08-02

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0547549172

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A biologist presents a “consistently delightful” look at the mysteries of insect behavior (The New York Times Book Review). Insects have inspired fear, fascination, and enlightenment for centuries. They are capable of incredibly complex behavior, even with brains often the size of a poppy seed. How do they accomplish feats that look like human activity—personality, language, childcare—with completely different pathways from our own? What is going on inside the mind of those ants that march like boot-camp graduates across your kitchen floor? How does the lead ant know exactly where to take her colony, to that one bread crumb that your nightly sweep missed? Can insects be taught new skills as easily as your new puppy? Sex on Six Legs is a startling and exciting book that provides answers to these questions and many more, examining not only the bedroom lives of creepy crawlies but also some of our own long-held assumptions about learning, the nature of personality, and what our own large brains might be for. “Smart, engaging . . . Zuk approaches her subject with such humor and enthusiasm for the intricacies of insect life, even bug-phobes will relish her account.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

All Six Legs
All Six Legs

Author: Denise McLeod

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-08-28

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1838599975

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Following the success of her debut book, Denise McLeod returns with All Six Legs, a collection of real life stories with dogs, laughter and education all rolled into one. Based on real events and case studies, All Six Legs is written in a ‘storybook’ style with a key learning point for all dog owners to benefit from.

Six-Legged Soldiers
Six-Legged Soldiers

Author: Jeffrey A. Lockwood

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-07-22

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0199733538

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Examines how insects have been used as weapons in wartime conflicts throughout history, presenting as examples how scorpions were used in Roman times and hornets nests were used during the MIddle Ages in siege warfare and how insects have been used in Vietnam, China, and Korea.

The Horse Has Six Legs
The Horse Has Six Legs

Author: Charles Simic

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2010-04-27

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781555975579

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THE UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION OF THIS VITAL ANTHOLOGY, WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR CHARLES SIMIC When The Horse Has Six Legs was first published in 1992, as war and hatred tore through the Balkans, this anthology of Serbian poetry became a landmark for some of the most compelling poetry in the contemporary world. "The ironies, in 1993, of giving an award to Serbian poets will be evident to many," Carolyn Kizer wrote in her judge's citation for the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. "But the glory of great poetry is that it transcends its time and these agonized events to enter the universal realm of art." Editor and translator Charles Simic has now updated and expanded this anthology for new readers in the twenty-first century. Simic has brought together an extraordinary range of Serbian poets, from the oral tradition of folk song to the great postwar poets, including Vasko Popa, Ivan V. Lalic, and Novica Tadic, and the new generation of poets writing now. With wild imagination, mordant humor, and vivid surrealism, Serbian poetry is rich, haunted, and intensely relevant to the world we inhabit.

Talyn
Talyn

Author: Holly Lisle

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-11-28

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9780765348739

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In a world where technology is magic, and war is the only way of life, Talyn is a soldier... ...raised from birth to fight for her people and her country. She long ago embraced her fate: to die in battle. So when a shocking peace sweeps her land, she's cast adrift, and easily seduced by an outsider's touch, his new magic -- but his passions are evil and run deep, and Talyn soon finds herself twisted by his touch. Through him she discovers darkness within herself she'd never suspected--and the mistreatment of prisoners of war, the creeping blackness sneaking through her land, the insidious evil that no one even suspected their peacekeepers of bringing. Now she must weigh her life against her honor if she is to help her people regain their freedom...