|
Showing 1 - 3 of
3 matches in All Departments
'A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird
and wonderful world of wasps' DAVE GOULSON, author of SILENT EARTH
There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and
none guarding so many undiscovered wonders. Where bees and ants
have long been the darlings of the insect world, wasps are much
older, cleverer and more diverse. They are the bee's evolutionary
ancestors - flying 100 million years earlier - and today they are
just as essential for the survival of our environment. A bee,
ecologist Professor Seirian Sumner argues, is just a wasp that has
forgotten how to hunt. For readers of Entangled Life, Other Minds
and The Gospel of Eels, this is a book to upturn your expectations
about one overlooked animal and the wider architecture of our
natural world. With endless surprises, this book might teach you
about the wasps that spend their entire lives sealed inside a fig,
about stinging wasps, about parasitic wasps, about wasps that turn
cockroaches into living zombies, about how wasps taught us to make
paper. It offers up a maligned insect in all its diverse,
unexpected splendour; as both predator and pollinator, the wasp is
an essential pest controller worldwide. Inside their sophisticated
social worlds is the best model we have for the earth's major
evolutionary transitions. In their understudied biology are clues
to progressing medicine, including a possible cure for cancer. The
closer you look at these spurned, winged insects - both custodians
and bouncers of our planet - the more you see. Their secrets have
so far gone mostly untapped, but the potential of the wasp is
endless.
'A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird
and wonderful world of wasps' DAVE GOULSON, author of SILENT EARTH
There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and
none guarding so many undiscovered wonders. Where bees and ants
have long been the darlings of the insect world, wasps are much
older, cleverer and more diverse. They are the bee's evolutionary
ancestors - flying 100 million years earlier - and today they are
just as essential for the survival of our environment. A bee,
ecologist Professor Seirian Sumner argues, is just a wasp that has
forgotten how to hunt. For readers of Entangled Life, Other Minds
and The Gospel of Eels, this is a book to upturn your expectations
about one overlooked animal and the wider architecture of our
natural world. With endless surprises, this book might teach you
about the wasps that spend their entire lives sealed inside a fig,
about stinging wasps, about parasitic wasps, about wasps that turn
cockroaches into living zombies, about how wasps taught us to make
paper. It offers up a maligned insect in all its diverse,
unexpected splendour; as both predator and pollinator, the wasp is
an essential pest controller worldwide. Inside their sophisticated
social worlds is the best model we have for the earth's major
evolutionary transitions. In their understudied biology are clues
to progressing medicine, including a possible cure for cancer. The
closer you look at these spurned, winged insects - both custodians
and bouncers of our planet - the more you see. Their secrets have
so far gone mostly untapped, but the potential of the wasp is
endless.
Beautiful artist’s book about Tin Drum’s MR installation,
Medusa. A meditation on emergent technologies, nature and
architecture amidst the climate crisis with contributions from
celebrated writers, academics and thinkers. The mixed reality
Medusa installation began with the questions: is there even such a
thing as non-physical architecture? What is the function of
architecture without physical form? Directed by Yoyo Munk and
produced by Tin Drum, it headlined the 2021 London Design Festival
at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Yoyo Munk’s first book is an
exploration into Medusa’s themes, reflecting on our changing
relationship with architecture within the context of rapidly
advancing technology and ongoing mass extinction. Featuring
original artwork by Tin Drum, Medusa is a timely and moving
artist’s book about climate grief. Medusa includes fascinating
conversations between Munk and Sou Fujimoto, the renowned architect
and Medusa collaborator, James Bridle, author of Ways of Being;
Veronica Strang, cultural anthropologist; and Seirian Sumner,
author of Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps. A dazzling
poetic contribution from Octavia Bright, author of This Ragged
Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal is interspersed throughout
the book. Medusa is an art object to be treasured, employing
multiple inks, foils, papers and processes.
|
You may like...
The Red Book
James Patterson, David Ellis
Paperback
R443
Discovery Miles 4 430
The Match
Harlan Coben
Paperback
R320
R253
Discovery Miles 2 530
Eruption
Michael Crichton, James Patterson
Paperback
R380
R270
Discovery Miles 2 700
New Times
Rehana Rossouw
Paperback
(1)
R250
R195
Discovery Miles 1 950
Crosshairs
James Patterson, James O Born
Paperback
R380
R270
Discovery Miles 2 700
Blood Trail
Tony Park
Paperback
R310
R266
Discovery Miles 2 660
The Edge
David Baldacci
Paperback
R365
R314
Discovery Miles 3 140
Dirt Town
Hayley Scrivenor
Paperback
R340
R269
Discovery Miles 2 690
|