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Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures

Author: Eisner, Thomas; Maria Eisner & Melody Siegler
ISBN #: 9780674018822
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publisher Location: Cambridge MA
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: near fine
Edition: First edition
Pub Date: 2005
About As New in an As New jacket. Clean and unmarked. First printing, no others noted. 8vo, hard cover. "Thomas Eisner (June 25, 1929 – March 25, 2011) was a German-American entomologist and ecologist, known as the "father of chemical ecology." He was a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology (CIRCE). He was a world authority on animal behavior, ecology, and evolution, and, together with his Cornell colleague Jerrold Meinwald, was one of the pioneers of chemical ecology, the discipline dealing with the chemical interactions of organisms. He was author or co-author of some 400 scientific articles and seven books...Eisner's main body of work was in chemical ecology, primarily studying the chemical defenses of insects against predation...His film Secret Weapons won the Grand Award at the New York Film Festival and was named Best Science Film by the British Association for the Advancement of Science."--Wikipedia. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!