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出版社： The Belknap Press

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For Love of Insects

Edward O. Wilson (序言), Thomas Eisner (作者) 

出版社: The Belknap Press (2005年10月4日)

平装: 464页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 0674018273

条形码: 9780674018273

商品尺寸: 20.3 x 2.5 x 23.5 cm

商品重量: 1.2 Kg

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Although insects are not usually the stars of popular-science writing, this engaging look at how one scientist studies their lives may add them to the most-requested lists of science- and animal-loving readers. -- Nancy Bent Booklist 20031115 For Love of Insects is especially valuable because it explains the steps missing from the research reports in Nature and Science: [Eisner] tells the story from first noticing a bug on a walk in the woods, through experiments and analytical chemistry, to a final understanding of each phenomenon...For Love of Insects is a fascinating introduction to a world we poor humans--barely able to detect most chemicals--seldom notice. -- Jonathan Beard New Scientist 20031101 [Eisner's] new book is a personal memoir of a lifetime in science, engagingly written and stunningly illustrated with photographs of insects doing astonishing things...What makes Eisner a world-class entomologist is not access to million-dollar scientific instruments, but a mind that never stops asking 'Why?' -- Chet Raymo Boston Globe 20031209 This is one of the best nature titles in the last several years. -- Kim Long Bloomsbury Review 20040101 Prepare to be amazed. Brimming with enthusiasm, Eisner reveals a world of unbelievable majesty and complexity in the simplest of insects. The photographs alone are worth the price of the book, but the text crackles with the electricity of a brilliant genius at work, as Eisner leads the reader from simple observation to major scientific breakthrough. In fact this book should be required reading for every biology student because it illuminates the basic principle that passion and curiosity are the twin pillars of all great science. -- David Lukas Los Angeles Times 20040120 Have you ever been squirted by a vinegaroon? Spent a night alone outdoors in the Arizona desert? Staged a pitched battle between ants and termites? (The termites took heavy losses, but the ants retreated under fire from their biological weapon, a chemical spray containing complex diterpenes.) If the answer's no, enlarge your horizons by reading Thomas Eisner's For Love of Insects...A fascinating and highly unusual book...These and many more of nature's mysteries are unraveled in Eisner's inimitable style--charmingly modest, brimming with enthusiasm and shot with flashes of endearing naivete...Anyone fascinated by the endless diversity of nature, who prefers quirky fact to highfalutin theory or who simply likes to share someone else's passion, will find this book a delight. -- Derek Bickerton New York Times Book Review 20040208 In his new book, For Love of Insects, Eisner describes a lifetime of field observations and laboratory experiments on an amazingly broad sampling of the class Insecta, together with the rest of the terrestrial arthropods. Along the way, he is a font of information about the workings of myriad biological adaptations. Together with the book's exquisite and detailed photographs...Eisner's text is the research retrospective of a self-described 'incorrigible entomophile'--one of the world's most visible and admired entomologists. -- Robert L. Smith Natural History 20040301 Not only does [Eisner] describe discoveries with a richness and enthusiasm long absent from contemporary literature (where every word counts and is counted), but he interlaces the chronology of his exploration with relevant personal reflections. The resulting bildungsroman portrays the scientist as hunter in hot pursuit of new findings...With its vivid descriptions and beautiful images of insect life, this book should entice the interest and support of readers from all backgrounds. -- Ian T. Baldwin Science 20040213 The book is well written and beautifully illustrated with colour photographs, the majority taken by the author...Throughout the text one is reminded of the pleasure that the author derives from discovery. Anyone reading this book will themselves embark upon a journey of discovery and come to share, if only at arm's length, Tom's love of insect's and the wonders of nature. -- Jeremy N. McNeil Nature 20040325 The findings [Eisner] describes are intriguing--all the more so in that they provide the scaffolding on which we see at work the mind of one of our most distinguished scientists and naturalists. Exquisitely illustrated with photographs, most taken by Eisner, who is widely admired for his photography, the book is written in a style that is conversational, witty and graphic. Beautiful to look at and beautiful to read. Scientific American 20040501 An absorbing story of Eisner's career as a professor of chemical ecology (a discipline he helped found), interwoven with a passionate celebration of his subject--the lowly insect--and countless did-you-know's from the world of entomology. New York Times Book Review 20040606 This is the sort of book that you want to read out loud to complete strangers. Rarely has the manic curiosity of a naturalist's scientific mind been so clearly revealed as in this journey with Thomas Eisner...As the title suggests, this book reflects sheer enthusiasm and passion for bugs, and the reading of it is like a wild ride with a brilliant researcher...For Love of Insects marvelously captures the spirit of the naturalist mind and suggests how we might view the natural world with renewed curiosity and excitement. If this book could be required reading for biology students, the result would be a new generation of eager, brilliant naturalists. -- David Lukas Orion 20040701 Eisner's work, summarized for the first time in this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, presents a coherent picture of a world little known even to many biologists. -- William A. Shear American Scientist 20040701 After 45 years at Cornell [Eisner] has written a fascinating book of stories about some of his most interesting discoveries and how they came about. One can read about bombardier beetles that blast their attackers with hot benzoquinones, millipedes that tie up marauding ants with minute grappling hooks, and sundew plants that capture their insect prey with sticky secretions...This very readable book has a great number of outstanding color and black-and-white photographs that are themselves remarkably interesting. -- R. C. Graves Choice 20040601 Eisner's book compels and fascinates at a variety of levels. It probes the ways in which insects use chemicals, and documents the ways in which an investigator poses the questions and teases out the answers...He tells his stories in the most accessible way...The sheer elegance of his approach is spellbinding. And the photographs that document his explorations are remarkable--every experimental tale here is beautifully illustrated. -- Gaden S. Robinson Times Literary Supplement 20040730 At the start of his career as a professional biologist, Thomas Eisner noticed that hardly anyone had looked at how insects defend themselves against the many animals that want to eat them...Over the next 50 years, his work as a kind of 'chemical biologist' opened up a miniature world brimming with subterfuge and weaponry, some subtle, some simply vicious. This book takes us through his most exciting discoveries and reveals a lot about the man behind one of the more famous names in biology. BBC Wildlife 20040901 If you want to understand what drives a man to spend his entire adult life researching an apparently obscure topic, you should read For Love of Insects. In this inspiring book, Thomas Eisner recalls his colleagues and his insect subjects with genuine affection, and the effect on the reader is equally warming...Fascinating stories of how biological mysteries were unravelled by painstaking observation and experimentation. -- Graham Elmes Times Higher Education Supplement 20041126 This book is simultaneously a fascinating exploration of insect defenses and a personal account of the process of scientific discovery. Eisner relates...intricate stories of arthropod defense. While doing so he also gives the reader an understanding of how scientists go through the process of observing phenomena, developing and testing hypothesis, and finally achieving an understanding of what's going on...Eisner has produced a book that is especially a delight for the insect enthusiast, but also should interest the general naturalist. -- Cliff Fairweather Audubon Naturalist News 20040701 The reviewer is well known for his dislike of the self-congratulatory style of presentation that is a feature of many books from "across the pond"; he also has little knowledge if, and even less interest in, the New World entomological fauna. How surprising that he actually liked this well-illustrated book by Thomas Eisner! Dr. Eisner is Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University and a great deal of this book reveals this fact. However, the reader should not be put off by this fact and I suggest that the style of the book actually works in the favour of the layman understanding some of the more complex matters presented...This book is well presented...and at just under twenty quid [$29.95] it is not a bad price by modern standards. Worth adding to the letter to Santa Claus. Entomologist's Record A world-renowned expert on insects takes the reader on a fascinating journey into his world in this lively and engrossing book. Each of the ten chapters tells a different story of entomological mystery and imaginative research, illustrated with stunning photography and spanning much of a productive research career. An entertaining read highly recommended! Southeastern Naturalist For Love of Insects contains enough depth and description to engage even the most dedicated entomologist, yet because the material is presented in Eisner's engaging style, the reader never gets lost in a maze of scientific jargon...I think it would be hard for any reader to come away from this book without sharing in the author's sense of wonder at the amazing ways in which insects have evolved to defend, mate, and live. With fewer and fewer people engaged in the study of biology and natural history, this book could serve to explain to nonscientists why insects deserve respect. -- Scott Hoffman Black BioScience Apart from being a most enjoyable read for an entomologist, For Love of Insects describes a long list of important discoveries in arthropods' chemical defence systems and other fascinating relationships between insects and plants that would be useful background for students in a number of entomological and ecological fields. Thomas Eisner deserves the epithet "modern Fabre" for his long-lasting investigations of arthropod behaviour, in particular chemical defence mechanisms. -- Barbara May The Journal of the Entomological Society of New South Wales Inc

作者简介

Thomas Eisner is Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University. In 1994 he was awarded the National Medal of Science. 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.

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我最欣赏这本书的一点是其叙事结构和逻辑的严密性，它不是一个随意的昆虫故事集，而是有一个清晰的主线在贯穿始终，尽管我不能具体描述这个主线是什么，但它引导着读者的目光从一个宏观的生态概念，逐渐聚焦到某一个物种的微观生存细节，再拉回到它们对人类世界的影响，整个过程一气呵成，过渡自然得让人拍案叫绝。这种高超的组织能力，让即便是跨越了不同科属的昆虫介绍，也显得主题高度统一，彼此之间有着微妙的内在联系。读完一个章节，我总能清晰地总结出作者想要传达的核心信息，这种清晰度和逻辑美感，在我读过的自然科普书中是极为罕见的，体现了作者深厚的学术功底和卓越的表达能力。

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这本书的知识密度高得惊人，但呈现方式却异常亲切，完全不会让人感到压力山大。它不仅仅是罗列事实，而是更侧重于探讨昆虫在生态系统中所扮演的复杂角色以及它们进化过程中那些令人叹为观止的“工程学奇迹”。我发现自己经常需要停下来，反复琢磨某段描述，比如关于某种蜂如何精确地“设计”它们的巢穴，或是某种蝴蝶如何利用色彩进行伪装和求偶。这种知识的深度，让我看到了自然界中隐藏的巨大智慧。对于那些寻求更深层次理解的读者来说，这本书提供了远超入门级别的视角，它鼓励读者去思考“为什么”而不是仅仅停留在“是什么”，这种思维的引导作用非常宝贵，绝对值得反复品读和研究。

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说实话，这本书的价值远超其定价，它带来的“心境转变”是无价的。我原本是个对大多数昆虫抱有本能排斥感的人，看到一些爬行的生物会下意识地回避。然而，随着阅读的深入，那种恐惧感正在慢慢消退，取而代之的是一种由衷的敬佩和好奇。作者成功地将这些“微小的主宰者”从令人不适的印象中剥离出来，展现了它们为了生存所付出的惊人努力和展现出的高度的适应性。这种视角上的转变，不仅限于昆虫本身，似乎也延伸到了我对生活中其他“微小”事物的看法上——原来万物皆有其存在的意义和精妙之处。这本书，更像是一堂关于尊重生命和拓宽认知边界的哲学课。

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这本书的装帧设计真是太妙了，拿到手沉甸甸的，纸张的质感也很考究，那种略带纹理的触感，让人忍不住想一遍又一遍地摩挲。封面上的插图色彩运用得极其巧妙，既保持了科学的严谨性，又充满了艺术气息，一下子就抓住了我的眼球。我特别喜欢它内页的排版风格，留白恰到好处，文字和那些精美的昆虫插画穿插得毫无违和感，阅读起来非常舒适，眼睛一点都不累。光是翻阅这本书的这个过程，本身就是一种享受，感觉不像是在阅读一本科普读物，更像是在欣赏一本精致的艺术画册。他们对细节的把控，从字体选择到章节过渡的设计，都体现出一种匠心独运，让人能真切感受到出版方在制作这本书时投入的心血和对读者的尊重。这绝对是一本可以摆在客厅茶几上，随时拿起来翻阅，都能让人心情愉悦的“颜值担当”之作。

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这本书的叙事口吻，用一种近乎诗意的笔触，将昆虫的世界徐徐展开，完全颠覆了我过去对“虫子”的刻板印象。作者的文字功底深厚，行文流畅且富有感染力，他没有用枯燥的专业术语堆砌，而是像一位经验丰富的博物学家，带着我们深入到这些微小生命体的日常生活中去。我尤其欣赏他观察事物的角度，那种细腻入微的洞察力，让我看到了以往完全忽略的生存策略和行为模式。读着读着，我仿佛能闻到雨后泥土的芬芳，听到甲虫在落叶下摩擦的微弱声响，那种沉浸式的体验感是其他许多同类书籍无法比拟的。它成功地在“科普”和“文学”之间搭建了一座坚实的桥梁，让即便是对昆虫抱持着好奇心却又有点敬畏的读者，也能轻松且愉快地沉浸其中，甚至会产生一种想要亲近自然的冲动。