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齣版社： The Belknap Press

ISBN：9780674018273

商品編碼：16190703786

For Love of Insects

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

齣版社: The Belknap Press (2005年10月4日)

平裝: 464頁

語種： 英語

ISBN: 0674018273

條形碼: 9780674018273

商品尺寸: 20.3 x 2.5 x 23.5 cm

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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

作者簡介

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.

跨越物種的凝視：一部關於生命多樣性的博物學史詩 圖書名稱： 《自然萬象：生命在地球上的輝煌與隱秘》 作者： 伊麗莎白·霍金斯 譯者： （此處留空，假設為中文世界首版或作者自述） --- 內容提要： 《自然萬象：生命在地球上的輝煌與隱秘》並非聚焦於某一個特定的生物類群，而是對生命在地球上漫長演化曆程中所展現齣的令人驚嘆的多樣性與復雜性進行的一次宏大而深入的考察。本書試圖搭建一座橋梁，連接起宏觀的生態係統變化與微觀的生命適應策略，引導讀者以一種更具包容性和曆史感的視角，去審視我們共同棲居的這個星球。 霍金斯博士，一位在古生物學、生態係統動力學以及比較生物學領域享有盛譽的學者，以其細膩的觀察力和嚴謹的科學態度，帶領我們穿梭於寒武紀的生命大爆發、二疊紀末期的滅絕大事件，直至現今我們所見到的繁茂生物圈。這本書的魅力在於其敘事的高低起伏——它既有對闆塊漂移如何塑造物種分布的地理學分析，也有對細胞層麵遺傳信息如何驅動錶型進化的分子生物學探討。 全書結構精巧，共分為五大部分，每一部分都聚焦於生命演化史中的一個核心議題，但相互之間又保持著有機的聯係： 第一部：根源的深探——生命起源與早期演化 這一部分追溯到生命的黎明。作者詳盡地描繪瞭地球早期環境的極端條件，以及從無機物到有機分子，再到自我復製係統的艱難跨越。霍金斯並未止步於對原始湯的理論描述，她深入探討瞭熱液噴口、粘土礦物錶麵等潛在的生命搖籃。隨後，她將目光投嚮瞭藍細菌的崛起——這次生物圈革命不僅徹底改變瞭大氣成分，也為復雜生命的齣現奠定瞭基礎。本部分特彆強調瞭原核生物在地球生命史中占據的漫長時間尺度，挑戰瞭人們對“進步”的綫性理解。 第二部：形態的爆炸——寒武紀的創新與身體藍圖的奠定 寒武紀被譽為“生命的大爆炸”，本書對此進行瞭細緻入微的剖析。霍金斯側重於解釋為什麼在相對短的地質時間內，會湧現齣如此多占據不同生態位、擁有截然不同身體結構的動物門類。她審視瞭基因調控網絡（如Hox基因）的作用，認為關鍵基因的“重組”而非全新基因的誕生，是驅動形態多樣性的主要動力。書中配有大量對奇特化石（如怪誕蟲、怪蝦）的藝術復原與科學解讀，幫助讀者直觀感受早期動物群的奇異美學。 第三部：適應的韌性——抵抗環境壓力與地質變遷 生命的曆史是一部與環境持續抗爭的曆史。第三部側重於生物如何應對突如其來的災難性事件。作者詳細分析瞭五次大滅絕事件，著重探討瞭幸存者們所具備的共同特徵：快速繁殖能力、廣譜的營養適應性，以及分散的地理分布。一個引人深思的章節探討瞭“生態位擠壓”理論，解釋瞭在大規模生物量損失後，幸存物種如何迅速“填充”空缺的生態位，加速瞭新一輪的輻射演化。書中對海洋與陸地生態係統對氣候變化的反應差異進行瞭對比研究。 第四部：感知的邊界——感覺係統與信息處理的演化 本書的這一部分將焦點轉移到生命如何“理解”其所處的世界。作者從最簡單的趨化性反應，一路考察到復雜動物的視覺、聽覺和化學信號係統。霍金斯巧妙地將神經科學的發現融入演化生物學的框架內。例如，她分析瞭不同光照環境下，不同生物（從深海魚到地棲哺乳動物）的感光細胞結構是如何獨立演化以優化信息獲取效率的。書中特彆提到瞭信息的傳遞媒介——化學信號的復雜性，這部分內容超越瞭簡單的動物行為學，觸及瞭分子層麵的信息編碼。 第五部：共生與互助——連接生命的網絡 最後一部探討瞭生命體之間復雜交織的關係。與強調競爭的傳統觀點不同，霍金斯強調瞭閤作與共生在驅動演化中的積極作用。她詳細介紹瞭植物與真菌形成的菌根網絡如何增強瞭植物對貧瘠土壤的耐受力，以及微生物群落如何成為宿主不可或缺的“器官”。這一部分的論述充滿瞭對生態整體性的敬畏，揭示瞭地球生物圈作為一個高度互聯的係統，其穩定性和持續性往往依賴於這種相互依存的關係，而非純粹的個體競爭。 寫作風格與特色： 《自然萬象》的語言既保持瞭科學的嚴謹性，又充滿瞭散文式的韻味。作者擅長運用類比和精妙的細節來闡釋深奧的理論。例如，在描述基因漂變時，她會用一個精心設計的“隨機彈珠遊戲”模型來輔助理解。本書拒絕將生物演化描繪成一條從低級到高級的直綫，而是強調瞭演化的分支性、偶發性和對當前環境的適宜性。它是一部寫給所有對生命現象充滿好奇心的讀者，特彆是那些渴望理解我們周遭世界是如何在時間的長河中被塑造齣來的求知者。閱讀本書，是對生命奇跡的一次深刻而全麵的緻敬。

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說實話，這本書的價值遠超其定價，它帶來的“心境轉變”是無價的。我原本是個對大多數昆蟲抱有本能排斥感的人，看到一些爬行的生物會下意識地迴避。然而，隨著閱讀的深入，那種恐懼感正在慢慢消退，取而代之的是一種由衷的敬佩和好奇。作者成功地將這些“微小的主宰者”從令人不適的印象中剝離齣來，展現瞭它們為瞭生存所付齣的驚人努力和展現齣的高度的適應性。這種視角上的轉變，不僅限於昆蟲本身，似乎也延伸到瞭我對生活中其他“微小”事物的看法上——原來萬物皆有其存在的意義和精妙之處。這本書，更像是一堂關於尊重生命和拓寬認知邊界的哲學課。

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我最欣賞這本書的一點是其敘事結構和邏輯的嚴密性，它不是一個隨意的昆蟲故事集，而是有一個清晰的主綫在貫穿始終，盡管我不能具體描述這個主綫是什麼，但它引導著讀者的目光從一個宏觀的生態概念，逐漸聚焦到某一個物種的微觀生存細節，再拉迴到它們對人類世界的影響，整個過程一氣嗬成，過渡自然得讓人拍案叫絕。這種高超的組織能力，讓即便是跨越瞭不同科屬的昆蟲介紹，也顯得主題高度統一，彼此之間有著微妙的內在聯係。讀完一個章節，我總能清晰地總結齣作者想要傳達的核心信息，這種清晰度和邏輯美感，在我讀過的自然科普書中是極為罕見的，體現瞭作者深厚的學術功底和卓越的錶達能力。

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這本書的敘事口吻，用一種近乎詩意的筆觸，將昆蟲的世界徐徐展開，完全顛覆瞭我過去對“蟲子”的刻闆印象。作者的文字功底深厚，行文流暢且富有感染力，他沒有用枯燥的專業術語堆砌，而是像一位經驗豐富的博物學傢，帶著我們深入到這些微小生命體的日常生活中去。我尤其欣賞他觀察事物的角度，那種細膩入微的洞察力，讓我看到瞭以往完全忽略的生存策略和行為模式。讀著讀著，我仿佛能聞到雨後泥土的芬芳，聽到甲蟲在落葉下摩擦的微弱聲響，那種沉浸式的體驗感是其他許多同類書籍無法比擬的。它成功地在“科普”和“文學”之間搭建瞭一座堅實的橋梁，讓即便是對昆蟲抱持著好奇心卻又有點敬畏的讀者，也能輕鬆且愉快地沉浸其中，甚至會産生一種想要親近自然的衝動。

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這本書的知識密度高得驚人，但呈現方式卻異常親切，完全不會讓人感到壓力山大。它不僅僅是羅列事實，而是更側重於探討昆蟲在生態係統中所扮演的復雜角色以及它們進化過程中那些令人嘆為觀止的“工程學奇跡”。我發現自己經常需要停下來，反復琢磨某段描述，比如關於某種蜂如何精確地“設計”它們的巢穴，或是某種蝴蝶如何利用色彩進行僞裝和求偶。這種知識的深度，讓我看到瞭自然界中隱藏的巨大智慧。對於那些尋求更深層次理解的讀者來說，這本書提供瞭遠超入門級彆的視角，它鼓勵讀者去思考“為什麼”而不是僅僅停留在“是什麼”，這種思維的引導作用非常寶貴，絕對值得反復品讀和研究。

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這本書的裝幀設計真是太妙瞭，拿到手沉甸甸的，紙張的質感也很考究，那種略帶紋理的觸感，讓人忍不住想一遍又一遍地摩挲。封麵上的插圖色彩運用得極其巧妙，既保持瞭科學的嚴謹性，又充滿瞭藝術氣息，一下子就抓住瞭我的眼球。我特彆喜歡它內頁的排版風格，留白恰到好處，文字和那些精美的昆蟲插畫穿插得毫無違和感，閱讀起來非常舒適，眼睛一點都不纍。光是翻閱這本書的這個過程，本身就是一種享受，感覺不像是在閱讀一本科普讀物，更像是在欣賞一本精緻的藝術畫冊。他們對細節的把控，從字體選擇到章節過渡的設計，都體現齣一種匠心獨運，讓人能真切感受到齣版方在製作這本書時投入的心血和對讀者的尊重。這絕對是一本可以擺在客廳茶幾上，隨時拿起來翻閱，都能讓人心情愉悅的“顔值擔當”之作。