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Title: Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones by Sue Hubbell ISBN: 0-618-05684-X Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 03 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful look at nature!
Comment: I grew up in New England, on the water, so when I came across this book it particularly sparked my attention. I've always had a great fascination with horseshoe crabs adn there's a superb chapter on them in this book. There are lots of neat animals discussed in this book - sea life like sea urchins, horseshoe crabs, sea sponges etc. But also land dwellers like spiders, millipedes, crickets fireflies, etc. Like other books by Hubbel there are some technical aspects to the book but its woven in so nicely with other interesting facts, stories that its an enjoyable read. I also like that she provides additional references for further reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Invertebrates in All Their Glory!
Comment: Sue Hubbell's book, "Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones," is a treat for anyone interested in these fascinating creatures. Her coverage of earthworms, millipedes, fireflies, sponges, horseshoe crabs and the strange mouse-like worm, Aphrodita, is a joy to an invertebrate zoologist and should be a great read for laymen who are open to the strange world of so-called creepy-crawlies. I have studied these creatures for much of my life, but could find few errors in Hubbell's chapters. She did her research well. Her life on the Ozarks reminds me of a woman I once met at a scientific conference. She also came from the Ozarks, where her family had worried about her when she was a little girl because she liked to watch salamanders in the rain and spiders spinning their webs. Some of her mountain relatives were sure she was bewitched. I am sure that Sue Hubbell is also "bewitched" by the strange world of these strange creatures- weird enough to live on the planet Mars. I know I was!
Read this book if you are at all interested in the natural world around you. It will introduce you to the real masters of our planet.
Rating: 3
Summary: The Bug Lady of Maine does not miss anything
Comment: At first this book is interesting and sometimes amusing. Above all it is informative and then again it is informative. In the final analyses it is informative. Did I mention that the book is informative? The next time Mr. Spock says that he left a bad taste in the mouth of the alien being because of his copper based blood, you can say, "According to Sue Hubbell that is no big deal; as pill bugs have a copper based system. So there!"
Sue covers a variety of bugs that haven't got any backbone. And we all know what you think of creatures without backbone. I am not sure that she is too focused or too diverse? However she really covers them and it is so informative that you may find yourself falling to sleep.
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Title: A Country Year : Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell ISBN: 0395967015 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 26 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs by Sue Hubbell, Dimitry Schidlovsky ISBN: 0395883261 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 13 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Book of Bees : And How to Keep Them by Sue Hubbell ISBN: 0395883245 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew About Genes by Sue Hubbell ISBN: 0618257489 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 12 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Glass, Paper, Beans : Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things by Leah Hager Cohen ISBN: 038549257X Publisher: Currency Pub. Date: 17 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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