Product Description: Tom Eisner s first forays into photography were the result of scientific pursuits. An early fascination for insects specifically in the strategies that enabled these little animals to achieve dominance on earth required a close look into their behavior, physiology, and ecology...read more

Product Description: Mostly tiny, infinitely delicate, and short-lived, insects and their relatives--arthropods--nonetheless outnumber all their fellow creatures on earth. How lowly arthropods achieved this unlikely preeminence is a story deftly and colorfully told in this follow-up to the award-winning For Love of Insects...read more

Looks at how insects and other arthropods use chemicals to defend themselves.

Product Description: In this book, Thomas Eisner presents us with a portfolio of natural imagery hitherto unseen, the fruit of his search for beauty in nature. He examined autumnal leaves in the midst of color change and was enthralled by what came into view at higher magnifications...read more

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Product Description: Chemical signals among organisms form "a vast communicative interplay, fundamental to the fabric of life," in the words of one expert. Chemical ecology is the the discipline that seeks to understand these interactions-to use biology in the search for new substances of potential benefit to humankind...read more