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Author | : William Eberhard |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 679 |
Release | : 2020-12-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022653474X |
In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical agility and mental abilities of orb weavers. For instance, one spider spins more than three precisely spaced, morphologically complex spiral attachments per second for up to fifteen minutes at a time. Spiders even adjust the mechanical properties of their famously strong silken lines to different parts of their webs and different environments, and make dramatic modifications in orb designs to adapt to available spaces. This extensive adaptive flexibility, involving decisions influenced by up to sixteen different cues, is unexpected in such small, supposedly simple animals. As Eberhard reveals, the extraordinary diversity of webs includes ingenious solutions to gain access to prey in esoteric habitats, from blazing hot and shifting sand dunes (to capture ants) to the surfaces of tropical lakes (to capture water striders). Some webs are nets that are cast onto prey, while others form baskets into which the spider flicks prey. Some aerial webs are tramways used by spiders searching for chemical cues from their prey below, while others feature landing sites for flying insects and spiders where the spider then stalks its prey. In some webs, long trip lines are delicately sustained just above the ground by tiny rigid silk poles. Stemming from the author’s more than five decades observing spider webs, this book will be the definitive reference for years to come.
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Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Short stories |
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Author | : Cornell Woolrich |
Publisher | : Orion |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Short stories, English |
ISBN | : 9780575017238 |
Author | : Adrian Cole |
Publisher | : Wildside Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2024-07-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Once more the cursed warrior, The Voidal and his bizarre familiar, the incorrigible Elfloq, travel through the nightmare regions of the omniverse in search of a way to break the grip of the Dark Gods on their destiny, to free the Voidal from the will of the Oblivion Hand. They encounter even more mad gods and monstrous beings on their terrifying odyssey: Thunderhammer, smith of the gods; Scyllarza, half human half demoness; the Thief of Thieves, and the Preposterous Library among others. THE LONG REACH OF THE NIGHT, second volume of the Voidal Trilogy, is sword and sorcery in the grand tradition of Jack Vance and Michael Moorcock!
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Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 1076 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Copyright |
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Author | : Cornell Woolrich |
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Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : J. C. Nicholson |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2002-08 |
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ISBN | : 0759659222 |
Stella Patchouli, an aristocrat's daughter, is forced to live in perpetual exile. At age 13 she runs away, leaving behind her family's Swiss chalet - in search of life without boundaries. Adventures lived, lessons learned - she is finally set free as an American citizen in the year 2000.
Author | : Foster Hirsch |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2008-11-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786726776 |
Foster Hirsch's Dark Side of the Screen is by far the most thorough and entertaining study of the themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, directors, and films in this genre ever published. From Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk, Robert Aldrich, and Howard Hawkes to Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, and Paul Schrader, the noir themes of dread, paranoia, steamy sex, double-crossing women, and menacing cityscapes have held a fascination. The features that make Burt Lancaster, Joan Crawford, Robert Mitchum, and Humphrey Bogart into noir heroes and heroines are carefully detailed here, as well as those camera angles, lighting effects, and story lines that characterize Fritz Lang, Samuel Fuller, and Orson Welles as noir directors.For the current rediscovery of film noir, this comprehensive history with its list of credits to 112 outstanding films and its many illustrations will be a valuable reference and a source of inspiration for further research.
Author | : Cornell Woolrich |
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Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1971-01-01 |
Genre | : Horror tales, American |
ISBN | : 9780060131739 |