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The Butterfly Effect
- Insects and the Making of the Modern World
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A fascinating, entertaining dive into the long-standing relationship between humans and insects, revealing the surprising ways we depend on these tiny, six-legged creatures.
Insects might make us shudder in disgust, but they are also responsible for many of the things we take for granted in our daily lives.
When we bite into a shiny apple, listen to the resonant notes of a violin, get dressed, receive a dental implant, or get a manicure, we are the beneficiaries of a vast army of insects. Try as we might to replicate their raw material (silk, shellac, and cochineal, for instance), our artificial substitutes have proven subpar at best, and at worst toxic, ensuring our interdependence with the insect world for the foreseeable future.
Drawing on research in laboratory science, agriculture, fashion, and international cuisine, Edward D. Melillo weaves a vibrant world history that illustrates the inextricable and fascinating bonds between humans and insects. Across time, we have not only coexisted with these creatures but have relied on them for, among other things, the key discoveries of modern medical science and the future of the world's food supply.
Without insects, entire sectors of global industry would grind to a halt and essential features of modern life would disappear. Here is a beguiling appreciation of the ways in which these creatures have altered - and continue to shape - the very framework of our existence.
Cover image: Various Moths and Butterflies by Kubo Shunman. H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Insects turn up everywhere, including throughout human history. Lively and engrossing, Edward Melillo's The Butterfly Effect shows that bugs matter every bit as much as generals and emperors." (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction)
"Melillo is a witty and eloquent guide through the fraught terrain of human-insect interactions, able to write as lucidly about the white-eyed mutant fruitfly as the four movements of Serenade in A.... [He] is at his most inspiring, however, when he exalts the scientists who have rejected the view that there’s little in the world of insects to remind us of our own." (Christopher Irmscher, The Wall Street Journal)
"Fascinating ... Stories of intrigue and the breaking of lucrative monopolies mix with natural history to forge an unusual history intertwining human and insect life and full of aha moments." (Nancy Bent, Booklist)
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Harry Cliff - a University of Cambridge particle physicist and researcher on the Large Hadron Collider - sets out in pursuit of answers. He ventures to the largest underground research facility in the world, deep beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountains, where scientists gaze into the heart of the Sun using the most elusive of particles, the ghostly neutrino. He visits CERN in Switzerland to explore the "Antimatter Factory," where the stuff of science fiction is manufactured daily (and we're close to knowing whether it falls up).
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Down the rabbit hole in a most fascinating way!
- De Rick B en 10-04-21
De: Harry Cliff
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My Inner Sky
- On Embracing Day, Night, and All the Times in Between
- De: Mari Andrew
- Narrado por: Mari Andrew
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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A whole, beautiful life is only made possible by the wide spectrum of feelings that exist between joy and sorrow. In this insightful and warm book, writer and illustrator Mari Andrew explores all the emotions that make up a life, in the process offering insights about trauma and healing, the meaning of home and the challenges of loneliness, finding love in the most unexpected of places - from birds nesting on a sculpture to a ride on the subway - and a resounding case for why sometimes you have to put yourself in the path of magic.
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Pretty light
- De Carolyn Pomfret en 09-05-22
De: Mari Andrew
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The Nature of Life and Death
- Every Body Leaves a Trace
- De: Patricia Wiltshire
- Narrado por: Patricia Wiltshire
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative, The Nature of Life and Death details Wiltshire's unique journey from college professor to crime fighter: solving murders, locating corpses, and exonerating the falsely accused. Along the way, she introduces us to the unseen world all around us and underneath our feet: plants, animals, pollen, spores, fungi, and microbes that we move through every day. Her story is a testament to the power of persistence and reveals how our relationship with the vast natural world reaches far deeper than we might think.
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Fascinating Welsh granny
- De Kirby C. en 01-16-20
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Skeleton Keys
- The Secret Life of Bone
- De: Riley Black (Brian Switek)
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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Author Brian Switek is a charming and enthusiastic osteological raconteur. In this natural and cultural history of bone, he explains where our skeletons came from, what they do inside us, and what others can learn about us when these wondrous assemblies of mineral and protein are all we've left behind.
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Awesome Book, Read Very Well
- De Christine en 04-30-19
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Volume Control
- Hearing in a Deafening World
- De: David Owen
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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Millions of Americans suffer from hearing loss. Faced with the cost and stigma of hearing aids, the natural human tendency is to do nothing and hope for the best, usually while pretending that nothing is wrong. In Volume Control, David Owen argues this inaction comes with a huge social cost. He demystifies the science of hearing while encouraging listeners to get the treatment they need for hearing loss and protect the hearing they still have.
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Great, interesting
- De Kyle Johnson en 11-17-23
De: David Owen
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Scholars of Mayhem
- My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France
- De: Daniel C. Guiet, Timothy K. Smith
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family moved country, as they frequently did, his father had one possession, a tin bread box, that always made the trip. Daniel was admonished never to touch the box, but one day he couldn't resist. What he found astonished him: a .45 automatic and five full clips; three slim knives; a length of wire with a wooden handle at each end; thin pieces of paper with random numbers on them; several passports with his father's photograph, each bearing a different name.
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Better than fiction!
- De M. Galloway en 04-04-21
De: Daniel C. Guiet, y otros
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How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch
- In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang
- De: Harry Cliff
- Narrado por: Harry Cliff
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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Harry Cliff - a University of Cambridge particle physicist and researcher on the Large Hadron Collider - sets out in pursuit of answers. He ventures to the largest underground research facility in the world, deep beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountains, where scientists gaze into the heart of the Sun using the most elusive of particles, the ghostly neutrino. He visits CERN in Switzerland to explore the "Antimatter Factory," where the stuff of science fiction is manufactured daily (and we're close to knowing whether it falls up).
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Down the rabbit hole in a most fascinating way!
- De Rick B en 10-04-21
De: Harry Cliff
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My Inner Sky
- On Embracing Day, Night, and All the Times in Between
- De: Mari Andrew
- Narrado por: Mari Andrew
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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A whole, beautiful life is only made possible by the wide spectrum of feelings that exist between joy and sorrow. In this insightful and warm book, writer and illustrator Mari Andrew explores all the emotions that make up a life, in the process offering insights about trauma and healing, the meaning of home and the challenges of loneliness, finding love in the most unexpected of places - from birds nesting on a sculpture to a ride on the subway - and a resounding case for why sometimes you have to put yourself in the path of magic.
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Pretty light
- De Carolyn Pomfret en 09-05-22
De: Mari Andrew
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The Dream Universe
- How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way
- De: David Lindley
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
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In the early 17th century, Galileo broke free from the hold of ancient Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. He drastically changed the framework through which we view the natural world when he asserted that we should base our theory of reality on what we can observe rather than pure thought. In the process, he invented what we would come to call science. This set the stage for all the breakthroughs that followed - from Kepler to Newton to Einstein.
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Provocative Argument
- De Craig Doner en 05-26-20
De: David Lindley
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Einstein's War
- How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
- De: Matthew Stanley
- Narrado por: Matthew Stanley
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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Few recognize how the Great War, the industrialized slaughter that bled Europe from 1914 to 1918, shaped Einstein’s life and work. While Einstein never held a rifle, he formulated general relativity blockaded in Berlin, literally starving. He lost 50 pounds in three months, unable to communicate with his most important colleagues. Some of those colleagues fought against rabid nationalism; others were busy inventing chemical warfare - scientists trapped in the power plays of empire. Meanwhile, Einstein struggled to craft relativity and persuade the world that it was correct.
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When will I learn?
- De Paul en 01-01-20
De: Matthew Stanley
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The Science of Can and Can't
- A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals
- De: Chiara Marletto
- Narrado por: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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There is a vast class of things that science has so far almost entirely neglected. They are central to the understanding of physical reality both at an everyday level and at the level of the most fundamental phenomena in physics, yet have traditionally been assumed to be impossible to incorporate into fundamental scientific explanations. They are facts not about what is (the actual) but about what could be (counterfactuals).
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Was Hoping for Depth
- De Evert en 06-19-21
De: Chiara Marletto
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Doctor Dogs
- How Our Best Friends Are Becoming Our Best Medicine
- De: Maria Goodavage
- Narrado por: Suzanne Elise Freeman
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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In this groundbreaking audiobook, Goodavage brings us behind the scenes of cutting-edge science at top research centers, and into the lives of people whose well-being depends on their devoted, highly skilled personal MDs (medical dogs). With her signature wit and passion, Goodavage explores how doctor dogs are becoming our happy allies in the fight against dozens of physical and mental conditions.
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Brilliant, eye-opening
- De truthseeker en 04-24-21
De: Maria Goodavage
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The Impossible City
- A Hong Kong Memoir
- De: Karen Cheung
- Narrado por: Karen Cheung
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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Hong Kong is known as a place of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that now exists at the margins of an ascendant China; a city rocked by mass protests, where residents rally—often in vain—against threats to their fundamental freedoms. But it is also misunderstood, and often romanticized.
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Pretentiously mediocre
- De Pierre-marie en 04-25-22
De: Karen Cheung
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Mother Tongue
- The Surprising History of Women's Words
- De: Jenni Nuttall
- Narrado por: Beth Hicks
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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Mother Tongue is a historical investigation of feminist language and thought, from the dawn of Old English to the present day. Dr. Jenni Nuttall guides readers through the evolution of words that we have used to describe female bodies, menstruation, women’s sexuality, the consequences of male violence, childbirth, women’s paid and unpaid work, and gender. Along the way, she challenges our modern language’s ability to insightfully articulate women’s shared experiences by examining the long-forgotten words once used in English for female sexual and reproductive organs.
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Outstanding on all counts!
- De Emily Austin en 01-21-24
De: Jenni Nuttall
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This Way to the Universe
- A Theoretical Physicist's Journey to the Edge of Reality
- De: Michael Dine
- Narrado por: Michael Dine
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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This Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest, and at the scale of our daily lives. The enigmas that Professor Michael Dine discusses are like landmarks on a fantastic journey to the edge of the universe. Asked where to find out about the big bang, dark matter, the Higgs boson particle - the long cutting edge of physics right now - Dine had no single book he could recommend. This is his accessible, authoritative, and up-to-date answer.
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Interesting but far above my intellect
- De Richard M. en 04-25-23
De: Michael Dine
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Otherlands
- A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
- De: Thomas Halliday
- Narrado por: Adetomiwa Edun
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life.
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Great book brilliantly read
- De Dipam en 04-06-22
De: Thomas Halliday
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The Story of More
- How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
- De: Hope Jahren
- Narrado por: Hope Jahren
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before.
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Like Al Gore, stuck on the problem
- De Eleanor B. Hildreth en 06-04-20
De: Hope Jahren
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The Failed Promise
- Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- De: Robert S. Levine
- Narrado por: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson.
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A timely review of the threat to the nation of a President who is unlistening to the “better angels of our nature.”
- De Karl R. Walko en 02-28-24
De: Robert S. Levine
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The Lost Gutenberg
- The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
- De: Margaret Leslie Davis
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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For rare-book collectors, an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible - of which there are fewer than 50 in existence - represents the ultimate prize. Here, Margaret Leslie Davis recounts five centuries in the life of one copy, from its creation by Johannes Gutenberg, through the hands of monks, an earl, the Worcestershire sauce king, and a nuclear physicist to its ultimate resting place, in a steel vault in Tokyo.
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Spare me
- De Dr. Small en 05-04-20
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The Reopening of the Western Mind
- The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of the Enlightenment
- De: Charles Freeman
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 27 h y 37 m
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Charles Freeman, lauded historical scholar and author of The Closing of the Western Mind (“A triumph”—The Times), explores the rebirth of Western thought in the centuries that followed the demise of the classical era. As the dominance of Christian teachings gradually subsided over time, a new open-mindedness made way for the ideas of morality and theology, and fueled and formed the backbone of the Western mind of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and beyond.
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Fascinating survey of 1,000+ years of thought
- De Roger en 11-07-23
De: Charles Freeman
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- Eugenia
- 11-15-20
Informative And Entertaining
One of my favorite genres of books is cool things about our insect world done in an entertaining way. This book has a lot going for it---an enlightened perspective on the future of our planet in relation to insects including the environment and as a food source.
The author really knows his subject and except for way too much information on cochineal, presents it in a fun interesting way.
I am not sure I am ready to eat bugs, but this author has given me food for thought. Pun intended.
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