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UNINA9910457934703321 |
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Autore |
Moffett Mark W |
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Titolo |
Adventures among ants : a global safari with a cast of trillions / / Mark W. Moffett |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, [2010] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 pages) |
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Ants - Behavior |
Ant communities |
Ants - Ecology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Travels with My Ants -- A Brief Primer on Ants -- Marauder Ant, the Ultimate Omnivore -- African Army Ant, Raiders on the Swarm -- Weaver Ant, Empress of the Air -- Amazon Ant, the Slavemaker -- Leafcutter Ant, the Constant Gardener -- Argentine Ant, the Global Invader -- Conclusion: Four Ways of Looking at an Ant -- Acknowledgments and a Note on Content -- Notes -- Index |
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Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, "the Indiana Jones of entomology," takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, Moffett recounts his entomological exploits and provides fascinating details on how ants live and how they dominate their ecosystems through strikingly human behaviors, yet at a different scale and a faster tempo. Moffett's spectacular close-up photographs shrink us down to size, so that we can observe ants in familiar roles; warriors, builders, big-game hunters, and slave owners. We find them creating marketplaces and assembly lines and dealing with issues we think of as uniquely human-including hygiene, recycling, and warfare. Adventures among Ants introduces some of the world's most awe-inspiring species and offers a startling new perspective on the limits of our own perception.• Ants are world-class road builders, handling traffic |
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problems on thoroughfares that dwarf our highway systems in their complexity• Ants with the largest societies often deploy complicated military tactics• Some ants have evolved from hunter-gatherers into farmers, domesticating other insects and growing crops for food |
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UNINA9910463596403321 |
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Autore |
Murunga Godwin |
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Kenya [[electronic resource] ] : The Struggle for a New Constitutional Order |
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London, : Zed Books, 2014 |
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1-78032-705-6 |
1-78032-365-4 |
1-78032-367-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 p.) |
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OkelloDuncan |
SjögrenAnders |
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Constitutional history -- Kenya |
Constitutional law -- Kenya |
Constitutional law |
Elections - Kenya |
Constitutions - Kenya |
Democracy - Kenya |
Government - Non-U.S |
Law, Politics & Government |
Government - Asia |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Front Cover ; About the Editors ; Title Page; Copyright ; Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations ; Preface ; Towards a New Constitutional Order in Kenya: An Introduction ; Struggles for constitutional reform in Kenya: comparative andhistorical perspectives; The making of the 2010 |
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constitution; The contributions to this volume; References; Part One: Contexts and Actors in the Making of a New Constitution ; 1: The Protracted Transition to the Second Republic in Kenya; The Political Economy of Colonialism and Its Legacies ; The Era of Authoritarian Developmentalism |
The Era of Neoliberal Authoritarianism The Birth Pangs of Democratic Developmentalism ; The Dawn of the 'Second' Republic?; References ; 2: Fuelling the Violence: The Print Media in Kenya's Volatile 2007 Post-Election Violence; Introduction ; Kenya's 2007 Election Campaigns: A Brief Background; The Media in Kenya in the Run-Up to the 2007 General Elections; Election Campaign News Designed as a Hard News Genre ; Manipulation of the Hard News Model in Kenya's 2007 General Election Campaign ; Media Reporting of Opinion Polls in Kenya's 2007 General Election Campaigns ; Conclusion ; References |
3: Mediating Kenya's Post-Election Violence: From a Peace-Making to a Constitutional MomentIntroduction ; The Root Causes of Kenya's Post-Election Violence; Mediation Efforts Prior to the Annan-Led Panel of Eminent Personalities; The Kofi Annan Mediation Team and Creation of a Constitutional Moment ; Lessons Learned from the Kenyan Mediation Process for Constitution-Making; Conclusion ; References ; 4: Instrumentalism and Constitution-Making in Kenya: Triumphs, Challenges and Opportunities Beyond the 2013 Elections; Introduction ; Framing the Debate: Pact-Making and Transition Politics |
Pact-Making and Promulgation of the 2010 ConstitutionMultipartyism without Democracy: The Elections of 1992 and 1997; Regime Transition Without Change: The NARC and Kibaki Election of 2002; The Post-Election Violence and the National Accord of 2008; The 2010 Constitutional Referendum and the Rebirth of a Republic ; Pact-Making, Beneficiaries and the 2010 Constitution; The Nature of the Process of Change ; Conclusion: Challenges Beyond Constitution-Making; Notes ; References ; 5: Revisiting 'The Two Faces of Civil Society' in Constitutional Reform in Kenya |
Civil Society and Political Reform: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations Civil Society and Constitutional Reform in Kenya ; From the 4Cs to the NCEC; The Government Review Commission Versus the Ufungamano Initiative ; Post-Election Violence and Momentum for a New Constitution; Beyond 'The Two Faces of Civil Society'; Conclusion ; References ; Part Two: The Content, Challenges and Opportunities of a New Constitutional Order; 6: Constitutions and Constitutionalism: The Fate of the 2010 Constitution; Constitutions and Constitutionalism ; Colonial and Postcolonial Constitutions |
Objectives of the 2010 Constitution |
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An important interrogation of the 2010 Kenyan constitution and its implications for the country's deep-seated problems of state and society. |
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