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UNINA9910457934703321 |
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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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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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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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UNINA9910635099303321 |
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Autore |
Noel Hannah <1986-> |
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Deflective Whiteness : Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics / / Hannah Noel |
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The Ohio State University Press, 2022 |
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Columbus, Ohio : , : The Ohio State University Press, , 2022 |
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1 online resource (236 pages) |
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Race and Mediated Cultures. |
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Semantics, discourse analysis, etc |
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Details the appropriation of social justice rhetoric to claim Whiteness as an aggrieved social status, enabling White supremacy and deepening racial inequities. |
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UNINA9910954739203321 |
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Titolo |
Debating human rights : critical essays from the United States and Asia / / edited by Peter Van Ness ; with contributions by Nikhil Aziz. [et al.] |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
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1-134-66741-8 |
1-134-66742-6 |
1-280-32559-3 |
0-585-46041-8 |
0-203-20203-1 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Human rights |
Human rights - Asia |
United States Foreign relations Asia |
Asia Foreign relations United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; From human rights to human dignity; The human rights debate in an era of globalization: hegemony of discourse; Asia as a fount of universal human rights; An Asian perspective on human rights and freedom of the press; East meets West: human rights in Hong Kong; Developmentalism and China's human rights policy; Human rights as identities: difference and discrimination in Taiwan's China policy; Reinventing international law: women's rights as human rights in the international community |
From Vienna to Beijing: women's human rights activism and the human rights communityHuman rights and development aid: Japan after the ODA Charter; Human rights problems and current Sino-American relations; From judge to participant: the United States as champion of human rights; Conclusion; Index |
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Human rights debates can provoke strong reactions, particularly among people of different cultural backgrounds. The debate over Asian values and the use of human rights diplomacy are the most obvious manifestations of divisions between Asia and the West and reflect particular world views and historical legacies.In this new book, scholars from the United States and several Asian countries debate fundamental issues such as 'Asian values', 'peaceful evolution' and cultural imperialism. Provocative and challenging essays analyse the debate between East and West, presenting critical perspective |
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