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Autore |
Biehler Dawn |
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Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / / Dawn Day Biehler |
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Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (361 p.) |
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Collana |
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Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
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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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Nota di contenuto |
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History, ecology, and the politics of pests -- The promises of modern pest control -- Flies : agents of interconnection in progressive era cities -- Bedbugs : creatures of community in modernizing cities -- German cockroaches : permeable homes in the postwar era -- Norway rats : back-alley ecology in the chemical age -- Persistence and resistance in the age of ecology -- The ecology of injustice : rats in the civil rights era -- Integrating urban homes : cockroaches and survival -- Epilogue: the persistence and resurgence of bedbugs. |
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