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Autore |
Blumberg Mark Samuel <1961-> |
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Titolo |
Body heat : temperature and life on earth / / Mark S. Blumberg |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2002 |
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9780674262126 |
0674262123 |
9780674023765 |
0674023765 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p. ) : ill |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Body temperature - Regulation |
Animal heat |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2002. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-229) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction 1. Temperature: A User's Guide 2. Behave Yourself 3. Then Bake at 98.6°F for 400,000 Minutes 4. Everything in Its Place 5. Cold New World 6. Fever All through the Night 7. The Heat of Passion 8. Livin' off the Fat 9. The Light Goes Out Epilogue Bibliography Acknowledgments Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this illuminating book, biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals. In the process Blumberg tells wonderful stories of evolutionary and scientific ingenuity. |
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