All Six Legs

Author : Marlene Zuk
Publisher : HMH
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780547549170

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Sex on Six Legs by Marlene Zuk Pdf

A biologist presents a “consistently delightful” look at the mysteries of insect behavior (The New York Times Book Review). Insects have inspired fear, fascination, and enlightenment for centuries. They are capable of incredibly complex behavior, even with brains often the size of a poppy seed. How do they accomplish feats that look like human activity—personality, language, childcare—with completely different pathways from our own? What is going on inside the mind of those ants that march like boot-camp graduates across your kitchen floor? How does the lead ant know exactly where to take her colony, to that one bread crumb that your nightly sweep missed? Can insects be taught new skills as easily as your new puppy? Sex on Six Legs is a startling and exciting book that provides answers to these questions and many more, examining not only the bedroom lives of creepy crawlies but also some of our own long-held assumptions about learning, the nature of personality, and what our own large brains might be for. “Smart, engaging . . . Zuk approaches her subject with such humor and enthusiasm for the intricacies of insect life, even bug-phobes will relish her account.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Author : Charlotte Sleigh
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0801884454

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Six Legs Better by Charlotte Sleigh Pdf

Marking the centenary of the coining of myrmecologyto describe the study of ants, Six Legs Better demonstrates the remarkable historical role played by ants as a node where notions of animal, human, and automaton intersect.

Author : Denise McLeod
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781838591083

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ALL SIX LEGS by Denise McLeod Pdf

Following the success of her debut book, A Dog Behaviourist’s Diary, Denise McLeod returns with All Six Legs, a collection of real life stories with puppies, dogs, laughter and education all rolled into one. Based on real events and case studies, All Six Legs is as diverse as it is educational. Each chapter is written in a ‘storybook’ style with a key learning point for all dog owners to benefit from. It is not solely about the dogs, but also the humans that live and work with them. Capturing a whole host of emotions, from joy to terror and from sadness to hope, some stories are laugh-out-loud humorous, whilst others deal with life-threatening situations. Containing an update on Denise’s own ‘Turn and Face’ technique and with life-saving information for both humans and dogs in one of the chapters, All Six Legs draws on Denise’s 40 years of experiences to share her wide breadth of expertise.

Author : Pat Jacobs
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499432435

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Why Do Insects Have Six Legs? by Pat Jacobs Pdf

Is that creepy critter an insect? How do these tiny creatures survive? This volume brings readers up close and personal with many different insect species, including dung beetles, moths, and praying mantises. They’ll learn how to classify insects into different groups, such as true flies and true bugs. Readers will love learning about amazing senses and skills insects have developed over time, from a fly’s many mini-eyes to an orchid mantis’s disguise. Color photographs and diagrams guide readers through the insect world and illustrate important life science concepts, such as metamorphosis and evolution. Diagrams and sidebars add even more fun facts to this exciting journey through a bug’s life.

Author : Charles Simic
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1555975577

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The Horse Has Six Legs by Charles Simic Pdf

THE UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION OF THIS VITAL ANTHOLOGY, WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR CHARLES SIMIC When The Horse Has Six Legs was first published in 1992, as war and hatred tore through the Balkans, this anthology of Serbian poetry became a landmark for some of the most compelling poetry in the contemporary world. "The ironies, in 1993, of giving an award to Serbian poets will be evident to many," Carolyn Kizer wrote in her judge's citation for the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. "But the glory of great poetry is that it transcends its time and these agonized events to enter the universal realm of art." Editor and translator Charles Simic has now updated and expanded this anthology for new readers in the twenty-first century. Simic has brought together an extraordinary range of Serbian poets, from the oral tradition of folk song to the great postwar poets, including Vasko Popa, Ivan V. Lalic, and Novica Tadic, and the new generation of poets writing now. With wild imagination, mordant humor, and vivid surrealism, Serbian poetry is rich, haunted, and intensely relevant to the world we inhabit.

Author : Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199743889

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Six-Legged Soldiers by Jeffrey A. Lockwood Pdf

In Six-Legged Soldiers, Jeffrey A. Lockwood paints a brilliant portrait of the many weirdly creative, truly frightening, and ultimately powerful ways in which insects have been used as weapons of war, terror, and torture. He concludes with a critical analysis of today's defenses--and homeland security's dangerous shortcomings--with respect to entomological attacks. Beginning in prehistoric times and building toward a near and disturbing future, the reader is taken on a journey of innovation and depravity. Lockwood, an award-winning science writer, begins with the use of "bee bombs" in the ancient world and explores the role of insect-borne disease in changing the course of major battles, from Napoleon's military campaigns to the trenches of World War I. He explores the horrific programs of insect weaponization during World War II: airplanes designed to drop plague-infested fleas, facilities rearing tens of millions of crop-devouring beetles, and prison camps where doctors tested disease-carrying lice on inmates. The Cold War saw secret government operations involving the mass release of specially developed strains of mosquitoes on an unsuspecting American public--along with the alleged use of disease-carrying and crop-eating pests against North Korea and Cuba. Lockwood reveals how easy it would be to use insects in warfare and terrorism today, pointing to how domestic eco-terrorists in 1989 extorted government officials and wreaked economic and political havoc by threatening to release the notorious Medfly into California's crops. A remarkable story of human ingenuity--and brutality--Six-Legged Soldiers is the first comprehensive look at the use of insects as weapons of war, from ancient times to the present day.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Book
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Insects
ISBN : 0716635755

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Six-Legged Animals by Anonim Pdf

"Describes 12 insects and features a large photograph of each animal presented. Includes information on each animal's habitat or place of origin, size, and diet"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bounty Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0753730626

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The House with Six Legs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tian Seng Ng
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789813366879

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Robotic Vehicles: Systems and Technology by Tian Seng Ng Pdf

This book introduces the technological innovations of robotic vehicles. It presents the concepts required for self-driving cars on the road. Besides, readers can gain invaluable knowledge in the construction, programming, and control of the six-legged robot. The book also presents the controllers and aerodynamics of several different types of rotorcrafts. It includes the simulation and flight of the various kinds of rotor-propelled air vehicles under each of their different aerodynamics environment. The book is suitable for academia, educators, students, and researchers who are interested in autonomous vehicles, robotics, and rotor-propelled vehicles.

Author : Denise McLeod
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781838599973

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All Six Legs by Denise McLeod Pdf

Following the success of her debut book, Denise McLeod returns with All Six Legs, a collection of real life stories with dogs, laughter and education all rolled into one. Based on real events and case studies, All Six Legs is written in a ‘storybook’ style with a key learning point for all dog owners to benefit from.

Author : Richard Jun Gerth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89014280846

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The Effects of Predictive Displays on Human Operation of a Six- Legged Walking Vehicle by Richard Jun Gerth Pdf

Author : Rolf Pfeifer,Christian Scheier
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262250799

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Understanding Intelligence by Rolf Pfeifer,Christian Scheier Pdf

The book includes all the background material required to understand the principles underlying intelligence, as well as enough detailed information on intelligent robotics and simulated agents so readers can begin experiments and projects on their own. By the mid-1980s researchers from artificial intelligence, computer science, brain and cognitive science, and psychology realized that the idea of computers as intelligent machines was inappropriate. The brain does not run "programs"; it does something entirely different. But what? Evolutionary theory says that the brain has evolved not to do mathematical proofs but to control our behavior, to ensure our survival. Researchers now agree that intelligence always manifests itself in behavior—thus it is behavior that we must understand. An exciting new field has grown around the study of behavior-based intelligence, also known as embodied cognitive science, "new AI," and "behavior-based AI." This book provides a systematic introduction to this new way of thinking. After discussing concepts and approaches such as subsumption architecture, Braitenberg vehicles, evolutionary robotics, artificial life, self-organization, and learning, the authors derive a set of principles and a coherent framework for the study of naturally and artificially intelligent systems, or autonomous agents. This framework is based on a synthetic methodology whose goal is understanding by designing and building. The book includes all the background material required to understand the principles underlying intelligence, as well as enough detailed information on intelligent robotics and simulated agents so readers can begin experiments and projects on their own. The reader is guided through a series of case studies that illustrate the design principles of embodied cognitive science.

Author : K.G. Adiyodi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400958272

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The American Cockroach by K.G. Adiyodi Pdf

This volume deals mainly with the biology of the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (1.). Contributors were urged to emphasize recent findings, including unpublished data when possible, a goal that would not have been feasible if it were not for the two previously published books on the basic biology of cockroaches, The Biology o/the Cockroach (1968) by D. M. Guthrie and A. R. Tindall and The Cockroach, Volume 1 (1968) by P. B. Cornwell. Those topics not included in The American Cockroach, such as external morphology, are well covered in the two preceding books. In addition, these books provided a broad background upon which contributors to The American Cockroach have been able to build with recent trends, new and established concepts and integration. Although this book deals primarily with the American cockroach, many chapters offer a comparative approach in sections where the more recent and exciting research has been accomplished on other species. Most contributors place the cockroach in perspective with regard to its appropriateness or inappropriateness for various types of biological investigations. Many questions are realistically left unanswered when no acceptable or obvious solution is apparent; an invitation to new researchers to consider the cockroach as an experimental subject.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814474832

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Advances in Climbing and Walking Robots by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jack M. Winters,Patrick E. Crago
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461221043

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Biomechanics and Neural Control of Posture and Movement by Jack M. Winters,Patrick E. Crago Pdf

Most routine motor tasks are complex, involving load transmission through out the body, intricate balance, and eye-head-shoulder-hand-torso-leg coor dination. The quest toward understanding how we perform such tasks with skill and grace, often in the presence of unpredictable perturbations, has a long history. This book arose from the Ninth Engineering Foundation Con ference on Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement, held in Deer Creek, Ohio, in June 1996. This unique conference, which has met every 2 to 4 years since the late 1960s, is well known for its informal format that promotes high-level, up-to-date discussions on the key issues in the field. The intent is to capture the high quality ofthe knowledge and discourse that is an integral part of this conference series. The book is organized into ten sections. Section I provides a brief intro duction to the terminology and conceptual foundations of the field of move ment science; it is intended primarily for students. All but two of the re maining nine sections share a common format: (l) a designated section editor; (2) an introductory didactic chapter, solicited from recognized lead ers; and (3) three to six state-of-the-art perspective chapters. Some per spective chapters are followed by commentaries by selected experts that provide balance and insight. Section VI is the largest section, and it con sists of nine perspective chapters without commentaries.