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Spider Webs

Author : William Eberhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022653460X
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Spider Webs written by William Eberhard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical agility and mental abilities of orb weavers. For instance, one spider spins more than three precisely spaced, morphologically complex spiral attachments per second for up to fifteen minutes at a time. Spiders even adjust the mechanical properties of their famously strong silken lines to different parts of their webs and different environments, and make dramatic modifications in orb designs to adapt to available spaces. This extensive adaptive flexibility, involving decisions influenced by up to sixteen different cues, is unexpected in such small, supposedly simple animals. As Eberhard reveals, the extraordinary diversity of webs includes ingenious solutions to gain access to prey in esoteric habitats, from blazing hot and shifting sand dunes (to capture ants) to the surfaces of tropical lakes (to capture water striders). Some webs are nets that are cast onto prey, while others form baskets into which the spider flicks prey. Some aerial webs are tramways used by spiders searching for chemical cues from their prey below, while others feature landing sites for flying insects and spiders where the spider then stalks its prey. In some webs, long trip lines are delicately sustained just above the ground by tiny rigid silk poles. Stemming from the author’s more than five decades observing spider webs, this book will be the definitive reference for years to come.

Nightwebs

Author : Cornell Woolrich
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 9780575017238
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Nightwebs written by Cornell Woolrich and published by Orion. This book was released on 1973 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Short Story Index

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Long Reach of Night

Author : Adrian Cole
Publisher : Wildside Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Reach of Night written by Adrian Cole and published by Wildside Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once more the cursed warrior, The Voidal and his bizarre familiar, the incorrigible Elfloq, travel through the nightmare regions of the omniverse in search of a way to break the grip of the Dark Gods on their destiny, to free the Voidal from the will of the Oblivion Hand. They encounter even more mad gods and monstrous beings on their terrifying odyssey: Thunderhammer, smith of the gods; Scyllarza, half human half demoness; the Thief of Thieves, and the Preposterous Library among others. THE LONG REACH OF THE NIGHT, second volume of the Voidal Trilogy, is sword and sorcery in the grand tradition of Jack Vance and Michael Moorcock!

Nightwebs

Author : Cornell Woolrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Nightwebs written by Cornell Woolrich and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Torrid Zone

Author : J. C. Nicholson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 0759659222
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Torrid Zone written by J. C. Nicholson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stella Patchouli, an aristocrat's daughter, is forced to live in perpetual exile. At age 13 she runs away, leaving behind her family's Swiss chalet - in search of life without boundaries. Adventures lived, lessons learned - she is finally set free as an American citizen in the year 2000.

Short Story Index: 1969-1973

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Short Story Index: 1969-1973 written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dark Side of the Screen

Author : Foster Hirsch
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786726776
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Side of the Screen written by Foster Hirsch and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster Hirsch's Dark Side of the Screen is by far the most thorough and entertaining study of the themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, directors, and films in this genre ever published. From Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk, Robert Aldrich, and Howard Hawkes to Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, and Paul Schrader, the noir themes of dread, paranoia, steamy sex, double-crossing women, and menacing cityscapes have held a fascination. The features that make Burt Lancaster, Joan Crawford, Robert Mitchum, and Humphrey Bogart into noir heroes and heroines are carefully detailed here, as well as those camera angles, lighting effects, and story lines that characterize Fritz Lang, Samuel Fuller, and Orson Welles as noir directors.For the current rediscovery of film noir, this comprehensive history with its list of credits to 112 outstanding films and its many illustrations will be a valuable reference and a source of inspiration for further research.

Twentieth-century Crime and Mystery Writers

Author : Lesley Henderson
Publisher : Chicago : St. James Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Crime and Mystery Writers written by Lesley Henderson and published by Chicago : St. James Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** Cited in Sheehy and BCL3. The foremost reference in the field, completely revised and updated, and now covering about 600 authors, mainly English-language writers whose work appeared during or since the time of Conan Doyle. The entry for each writer consists of a biography, a bibliography, and a signed critical essay. Living authors were invited to add a comment on their work; many of them accepted, and their remarks are both entertaining and enlightening. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Gothic to Multicultural

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401206600
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Gothic to Multicultural written by A. Robert Lee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction, twenty-three essays each carefully revised from the past four decades, explores both range and individual register. The collection opens with considerations of gothic as light and dark in Charles Brockden Brown, war and peace in Cooper’s The Spy, Antarctica as world-genesis in Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the link of “The Custom House” and main text in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, reflexive codings in Melville’s Moby-Dick and The Confidence-Man, Henry James’ Hawthorne as self-mirroring biography, and Stephen Crane’s working of his Civil War episode in The Red Badge of Courage. Two composite lineages address apocalypse in African American fiction and landscape in women’s authorship from Sarah Orne Jewett to Leslie Marmon Silko. There follow culture and anarchy in Henry James’ The Princess Casamassima, text-into-film in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, modernist stylings in Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Hemingway, and roman noir in Cornell Woolrich. The collection then turns to the limitations of protest categorization for Richard Wright and Chester Himes, autofiction in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, and the novel of ideas in Robert Penn Warren’s late fiction. Three closing essays take up multicultural genealogy, Harlem, then the Black South, in African American fiction, and the reclamation of voice in Native American fiction.

What Do I Read Next?

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Do I Read Next? written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nightwebs

Author : Francis M. Nevins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780380000258
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Nightwebs written by Francis M. Nevins and published by . This book was released on 1924-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Twentieth-Century Suspense

Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349206784
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century Suspense written by Clive Bloom and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-05-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series aims to bring to academics, students and general readers the best contemporary criticism on neglected literary and cultural areas. This volume contains 17 critical essays on influential suspense writers of the 20th century.

St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers

Author : Jay P. Pederson
Publisher : Saint James Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers written by Jay P. Pederson and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the most influential English-language writers of the crime and mystery genre. Each entry includes author biographies; complete bibliographies; lists of critical studies; locations of manuscripts; the writer's own comments on his or her work, when available; and an essay written by an expert of the genre.

Supernatural Literature of the World: P-Z

Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supernatural Literature of the World: P-Z written by S. T. Joshi and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature of the supernatural has had a distinguished history over the past two centuries, and the incorporation of the supernatural in literary works can be traced back as far as classical antiquity.

Cornell Woolrich from Pulp Noir to Film Noir

Author : Thomas C. Renzi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786482818
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Cornell Woolrich from Pulp Noir to Film Noir written by Thomas C. Renzi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extremely popular and prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, Cornell Woolrich still has diehard fans who thrive on his densely packed descriptions and his spellbinding premises. A contemporary of Hammett and Chandler, he competed with them for notoriety in the pulps and became the single most adapted writer for films of the noir period. Perhaps the most famous film adaptation of a Woolrich story is Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954). Even today, his work is still onscreen; Michael Cristofer's Original Sin (2001) is based on one of his tales. This book offers a detailed analysis of many of Woolrich's novels and short stories; examines films adapted from these works; and shows how Woolrich's techniques and themes influenced the noir genre. Twenty-two stories and 30 films compose the bulk of the study, though many other additions of films noirs are also considered because of their relevance to Woolrich's plots, themes and characters. The introduction includes a biographical sketch of Woolrich and his relationship to the noir era, and the book is illustrated with stills from Woolrich's noir classics.