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1 online resource (343 pages)
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9780199715602
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Six-Legged Soldiers offers 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. Beginning in prehistoric times and building toward a near and disturbing future, the reader is taken on a journey of innovation and depravity. Award-winning science writer Jeffrey A. Lockwood begins with the development of "bee bombs" in the ancient world and ranges up to the recent threat by ecoterrorists to release the notorious Medfly into California's crops.
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- ONE STINGING DEFEATS AND VENOMOUS VICTORIES -- 1 Bee Bombs and Wasp Warheads -- 2 Toxic Tactics and Terrors -- 3 Insects as Tools of Torture -- TWO VECTORS OF DEATH -- 4 Horseshoes and Hand Grenades -- 5 The Victories of the Vectors -- 6 A Most Uncivil War -- 7 All's Lousy on the Eastern Front -- THREE BRINGING FEVER AND FAMINE TO A WORLD AT WAR -- 8 A Monstrous Metamorphosis -- 9 Entomological Evil -- 10 Japan's Fleas and Flies -- 11 Japan's Pleas and Lies -- 12 Beetle Bombs -- 13 Waking the Slumbering Giants -- FOUR COLD-BLOODED FIGHTERS OF THE COLD WAR -- 14 Korea's Hailstorms of Hexapods -- 15 A Swarm of Accusations -- 16 An Imaginary Menagerie? -- 17 The Big Itch -- 18 Yankee (and Vietnamese) Ingenuity -- 19 Cuban Missiles vs. American Arthropods -- 20 A Tiny Terrorist in Castro's Crops -- FIVE THE FUTURE OF ENTOMOLOGICAL WARFARE -- 21 Medfl ies, Fruits, and Nuts -- 22 Fear on the Farm -- 23 Wimpy Warmups and Real Deals -- 24 Six-Legged Guardian Angels -- 25 Insect Cyborgs and Roboflies -- 26 "Vigilant and Ready"? -- Epilogue -- Suggested Readings -- Notes -- Index.
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ISBN 9780195333053
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan, 1960 - Six-legged soldiers Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2009 ISBN 9780195333053
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Print version Six-Legged Soldiers : Using Insects as Weapons of War
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Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Krieg
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Insekten
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Geschichte
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Biologischer Krieg
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Insekten
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Geschichte
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