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May 25, 2021 · His books include Pleasurable Kingdom, Second Nature, The Exultant Ark, and What a Fish Knows—a New York Times best-seller now available in fifteen languages. His latest book for grown-ups, Super Fly, was published in May 2021 by Penguin Books. A children’s story book, Jake and Ava: A Boy and a Fish, is scheduled for publication in October ...
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Oct 23, 2024 · Producer Jane Tranter, who produced BBC's His Dark Materials series, said that she would be keen to adapt the Book of Dust series. Speaking at a Q&A, she said: "As Philip Pullman calls it, there ...
The Super Fly series does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Rise of the Evil Army! (Book 4), was published in March 2017.
In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all of its diversity, illustrating the essential role that flies play in every ecosystem in the world as pollinators, waste-disposers, predators, and food source; and how flies continue to reshape our understanding of evolution.
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May 25, 2021 · 1 Sentence Summary: A book about flies; in other words (the title says it best): the unexpected lives of the world's most successful insects. My Thoughts: Flies are still not my favorite animals, but I did learn a lot of cool things about them! This book was definitely well researched, and had a nice flow.
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May 25, 2021 · New York Times Bestseller. A warts-and-all portrait of the famed techno-entrepreneur—and the warts are nearly beyond counting. To call Elon Musk (b. 1971) “mercurial” is to undervalue the term; to call him a genius is incorrect. Instead, Musk has a gift for leveraging the genius of others in order to make things work.
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Jonathan Balcombe is the author of four books on animal sentience, including the New York Times bestselling What a Fish Knows, which was nominated for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Science Writing. He has worked for years as a researcher and educator with the Humane society to show us the consciousness of other creatures, and here he takes us to the farthest reaches of the animal kingdom.
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