Download or read book Termites of the State written by Vito Tanzi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping historical account of the crises of income inequality and crony capitalism from a world-renowned public economist.
Download or read book Underbug written by Lisa Margonelli and published by Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates the environmental and economic impact termites inflict on human societies in this fascinating examination of one of nature’s most misunderstood insects. Are we more like termites than we ever imagined? In Underbug, the award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli introduces us to the enigmatic creatures that collectively outweigh human beings ten to one and consume $40 billion worth of valuable stuff annually—and yet, in Margonelli’s telling, seem weirdly familiar. Over the course of a decade-long obsession with the little bugs, Margonelli pokes around termite mounds and high-tech research facilities, closely watching biologists, roboticists, and geneticists. Her globe-trotting journey veers into uncharted territory, from evolutionary theory to Edwardian science literature to the military industrial complex. What begins as a natural history of the termite becomes a personal exploration of the unnatural future we’re building, with darker observations on power, technology, historical trauma, and the limits of human cognition. Whether in Namibia or Cambridge, Arizona or Australia, Margonelli turns up astounding facts and raises provocative questions. Is a termite an individual or a unit of a superorganism? Can we harness the termite’s properties to change the world? If we build termite-like swarming robots, will they inevitably destroy us? Is it possible to think without having a mind? Underbug burrows into these questions and many others—unearthing disquieting answers about the world’s most underrated insect and what it means to be human.
Download or read book Termites in the Trading System written by Jagdish Bhagwati and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist who uniquely combines a reputation as the leading scholar of international trade with a substantial presence in public policy on the important issues of the day, shines here a critical light on Preferential Trade Agreements, revealing how the rapid spread of PTAs endangers the world trading system. Numbering by now well over 300, and rapidly increasing, these preferential trade agreements, many taking the form of Free Trade Agreements, have re-created the unhappy situation of the 1930s, when world trade was undermined by discriminatory practices. Whereas this was the result of protectionism in those days, ironically it is a result of misdirected pursuit of free trade via PTAs today. The world trading system is at risk again, the author argues, and the danger is palpable. Writing with his customary wit, panache and elegance, Bhagwati documents the growth of these PTAs, the reasons for their proliferation, and their deplorable consequences which include the near-destruction of the non-discrimination which was at the heart of the postwar trade architecture and its replacement by what he has called the spaghetti bowl of a maze of preferences. Bhagwati also documents how PTAs have undermined the prospects for multilateral freeing of trade, serving as stumbling blocks, instead of building blocks, for the objective of reaching multilateral free trade. In short, Bhagwati cogently demonstrates why PTAs are Termites in the Trading System.
Download or read book Termite Terry s Pest Control License Exam Preparation Manual written by Termite Terry Singleton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated June, 2021. Everything you need to know to pass a state license exam on your first try! If you need to pass an exam to get your pest control license, then this is the book for you! In it you'll learn: - About the types of chemicals, formulations and how to read product labels.- How to apply the various products and what equipment to use. - Safety equipment and how to protect yourself, your clients and the environment. - General enotomology. - Valuable information about cockroaches, ants, bees & wasps, stored food pests, fabric pests, silverfish, firebrats & book lice, flies, ectoparisites, spiders, dooryard pests and rodents. Includes color photos! - Laws and regulations. - Includes excerpts from California's Pest Control Act! - Plus, bonus practice exams and answer keys for each section of study!. - If you're serious about a career in the pest control industry, this book will provide you with everything you'll need to pass your exam on the first try. This is an invaluable reference guide that you'll always want to carry with you everywhere you go - for your entire career!
Download or read book Biology of the termites of the eastern United States with preventive and remedial measures written by Thomas Elliott Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Termites of the United States written by Frances Mary Weesner and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preventing Damage to Buildings by Subterranean Termites and Their Control written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Termites Evolution Sociality Symbioses Ecology written by Y. Abe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a new compendium in which leading termite scientists review the advances of the last 30 years in our understanding of phylogeny, fossil records, relationships with cockroaches, social evolution, nesting, behaviour, mutualisms with archaea, protists, bacteria and fungi, nutrition, energy metabolism,population and community ecology, soil conditioning, greenhouse gas production and pest status.
Download or read book Termites Or white Ants in the United States written by Thomas Elliott Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Termites You Have to Want To written by James R. Melendez and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-18 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book, "Termites, You Have To Want To", is written by Izzy, the reformed termite and Jim. It is written in the first person by both Izzy and Jim. The purpose of this publication is to put into every-day language the challenges that termite technicians have had to endure in the treatment of structures, understanding the label and in dealing with regulatory agencies for over the past four decades. We will briefly review and discuss the different kinds of termites and their biology so as to have reference points as we journey through this publication. We will then go back in our time machine to view the early developments of our Industry and how it developed and evolved into the monster that it is now. Then we will project into the future using the past and present as our guide. The language used is not fancy or necessarily scientific, as it tends to diminish the clarity of what is being spoken. It is rather in terms understandable to the everyday reader.
Download or read book Biology of Termites written by Kumar Krishna and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biology of Termites, Volume I presents the anatomical, physiological, biochemical, and behavioral laboratory and field studies of termite species. Although termites have been associated mainly with damage, only less than 10% of the species have actually been recorded as pests, obscuring their important ecological role in the breakdown of vegetative matter and their variety and complexity of structure, physiology, social behavior, caste differentiation and regulation, and other aspects of their biology. After briefly describing the social organization, classification, and research history of termites, the book discusses the external morphology of these species and the similarities and differences between the various groups and the different castes. The subsequent chapters cover the internal anatomy of termites, including their digestive physiology, exocrine and endocrine glands, reproductive and nervous systems, and sense organs. Other chapters deal with the social behavior and communication in the termites and the termite colonizing flights and associated activities. The book also examines caste differentiation in the three lower termite families, namely, Hodotermitidae, Kalotermitidae, and Rhinotermitidae. This volume includes discussions on the rearing, feeding, and biochemistry of termites; the radioisotopes for feeding studies; and the moisture requirements for termite survival. The concluding chapters deal with the introduction or interception of termites by humans and their association with fungi, as well as the relationships of termite hosts with termitophiles. Termite biologists, zoologists, botanists, ecologists, behaviorists, biochemists, endocrinologists, and economic entomologists will find this volume invaluable.
Download or read book Termite Terry s Termite License Exam Preparation Manual written by "Termite" Terry Singleton and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything You Need To Know To Pass A Termite License Exam On Your First Try! Are you looking to get into the termite control industry? If you need to pass an exam to get your termite license, then this is the book for you! In it you'll learn: About the types of chemicals, formulations and how to read product labels. How to apply the various products and what equipment to use. Safety equipment and how to protect yourself and the environment. General entomology and special in-depth termite biology. Valuable information about termites, wood destroying beetles, carpenter ants and carpenter bees. Includes color photos! What you need to know about wood destroying fungi, prevention and how to treat & repair dryrot damage. How to do inspections and write reports - specially geared toward California's demanding and tough standards! Basic construction. Special illustrations included! Laws and regulations. Includes excerpts from California's Pest Control Act! Uniform Building Code basics. Plus bonus practice exams and answer keys for each section of study! If you're serious about a career in the termite control industry, this book will give you everything you'll need to pass your exam on the first try. This is an invaluable reference guide that you'll always want to carry with you everywhere you go - for your entire career!
Download or read book New Termites from Hawaii Central and South America and the Antilles written by Thomas Elliott Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Termites written by M. J. Pearce and published by CAB International. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a scientific introduction to termites, including their behaviour, pest status and control.
Download or read book Termites and Sustainable Management written by Md. Aslam Khan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume comprises 12 chapters in an attempt to bring available information on biology, social behavour and economic importance of termites. Chapters in this book dealing with termites identification provide a review on most updated information of their systematics. Ecologically, termites interact with living and non-living surroundings and deliver a wide range of behaviors. In a separate chapter termites ecology is examined and explored. Termites depend on their gut microbes for digestion of complex polysaccharides of wood into simpler molecules. Information provided on termite gut microbiome and lignocellulose degradation constitutes an important contribution. Termite biology and social behaviour have been addressed comprehensively. Trail pheromones are responsible for the orientation and recruitment of nestmates to the food sources. Once arriving at a potential food source, termites assess its quality using a different set of cues. A separate chapter on trail pheromones, cues used during foraging and food assessment, with preferences for foraging sites, contributes a wealth of information. Emphasis has been given on reviewing ecological benefits of termites in other chapters. The information with respect to termite species as an edible insect and the overall role it plays in food and nutrition security in Africa is quite informative. A separate chapter dealing with importance of termites and termitaria in mineral exploration constitutes a significant step in addressing the economic importance of this insect group.
Download or read book Biology Of The Termites Of The Eastern United States With Preventive And Remedial Measures written by Thomas Elliott Snyder and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book New Termites From Hawaii Central and South America and the Antilles written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
