Tom Jackson Insect Architecture review, recensie en informatie boek over hoe insecten hun wereld bouwen, ontwerpen en vormgeven. Op 9 november 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Tom Jackson, de Amerikaanse schrijver over de bouwwerken die insecten maken. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Tom Jackson Insect Architecture review en recensie
- “This book is about as fascinating a read as you will ever have, even if you never gave a thought to the lives of insects before … You simply cannot fail to be impressed with it all and not a little gobsmacked along the way.” (David Gascoigne, writer of Travels with Birds)
Insect Architecture
How Insects Build, Engineer, and Shape Their World
- Auteur: Tom Jackson
- Soort boek: insecten boek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Princeton University Press
- Verschijnt: 9 september 2025
- Omvang: 176 pagina’s (150 afbeeldingen)
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 29,95
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek over de bouwwerken van insecten
Insect Architecture takes you inside the amazing structures that insects build, from the paper galleries of yellowjacket wasps to elaborate termite mounds complete with royal chambers and air-conditioning systems. Each chapter focuses on a group of insect architects, describing the materials and methods they use while exploring the structures themselves in detail. Blending spectacular illustrations with illuminating case studies of representative species from around the world, this is the ultimate guide to insect artistry and innovation.
- Features a wealth of color photos, explanatory diagrams and blueprints, step-by-step sequences, and visual spreads
- Covers all major groups of insect architects and the broad array of structures they build
- Explains how anatomy, life cycle, and habitat are the ingredients to extraordinary creations
- Profiles the insect world’s most accomplished builders—from beetles, bees, and cicadas to moths, wasps, ants, and termites
- Discusses the ecological impacts of insect architecture
- Reveals how insect builders have inspired human design innovations
Tom Jackson is an acclaimed science writer and conservationist. His books include Biology: An Illustrated History of Life Science, The Magnificent Book of Dangerous Animals, Micro Monsters, and Genetics in Minutes: 200 Key Ideas of Evolution and Biology in an Instant. He was the chief editor of Insects and Spiders of the World.