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Author:

Weidensaul, Scott.

Title:

The ghost with trembling wings : science, wishful thinking, and the search for lost species / Scott Weidensaul.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

North Point Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

341 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Rare animals.
Extinction (Biology)
Animaux rares.
Extinction (Biologie)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-321).

Contents:

10. Sweat bees ate our earwax. 2. Proving a negative -- 3. Chance and calculation -- 4. The noble living -- 5. The ABC's of ghost cats -- 6. Cruising the crypto-fringe -- 7. The brothers and the bull -- 8. Test-tube babies -- 9. The tiger that isn't -- 10. Sweat bees ate our earwax.

ISBN:

9780374246648 (hc. : alk. paper)
0374246645 (hc. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2001054605

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

YSPD232 -- Camanche Public Library (Camanche)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

N4AX745 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Emmetsburg (Emmetsburg)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

SKPC094 -- Sumner Public Library (Sumner)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)