Body Heat : : Temperature and Life on Earth / / Mark S. Blumberg.
Whether you're a polar bear giving birth to cubs in an Arctic winter, a camel going days without water in the desert heat, or merely a suburbanite without air conditioning in a heat wave, your comfort and even survival depend on how well you adapt to extreme temperatures.In this entertaining an...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Temperature: A User’s Guide
- 2. Behave Yourself
- 3. Then Bake at 98.6°F for 400,000 Minutes
- 4. Everything in Its Place
- 5. Cold New World
- 6. Fever All through the Night
- 7. The Heat of Passion
- 8. Livin’ off the Fat
- 9. The Light Goes Out
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Index