Biology of Spiders

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Summary: An excellent overview of spiders' anatomy and behavior.
Review: "Biology of Spiders" is an excellently-written, detailed look at the anatomy, physiology, taxonomy, and behavior of spiders. Very well organized, with many helpful photographs and diagrams, this book is very helpful to anyone wanting to know about these arachnids

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Summary: Essential for every arachnophile
Review: About the only complaint I have with this book is that the author doesn't clearly identify the intended audience. I'll do that for him: if you love spiders you absolutely must have this book. This provides an excellent survey of virtually everything about the biology of spiders. The detail is stupendous, especially the microphotographs of various parts of spider anatomy.

This book is probably most appropriate as a text for an upper level college course, but any budding arachnologist should read it. Anyone who loves spiders as I do will love this book.

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Summary: Elegant and beautiful
Review: I came to this book after reading every spider field guide, "popular science" title and Internet site I could find, all of which I also found wanting. Foelix's book has all the information I wanted, presented with the calm majesty that only the very best professors can manage. It's truly a college course in itself, always challenging and never condescending.

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Summary: The Best Book on Spiders Without a Shadow of a Doubt
Review: One of the few factorial books I have ever been able to read without dropping off after a couple of pages. A really great book eases you gently into the web of facts without getting snared (sorry!). If you love spiders this is your book, if you don't you may change your mind or at least gain a huge amount of admiration for the little beasties! Wonderfully written with clear diagrams and great photos I can wholeheartedly recommend it.

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Summary: great book
Review: This is a super book on spiders. Its technical but still understandable. I don't have a science background so I was hoping it wouldn't be too tough to read and its not. It has pictures and it goes through everything you'd like to know about spiders from how they weave webs to how the webs are structured to how they reproduce etc etc. I was interested because I see all these beautiful webs in my gardens and I wanted to learn more about spiders. This gave me justt the depth I was looking for without expecting me to have a pHd in the subject. I really liked this book

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Summary: great book
Review: This is a super book on spiders. Its technical but still understandable. I don't have a science background so I was hoping it wouldn't be too tough to read and its not. It has pictures and it goes through everything you'd like to know about spiders from how they weave webs to how the webs are structured to how they reproduce etc etc. I was interested because I see all these beautiful webs in my gardens and I wanted to learn more about spiders. This gave me justt the depth I was looking for without expecting me to have a pHd in the subject. I really liked this book

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Summary: The Best Book on Spiders Without a Shadow of a Doubt
Review: This review covers concisely a half-century of research in spider anatomy, development, behavior, and the complete biological profile. It contains a great number of photographs, drawings, and electron micrographs, illustrating precisely what is known about spiders at the publication date of 1996. There is not another reference that comes close to summarizing this knowledge in one place.

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Summary: Comprehensive review of 50 year's research on arachnids
Review: This review covers concisely a half-century of research in spider anatomy, development, behavior, and the complete biological profile. It contains a great number of photographs, drawings, and electron micrographs, illustrating precisely what is known about spiders at the publication date of 1996. There is not another reference that comes close to summarizing this knowledge in one place.