Sex on Earth: A Journey Through Nature's Most Intimate Moments

Author:   Mr Jules Howard
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781408193433


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   13 August 2015
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Mr Jules Howard
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Sigma
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.224kg
ISBN:  

9781408193433


ISBN 10:   1408193434
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   13 August 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Yang Guang, Thank You, Ma’am Chapter 1: Jurassic Pork Chapter 2: The Irascible Hulk Chapter 3: Waiting for Frog ‘O’ Chapter 4: The Cloaca Monologues Chapter 5: The Aedeagus Complex Chapter 6: The Town that Sperm Built Chapter 7: Land of the Sexless Zombie Time-travellers Chapter 8: The Human Frequency Chapter 9: The Insurmountable Hump Chapter 10: The Pink in Evolution’s Rainbow Chapter 11: Mite of the Living Dead Chapter 12: The Greatest Story Never Told Chapter 13: Sex: The Arena Tour Chapter 14: My Chemical Romance

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Howard has written with Bill Bryson-like wit about the sex of pandas, dinosaurs, frogs, flamingos, hedgehogs, insects, and other creatures. Readers may laugh while they learn. Booklist ... A writ er who blends professional expertise in zoology with charm, wit, and a cockeyed sense of humor. What better guide through nature's red-light district could one ask for? Natural History Magazine ... does an admirable job of separating the scientific from the smutty ... this book is highly entertaining and informative. -- John Bradshaw BBC Focus .the infectious optimism of his fascination with an Earth full of beings doing exactly what they need to go on gives the reader a comforting sense that, in the grand scheme of things, everything is right with the world. Publisher's Weekly


Howard has written with Bill Bryson-like wit about the sex of pandas, dinosaurs, frogs, flamingos, hedgehogs, insects, and other creatures. Readers may laugh while they learn. * Booklist * ... A writ-er who blends professional expertise in zoology with charm, wit, and a cockeyed sense of humor. What better guide through nature's red-light district could one ask for? * Natural History Magazine * ... does an admirable job of separating the scientific from the smutty ... this book is highly entertaining and informative. -- John Bradshaw * BBC Focus * ...the infectious optimism of his fascination with an Earth full of beings doing exactly what they need to go on gives the reader a comforting sense that, in the grand scheme of things, everything is right with the world. * Publisher's Weekly * ...brilliantly informative yet entertainingly accessible guide to reproduction across the planet. -- Sally Morris * Daily Mail *


Howard has written with Bill Bryson-like wit about the sex of pandas, dinosaurs, frogs, flamingos, hedgehogs, insects, and other creatures. Readers may laugh while they learn. Booklist ... A writ-er who blends professional expertise in zoology with charm, wit, and a cockeyed sense of humor. What better guide through nature's red-light district could one ask for? Natural History Magazine ... does an admirable job of separating the scientific from the smutty ... this book is highly entertaining and informative. -- John Bradshaw BBC Focus ...the infectious optimism of his fascination with an Earth full of beings doing exactly what they need to go on gives the reader a comforting sense that, in the grand scheme of things, everything is right with the world. Publisher's Weekly


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Jules Howard is a zoologist, author, blogger and broadcaster. He writes on a host of topics relating to animal life, and appears regularly in BBC Wildlife Magazine and on TV and radio, including Channel 4's Sunday Brunch, BBC’s The One Show, BBC Breakfast and on BBC Radio 5 Live. Jules also runs a social enterprise that has brought almost 100,000 young people closer to the natural world. He lives in Northamptonshire with his wife and two children. @juleslhoward / www.juleshoward.co.uk

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