False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

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Back when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister of Great Britain, John Gray was an influential conservative thinker, whose writings helped influence the revitalization of the laissez-faire market in that country. Now, as free-market champions seek to make over the (mostly) postcommunist world in their own image, Gray has experienced a moment of apostasy. False Dawn argues that, far from bringing about economic paradise, global capitalism, left unchecked, "could well destroy liberal civilization." Gray is careful to distinguish "global capitalism" from "globalization," which he identifies as a broader tendency encompassing "the increasing interconnection of economic and cultural life in distant parts of the world." That societies around the world are coming into closer contact with each other is inevitable; that they will have to do so in a free market, particularly one largely shaped by Anglo-American economic values, is not. In fact, Gray says, pointing to the recent economic crises in Asia and Russia, such a model will not bring societies together, but may well tear them apart. "A worldwide free market," he warns, "is no more self-regulating than the national free markets of the past.... Unless it is reformed radically, the world economy risks falling apart in a replay, at once tragic and farcical, of the trade wars, competitive devaluations, economic collapses and political upheavals of the 1930s."

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powerful and prophetic challenge to globalization from a former partisan of the New Right. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as both "a convincing analysis of an international economy" and a "powerful challenge to economic orthodoxy," False Dawn shows that the attempt to impose the Anglo-American-style free market on the world will create a disaster, possibly on the scale of Soviet communism. Even America, the supposed flagship of the new civilization, risks moral and social disintegration as it loses ground to other cultures that have never forgotten that the market works best when it is embedded in society. John Gray, well known in the 1980s as an important conservative political thinker, whose writings were relied upon by Margaret Thatcher and the New Right in Britain, has concluded that the conservative agenda is no longer viable. In his examination of the ripple effects of the economic turmoil in Russia and Asia on our collective future, Gray provides one of the most passionate polemics against the utopia of the free market since Carlyle and Marx.

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Capitalism will end Democracy.......2005-07-26

A very bleak and insightful book.
I'll let Mr Gray speak in his own words.
Gray notes that current US policy is "a game plan for a cultural civil war...In the United States, as elsewhere, free markets evoke powerful social and political counter-movements. The chronic economic risk that they impose on the majority of the population is fertile ground for populist politicians."

"No western government today has a credible successor to the policies which secured western society against mass unemployment in the Keynesian era...The social democratic objective of full employment cannot now be achieved by social democratic policies."

It's the begining of the end for US democracy...

False Impressions........2004-12-17

Written by a Britisher, America is lambasted in this little treatise but, in a way, we are noted as a leader of the 'new civilization' with all its faults. It is villified in odd ways.

America persists in identifying modernity throughout the world in relation to itself. The prophet of today's America is not Thomas Jefferson or James Madison. Still less Edmund Burke, though we do like to quote him on occasion. In his long ramblings about the Cold War and the Soviet collapse, he calls Newt Gingrich a radical from The Right. Ronald Reagan, when U. S. President, was not, he says, any kind of liberal and could not foresee the economic counter-revolution which occurred. During his presidency,much of American industry was kept afloat by subsidies, condoning economic inequality. So, what else is new? He calls it a 'deregulated' economy.

He quotes Henry Kissinger about our national interest, calling it military-led and 'protectionistic.' His understanding of 'the American Creed' and the founding of the Constitution is an 'embodiment of universal truths whose future is assured by history.' The cover of this hedonistic British slap at USA has the "all-seeing eye" on a dollar bill (US currency) used in the film, NATIONAL TREASURE. That's all they have in common.

He dwells on free market and 'laissez-faire,' saying that "liberalism is dominant in the U.S. only in the sense that genuine conservative philosophy no longer exists." I disagree. Then, he goes on to say that "to be perceived as a liberal is a political liability."

This British John Gray called former U.S. President Bill Clinton a political shaman, causing an underclass which has no hope and an overclass who denies civic obligations. "Remolding American society to suit the imperatives of free market has involved the use of corporate power and federal government to bring about levels of economic inequality unknown since the 1920s."

He accuses America as an arrogant 'utopian' place where its faith in being a unique country, 'the model for a universal civilization' which all societies are fated to emulate. According to him, "America persists in identifying modernity throughout the world in relation to itself."

He points out the tragedy of family breakdown and the lack of extended family support. He blames it on deregulated labor markets, divorce, and the incarceration rates where he compared Britian's "fewer than one in a thousand" to America's "one in a hundred" being behind bars. His thesis that over a million people would be seeking work if American penal policies resembled those of any other western country. My question is "where are the jobs?" Should we create another Australia and empty the prisons?

The high rate of crime and incarceration in the U. S. are on a par with large numbers of lawyers and the huge levels of litigation. America's incarceration rates run parallel with its rates of violent crime, which this author blames on the U.S. abundant gun culture. Throughout human history, wars have arisen from territorial conflicts and economic interests.

Again, where are the jobs? Many U.S. factories continue to use other countries to manufacture deficient products by using cheap labor elsewhere, causing unemployment to skyrocket. Huge conglomerates like Wal-Mart (with their cheap merchandise) force smaller chains to fold or merge, and so they profit by using other places at the expense of the willing workers of America.

John Gray is a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. He is considered one of Britain's leading public intellectuals and an important conservative thinker. His far-fetched opinions that 'the movement toward free markets, goods and ideas is not a naturally occurring process but rather a political project that rests on American power" is just passing the buck.

After all his 'put downs' no way would I believe that he feels America is a 'flagship of the new civilization.' We can learn by studying the failures of the old civilizations, and not place blame.

Much more than McWorld-ization - A political perspective.......2004-06-14

This is a very well written book that brings out a political perspective on Globalization, Free Trade and its impact/consequences.

Unlike most books which run into conspiracy theories of Capitalism running amok and corporations driving covert agendas, this book instead takes a look at the political scenarios existing in various key countries & the complex interplay between the political history of the state & the impact of capitalism & hence the very role of the State. After dissecting Britain & the US, the author goes on to give very well researched examples from Russia and East Asian States - he covers the political history of each of these places & clearly outlines how Capitalism morphs into a regional variant under different political systems and the consequences of this morphing.

The author powerfully argues how Capitalism & Globalization are not delinked from the role of the State ... and debunks the myth of a single universal culture. The book ends on a dark note where it raises serious questions about the presence & effectiveness of a Global governing body to handle the inadequacies of capitalism, driven by technological globalization.

Its not an easy book to read, and requires a good knowledge of political history (US/UK/Russia/Singapore/China/Japan) & basic economics; but once finished, it is a definitive eye opener from a political perspective, on how the situation today has developed and what the future holds out.

A powerful book the brings globalization to close scrutiny.......2004-05-22

One of the more interesting thing about the London School of Economics Professor is that his writings have encompass many fields. In most of Gray's writings you see him as a philosopher and a political thinker but this books break ground as it enters into economic fields. If you were to go to a bookstore you would more likely find this book in the economic section.

False Dawn provides a precise view of what globalization is. Gray's book is important such that what runs throughout the course of his book is that he constantly reminds us what globalization is and what globalization is not.

To put this more clearly globalization is not as Gray contends a default arguement after the collapse of the Soviet Union but more so mankind's careless approach and domination of the environment and the continued promotion of the so-called Enlightment Project.

As a matter of fact it is this book that was credited for Asian economic crises in the late 1990s. This is a must read book and I strongly recommend that you purchase it.

A candid look into global capitalism.......2004-02-08

As far as skeptics of globalization go, John Gray has to rank high. Formerly a Thatcher conservative and now a market skeptic, Mr. Gray's credentials alone take him a long way. It is no wonder, then, that what he has to write about globalization should be worth reading.

All the same, "False Dawn" is likely to produce mixed feelings. Its eight-fold argument is hard to keep track of, rendering interesting observations seem like unnecessary transgressions. Mr. Gray's fluid writing style that consists of short paragraphs makes for an enjoyable read, but at times, speed and brevity come at the expense of depth; all too often, the reader is likely to demand more from the book.

Still, the argument itself has merits, particularly in showing how free markets need a strong government to engineer them (as opposed to them springing naturally). Mr. Gray's continuous dialectic between the economic imperatives of a capitalist system and its social consequences is surely to excite skeptics of liberalism and trouble its supporters. From the perspective of political theory, Mr. Gray's contribution is invaluable.

But as with the arguments of many skeptics, Mr. Gray's overlooks certain uncomfortable realities. At the heart of Mr. Gray's thesis is the tradeoff between the flexibility of markets and the human need for economic security. For Mr. Gray, capitalism's very dynamism is likely to lead to its fall. At the same time, Mr. Gray pays scant reference either to the need for security itself or to the political shortfalls of providing security and social cohesion. After all, the engineering of markets came to save failing economies. It is not at all clear where Mr. Gray would have us go if not towards free markets.

As the argument moves from political theory to economics, its appeal lessens. The economics of globalization (bad capitalism driving out good capitalism) are at the center of Mr. Gray's thesis. What is absent, however, is a comprehensive review of the economic literature which takes issue with this position. Absent such a refutation of the opposite side of the argument, Mr. Gray invites his readers to dismiss his arguments all too easily.

In the end, Mr. Gray makes a (stretched) comparison between Marxism and liberalism. It is true that they are both products of the Enlightenment whose belief in reason and progress is paramount; and it is true that both need strong governments to work. But the scope of government is different under them. What is also different is the benefits that each system gives to its people-both might bring dislocation, but liberalism has many merits, while Marxism had few.

In fact, Mr. Gray's unwillingness to recognize how markets increase human agency more so than political participation surfaces as the primary drawback of his argument. And, Mr. Gray's overlooking of how the market too can provide for economic security might displease some forward-looking economic thinkers.

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Title: False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism. (The Dilemmas of Globalization. (book review)
Author: Sanjay G. Reddy
Publication: Ethics & International Affairs (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Volume: 15 Issue: 1 Page: 159(14)

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Globalization--Facing the Inevitable?(Review) (book review): An article from: World Policy Journal

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Globalization--Facing the Inevitable?(Review) (book review): An article from: World Policy Journal
Sanjib Baruah
Manufacturer: World Policy Institute
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Title: Globalization--Facing the Inevitable?(Review) (book review)
Author: Sanjib Baruah
Publication: World Policy Journal (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1999
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"Gene therapy, electronic commerce, intelligent sensors, digital imaging, micromachines, superconductivity, and other emerging technologies have the potential to remake entire industries and obsolete established strategies," write George S. Day and Paul J.H. Schoemaker in the opening to Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies. Their book is a comprehensive look at the high-tech future facing existing firms and the ways they must weigh and accommodate its impacts in order to compete in the future. Based on six years of research with Charles Schwab, Amazon.com, and other techno pioneers, Day and Schoemaker present "insights, tools, and frameworks" developed by Wharton's Emerging Technologies Management Research Program for managers who want guidance in this fluid, new arena. For example, in demonstrating how the upstart PalmPilot solidly captured its market despite established competition, they identify the traps that stymied rival products from Apple, IBM, Sony, and Microsoft as "delayed participation, sticking with the familiar, reluctance to fully commit, and lack of persistence." They then detail solutions that, in this case, are characterized as "widening peripheral vision, creating a learning culture, staying flexible in strategic ways, and providing organization autonomy." Other similarly specific yet universal sections address public policy, financing, and alliances. --Howard Rothman

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Emerging technologies such as the Internet and biotechnology have the potential to create new industries and transform existing ones. Incumbent firms, despite their superior resources, often lose out to smaller rivals in developing emerging technologies. Why do these incumbents have so much difficulty with disruptive technologies? How can they anticipate and overcome their handicaps?

Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies presents insights, tools, and frameworks from leading busi-ness thinkers based on the research of Wharton's Emerging Technologies Management Research Program. This pioneering industry-academic partnership, established in 1994, is one of the longest and broadest initiatives on the management of emerging technologies. For the first time, this book distills the insights from the program into a single volume for managers, covering a wide range of issues related to the successful management of emerging technologies.

The editors contend that managing emerging technologies represents a "different game," requiring a different set of management skills, frameworks, and strategies than those used by established firms to manage existing technologies. In this book, experts from diverse fields examine key issues such as:

Common pitfalls and potential solutions for incumbent firms in managing emerging technologies
Strategies for assessing the potential of new markets and designing technologies to take advantage of market "lumpiness"
The need for scenario planning and "disciplined imagination" to develop strategies under uncertainty
The limits of patents in protecting gains from technology, and the use of lead time and other strategies
The power of innovative financial strategies and the use of real options in making investments
Using alliances and new organizational forms
Developing a "customized workplace"

Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies represents a powerful survival kit for managers "dropped behind the lines" of these new technologies. The authors provide a comprehensive set of tools and insights that will help you understand the new challenges and develop effective strategies to succeed at this different game.

Praise for WHARTON on MANAGING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

"New technologies are transforming markets, businesses, and society at an ever-increasing rate. We have a critical need for better road maps for managing our way through this new terrain. This book offers critical insights and useful new models for thinking through these challenges."
-Professor Thomas Gerrity, Director of the Wharton e-Commerce Forum

"Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies covers the emerging technology landscape-from strategy to finance to human resources-in a way that only a group of top scholars from many disciplines could do. Insightful, accessible, and smart ideas that make for 'must reading' for thoughtful executives in today's turbulent economy. The authors prove, once again, the power of research to yield deep insight into tough business problems."
-Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Professor of Strategy and Organization, Stanford University and coauthor, Competing on the Edge: Strategy As Structured Chaos

"Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies offers valuable insight for large established companies seeking growth in a dynamic market of rapid technological advancement. The entertaining cases and thoughtful analyses help managers create strategies, select options, and organize to successfully manage the interface between imagination and knowledge."
-Jerry Karabelas, PhD, CEO, Novartis Pharma AG

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How to "win" when playing a "different game".......2006-08-19

This is one of the volumes which comprise a series published by John Wiley & Sons. It was edited by George S. Day and Paul J.H. Schoemaker with Robert E. Gunther. (Day and Schoemaker are co-authors of the recently published Peripheral Vision, published by Harvard Business School Press.) In the first two chapters which serve as an introduction, they suggest that a "different game" with different rules is now being played, and suggest how to avoid the various "pitfalls" of merging technologies. The material which then follows is carefully organized within Four Parts.

"Assessing Technologies": Day and Schoemaker explore technologies' various paths of development, recommend frameworks for evaluating them, and suggest what the role of government should be during the emergence of both technologies and industries.

"Managing Markets": They examine why emerging markets (so different from mature technology markets) require new approaches to research and assessment.

"Making Strategy": They explore the various demands of strategy formulation in emerging technology firms which include the need to combine discipline and imagination, the use of scenario planning, and strategies for dividing the joint gains.

"Investing for the Future": In this final Part, Day and Schoemaker offer insights on using real options to help assess the value and potential of emerging technologies for projects in which NPV may be negative.

For whom will this brilliant book be most valuable? I suggest two different groups of decision-makers. First, those in organizations which have begun - or are about to begin - development of technologies which they hope can achieve and then sustain a competitive advantage and require expect guidance on how to manage those technologies effectively. Also, those in organizations which need expert advice when confronted technologies (developedelsewhere) which will create disruption of a given competitive marketplace and thus pose a serious threat.

For executives in both groups, there really is a "different game to be played," one which has different rules. Winning or losing that game may well depend on understanding the issues and concepts which Day and Schoemaker explain with both rigor and eloquence in this book.

Those who share my high regard for it are urged to check out Day and Schoemaker's aforementioned Peripheral Vision as well Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation, Geoffrey Moore's Dealing with Darwin, Kellogg on Innovation & Technology co-edited by Ranjay Gulati, Mohanbir Sawhney, and Anthony Paoni, The Future of Technology edited by Tom Standage, Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and Joel Mokyr`s The Lever of Riches.

It's a tremendous book. Very much applied to real life........2000-10-20

It's a tremendous book about emerging technologies which many medium to large companies and executives have to tackle with in this new era. Although the book has been written by a group of academics it's very much applied to real life cases and companies. Even the first two chapters of the book can be sold seperate as an executive summary for the subject.Mr.Hakan Eminsoy hakan.eminsoy@fibabank.com.tr from Istanbul , Turkey

Great Stuff !.......2000-09-13

I bought this book on the advice from a friend and was pleasantly surprised. As a founder/CEO of a rapidly growing fiber optic business (where today's Intellectual Property can become tomorrow's dogfood) , I found the book to be a great combination of well-researched information and street-smart insights. A great companion for developing pre-emptive strategies in a technology driven economy.

A "Must Have" Handbook.......2000-07-26

This book covers all the bases including human resource planning, financing, managing markets and the all important role of assessing the technologies. A "Must Have" text for anyone chartered with the task of managing the chaotic and fast paced world of emerging technologies.

This book is extreemely well organized and carries the reader through the entire management process. It reinforced and validated many aspects of managing this type of technology that were I personally had to learn by trial and error. Likewise, it provided new alternatives and other key learnings that made reading the book a worthwhile experience. It provides an alternate and improved framework for evaluating this new type of technology, while exposing the pitfalls of applying traditional evaluation techniques.

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Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies
George S. Day
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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Excellent!.......2003-09-08

I've gotten interested in insects just because of my own curiosity but wanted to learn a bit about their Families and species so I picked up this book (recommended by a teacher of a naturalist class on insects). It is an incredibly complete book with excellent drawings, discussions of common species, easyu to understand layout of orders and families without getting tooooo technical. Just what I needed to get my feet wet in being able to id and learn about specific insects I come across in the garden and elsewhere.

Review of How to Know the Insects.......2002-03-15

I have owned a copy of this book for many years and consider it to be the best classification guide available for undergraduates and serious amatuer collectors. An index\glossary provides hundreds of terms related to external morphology that can be memorized and the identification procedure is both simple and efficient. There are plenty of detailed illustrations.
The only downside is that this book has not been revised in many years. It most likely contains errors, because systematics is an ever-changing field. Most of it is accurate, however, and any serious insect collector can compensate for the outdated information by visiting a public library or museum.
This book is probably out of print. Get it now!

A Great Book for Insect Collectors!.......2000-06-20

I bought this book for my summer Etomology class. It is a very helpful book when you are trying to identify insects, however some of the insect characteristics are hard to see in the diagrams compaired to the real insect. A disecting microscope is strongly recommended when useing this book, since most of the characteristics deal with segments on the legs or antennae, as well as wing veins. These structures hare very hard to see with the naked eye. If a mistake is made in classification it is easy to back track and find your mistake, becuase each step has the number of the previous step. This book also gives you a good description of the insect's charachteristics, habitat, and other usefull information to verify the insect being classified. With this book I was able to classify all of my insects for my collection. I did need some help from the professor and the proctor, however most was just to double check myself. I also used the Peterson's Insect Guide to double check my classification. If you are looking for a book to identify insects for a collection, I strongly recommend this one. However, if you need a book for quick identification in the feild, this isn't the best book for that purpose. For feild purposes use a insect feild guide.

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How to know spiders - but not unless you have a magnifying glass.......2007-10-03

Book is more on a textbook level than for average identification of garden spiders on the move. B & W illustrations of tiny body parts that would not be easily visible on spiders still in nature. Good for science. Not great for someone wanting to do identification on spiders in the wild.

Not Your Average Spider Book.......2002-06-12

Many books written on arachnids are basically recycled jargon boring the reader with misinformation and "common sense" wife's tales. This book, however, was an exception to the rule. The author seems to actually know the subject matter, getting past the "basics" very quickly and introducing you to virtually every family of spider and all of their distinguishing features. Also included are several odd footnotes about the arachnid that I found very useful and that I hadn't seen elsewhere.

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Excellent for benthic macroinvertebrate monitoring.......2004-01-19

This excellent little wire-bound book is particularly easy to use in the field--and it lies flat on a lab bench. The book provides brief sections on introduction to aquatic insects, marine insects, frequently encountered non-insects, insect morphology, collecting and preserving, use of aquatic insects in water quality work, a section on how to use the book, and references. The bulk of the book consists of a key to orders followed by a series of keys to families or, in some cases, subfamilies. For the benefit of amateurs like myself, drawings are numerous and clear and a good deal of information about distribution, ecology, and appearance is provided in the keys. If one is getting started in benthic macroinvertebrate surveys or has students doing high school science projects on aquatic insects, this little book provides a lot of bang for the buck.

Aquatic insects and biological monitoring.......2000-10-26

Lehmkuhl does an excellent job with discription of life cycles, morphology, and how insects are used in biological monitoring. The bibliography is extensive and organized by major family and order. This is a good text for beginning aquatic biologists and teachers that want to start pollution monitoring of streams and rivers, however I would have liked to have seen more detail on collection methods, specifically kick net methods. Kick nets are build specifically for this method of collection and provide a better means than the "window screen" method described. It would have also been nice to go into the methodology of where and how to perform sampling. The only other improvement I would make would to have included more drawings of entire insects(ie. various genera and species of Plecoptera) and some photographs would have been a nice supplement as well. Otherwise a very well done and helpful text.

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Still the Best Guide to the Orthopteroid Orders.......2006-02-18

Helfer's monumental guide to grasshoppers and their relatives was originally published by William C. Brown many years ago. Fortunately Dover reprinted this classic. While behind in taxonomy, this book is still very useful and by far the most complete guide available. I only wish they would revise it, but I doubt that it will happen any time soon.

I used this guide extensively while I was co-authoring a manual of grasshoppers in New Mexico and found it then to be the best and most accurate publication (despite the dated taxonomy) for both amateur and professional orthopterist. Helfer's book is still the only source for a non-technical overview of camel crickets, mantids, walkingsticks, and some others for North America and holds its own against more up to date books on grasshoppers, katydids and crickets, despite the lack of color plates.

If you are interested in the hopping, chirping and scuttling inhabitants of your part of the world, you can't go wrong in obtaining a copy of this marvelous book.

Hundreds of hopping hoppers.......2004-11-12

Although scientific names are a bit out of date, this book helps the serious student identify almost all of the roaches, mantids, walking sticks, earwigs, grasshoppers, and crickets in the U.S. I had a copy some time ago, lost it, and am glad to find another to replace it. The information in this book is at the level of a good field guide, but more complete than any could be. This is a great reference for the naturalist or field biologist involved with grasshoppers and their kin.

Very complete.......2003-11-29

This book was recommended to me by a local naturalist and I'm so glad I took the advice to buy it. Its very complete. There are no photographs, its all drawings and text but the drawings are very good. Lots of detail. I think this is for someone who is already familiar with insect taxonomy since there are a lot of refernces to specific part such as pronotum, tegmina, etc. Its a fantastic book though and one that I for example have been able to grow into. Appearance ofthe insects, sounds they make habits etc are all discussed. Latin and common names are used. Its a fun book. For the id, I use this book in addition to others that have photographs.

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How to Know the Beetles.......2007-05-14

Most likely the best guide of its type available. It is written by the man who has been considered as one of the most knowledgeable, if not the most knowledgeable, individual concerning beetles since I was in graduate school studying insects. That was some time ago. Although I won't say how long, it was before the PC. Take advantage of his lifetime of knowledge and experience and learn about the largest, and one of the most fascinating, order of insects.

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