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Photo Credit: Michael Lionstar     Monday, April 5, 7:30 p.m. Insectopedia  BUY NOW For as long as humans have been here, insects have been here. Yet we hardly know them, not even the ones we’re closest to: the insects that eat our food, share our beds, live in our homes. Organizing his book alphabetically, with one entry for each letter, weaving together brief vignettes, meditations, and extended essays, Hugh Raffles uses the prism of history and science, anthropology and travel, economics and popular culture to show how insects have triggered our obsessions, stirred our fears, and beguiled our imaginations. Hugh Raffles teaches anthropology at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of In Amazonia: A Natural History, which received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His essays have been published in Best American Essays and Granta. He lives in New York City.  “Hugh Raffles's work stands alone for what it says both about its subject and about us. After reading Insectopedia, it's hard to look at a cricket,  a bumblebee, and a human being the same way ever again. I adored the book. —Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish Request a signed copy: sarahl@keplers.com The Vast World of the Tiny, Arranged From A to Z By KATHERINE BOUTON Published: March 15, 2010   http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/science/16scibks.html?ref=science