Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right, and Other Bugdacious Tales.Tom Turpin Thomas Million John Turpin (November 18, 1871 – August 13, 1922) was an African-American composer of ragtime music. Tom Turpin was born in Savannah, Georgia, a son of John L. Turpin and Lulu Waters Turpin. In his early twenties he opened a saloon in St. Purdue University Purdue University (pərdy  `, -d`), main campus at West Lafayette, Ind. Press 1207 South Campus Courts, Bldg. E, West Lafayette West Lafayette, city (1990 pop. 25,907), Tippecanoe co., W Ind., a suburb of Lafayette, on the Wabash River; inc. 1924. A primarily residential city, it is the seat of Purdue Univ. , IN 47907 Written by Tom Turpin (Professor of Entomology entomology, study of insects, an arthropod class that comprises about 900,000 known species, representing about three fourths of all the classified animal species. in Purdue's College of Agriculture), Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right, and Other Bugdacious Tales is jam-packed with fun facts about insects--from the bug that ancient Egyptians used to worship as a god to how horseflies can fly without a head to the inordinate contribution that humble fruit flies have made to science. Flies in the Face of Fashion is divided into two-page vignettes, each enlightening the reader to another eyebrow-raising fact about insects, and is especially recommended for school and community library collections, or as a giftbook for budding entymologists. A most enjoyable and educational browse for readers of all ages. |
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