{"id":1096,"date":"2009-04-14T18:09:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2009-04-14T18:09:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:09:44","slug":"three-groups-of-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/1096","title":{"rendered":"Three groups of three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social insects.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSix-Legs-Better-Cultural-Myrmecology%2Fdp%2F0801884454%2F&amp;tag=hawkdog-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Six Legs Better<\/a> &#8211; a history of myrmecology.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393067041?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hawkdog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0393067041\">The Superorganism<\/a> &#8211; group-level evo strategies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312855176?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hawkdog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0312855176\">Slant<\/a> &#8211; social insects, info theory and echoes of Brunner&#8217;s great Stand on Zanzibar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honey_ant\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honey_ant\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c2\/HoneyAnt.jpg\/800px-HoneyAnt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honey_ant\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tepuis.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Lost-Worlds-Highlands-Stewart-McPherson\/dp\/0955891809\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1239466023&amp;sr=8-1\">Lost Worlds of the Guiana Highlands<\/a>. Outstanding &#8211; geology, history, biology and lots of gorgeous pictures.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/servlet\/SearchResults?tn=climb+to+the+lost+world&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">Climb to the Lost World<\/a> &#8211; I need to read this. Among other things, it may stop me from thinking &#8216;Ben Nevis&#8217; as soon as I hear Dr. MacInnes&#8217; name (it&#8217;s a hell of a thing to be type-cast).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/etext\/139\">The Lost World<\/a> &#8211; the original trip to Maple White Land.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monte_Roraima\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/2a\/Mt_Roraima_in_Venezuela_001.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>The Ottoman Empire (and the world to its west).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374299358?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hawkdog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0374299358\">The Snake Stone<\/a> (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374178607?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hawkdog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0374178607\">The Janissary Tree<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374110395?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hawkdog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0374110395\">The Bellini Card<\/a>) &#8211; great very-late Ottoman mystery.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1847671853?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hawkdog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1847671853\">The Siege<\/a> &#8211; on it&#8217;s way to me from #amazonfail (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/80791\/AmazonFAIL\">current events<\/a> Twitter-joke).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096764\/\">The Adventures of Baron Munchausen<\/a>. Hurray for the Sultan&#8217;s cannons &#8211; I want one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Turkish_Bombard\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/e3\/Edirne_Kusatma_Zonaro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social insects. Six Legs Better &#8211; a history of myrmecology. The Superorganism &#8211; group-level evo strategies. Slant &#8211; social insects, info theory and echoes of Brunner&#8217;s great Stand on Zanzibar. * Tepuis. Lost Worlds of the Guiana Highlands. Outstanding &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/1096\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-creatures","category-nomadics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-hG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}