Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized Review

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(More customer reviews)My science teacher had this book out in the laboratory, along with several other books and guides that are current and invited us to spend that period browsing and reading.I checked this book out and also the one onNabokov's butterfly work-- Nabokov's Blues-- for Thanksgiving holiday.Ms.Gordon's book is much better than a textbook or fieldguide because itprovides an exciting story about ants and how they work.The vividdesciptions personalize ants and make it more like a book verson of "ABug's Life" movie-- but SERIOUS about the science; so is the storyabout Nabokov the scientist, which reads with a plot.Ants at Work waseasy to read, extremely interesting and probably taught me more about antsthan I could have learned from a textbook or lab manual.If it had onedrawback against the Nabokov story it was only that Nabokov's exciting workon butterflies, as told by Mr. Johnson and Mr. Coates, had an ongoingplot-- about the famous writer's life and other scientists too.But, Ms.Gordon's book was fascinating and I thought my teacher's idea to have uslearn about ants and butterflies by reading these more exciting books was agreat idea.Both Ants at Work and Nabokov's Blues are perhaps best suitedfor adults after high school but I had no trouble with either book and surefelt I learned more about insects reading these books than I would havestudying a dry textbook.It was a good suggestion by our teacher for theholidays.

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