books about: bloodsucking

books about: bloodsucking

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Bloodsucking

Bloodsucking Witchcraft: An Epistemological Study of Anthropomorphic Supernaturalism in Rural Tlaxcala
Hugo G. Nutini, John M. Roberts

University of Arizona Press, 1993

In the rural areas of south-central Mexico, there are believed to be witches who transform themselves into animals in order to suck the blood from the necks of sleeping infants. This book analyzes beliefs held by the great majority of the population of rural Tlaxcala a generation ago and chronicles its drastic transformation since then. ...

Biosystematics of Haematophagous Insects (Systematics Association Special Volume)
M. W. Service

Oxford University Press, USA, 1988

With the growing awareness that many tropical diseases are transmitted by insects belonging to species complexes, epidemiologists have sought new methods for identifying the precise vector species involved. This information has a direct bearing on the understanding of such diseases as malaria, mosquito-borne filariasis, and scrub typhus. The ...

Bloodsuckers: Bats, Bugs, and Other Bloodthirsty Creatures (High Five Reading)
Sarah Houghton

Red Bricklearning, 2003

Candiru: Life and Legend of the Bloodsucking Catfishes

Stephen Spotte

Creative Arts Book Company, 2002

More than just a bloodsucking fish...
Spotte's idiosyncratic book is a compendium of everything written or believed about a thin catfish purported to enter the human urethra, vagina or anus when one urinates in certain South American streams. He found, translated or had translated, and excerpted all ...

Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers

Beverly Gray

Da Capo Press, 2003

Kudos from Creating Characters author Marisa D'Vari
This fascinating "biography" is really a savvy "how to" book that belongs on the shelf of every screenwriter, aspiring producer, director, and development executive -- and everyone else who loves films and craves to know the secrets of Hollywood's most colorful mogul. ...

True Vampires: Blood-Sucking Killers Past and Present

Sondra London

Feral House, 2003

A bibliography would help
While most true crime does not bother with references, their scope is more limited than 'True Vampires'. I thought this could only benefit from a bibliography since it is international and has so many cases. Otherwise, it is pulpish and just shock material. There is ...

The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects
M. J. Lehane

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Fully updated since it was first published in 1991, this second edition focuses on the biological modifications common to blood-sucking insects and outlines their medical, social and economic impact. It also covers host-insect interactions and the transmission of parasites by blood-sucking insects. The final chapter is designed as a useful ...

Bloodsucking Fiends

Christopher Moore

Harper Paperbacks, 2004

Officially one of my favorite Vampire novels
This is one of the few books that my husband read before me, and I had to sit there listening to him howl with laughter while I patiently waited for him to finish it. Many times he was brought to tears and had to stop reading so that he could breath. Now I was never ...

Informania: Vampires (Informania)

Martin Jenkins

Candlewick, 1998

informania: vampires
For everybody who likes vampires and are curious about where they originated from, this is the book for you. It seems like a kids book but most adults don't know this stuff! This book shows you movies about vampires, some of the first ever vampire stories, other blood ...

Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Bill Schutt

Harmony, 2008

Blood-Feeding Bugs and Beasts
Patricia Kite

Millbrook Press, 1996

Full color pleasantly gruesome close-up photos of Fleas, Leeches, ticks, head lice, vampire bats, mosquitoes and flies. For ages 8-12 easy to read text.