Download or read book The Beauty of the Beastly written by Natalie Angier and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people cockroaches, spiders, worms, dung beetles and hyenas are not paragons of beauty in a natural world; in fact, many would prefer that they were not there at all. But in this book an American science-writer who has won the Pulitzer Prize champions the cause of these beasts - the lowlifes and the brutes - in a series of articles, most of which appeared in The New York Times, and which she has reworked into a single narrative.