This reference answers the most important questions that form the foundation of Microbiology within 6 laminated pages. Carry this core material in a handy format to use beyond the course and into higher level and career courses, then even further into your working life as a refresher. With many diagrams in a small package, you will not need to ......
The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
With a New Introduction by Phillip K. Peterson, M.D., author of Microbes: The Life-Changing Story of Germs For more than 3000 years, hundreds of millions of people have died or been left permanently scarred or blind by the relentless, incurable disease called smallpox. In 1967, Dr. D.A. Henderson became director of a worldwide campaign ......
How the Cellular World Contains the Secrets to Life's Biggest Questions
By exploring the extent of our deeply integrated cellular world, Bioverse provides profound insights about ourselves, our health and well-being, our social systems, and our permanent relationship to the planet and the cosmos.
From biology to economics to information theory, the theme of interdependence is in the air, framing our experiences of all sorts of everyday phenomena. Indeed, the network may be the ascendant metaphor of our time. Yet precisely because the language of interdependence has become so commonplace as to be almost banal, we miss some of its most ......
Mud, muck and microbes are not hazards to be scrubbed from childhood; they can be some of its most powerful ingredients. Dirty Play makes the scientific case for letting children get gloriously, beneficially dirty. Coined by the author and microbial ecologist Jake Robinson, 'dirty play' is intuitive, unstructured, sensory-rich engagement with ......
Mud, muck and microbes are not hazards to be scrubbed from childhood; they can be some of its most powerful ingredients. Dirty Play makes the scientific case for letting children get gloriously, beneficially dirty. Coined by the author and microbial ecologist Jake Robinson, 'dirty play' is intuitive, unstructured, sensory-rich engagement with ......
A Practical Introduction to Biology and Identification
For the first time, here is a practical guide to marine plankton as seen and collected from the seashore. Perfect for naturalists and ecologists, amateur or professional alike, this book accesses a captivating hidden world. Illustrated throughout with stunning photographs, the multitudes of microscopic life-forms typically found in seawater that ......
What, exactly, is life? As young children we are taught about animals such as giraffes, lions, elephants and itsy-bitsy spiders with eight legs; we learn about trees and flowers from the plant kingdom, about toadstools in the woods and fish in the sea. This teaches us to think of living things as discrete entities with characteristic ......
What, exactly, is life? As young children we are taught about animals such as giraffes, lions, elephants and itsy-bitsy spiders with eight legs; we learn about trees and flowers from the plant kingdom, about toadstools in the woods and fish in the sea. This teaches us to think of living things as discrete entities with characteristic ......