| Vendor | |
|---|---|
|
Fritz Agency
Christian Dittus |
| Original language | |
| English | |
SMALL WONDERS
How Microbes Rule our World
SMALL WONDERS is popular science at its best. Ben-Barak's love of bugs is infectious and makes for a scintillating, fast-moving adventure that will appeal to even the least scientifically savvy of readers.
SMALL WONDERS takes the reader on a fantastic voyage to the microscopic, but massively influential, world of microbiology. It's a strange and dangerous world where oxygen is a lethal poison, sulphur is a delicious treat, deception is a basic survival skill, and perfectly good alcohol is simply thrown away. Idan Ben-Barak wears his learning lightly as he introduces us to the amazing lives and workings of genes and proteins, bacteria, and viruses, and the myriad ways in which they interact to shape life on Earth. On the journey, we learn about the teamwork required to rot human teeth; the microbe superheroes who feed on radioactive waste; suicide genes; the origins of diseases and antibiotic resistance; and the numerous respects in which microbes benefit human life - from manufacturing food and medicine, to mining gold, finding oil, cleaning up the mess we make, and generally rendering the Earth habitable.
Idan Ben-Barak is currently working towards a Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. He holds a B.Sc. in Medical Science and an M.Sc. in Microbiology from the Hadassah School of Medicine, the University of Jerusalem.
KLEINE WUNDERWERKE
Deutsch von Sebastian Vogel
[PB: Springer Spektrum, 03/10]
SMALL WONDERS takes the reader on a fantastic voyage to the microscopic, but massively influential, world of microbiology. It's a strange and dangerous world where oxygen is a lethal poison, sulphur is a delicious treat, deception is a basic survival skill, and perfectly good alcohol is simply thrown away. Idan Ben-Barak wears his learning lightly as he introduces us to the amazing lives and workings of genes and proteins, bacteria, and viruses, and the myriad ways in which they interact to shape life on Earth. On the journey, we learn about the teamwork required to rot human teeth; the microbe superheroes who feed on radioactive waste; suicide genes; the origins of diseases and antibiotic resistance; and the numerous respects in which microbes benefit human life - from manufacturing food and medicine, to mining gold, finding oil, cleaning up the mess we make, and generally rendering the Earth habitable.
Idan Ben-Barak is currently working towards a Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. He holds a B.Sc. in Medical Science and an M.Sc. in Microbiology from the Hadassah School of Medicine, the University of Jerusalem.
KLEINE WUNDERWERKE
Deutsch von Sebastian Vogel
[PB: Springer Spektrum, 03/10]
| Available products |
|---|
|
Book
Published 2009-09-01 by Scribe Publications |