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Bone, Eugenia.
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Microorganisms.
Bacteria.
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Bone, Eugenia.
Microorganisms.
Bacteria.
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Microbia
: a
journey
into
the
unseen
world
around
you / Eugenia Bone.
by
Bone, Eugenia.
Rodale, 2018.
Call #:
579 B712m
Subjects
Microorganisms.
Bacteria.
ISBN:
9781623367350 (hc.)
Description:
xvi, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-264) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Six ingredients connect us all -- How microbes created the air we breathe -- The impossible microbial species concept -- A marriage of microbes -- Microbes make landfall -- The soil microbiome -- Soil without microbes -- The plant microbiome -- Your microbiome is a park -- Our microbiomes -- Germophobia and microbiomania -- The Earth microbiome.
Summary:
"While researching her book about mushrooms, Eugenia Bone became fascinated with microbes—those life forms that are too small to see without a microscope. Specifically, she wanted to understand the microbes that lived inside other organisms like plants and people. But as she began reading books, scholarly articles, blogs, and even attending an online course in an attempt to grasp the microbiology, she quickly realized she couldn’t do it alone. That’s why she enrolled at Columbia University to study Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. Her stories about being a middle-aged mom embedded in undergrad college life are spot-on and hilarious. But more profoundly, when Bone went back to school she learned that biology is a vast conspiracy of microbes. Microbes invented living and as a result they are part of every aspect of every living thing. This popular science book takes the layman on a broad survey of the role of microbes in nature and illustrates their importance to the existence of everything: atmosphere, soil, plants, and us."--From publisher.
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