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March of the Microbes - Sighting the Unseen (Paperback)
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March of the Microbes - Sighting the Unseen (Paperback)
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Though nothing in the natural world would be quite the same without
them, microbes go mostly unnoticed. They are the tiny, mighty force
behind the pop in Champagne and the holes in Swiss cheese, the
granite walls of Yosemite and the white cliffs of Dover, the
workings of snowmaking machines, Botox, and gunpowder; and yet we
tend to regard them as peripheral, disease-causing, food-spoiling
troublemakers. In this book renowned microbiologist John Ingraham
rescues these supremely important and ubiquitous microorganisms
from their unwonted obscurity by showing us how we can, in fact,
see them-and appreciate their vast and varied role in nature and
our lives. Though we might not be able to see microbes firsthand,
the consequences of their activities are readily apparent to our
unaided senses. March of the Microbes shows us how to examine,
study, and appreciate microbes in the manner of a birdwatcher, by
making sightings of microbial activities and thereby identifying
particular microbes as well as understanding what they do and how
they do it. The sightings are as different as a smelly rock cod, a
bottle of Chateau d'Yquem, a moment in the Salem witch trials, and
white clouds over the ocean. Together they summarize the impact of
microbes on our planet, its atmosphere, geology, weather, and other
organisms including ourselves, to whom they dole out fatal
illnesses and vital nutrients alike. In the end, Ingraham leaves us
marveling at the power and persistence of microbes on our planet
and gives credence to Louis Pasteur's famous assertion that
"microbes will have the last word."
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