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Microbia : a journey into the unseen world around you / Eugenia Bone.
- Title
- Microbia : a journey into the unseen world around you / Eugenia Bone.
- Author
- Bone, Eugenia,
- Publication
- [New York, New York] : Rodale, [2018]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | QR41.2 .B64125 2018g | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 271 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Set against a backdrop of [the author's] misadventures in academia, [this work] explores what microbes are and how they live and compares the microbiomes of soil, plants, animals (that includes us), and places, explaining such things as the wrongheadedness of labeling some bacteria 'good' and others 'bad' ... [and] walks you through this incredible garden of the unseen and helps you realize that we share everything"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-264) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781623367350
- 1623367352
- LCCN
- 99980224056
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries