Intimate strangers : unseen life on earth

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    • Needham, Cynthia

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Intimate strangers : unseen life on earth

Cynthia Needham ... [et al.]

ASM Press, c2000

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Intimate strangers (Television program)

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"Based on the PBS television series Intimate strangers: unseen life on earth."

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内容説明

Companion book to the PBS science documentary Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth * Combines vivid, descriptive images from the series and original artwork to tell the compelling story of the world of microbes and their role in the Earth's ecosystem. * Offers a comprehensive view of our relationship with the planet's tiniest inhabitants. * Engages parents and their children and teachers and their students, along with other members of the science-interested public, putting the vitally important role of the microbial world into examples and terms familiar to the reader. This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.

目次

Prologue: The World that came in the Mail Section 1: Keepers of the Biosphere Cycling Through the Biosphere Into the Rainforest Oceans of Microbes Life in the deep Sea The Sum of the Parts Section 2: Tree of Life Shaking the Tree Placing the Microbial Branches on the Tree Our Branch of the Tree Evolution on Fast Forward Forward to the Past Section 3: Dangerous Friends and Friendly Enemies Living in a Microbial World When Friends Turn Against Us Familiar Enemies The Most Lethal of Strangers Protecting our Territory Our Battle to Control Infectious Diseases Our Evolutionary Dance with the Microbes Section 4: Creators of the Future Combating Antibiotic Resistance Cleaning House Feeding the World A Walk on the Dark Side Of Microbes and Humans Afterword: Small Things Considered

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