Microbia : a journey into the unseen world around you / Eugenia Bone.
By: Bone, Eugenia [author.].
Publisher: [New York, New York] : Rodale, ©2018Description: 271 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781623367350.Subject(s): Microorganisms | Bacteria | Bacteria | Microbiological Phenomena | Microbiota | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs | SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology | SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Microbiology | Bacteria | MicroorganismsGenre/Form: Nonfiction. | Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | QR41.2 .B64125 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000013894 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-264) and index.
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.
"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"--