Microbiology category: 1351 books
I Contain Multitudes
The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin—a “microbe’s-eye view” of the world that reveals a marvelous,...
The Good Gut
Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The groundbreaking science behind the surprising source of good health
Stanford University’s Justin and Erica Sonnenburg are pioneers in the most exciting and potentially transformative field in the entire realm of human health and wellness, the study of the relationship between our bodies...
The Perfect Predator
A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
A "fascinating and terrifying" (Scientific American) memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more.
Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson,...
by David Quammen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.
The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS,...
Vaccinated
Triumph, Controversy, and An Uncertain F
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Maurice Hilleman's mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister stillborn. As an adult, he said that he felt he had escaped an appointment with death. He made it his life's work to see that others could do the same. Born into the life of a Montana chicken farmer, Hilleman ran off to the...
by Paul de Kruif
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2002
In this classic bestseller, Paul de Kruif dramatizes the pioneering bacteriological work of such scientists as Leeuwenhoek, Spallanzani, Koch, Pasteur, Reed, and Ehrlich. This seventieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by F. Gonzalez-Crussi.
This Is Your Brain on Parasites
How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**“Engrossing … [An] expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain.” —Wall Street Journal
“Fascinating—and full of the kind of factoids you can't wait to share.” —Scientific American**
Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen...
by David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
"Sure to become a game-changing guide to the future of good food and healthy landscapes." —Dan Barber, chef and author of The Third Plate
Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. The Hidden Half of Nature reveals why good health—for people and...
The Coming Plague
Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1994
"Here is a volume that should be required reading for policy makers and health professionals." - Kirkus Reviews
After four decades of assuming that the conquest of all infectous diseases was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis,...
Alexander Fleming : The Discovery Of Penicillin
(A Short Biography for Children)
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Alexander Fleming : The Discovery Of Penicillin (A Short Biography for Children) Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist best known for his discovery of penicillin.
Best Children's Biographies : Write a biography for kids by thinking about what a child would enjoy learning about...
Steine im Bauch
Mein Leben mit Colitis Ulcerosa
Language: German
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Robin singt in einer Punk-Band, ist DJ und junger TV- und Radiomoderator in der Schweiz. Er feiert gerne, geht mit seiner Band auf Tour und genießt jeden Tag in vollen Zügen. Sein vermeintlich perfektes Leben endet mit einer verheerenden Diagnose: Colitis Ulcerosa. Eine unheilbare chronische Darmkrankheit,...
The Germ Files
The Surprising Ways Microbes Can Improve Your Health and Life (and How to Protect Yourself from the Bad Ones)
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
SOME GERMS ARE OUT TO GET US. . . . But we shouldn’t let a delinquent, pathogenic minority taint our view of the other 99.9 per cent.
The microbes living on and inside us outnumber the cells in our bodies three to one. Many provide services on which our well-being, our moods, our very lives...
The Fatal Strain
On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
In 2009, Swine Flu reminded us that pandemics still happen, and award- winning journalist Alan Sipress reminds us that far worse could be brewing. When a highly lethal strain of avian flu broke out in Asia in 2003 and raced westward, Sipress, as a reporter for The Washington Post, tracked the virus...
by Wilhelm Reich
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The Bion Experiments, published in a limited German edition in 1938 and now available in English for the first time, represents a cornerstone in Reich's scientific development. The work documents a series of experiments conducted in Oslo in 1936-37 in which Reich applied the formula of tension?charge?discharge?relaxation,...