Microbiology category: 1351 books
Catching Breath
The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Tuberculosis is an ancient disease, but it's not a disease of history. With more than a million victims every year – more than any other disease, including malaria – and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest...
The Psychobiotic Revolution
Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Written by the leading researchers in the field, this information-rich guide to improving your mood explains how gut health drives psychological well-being, and how depression and anxiety can be relieved by adjusting your intestinal bacteria.
This groundbreaking book explains the revolutionary...
The Human Superorganism
How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
"Eyeopening... Fascinating... may presage a paradigm shift in medicine.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Teeming with information and big ideas... Outstanding.”
—Booklist (starred review)
The origin of asthma, autism, Alzheimer's, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity,...
Good Germs, Bad Germs
Health and Survival in a Bacterial World
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Making Peace with Microbes
Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies...
by Sebastian G.B. Amyes
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Bacteria form a fundamental branch of life. They are the oldest forms of life as we know it, and they are still the most prolific living organisms. They inhabit every part of the Earth's surface, its ocean depths, and even terrains such as boiling hot springs. They are most familiar as agents of disease,...
I, Superorganism
Learning to love your inner ecosystem
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Every human body carries a secret cargo: a huge population of microorganisms living in the mouth, on the skin, in the gut. They help digest our food. They make essential vitamins. They break down toxins and metabolise drugs. They exert an invisible influence on our hormones, our immune systems, perhaps...
Whisky
Technology, Production and Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
Whisky: Technology, Production and Marketing explains in technical terms, the science and technology of producing whisky, combined with information from industry experts on successfully marketing the product. World experts in Scotch whisky provide detailed insight into whisky production from the processing...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
This new edition offers detailed overviews covering a wide area of fungal growth and reproduction on the mechanistic and molecular level. It includes 18 chapters by eminent scientists in the field and is – like the previous edition – divided into the three sections: Vegetative Processes and Growth,...
Dictyostelids
Evolution, Genomics and Cell Biology
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Since their discovery in 1869, the dictyostelids have attracted the attention of scientists in a wide variety of fields. This interest has stemmed from their peculiar lifestyle and developmental properties, which were shaped by the evolutionary forces that generated multicellularity during eukaryotic...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The potassium solubilizing microorganisms (KSMs) are a rhizospheric microorganism which solubilizes the insoluble potassium (K) to soluble forms of K for plant growth and yield. K-solubilization is carried out by a large number of saprophytic bacteria (Bacillus mucilaginosus, B. edaphicus, B. circulans,...
Love and Science
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Long before he became one of the world's most celebrated immunologists, Jan Vilcek began life in Slovakia as the child of Jewish parents at a time when Jews were being exterminated all across Europe. He owes his and his mother’s survival to the courage of brave people and good luck. As a young man...
The Viral Storm
The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Dynamic young Stanford biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic pandemics.
In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by side...
The Forgotten Cure
The Past and Future of Phage Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Before the arrival of penicillin in the 1940s, phage therapy was one of the few weapons doctors had against bacterial infections. It saved the life of Hollywood legend Tom Mix before being abandoned by Western science. Now, researchers and physicians are rediscovering the treatment, which pits phage...
Under Ground
How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In childhood, the backyard, the flowerbed, the beach, puddles, lakes, and streams are infinitely fascinating. It is a mistake to leave that "childish" fascination with mud behind. The soils of the Earth, whether underneath our feet or pressurized beneath tons of ocean water, hold life in abundance....