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200 10$aMarch of the microbes $esighting the unseen /$fJohn L. Ingraham
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aCambridge, MA $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$dc2010
215   $a1 online resource (337 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
300   $aIncludes glossary.
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327   $a""Contents""; ""Foreword by Roberto Kolter""; ""1. The Microbial Landscape""; ""2. Acquiring Metabolic Energy""; ""3. Food and Drink""; ""4. Living Together""; ""5. Cycling Nitrogen""; ""6. Cycling Sulfur""; ""7. Cycling Carbon""; ""8. Hostile Environments""; ""9. Fungi, Hostile and Benign""; ""10. Viruses""; ""11. Felonious Bacteria""; ""12. Shapers of the Planet""; ""13. Closer to Us""; ""14. Survivors""; ""Glossary""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Index""
330   $aThough nothing in the natural world would be quite the same without them, microbes go mostly unnoticed. They are the tiny, mighty force behind the pop in Champagne and the holes in Swiss cheese, the granite walls of Yosemite and the white cliffs of Dover, the workings of snowmaking machines, Botox, and gunpowder; and yet we tend to regard them as peripheral, disease-causing, food-spoiling troublemakers. In this book renowned microbiologist John Ingraham rescues these supremely important and ubiquitous microorganisms from their unwonted obscurity by showing us how we can, in fact, see them?and appreciate their vast and varied role in nature and our lives. Though we might not be able to see microbes firsthand, the consequences of their activities are readily apparent to our unaided senses. March of the Microbes shows us how to examine, study, and appreciate microbes in the manner of a birdwatcher, by making sightings of microbial activities and thereby identifying particular microbes as well as understanding what they do and how they do it. The sightings are as different as a smelly rock cod, a bottle of Chateau d?Yquem, a moment in the Salem witch trials, and white clouds over the ocean. Together they summarize the impact of microbes on our planet, its atmosphere, geology, weather, and other organisms including ourselves, to whom they dole out fatal illnesses and vital nutrients alike. In the end, Ingraham leaves us marveling at the power and persistence of microbes on our planet and gives credence to Louis Pasteur?s famous assertion that ?microbes will have the last word.?
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