Microbia : a journey into the unseen world around you / Eugenia Bone.
"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 other...
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| Language: | English |
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[New York, New York] :
Rodale,
[2018]
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 271 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Call Number: | QR41.2 .B64125 2018 |
| Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-264) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781623367350 1623367352 |