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Book Microorganisms  Earth s Tiny Heroes and Villains

Download or read book Microorganisms Earth s Tiny Heroes and Villains written by Richa Vadini Singh and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that tiny, microscopic creatures like bacteria and fungi live all around us? Some of them make us sick and some of them make us healthy. Again, there are some that are found inside of us and some in our food and around us. But, how do you learn to differentiate between the good and the bad microbes? This book takes the readers on a ride through the marvellous and the mysterious world of these tiny creatures. Lively illustrations and exciting activities make this book even more fascinating and easier to understand. Table of Contents The Vast World of the Tiny Heroes Bacteria: Friend or Foe? Viruses: Living or Non-living? Activities Algae: Is That a Plant? All About Fungi Protozoa: The 'Simplest' Animal Activities Things We Learnt

Book I Contain Multitudes

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  • Author : Ed Yong
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2016-08-09
  • ISBN : 0062368621
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book I Contain Multitudes written by Ed Yong and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller New York Times Notable Book of 2016 • NPR Great Read of 2016 • Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Economist, Smithsonian, NPR's Science Friday, MPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Times (London) From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, 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, radically reconceived picture of life on earth. Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ed Yong, whose humor is as evident as his erudition, prompts us to look at ourselves and our animal companions in a new light—less as individuals and more as the interconnected, interdependent multitudes we assuredly are. The microbes in our bodies are part of our immune systems and protect us from disease. In the deep oceans, mysterious creatures without mouths or guts depend on microbes for all their energy. Bacteria provide squid with invisibility cloaks, help beetles to bring down forests, and allow worms to cause diseases that afflict millions of people. Many people think of microbes as germs to be eradicated, but those that live with us—the microbiome—build our bodies, protect our health, shape our identities, and grant us incredible abilities. In this astonishing book, Ed Yong takes us on a grand tour through our microbial partners, and introduces us to the scientists on the front lines of discovery. It will change both our view of nature and our sense of where we belong in it.

Book Into the Illusive World

Download or read book Into the Illusive World written by Paul A. Moore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought about what a dog smells as it stops to sniff at a tree? Or what a cat is watching as it stares intensely off into space? What about animals in the wild? What do they see, hear, smell, and feel? How do they perceive their surroundings? This is the illusive world. A world filled with fascinating stimuli that we are not equipped to detect. This is particularly true because we tend to rely so heavily on our eyes or ears. We are figuratively, and literally, blind to this part of the natural world. This part, which is full of stimuli we cannot perceive, encompasses the daily lives of so many animals. Beneath our feet are ants, moles, and spiders using vibrations to coordinate colonies and communicate danger. In the oceans, turtles, fish, and octopi are sensitive to magnetic and electric fields, as well as tasty morsels at the tips of their tentacles. In the skies, owls and raptors can see deep into a lake or pierce the night with highly sensitive eyes. This book brings together all these animals and their amazing sensory abilities in an exploration of how animals perceive their world. Within these pages are wonderful and exciting stories of organisms using their senses to perform sophisticated communication with nestmates, find hidden prey in the dark of night or murky of depths, and call to lovers both near and far. This book will open the door to this illusive world and will take you on a journey into the illusive world and see how different the world is when perceived through another animal’s senses.

Book Microbe Hunters

Download or read book Microbe Hunters written by Paul De Kruif and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1927.

Book Project Hail Mary

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  • Author : Andy Weir
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2021-05-04
  • ISBN : 0593135210
  • Pages : 497 pages

Download or read book Project Hail Mary written by Andy Weir and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.

Book Seveneves

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  • Author : Neal Stephenson
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2015-05-19
  • ISBN : 0062190415
  • Pages : 419 pages

Download or read book Seveneves written by Neal Stephenson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.

Book John O London s Weekly

Download or read book John O London s Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Webster s New International Dictionary of the English Language

Download or read book Webster s New International Dictionary of the English Language written by Paul Worthington Carhart and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bureau of Land Management grazing program

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Resources
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Bureau of Land Management grazing program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Resources and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Publisher

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1104 pages

Download or read book The Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Coming Plague

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  • Author : Laurie Garrett
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 0374126461
  • Pages : 773 pages

Download or read book The Coming Plague written by Laurie Garrett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys fifty years of man's battle with communicable disease.

Book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by Sir James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literary World

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sophie s World

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  • Author : Jostein Gaarder
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2007-03-20
  • ISBN : 1466804270
  • Pages : 599 pages

Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Book British Books

Download or read book British Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Planet of Viruses

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  • Author : Carl Zimmer
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-10-06
  • ISBN : 022632026X
  • Pages : 133 pages

Download or read book A Planet of Viruses written by Carl Zimmer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, scientists have been warning us that a pandemic was all but inevitable. Now it's here, and the rest of us have a lot to learn. Fortunately, science writer Carl Zimmer is here to guide us. In this compact volume, he tells the story of how the smallest living things known to science can bring an entire planet of people to a halt--and what we can learn from how we've defeated them in the past. Planet of Viruses covers such threats as Ebola, MERS, and chikungunya virus; tells about recent scientific discoveries, such as a hundred-million-year-old virus that infected the common ancestor of armadillos, elephants, and humans; and shares new findings that show why climate change may lead to even deadlier outbreaks. Zimmer’s lucid explanations and fascinating stories demonstrate how deeply humans and viruses are intertwined. Viruses helped give rise to the first life-forms, are responsible for many of our most devastating diseases, and will continue to control our fate for centuries. Thoroughly readable, and, for all its honesty about the threats, as reassuring as it is frightening, A Planet of Viruses is a fascinating tour of a world we all need to better understand.