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100 1 $aDixon, Bernard.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010094450
245 10 $aPower unseen :$bhow microbes rule the world /$cBernard Dixon.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bW.H. Freeman,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $axvii, 237 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 20 $gPt. 1.$tThe Makers - Microbes that shaped our world --$gPt. 2.$tThe Deceivers - Microbes that sprang surprises --$gPt. 3.$tThe Destroyers - Microbes that still threaten us --$gPt. 4.$tThe Supporters - Microbes on whom we depend --$gPt. 5.$tThe Artisans - Microbes to shape our future.
520 $aMicrobes - tiny, unseen bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa - pervade every aspect of human society and of the natural world. They provide all of our daily food; they were the original source of the world's abundant oil supplies; their presence in soil is essential to the existence of life itself. They also cause horrendous epidemics, from the plague and smallpox of past centuries to the continuing pandemics of cholera and today's growing AIDS crisis.
520 8 $aMicrobes have vanquished armies swinging great military campaigns even more effectively than the strategies of generals or the machinations of politicians; they now provide life-saving antibiotics and other benefits of modern biotechnology.
520 8 $aPower Unseen portrays the many, diverse and often unexpected activities of microbes through a series of 75 vignettes, each focusing on one particular organism and its characteristic behaviour. Here, then, is a portrait gallery illustrating microbial life in its astonishing diversity. Microbes have influenced history and they are helping to shape our future. They are still springing surprises, and they continue to threaten us; yet we could not exist without them.
520 8 $aIn this fascinating and entertaining book, Bernard Dixon leaves the reader in no doubt that microbes, not macrobes, rule the world.
650 0 $aMicrobiology$vPopular works.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010101657
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