Allies and enemies : how the world depends on bacteria
Bacteria: they are invisible, mysterious, deadly, self-sufficient and absolutely essential for all life. The author, a microbiologist who has hunted and worked with an extraordinary array of bacteria, offers a powerful new perspective on Earth's oldest creatures. They are the Earth's bacte...
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Upper Saddle River, New Jersey :
FT Press ,
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Why the world needs bacteria
- 2. Bacteria in history
- 3. Humans defeat germs!? (but not for long)
- 4. Bacteria in popular culture
- 5. An entire industry from a single cell
- 6. The invisible universe
- 7. Climate, bacteria, and a barrel of oil
- 8. Epilogue : how microbiologists grow bacteria
- 9. Appendix : resources for learning more about bacteria