Author : Richard Walker
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780753410646
Explore a fascinating miniature world you never knew existed! This title explores the lives of the tiny creatures that live around you, in you and even on you! Ages 9+.
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0744060192
Explore the everyday miracle of the microscopic world With spectacular macro photography and microscope images, this ebook reveals a hidden, living world full of intricate structures beyond the naked eye. Included are the tiniest insects and spiders; but looking deeper, you will discover truly microscopic creatures--even bacteria and viruses. Earth is home to more microbes, and more different types of microbes, than any other living organism. Bacteria on Earth outweigh humans by 1,100 to 1; and without them, all world ecosystems would collapse. This ebook reveals this vital, unseen realm, but it includes large life-forms too, in extreme close-up, so that you can wonder at the beauty of a pollen grain, a butterfly egg, the spore of a fungus, and the nerve cell of a human. The spectacular imagery in Micro Life exploits cutting-edge technology, such as focus-stacked macro photographs, as well as micrographs (microscope images) including scanning electron micrographs. Illustrations nearby explain the science--from the workings of an insect's eye to how a plant "breathes" through its leaves. The biology builds into a reference on how life works--and how all organisms, however small, solve the basic problems of movement, reproduction, energy, communication, and defense. Micro Life is a beautiful and surprising look at the natural world.
Author : Kenneth G. Rainis
Publisher :
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780531112663
Serves as a guide to be used for the identification of microorganisms and provides information about microlife forms and how they affect other life forms, including human.
Author : James Weiss
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1786784637
The videographer behind the Journey to the Microcosmos YouTube channel (386K subscribers) James Weiss presents a beginner's guide to the extremely small and utterly strange life that surrounds us. James Weiss was feeling lost in life when he first discovered his interest in the microscopic world. With his own microscope and a little homespun ingenuity, he began to capture thousands of hours of stunning footage of the creatures that he found around him: the local pond, at the beach, in a puddle. What he found astounded him, and it became his mission to reveal the beauty of the microcosmos to everyone. In his fun and accessible style, interspersed with otherworldly photographs, James presents this beginner's guide to the invisible life that surrounds us. From the most simple single-celled life, to complex micro-animals, James reveals the secrets of a world that we rarely consider. Navigating the births, feasts, tragedies, idiosyncracies and deaths of a cast of tiny characters, learn how these lifeforms work and what lessons they can teach us about our own existence. Mixing scientific detail with thoughtful musings that betray the fascination at the heart of his topic, James has created a way of looking at microorganisms in an empathetic and engaging style. You'll discover fascinating absurdities: that a cell can be both its own daughter and its own mother. That immortality really does exist, and it comes in the form of a teeny, tentacled medusa. And that seeing the wonder of nature from a new perspective can literally save your life.
Author : Rob Dunn
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 154164574X
A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the lactobacillus lounging on our kitchen counters. You are not alone. Yet, as we obsess over sterilizing our homes and separating our spaces from nature, we are unwittingly cultivating an entirely new playground for evolution. These changes are reshaping the organisms that live with us -- prompting some to become more dangerous, while undermining those species that benefit our bodies or help us keep more threatening organisms at bay. No one who reads this engrossing, revelatory book will look at their homes in the same way again.
Author : Lisa Yount
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766065251
For his discoveries of microscopic life, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is remembered today as one of the great geniuses of science. Using microscopes he made himself, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek peered into exciting new worlds that no one knew existed before. Beginning in the 1670s, he discovered tiny, single-celled living things that he called little animals. His curiosity led him to examine lake water, moldy bread, and even the plaque build-up on his own teeth! Van Leeuwenhoek was also the first to see red blood cells and bacteria.
Author : Hélène Rajcak
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2019-10
Category : Insects
ISBN : 9781999967963
Offers an illustrated exploration of the microscopic and small-scale animal world, with large fold-out illustrations that depict diverse ecosystems and their tiny inhabitants to scale.
Author : Peter Loewer
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 2016-05-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781481488112
Author : Brandon Broll
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781554077144
This volume brings together images produced through the very latest techniques in microphotography. Most of the 203 full colour photographs have been taken using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), allowing us to see our world as never before. Each image is a close-up that reveals remarkable forms, shapes and colours.
Author : Scott Chimileski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 067497591X
This stunning photographic essay opens a new frontier for readers to explore through words and images. Microbial studies have clarified life’s origins on Earth, explained the functioning of ecosystems, and improved both crop yields and human health. Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter are expert guides to an invisible world waiting in plain sight.
