Power Unseen: How microbes rule the world

by Bernard Dixon

Microbes--tiny unseen bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa--pervade every aspect of human society and of the natural world, from life-saving antibiotics to horrendous epidemics. Power 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 behavior. Illustrating microbial life in its astonishing diversity, this fascinating and entertaining book leaves the reader in no doubt that microbes, not macrobes, rule the world.

Genres: Science, Biology, Nonfiction, Natural History

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Adeline Williams]

A little out of date...but fun, short, and approachable anecdotes about specific infectious disease agents and their impact on history.

[Can]

Güzel bir çalışma olmuş. 2004 ve 3005 tekrarı gibi hissettirse de 2-3 sayfalık bölümler okumamı kolaylaştırdı

[Suzi]

t is a very interesting book with short subsections. I think it would be good to assign readings in it every day to M this summer and then have him look up something else on the issue and write a paragraph or a page on it. For example, it says that typhus ravaged Napoleon’s army. So did the weather. I’ve written of it before. So that would be something else he could look at, what were the causes of Napoleon’s failure to conquer Russia?