Catalog - The City Library

Features more than 1,000 engaging visual elements, including eye-catching microscopic photographs, dynamic animations and images, and detailed charts and graphs.

Accompanying guidebook contains glossary, biographical notes, and bibliographical references.

Bruce E. Fleury, lecturer.

Contents:

The invisible realm -- Stone knives to iron plows -- The angel of death -- Germ theory -- The evolutionary arms race -- Microbial strategies.

Virulence -- Death by chocolate -- Bambi's revenge -- The germ of laziness -- The 1918 flu: a conspiracy of silence -- The 1918 flu: the Philadelphia story.

The 1918 flu: the search for the virus -- Immunity: self versus nonself -- Adaptive immunity to the rescue -- AIDS: the quiet killer -- The deadly strategy of AIDS -- Autoimmunity: self versus self.

Allergies and asthma -- Microbes as weapons -- Pandora's box -- Old world to new -- Close encounters of the microbial kind -- Microbes as friends.

ISBN:

1598037668

9781598037661

Publisher Number:

1551

IC1551A-01

Other Number:

756758804

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Control Number:

318455

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GREAT DVD 579 Mysterie