The story of research on the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction through the 1980s is complicated, because so many people played a part and so many scientific disciplines and kinds of evidence were involved. Anyone preparing to recount the events has to choose a way of organizing the material and decidin...
The first chapter had me entirely grossed out. Did I really want to read a book describing the disgusting things a parasite can do to my body? But then Carl Zimmer took it from the close to home sickness parasites can inflict on a human body to a fascinating journey into the world of parasites - wha...
Everything you probably never wanted to know about the ingenious and surprisingly sophisticated world of organisms whose sole purpose is to live inside the dark recesses of your body and eat you.Both fascinating and utterly, utterly horrifying.
A series of essays that read like an ode to science. Good poetry makes you feel your way to understanding, and these essays let you understand by feeling and just gives enough to whet you curiosity on the topic and give you further ideas for further listening.This book would make a great first scien...
bookshelves: essays, gr-library, nonfiction, published-2013, environmental-issues, tbr-busting-2014, winter-20132014, sciences, psychology, under-500-ratings, next, abandoned, skim-through Read on February 24, 2013 Arrogant title, let see what it delivers! 1. EVOLUTION BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTI...
Short, but interesting. Not too technical. This book would probably make a good, very basic, introductory text on the subject of viruses. The book briefly discusses the official discovery of viruses, the tobacco mosaic virus, the common cold, flu, papillomavirus and the jackalope, bacteriophages ...
Microcosm is a history of E. coli but more than that, it’s a history of modern biology. So much of what we do in the lab today depends on these little bacteria that looking at biology through the lens of E. coli lends itself well to discussing almost all of modern microbiology. It also includes a fe...
An excellent read, but too short. This is really a series of articles about specific viruses, but the articles are related and follow a logical progression, and an epilogue ties them together. The writing is good, lucid for the non-virologist but not patronizingly simple. My only complaint is tha...
Essentially a compilation of short articles by eminent scientists & academics about their favourite deep & elegant theories. There's a lot of ground covered from physics to sociology, so there's probably something of interest for everyone.
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