by Ed Yong
This book was an interesting look at micro-organisms and although there is a lot of speculation and the author can't quite get out of the magazine article style that makes him physically describe at least some of the people he interviews, I can't help feel that this is what Gulp by Mary Roach should...
I wasn't sure what I was going to get when I started this book; obviously microbes, but was it going to be dry and academic, or worse, evangelical 'omg-microbes-are-the-answer-to-everything!'? Luckily I got neither. Instead Yong's book was, from start to finish, utterly fascinating; never too arc...
I'm not going to go into extreme detail about this book as others have written great reviews in that vain. Briefly this book shows how the "microbiome" has influenced life for billions of years, so much so that the heavy use of antibiotics and attempt at sterilization of our bodies and environment o...
TITLE: I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life AUTHOR: ED YONG DATE PUBLISHED: 2016 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-847-92418-6 ________________________________ I Contain Multitudes is an enjoyable and informative book that takes a look at how microbe...
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