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Books : Science & Nature : Biological Sciences : Microbiology

• Brock Biology of Microorganisms

  Michael T. Madigan, John M. Martinko, Paul V. Dunlap, David P. Clark, Thomas Brock

  
  
   

• Prescott's Microbiology

  Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Chris Woolverton

  
  
   

• Molecular Biology (Instant Notes)

  Phil Turner, Alexander McLennan, Andy Bates, Michael White

  
  
   

• Prescott's Microbiology

  Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Chris Woolverton

  
  
   

• The Story of Life

  Richard Southwood

  
  
   

• Brock Biology of Microorganisms (Pie)

  Michael T. Madigan, John M. Martinko, Paul V. Dunlap, David P. Clark

  
  
   

• Microcosm: E-coli and the New Science of Life

  Carl Zimmer

  
  
   

• Brock Biology of Microorganisms (International Edition)

  Michael M. Madigan, John Martinko, Jack Parker

  
  
   

• Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure

  PA Offit

  
  
   

• Microbial Life

  James T. Staley, Robert P. Gunsalus, Stephen Lory, Jerome J. Perry

  
  
   

• Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

  David Greenwood, Roger Finch, Peter Davey, Mark Wilcox

  
  
   

• Medical Microbiology, Updated Edition: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Trauma Manual)

  Cedric Mims, Hazel Dockrell, Richard Goering, Ivan Roitt, Derek Wakelin, Mark Zuckerman

  
  
   

• Fungal Strategies of Wood Decay in Trees

  Francis W.M.R. Schwarze, Julia Engels, Claus Mattheck

  
  
   

• Brock Biology of Microorganisms (International Edition)

  Michael M. Madigan, John Martinko, Jack Parker

  
  
   

• Instant Notes in Microbiology (Instant Notes)

  Simon Baker, Jane Nicklin, Naveed Khan, Richard Killington

  
  
   

• The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses

  Dorothy Crawford

  
  Though the Berlin Wall has fallen, we find ourselves still struggling with an even older enemy in the eternal Common Cold War. Virologist Dorothy H Crawford has studied the link between Epstein-Barr virus and human cancer for years and casts a wary eye through the electron microscope to check up on them and report on our strange and occasionally deadly symbiosis in The Invisible Enemy.

  This slim book, scholarly but accessible, examines these barely-living (or unliving, depending on whom you ask) gene packages with a strong emphasis on their disease-causing antics and the intellectual heroics of the various campaigns of eradication and control humans have waged for centuries. Though biological relativists might cringe occasionally at Crawford's dogged humanocentrism, few of them would really pine for the days of smallpox or embrace the raging HIV pandemic if pressed. Crawford looks at the wake of devastation left by these two viruses as well as her own favorite subject, which is strongly implicated in the formation of many cancers. Going a bit farther afield, she explains the weird behavior of the non-genetic reproduction of prions that cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy; though these scary proteins aren't viruses by any definition, their behavior is similar enough to warrant inclusion. The Invisible Enemy, calmer than its title would suggest, provokes a sense of optimism in the reader; though the war might last forever, we can hope for fewer and fewer casualties as the years go by.--Rob Lightner

  
   

• Basic Biotechnology

  
  
   

• Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide

  Paul Stamets

  
  
   

• Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  Teresa Atwood, Peter Campbell, Howard Parish, Anthony Smith, Frank Vella, John Stirling

  
  
   

• Bacterial Pathogenesis