Microscopic Life

Microscopic Life
Author: Richard Walker
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780753410646

Explore a fascinating miniature world you never knew existed! This title explores the lives of the tiny creatures that live around you, in you and even on you! Ages 9+.

Guide to Microlife

Guide to Microlife
Author: Kenneth G. Rainis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 287
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780531112663

Serves as a guide to be used for the identification of microorganisms and provides information about microlife forms and how they affect other life forms, including human.

The Hidden Beauty of the Microscopic World

The Hidden Beauty of the Microscopic World
Author: James Weiss
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1786784637

The videographer behind the Journey to the Microcosmos YouTube channel (386K subscribers) James Weiss presents a beginner's guide to the extremely small and utterly strange life that surrounds us. James Weiss was feeling lost in life when he first discovered his interest in the microscopic world. With his own microscope and a little homespun ingenuity, he began to capture thousands of hours of stunning footage of the creatures that he found around him: the local pond, at the beach, in a puddle. What he found astounded him, and it became his mission to reveal the beauty of the microcosmos to everyone. In his fun and accessible style, interspersed with otherworldly photographs, James presents this beginner's guide to the invisible life that surrounds us. From the most simple single-celled life, to complex micro-animals, James reveals the secrets of a world that we rarely consider. Navigating the births, feasts, tragedies, idiosyncracies and deaths of a cast of tiny characters, learn how these lifeforms work and what lessons they can teach us about our own existence. Mixing scientific detail with thoughtful musings that betray the fascination at the heart of his topic, James has created a way of looking at microorganisms in an empathetic and engaging style. You'll discover fascinating absurdities: that a cell can be both its own daughter and its own mother. That immortality really does exist, and it comes in the form of a teeny, tentacled medusa. And that seeing the wonder of nature from a new perspective can literally save your life.

Never Home Alone

Never Home Alone
Author: Rob Dunn
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 154164574X

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the lactobacillus lounging on our kitchen counters. You are not alone. Yet, as we obsess over sterilizing our homes and separating our spaces from nature, we are unwittingly cultivating an entirely new playground for evolution. These changes are reshaping the organisms that live with us -- prompting some to become more dangerous, while undermining those species that benefit our bodies or help us keep more threatening organisms at bay. No one who reads this engrossing, revelatory book will look at their homes in the same way again.

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Author: Lisa Yount
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2014-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0766065251

For his discoveries of microscopic life, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is remembered today as one of the great geniuses of science. Using microscopes he made himself, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek peered into exciting new worlds that no one knew existed before. Beginning in the 1670s, he discovered tiny, single-celled living things that he called “little animals.” His curiosity led him to examine lake water, moldy bread, and even the plaque build-up on his own teeth! Van Leeuwenhoek was also the first to see red blood cells and bacteria.

Unseen Worlds

Unseen Worlds
Author: Hélène Rajcak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2019-10
Genre: Insects
ISBN: 9781999967963

Offers an illustrated exploration of the microscopic and small-scale animal world, with large fold-out illustrations that depict diverse ecosystems and their tiny inhabitants to scale.

Pond Water Zoo

Pond Water Zoo
Author: Peter Loewer
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-05-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781481488112

Life at the Edge of Sight

Life at the Edge of Sight
Author: Scott Chimileski
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 067497591X

This stunning photographic essay opens a new frontier for readers to explore through words and images. Microbial studies have clarified life’s origins on Earth, explained the functioning of ecosystems, and improved both crop yields and human health. Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter are expert guides to an invisible world waiting in plain sight.

Microcosmos

Microcosmos
Author: Brandon Broll
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781554077144

This volume brings together images produced through the very latest techniques in microphotography. Most of the 203 full colour photographs have been taken using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), allowing us to see our world as never before. Each image is a close-up that reveals remarkable forms, shapes and colours.