Biography of a Germ

Name: Biography of a Germ
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ISBN: 9780385720663

ISBN-10: 0385720661

ISBN-13: 9780385720663

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Authors: Arno Karlen

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Arno Karlen, author of Man and Microbes, focuses on a single bacterium in Biography of a Germ, giving us an intimate view of a life that has been shaped by and is in turn transforming our own. Borrelia burgdorferi is the germ that causes Lyme disease. In existence for some hundred million years, it was discovered only recently. Exploring its evolution, its daily existence, and its journey from ticks to mice to deer to humans, Karlen lucidly examines the life and world of this recently prominent germ. He also describes how it attacks the human body, and how by changing the environment, people are now much more likely to come into contact with it. Charming and thorough and smart, this book…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.92" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English




A Very Small Life



A Subject Not Picked at Random



A Brief Aside Touching the Erotic Flea



Why Bb in Particular



Apologia Pro Vita Sua: In Defense of Germs



In Some Warm Little Pond



Linnaeus's Tree



And Bb's Twig



Gaia, or Nearly Everyone's Cousin



Very Small Indeed



Not Just a Corkscrew



A Possibly Poignant Anatomy



Instead of Sex



A Fantastic Voyage



Equally Fantastic



Is the Tick Sick?



Rash Discoveries



The Magic of Names



The Annals of Myopia



From Bitterroot to Lyme



Far from Primeval



Machupo and Other Disturbances



With Apologies of Sorts



Like Darwin's Finches?



A More Hopeful Future