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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 16 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
As achievements in engineering and manufacturing move us toward 21st century lifestyles, problems emerge as a result of these processes. Moreover, cleanup concerns plague us as a legacy of the industrial revolution. This program focuses on an innovative yet natural solution science proposes for the cleanup of polluting by-products. Discover how science is cleaning up with microbes. Throughout the world, scientists are exploring the use of living organisms...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
"Nightmare bacteria." That's how the CDC describes a frightening new threat spreading quickly in hospitals, communities, and across the globe. FRONTLINE reporter David Hoffman investigates the alarming rise of untreatable infections: from a young girl thrust onto life support in an Arizona hospital, to a young American infected in India who comes home to Seattle, and an uncontrollable outbreak at the nation's most prestigious hospital, where eighteen...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Nature wants you dead. Not just you, but your children and everyone you have ever met and everyone they have ever met; in fact, everyone. It wants you to cough and sneeze and poop yourself into an early grave. It wants your blood vessels to burst and pustules to explode all over your body. And ? until recently ? it was really good at doing this? Covid-19 may be only the first of many modern pandemics. The subject of infection and how to fight it...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
digital, .flv file, sound 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) :
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE investigates the widespread use of antibiotics in food animals and whether it is fueling the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance in people. Also this hour: An exclusive interview with the family of a young man who died in a nightmare bacteria outbreak that swept through a hospital at the National Institutes of Health.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Combining the latest developments and research discoveries, board-certified gastroenterologist and medical host on CNN and Fox News, Dr. Roshini Raj shows the ways in which the microbiome impacts overall well-being, and helps readers reset their biological clocks by improving their gut health.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over your lifetime, you will carry the equivalent weight of five African elephants in microbes. You are not an individual but a colony.Until recently, we had thought our microbes hardly mattered, but science...
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Language
English
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Description
"In Ilmarsh, England, local police detective Alec Nichols discovers sixteen horses' heads on a farm, each buried with a single eye facing the low winter sun. After Veterinary Forensics expert Cooper Allen travels to the scene, a pathogen is discovered lurking within the soil, and many of those who have come into contact with the corpses grow critically ill. A series of crimes comes to light-disappearances, arson, and mutilations-and in the dark days...
Author
Publisher
DK, Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers an introduction to microbes, looking at bacteria, viruses, fungi, algae, protozoa, archaea, and microscopic animals.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xxi, 188 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to probiotics, microorganisms found in the intestinal tract, discussing how to use them to alleviate digestive problems, treat infections, boost immunity, curb inflammation, and promote good health.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Min the microbe provides readers with an up close look at the hidden world all around them.
Author
Series
Andromeda novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name, the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is as terrifyingly realistic and resonant as the original"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad Press, A division of Nomad Communications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
v, 122 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"If our vision improved one million times, we would be able to see microbes in the air, on our skin, in the soil, in water, and on food! In Microbes: Discover an Unseen World, readers journey through microscopic worlds that collide with our own on a daily basis to encounter bacteria, viruses, fungi, protists, and archaea,"--page [4] of cover.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious virus is brought to Earth by a returning satellite, an elite and dedicated squad of scientists assembles to search for the truth and stop the mutating killer before it ends life on Earth.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Looks at all the different microbes that inhabit the Earth and examines the varied jobs they do.
Author
Publisher
What on Earth Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
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 and accompanying descriptions of what is depicted.
19) Gravity
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
viii, 342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
20) Critical
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Angela Dawson, M.D., appears to have it all: at the age of thirty-seven, she owns a fabulous New York City apartment, a stunning seaside house on Nantucket, and enjoys the perks of her prosperous lifestyle. But her climb to the top was rough, marked by a troubled childhood, a failed marriage, and the devastating blow of bankruptcy as a primary-care internist. Painfully aware of the role of economics in modern life, particularly in the health-care...
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