Interesting Book about Microbes!

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	• Invisible Allies: Microbes That Shape Our Lives (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) Jeanette Farrell Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2005 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Interesting Book about Microbes!

My 10 year old son came across this book at our local library and checked it out. We've been reading it together for the past two days and found it very interesting (and not too difficult for my 10 yr old to understand although I had to help him with latin names for various bacteria). The bits of history mixed with science made the book fun & interesting to read :-)

Invisible Allies

I found this book immensely interesting, actually I'm still reading a library copy, and just came online to order one for me, my sister, and my dad - my mom will like it too! If your into how fermented food works, it's fascinating. We truly live in amazing world. I'm going to get her other book too!

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Mmm-mmm, microbes!

Although we are accustomed to equating the presence of microbes with disease, in fact most microbes play a vital "friendly" role in shaping our lives. It is not just that one hundred million microbes can populate a thimbleful of fertile soil, or that many millions live happily in as much of our saliva. Microbes are everywhere, and we could not survive without them. To emphasize their amazing ubiquity, Jeanette Farrell considers the invisible bugs essential to an everyday event: the eating of a light lunch consisting of a cheese sandwich and a chocolate bar. Microbes create such a lunch, digest it, and, through the alchemy of decomposition, transform it so that the cycle can start all over again. In the course of her eye-opening narrative, Dr. Farrell relates the historical significance of using microbes to preserve foods, our long-standing ambivalence about the microbes that live on and in us, and our growing understanding of their importance.

Interspersed with fascinating anecdotes and illustrations, Invisible Allies will transform the reader's perception of the microcosmic world - around and inside us.

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