Microcosmos

Author: Lynn Margulis
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520340515
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
"Microcosmos is nothing less than the saga of the life of the planet. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan have put it all together, literally, in this extraordinary book, which is unlike any treatment of evolution for a general readership that I have encountered before. A fascinating account that we humans should be studying now for clues to our own survival."—From the Foreword by Dr. Lewis Thomas Microcosmos brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology in the later decades of the 20th century and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to our understanding of the future of the planet. Addressed to general readers, the book provides a beautifully written view of evolution as a process based on interdependency and their interconnectedness of all life on the planet.

Microcosmos

Author: Brandon Broll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554077144
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

The Microcosmos Coloring Book

Author: Lynn Margulis
Publisher: Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156594301
Category : Coloring books.
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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The Hidden Beauty of the Microscopic World

Author: James Weiss
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1786784637
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
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.

From Microcosm to Macrocosm

Author: Julia Budka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789088905988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
As reflected in the title From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual households and cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia, both a micro-approach introducing microhistories of individual sites according to recent archaeological fieldwork incorporating interdisciplinary methods as well as general patterns and regional developments in Northeast Africa are discussed. This combination of research questions on the micro-level with the macro-level provides new information about cities and households in Ancient Egypt and Nubia and makes the book unique. Architectural studies as well as analyses of material culture and the new application of microarchaeology, here especially of micromorphology and archaeometric applications, are presented as case studies from sites primarily dating to the New Kingdom (Second Millennium BC). The rich potential of well-preserved but still not completely explored sites in modern Sudan, especially as direct comparison for already excavated sites located in Egypt, is in particular emphasised in the book. Settlement archaeology in Egypt and Nubia has recently moved away from a strong textual approach and generalised studies to a more site-specific approach and household studies. This new bottom-up approach applied by current fieldwork projects is demonstrated in the book. The volume is intended for all specialists at settlements sites in Northeast Africa, for students of Egyptology and Nubian Studies, but it will be of interest to anyone working in the field of settlement archaeology. It is the result of a conference on the same subject held in 2017 as the closing event of the European Research Council funded project AcrossBorders at Munich.

The Microcosmos Curriculum Guide to Exploring Microbial Space

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492

Book Description
Advocates a process skills approach to learning. Observation, problem solving, synthesizing data, description, recording and confidence building are also highlighted. Very interdisciplinary, it also touches art, social studies and many other content areas.

History of the Byzantine Jews

Author: Elli Kohen
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761836230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
The History of the Byzantine Jews explores the Jewish microcosmos in Byzantium. Under the Romans, Jews enjoyed the privileges of knighthood and nobility. Although these luxuries were significantly diminished under Theodosius II- whose wife, Eudoxia, was a judaizing Empress- and the Codex Justinianus, they remained a powerful entity in Byzantium. In comparison to the irredentist Samaritans and Paulicians, the Jews remained areligio licita (permitted religion) that tolerated and even protected by Imperial and Church authority. Their position in society even enabled the Jews to vie for increased power. The Byzantine Jews tried to play the game of power politics through their affiliation with Yemen's Jewish Himyarites, and ill-fated alliance with the Persian Sassanides, and finally through the colossal power of the Jewish Khazar Empire. In this living history of the Byzantine Jews, Author Elli Kohen attempts to revive the spirit of Moses of Crete, Procopius, Eusebius, Theophanes Continuatus, and medieval chroniclers such as Liutbrand, Villehardouin, and Benjamin of Tudela. Intended as a complementary text to other classics on Byzantine Jews, this new work emphasizes multicultural cooperation in the study of this time period. Some of the events and individuals profiled in The History of the Byzantine Jews include: -Byzantine and Jewish polemists- the "Hagiographic Bibliotheca" -Historiography of a Jewish family in Byzantine Apulia -The Jerusalem Karaites finding a safe haven in Byzantium -The rerouting of the fourth Crusade through the Juiverie of Constantinople -The return of the Paleologues -Byzantine-Jewish coexistence under Symeon, Archbishop of Salonica

Microcosmus

Author: Hermann Lotze
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanism (Philosophy)
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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Under the Microscope

Author: Jeremy Burgess
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521399401
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
"A celebration of the hidden beauty & variety of microscopic imagery."--Back cover.

Microsmos

Author: Lynn Margulis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780763714062
Category : Evolution (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Documentaire pouvant servir à des cours de microbiologie, sciences de l'environnement et biologie de l'évolution. Le film montre des micro-organismes dans leur milieu naturel. Chaque séquence est numérotée au bas de l'écran. La séquence est expliquée sous le numéro correspondant du guide imprimé. [Vol. 1]. Les cellules : mobilité, reproduction, division cellulaire. [Vol. 2]. Évolution et diversité:bactéries, champignons, fixation de l'azote, etc.