A Field Guide to Germs - Softcover

Biddle, Wayne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1864480068 ISBN 13: 9781864480061

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 1995

Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wayne Biddle has written a thorough guide to the top one hundred (in terms of prevalence, or power, or even literary interest) of the innumerable potentially unfriendly organisms, microbes, bacteria, and germs that not only surround us but in many case inhabit us every day of our lives. Moving from cholera to cat scratch fever, from TB to HIV and back to the common cold, A Field Guide to Germs is thus offered in the spirit of first aid and as a bulwark against right-wing phobia. It is presented not with the quack promise of self-diagnosis, but with the absolute certainty that a little knowledge is always better than none.

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Review

"Informative and compelling"--The New York Times

"Witty, acerbic, and thorough . . . eminently entertaining."--Booklist

About the Author

Wayne Biddle won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the "Star Wars" antimissile project. He is the author of six books, including A Field Guide to Germs, winner of the American Medical Writers Association's Walter C. Alvarez Honor Award, and Dark Side of the Moon, which was selected as a New York Times Book Review editor's choice. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1864480068
• ISBN 13: 9781864480061
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224