Explore the everyday miracle of the microscopic world
With spectacular macro photography and microscope images, this book reveals a hidden, living world full of intricate structures beyond the naked eye. Included are the tiniest insects and spiders, but looking deeper, you will discover truly microscopic creatures - even bacteria and viruses.
Earth is home to more microbes, and more different types of microbes, than any other living organism. Bacteria on Earth outweigh humans by 1,100 to 1 and without them, all world ecosystems would collapse. This book reveals this vital, unseen realm, but it includes large life-forms too, in extreme close-up, so that you can wonder at the beauty of a pollen grain, a butterfly egg, the spore of a fungus, and the nerve cell of a human.
The spectacular imagery in Micro Life exploits cutting-edge technology, such as focus-stacked macro photographs, as well as micrographs (microscope images) including scanning electron micrographs. Illustrations nearby explain the science - from the workings of an insect''s eye to how a plant "breathes" through its leaves. The biology builds into a reference on how life works - and how all organisms, however small, solve the basic problems of movement, reproduction, energy, communication, and defence.
Micro Life is a beautiful and surprising look at the natural world.
Código: |
L004-9780241412756 |
Código de barras: |
9780241412756 |
Peso (kg): |
2,038 |
Altura (cm): |
30,80 |
Largura (cm): |
26,10 |
Espessura (cm): |
2,70 |
Autor |
DK |
Editora |
DK - ADULT (UK) |
Idioma |
Inglês |
Encadernação |
Capa dura |
Páginas |
336 |
Ano de edição |
2021 |
Número de edição |
1 |