Seven Iron Men: The Merritts and the Discovery of the ...
 Author: Paul de Kruif Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 622.3410977677 EAN: 9780816652624 ISBN: 0816652627 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2007-11-15 [... more]
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Seven Iron Men: The Merritts and the Discovery of the ...
divIn the tradition of great American rags to riches stories, Seven Iron Men/iweaves together the history of how the seven Merritt brothers discovered iron ore on the Mesabi Range. In 1890 they were poised to become one of the wealthiest families in [... more]
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Many Faces-Many Microbes: Personal Reflections in ...
Attempting to demystify science by revealing the human faces of leading scientists, Many Faces -- Many Microbes is a continuation of the story of the beginnings of microbiology as told by Paul de Kruif in his 1926 book Microbe Hunters. This collection of [... more]
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Microbe Hunters
DIVIn this classic bestseller, Paul de Kruif dramatizes the pioneering bacteriological work of such scientists as Leeuwenhoek, Spallanzani, Koch, Pasteur, Reed, and Ehrlich. This seventieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by F. Gonzalez- [... more]
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Power Unseen: How microbes rule the world
Useful and worrisome features of microbes are detailed.: With our present concerns and apprehensions about the invisible yet ubiquitous microbes which are a natural part of our environment, Bernard Dixon, the British science writer has written a series [... more]
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Candid Science II: Conversations with Famous Biomedical ...
More conversations---Chemical Heritage magazine: During his six-year tenure as Editor-in-Chief of The Chemical Intelligencer, István Hargittai, sometimes with his wife Magdi, interviewed more than 120 eminent scientists, more than half of whom [... more]
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Microbe Hunters
Preserved for History: I read this book as a child and it was fascinating reading. Some of what is described is still current (Pasteur's rabies vaccine) while some treatments are long out of use (Ehrlich's "magic bullet" for syphillis was [... more]
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The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
Book Review: This book is a great read. It provides an interesting and exciting history of the search to find the cause of cholera. It then goes on to discuss the status of drinking water in the US up to the present. Dr. Morris provides science to the [... more]
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Microbe Hunters
Preserved for History: I read this book as a child and it was fascinating reading. Some of what is described is still current (Pasteur's rabies vaccine) while some treatments are long out of use (Ehrlich's "magic bullet" for syphillis was [... more]
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Blue Death, The
Book Review: This book is a great read. It provides an interesting and exciting history of the search to find the cause of cholera. It then goes on to discuss the status of drinking water in the US up to the present. Dr. Morris provides science to the [... more]
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The Blue Death: The Intriguing Past and Present Danger ...
Book Review: This book is a great read. It provides an interesting and exciting history of the search to find the cause of cholera. It then goes on to discuss the status of drinking water in the US up to the present. Dr. Morris provides science to the [... more]
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The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold
this is a wonderful book: This is a tightly wrought and beautiful work or life and art, poetical, arresting, trasportive. As a westerner, and lover of cold it really spoke to me. The brittle cold of the author's loneliness seduces your own heart to face [... more]
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