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This book elegantly introduces the microscopic world through graceful design and stunning photography. It showcases the everyday wonders hidden from the naked eye, revealing intricate structures and a living world filled with tiny insects, spiders, and even microscopic organisms like bacteria and viruses. Earth is home to an astounding variety of microbes, which outweigh humans by a staggering 1,100 to 1, and are essential for the stability of ecosystems. The book highlights both these vital microbes and larger life forms in extreme close-up, allowing readers to appreciate the beauty of a pollen grain, a butterfly egg, a fungus spore, and a human nerve cell. Utilizing cutting-edge technology, the imagery includes focus-stacked macro photographs and scanning electron micrographs. Accompanying illustrations explain scientific concepts, from the mechanics of an insect's eye to the process of photosynthesis in plants. This work serves as a comprehensive reference, exploring how all organisms, regardless of size, tackle fundamental challenges related to movement, reproduction, energy, communication, and defense. It offers a beautiful and surprising perspective on the natural world.
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Micro Life, Kolektív autorov
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- Rok vydania
- 2021
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- Titul
- Micro Life
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Kolektív autorov
- Vydavateľ
- Dorling Kindersley Ltd.
- Rok vydania
- 2021
- Väzba
- pevná
- Počet strán
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0241412757
- ISBN13
- 9780241412756
- Série
- Štítky
- Náučná literatúra, Veda & Matematika, Príroda, Prírodné vedy, Zvieratá, Biológia, Príručky a návody, Veda
- Hodnotenie
- 4 z 5
- Anotácia
- This book elegantly introduces the microscopic world through graceful design and stunning photography. It showcases the everyday wonders hidden from the naked eye, revealing intricate structures and a living world filled with tiny insects, spiders, and even microscopic organisms like bacteria and viruses. Earth is home to an astounding variety of microbes, which outweigh humans by a staggering 1,100 to 1, and are essential for the stability of ecosystems. The book highlights both these vital microbes and larger life forms in extreme close-up, allowing readers to appreciate the beauty of a pollen grain, a butterfly egg, a fungus spore, and a human nerve cell. Utilizing cutting-edge technology, the imagery includes focus-stacked macro photographs and scanning electron micrographs. Accompanying illustrations explain scientific concepts, from the mechanics of an insect's eye to the process of photosynthesis in plants. This work serves as a comprehensive reference, exploring how all organisms, regardless of size, tackle fundamental challenges related to movement, reproduction, energy, communication, and defense. It offers a beautiful and surprising perspective on the natural world.