Microbes go mostly unnoticed. We regard them as peripheral, disease-causing, food-spoiling troublemakers. This book shows us how to examine, study, & appreciate microbes in the manner of a birdwatcher, by making sightings of microbial activities & thereby identifying particular microbes as well as understanding what they do & how they do it. ...

Shows us how we can, in fact, see microorganisms
- & appreciate their vast & varied role in nature & our lives. This title also
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In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate & start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey
- a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, in freezing cold temperatures, in brittle, icy winds & through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation & attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest conditions on earth, all to find true love.
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In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate & start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey
- a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, in freezing cold temperatures, in brittle, icy winds & through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation & attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest conditions on earth, all to find true love.
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In 1918, Major Foster (Gene Hackman) of the French Foreign Legion is recommended to accompany & protect the archaeological expedition being led by Marneau (Max Von Sydow). Foster, who regards Marneau's activities as little better than grave robbing, reluctantly obeys, but the excavation offends Arab leader El Krim (Ian Holm), who incites his tribe to attack the foreign interlopers. ...