San Antonio College Library

"Though nothing in the natural world would be quite the same without them, microbes go mostly unnoticed. They are the tiny, mighty force behind the pop in Champagne and the holes in Swiss cheese, the granite walls of Yosemite and the white cliffs of Dover, the workings of snowmaking machines, Botox, and gunpowder; and yet we tend to regard them as peripheral, disease-causing, food-spoiling troublemakers. In this book renowned microbiologist John Ingraham...

Despite their reputation for making us ill, germs also perform a number of important functions that help keep us healthy. Jason Tetro presents an informative and entertaining look at the amazing world of microbes.