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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Micr...
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Penguin Random House USA. 2025. 448 sidor.
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- ISBN
- 9780593242735
- Titel
- So very small - how humans discovered the microcosmos, defeated germs - and may still lose the war against infectious disease
- Författare
- Levenson, Thomas
- Förlag
- Random House
- Utgivningsår
- 2025
- Bandtyp
- Hardcover
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- "Two out of three soldiers who perished in the Civil War died of infected wounds, typhoid, and other infectious diseases. But no doctor truly understood what was happening to their patients. Twenty years later, the outcome might have been different following one of the most radical intellectual transformations in the history of the world: germ theory, the recognition that the tiniest forms of life have been humankind's greatest killers. It was a discovery centuries in the making that transformed modern life and public health. This revolution has a pre-history. In the late-sixteenth century, scientists and hobbyists used the first microscopes to confirm the existence of living things invisible to the human eye. So why did it take two centuries to make the connection between microbes and disease? As Thomas Levenson reveals in this globe-trotting history, the answer has everything to do with how we see ourselves. For centuries, people in the west, believing themselves to hold God-given dominion over nature, thought too much of humanity and too little of microbes to believe they could take us down. When scientists finally made the connection by the end of the 19th-century, life-saving methods to control infections and contain outbreaks soon followed. The next big break came with the birth of the antibiotic era in the 1930s. And yet, less than a century later, the promise of the antibiotic revolution is already receding from years of overuse. Why? In So Very Small, Thomas Levenson follows the thread of human ingenuity and hubris across centuries--along the way peering into microscopes, spelunking down sewers, traipsing across the battlefield, and more--to show how we came to understand the microbial environment and how little we understand ourselves. He traces how and why ideas are pursued, accepted, or ignored--and hence how human habits of mind can, so often, make it terribly hard to ask the right questions"--
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- ISBN
- 9780553103441
- Titel
- Einstein in Berlin
- Författare
- Levenson, Thomas
- Förlag
- New York : Bantam Books
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Follows eighteen years in the life of the eminent scientist, from his 1914 arrival in Berlin, through his scientific accomplishments and his role as a peacemaker following World War I, to his 1932 departure from Germany.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-469) and index.
The adoration -- "Suspicion against every kind of authority" -- "Consistency and simplicity" -- "This 'great epoch'" -- "All the loathsome nonsense" -- "Unnecessary erudition" -- "My grandest dreams have come true" -- "Is the old Jehavah still alive?" -- "I have become far more tolerant" -- Slavery made to appear civilized" -- "A negation of superstition" -- "I prefer to string along with my countryman, Jesus Christ" -- "Some kind of high-placed Red" -- "A state of mind...akin to that of a...lover" -- "St. Francis Einstein" -- "Grow[ing] angry with my fellow men" -- "That business about causality" -- "A Reich German" -- "A singular tension" -- "I, at any rate, am convinced" -- "Our necessarily privitive thinking" -- "While wolves wait outside" -- "Who is Mary Pickford?" -- "A bird of passage" -- "As long as I have any choice in the matter"
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Money for nothing - the south sea bubble and...
Inbunden bok. Head of Zeus. 2020. 453 sidor.
ISBN 9781784973940
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Measure for measure - a musical history of sc...
Inbunden bok. Simon & Schuster. 1994. 351 sidor.
Mycket gott skick. Skyddsomslag i mycket gott skick. Språk: Engelsk
Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9780671787301
- Titel
- Measure for measure - a musical history of science
- Författare
- Levenson, Thomas
- Förlag
- Simon & Schuster
- Utgivningsår
- 1994
- Omfång
- 351 sidor
Simon & Schuster 9780671787301
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