The Hidden Beauty Of The Microscopic World

Author : James Weiss
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786784636

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The Hidden Beauty of the Microscopic World by James Weiss Pdf

The videographer behind the Journey to the Microcosmos YouTube channel (386K subscribers) James Weiss presents a beginner's guide to the extremely small and utterly strange life that surrounds us. James Weiss was feeling lost in life when he first discovered his interest in the microscopic world. With his own microscope and a little homespun ingenuity, he began to capture thousands of hours of stunning footage of the creatures that he found around him: the local pond, at the beach, in a puddle. What he found astounded him, and it became his mission to reveal the beauty of the microcosmos to everyone. In his fun and accessible style, interspersed with otherworldly photographs, James presents this beginner's guide to the invisible life that surrounds us. From the most simple single-celled life, to complex micro-animals, James reveals the secrets of a world that we rarely consider. Navigating the births, feasts, tragedies, idiosyncracies and deaths of a cast of tiny characters, learn how these lifeforms work and what lessons they can teach us about our own existence. Mixing scientific detail with thoughtful musings that betray the fascination at the heart of his topic, James has created a way of looking at microorganisms in an empathetic and engaging style. You'll discover fascinating absurdities: that a cell can be both its own daughter and its own mother. That immortality really does exist, and it comes in the form of a teeny, tentacled medusa. And that seeing the wonder of nature from a new perspective can literally save your life.

Author : James Weiss
Publisher : Watkins Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786784636

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The Hidden Beauty of the Microscopic World by James Weiss Pdf

A strange and beautiful world surrounds us, hidden from sight É An unbelievable abundance of life flourishes on every surface of our planet. In every drop of dew, on every leaf, and even inside each one of us, invisible yet ingenious life thrives. James Weiss, microbe enthusiast and videographer, has spent thousands of hours peeking into this world, and has been astounded by the beauty he finds there. With his captivating photographs and illustrations, James presents this beginnerÕs guide to microscopic life, from the most simple, single-celled organisms to complex micro-animals. Navigate the births, feasts, triumphs, tragedies and deaths of a cast of tiny characters, including the adorable water bear, the immortal Hydra and the dancing Desmid. Learn how these lifeforms work and what lessons they can teach us about our own existence, and discover how seeing the wonder of nature from a new perspective can change your life.

Author : James Weiss
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786784490

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The Hidden Beauty of the Microscopic World by James Weiss Pdf

The videographer behind the Journey to the Microcosmos YouTube channel (386K subscribers) James Weiss presents a beginner's guide to the extremely small and utterly strange life that surrounds us. James Weiss was feeling lost in life when he first discovered his interest in the microscopic world. With his own microscope and a little homespun ingenuity, he began to capture thousands of hours of stunning footage of the creatures that he found around him: the local pond, at the beach, in a puddle. What he found astounded him, and it became his mission to reveal the beauty of the microcosmos to everyone. In his fun and accessible style, interspersed with otherworldly photographs, James presents this beginner's guide to the invisible life that surrounds us. From the most simple single-celled life, to complex micro-animals, James reveals the secrets of a world that we rarely consider. Navigating the births, feasts, tragedies, idiosyncracies and deaths of a cast of tiny characters, learn how these lifeforms work and what lessons they can teach us about our own existence. Mixing scientific detail with thoughtful musings that betray the fascination at the heart of his topic, James has created a way of looking at microorganisms in an empathetic and engaging style. You'll discover fascinating absurdities: that a cell can be both its own daughter and its own mother. That immortality really does exist, and it comes in the form of a teeny, tentacled medusa. And that seeing the wonder of nature from a new perspective can literally save your life.

Author : Brandon Broll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 1554077141

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Microcosmos by Brandon Broll Pdf

This volume brings together images produced through the very latest techniques in microphotography. Most of the 203 full colour photographs have been taken using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), allowing us to see our world as never before. Each image is a close-up that reveals remarkable forms, shapes and colours.

Author : E. D. Zanotto
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118558911

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Crystals in Glass by E. D. Zanotto Pdf

A "must-have" for materials engineers, chemists, physicists, and geologists, this is one of the first "coffee-table" books in the field of glass science. Containing over fifty beautiful micrographs, the book reflects 35 years of original research by a highly regarded authority in the field. It contains 50 slides culled from tens of thousands of images on glass crystal nucleation, growth, and crystallization. The images represent glass crystallization mechanisms, including internal, surface, homogeneous, heterogeneous, and eutectic, crystal nucleation and growth.

Author : France Bourely
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114329837

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Hidden Beauty by France Bourely Pdf

Jacques Cousteau explored the oceans' deepest fathoms. The crew of the space shuttle punched through the Earth's atmosphere and into a space of infinite dimensions. Possessed with the same spirit, France Bourely takes readers on a breathtaking visual odyssey far beyond the reaches of the naked eye with her scanning electron microscope. She travels lunar landscapes on the back of an ant, explores secret valleys in orchid petals, scales the pistils of a daisy, crosses mountains made of pollen, discovers crevices on the back of a caterpillar, and takes shelter under a bush of bristles.France Bourely can be described as a philosopher, a scientist, an artist, and a navigator all at once. This amazing book opens the door to a hidden paradise, revealing the visual virtuosity and the startling beauty of the microscopic dimension that surrounds us all. By transporting us to the lands of the unseen, Bourely seeks to awaken our senses and transform the way we perceive our infinitely complex and always harmonious universe.

Author : DK
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780744039566

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Micro Life by DK Pdf

Explore the miracles of the microscopic world. Find out all about the unique and beautiful kingdoms of life at a microscopic scale and how every organism meets the challenges of survival no matter its size. The perfect book for people who enjoy photography, nature and biology. Inside the pages of this exciting educational nature book, you’ll find: • Microscopic life-forms (often neglected), and their life-forms in extreme close-ups, revealing details such as nerve cells and hair follicles. • Artworks support the beautiful images, providing a deeper insight into structure and function and building a picture of how living organisms work at a microscopic level. • Comprehensive coverage of the natural world, including all the main groups of living things. • Explores overlooked groups that have a huge role in the natural world: insects, which make up 80% of the world’s animal species, and bacteria — of which there are more in a human mouth than there are people in the world. • The book is organized according to the main functions of life: movement, reproduction, energy and feeding, sensing the surroundings, defense, etc. • Optional 80-page section containing a catalog of the major kingdoms of life. The beauty of nature under a microscope Explore the inhabitants of an invisible world in incredible detail with this book, which contains macro photography and spectacular microscope imagery. You'll have so much information about the hidden world of intricate structures beyond the naked eye. From the tiniest spiders and insects to even microscopic creatures like bacteria and viruses, this book contains it all! See the beauty of a pollen grain, a butterfly egg, the spore of a fungus and a human’s nerve cell in extreme close up. The amazing imagery in Micro Life contains focus-stacked macro photographs and micrographs (microscope images), including scanning electron micrographs. Illustrations in this book explain the science — from the workings of an insect’s eye to how a plant “breathes” through its leaves. Micro Life is an unexpectedly breathtaking look at the natural world. Find out how life works and how organisms solve the fundamental problems of movement, reproduction, energy, communication and defense. This book belongs on the bookshelves of schools, libraries and homes for those interested in photography, nature or biology.

Author : Sondra Barrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fermentation
ISBN : 0578029472

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Wine's Hidden Beauty by Sondra Barrett Pdf

Wine's Hidden Beauty blends art, science and mystical aspects of wine. With the microscope as the starting point, scientist-photographer Sondra Barrett takes you on an illuminating journey into wine and life. This unique book explores the mysteries of chemical transformation, aging and vitality, what shapes our taste and language, and offers new ways to appreciate wine. A visually compelling book, it provides accessible information on winegrowing and tasting wine plus the role of wine in health and cultivating community. It also explores why has the grape had a cult-like status for centuries, why part of sacred rituals.

Author : Norman Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0764344129

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Hidden Beauty by Norman Barker Pdf

"The appreciation of the imagery produced by disease is bittersweet; we simultaneously experience the beauty of the natural world and the pain of those living with these disease processes. Ultimately, this series of images from more than sixty medical science professionals will leave the viewer with an understanding and appreciation of visual beauty inherent within the field."--Jacket.

Author : Alvin Silverstein,Virginia Silverstein
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486320168

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A World in a Drop of Water by Alvin Silverstein,Virginia Silverstein Pdf

Fascinating introduction to the world of single-celled organisms recounts the feeding, reproductive, and defensive strategies employed by an array of curious creatures: amoeba, paramecium, suctorian, hydra, others. Easy-to-understand language, 37 illustrations.

Author : Kenneth G. Rainis,Bruce J. Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531112667

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Guide to Microlife by Kenneth G. Rainis,Bruce J. Russell Pdf

Serves as a guide to be used for the identification of microorganisms and provides information about microlife forms and how they affect other life forms, including human.

Author : W. C. Vinyard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004576578

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Diatoms of North America by W. C. Vinyard Pdf

Author : Richard Headstrom
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780486135724

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Adventures with a Microscope by Richard Headstrom Pdf

Embark on 59 adventures in the natural world: the structures of numerous microscopic animals; what everyday objects really look like at the cellular level; preparing specimens and slides. 142 illustrations.

Author : Kelly Brenner
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781680512083

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Nature Obscura by Kelly Brenner Pdf

With wonder and a sense of humor, Nature Obscura author Kelly Brenner aims to help us rediscover our connection to the natural world that is just outside our front door--we just need to know where to look. Through explorations of a rich and varied urban landscape, Brenner reveals the complex micro-habitats and surprising nature found in the middle of a city. In her hometown of Seattle, which has plowed down hills, cut through the land to connect fresh- and saltwater, and paved over much of the rest, she exposes a diverse range of strange and unknown creatures. From shore to wetland, forest to neighborhood park, and graveyard to backyard, Brenner uncovers how our land alterations have impacted nature, for good and bad, through the wildlife and plants that live alongside us, often unseen. These stories meld together, in the same way our ecosystems, species, and human history are interconnected across the urban environment.

Author : Jane Worroll,Peter Houghton
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781780289298

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Play The Forest School Way by Jane Worroll,Peter Houghton Pdf

Woodland games, crafts, and other outdoor adventures from the Forest School—for parents and their children The rise of the grassroots Forest School movement in recent years is part of a groundswell of concern about the wellbeing of our children, with many media scare stories about child obesity, "nature deficit disorder" (as described in Last Child in the Woods), and lack of exposure to risk. This outdoor adventure manual is the antidote! Packed full of ideas, from making nature jewelry and whittling a bow and arrow, to building a shelter and foraging for food, it also celebrates the Forest School philosophy of encouraging self-esteem, confidence, and social skills through engagement with nature. The activities contain variations for varied age groups, small groups like play dates or birthday parties, as well as things to do with just one or two children. Parents are encouraged to guide the play but the activity instructions are written in a simple style with fun illustrations so that kids can take the lead as well.