Baum, Margaux. Viegas, Jennifer.
2017
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Books
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Germs: disease causing organisms
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Boddy, Lynne. Ashby, Ali. Sagoo, Aman. Carter, Stuart. Crisp, Dan.
"Expert information and beautiful illustrations reveal that fungi are present everywhere, from forests to deserts. Step inside the fascinating world of fungi to discover a kingdom that hids in plain sight"--Back cover.
2024
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Books
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Pouliot, Alison.
"Meetings with remarkable mushrooms are an all-year event for Australian ecologist Alison Pouliot. Bifurcating her life between the northern and southern hemispheres, she ensures that she experiences two autumns per year and has double the chances to find fungi. In this book, she uses visits around the world to show readers the diversity of this life-and makes the case that appreciating fungi is a key to understanding the power and fragility of our planet. With Pouliot as our guide, we learn that fire-loving truffles in the genus Mesophelia transform their scent after burning-from a sweet nut-like aroma into a stink like rotting onion-to lure mammals that excavate and eat these truffles, and then spread their spores. Or, with her, we spot the eerie glow of the ghost fungus. The ghost fungus looks like an edible oyster mushroom, but don't confuse them. If you put ghost fungus in your mouth, it will soon come back out, with everything else in your stomach. Or you might enjoy seeing vegetable caterpillars-neither vegetable nor caterpillar-but a fungus that eats arthropods from the inside out. Pouliot's focus on the global community of fungus experts, the importance of local knowledge, and the historic and current contributions of women in mycology all reinforce her message that understanding fungi is fundamental for us all"--
2023
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Books
Boddy, Lynne. Tang, Wenjia.
"Beneath the forest floor, drifting through the air, and growing inside other living things, fungi are everywhere. Fungi break down waste and help plants and animals grow, but they can also destroy buildings and turn ants into zombies! From tiny microbes tot he largest living thing, this is a world of strange shapes, magical colors, and fascinating science"--Back cover.
2021
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Books
Whitely, Aliya.
"Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and live between our toes or our floorboards. They are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats, and symbols of both death and eternal life. But despite their familiar presence, there's still much to learn about the eruption, growth, and decay of their secret, interconnected, world"--
2021
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Books
Sheldrake, Merlin.
"Living at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to grow. Fungi not only help create soil, they send out networks of tubes that enmesh roots and link plants together in the "Wood Wide Web." Fungi also drive many long-standing human fascinations: from yeasts that cause bread to rise and orchestrate the fermentation of sugar into alcohol; to psychedelic fungi; to the mold that produces penicillin and revolutionized modern medicine. And we can partner with fungi to heal the damage we've done to the planet. Fungi are already being used to make sustainable building materials and wearable leather, but they can do so much more. Fungi can digest many stubborn and toxic pollutants from crude oil to human-made polyurethane plastics and the explosive TNT. They can grow food from renewable sources: edible mushrooms can be grown on anything from plant waste to cigarette butts. And some fungi's antiviral compounds might be able to ease the colony collapse of bees. Merlin Sheldrake's revelatory introduction to this world will show us how fungi, and our relationships with them, are more astonishing than we could have imagined. Bringing to light science's latest discoveries and ingeniously parsing the varieties and behaviors of the fungi themselves, he points us toward the fundamental questions about the nature of intelligence and identity this massively diverse, little understood kingdom provokes"--
2020
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Books
Eaton, Louise. Rogers, Kara.
2018
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Books
Series
The building blocks of life
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Hardcastle, Nick.
"Wacky, wild and full of wonder, Kids in the Garden is a colorful new series for young gardeners that will inspire kids to get their hands dirty'"--Container.
2008
Format
Video disc
Publisher
Film Ideals,
Series
Kids in the garden Kids go green
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Crista, Jill
"Is mold making you sick? Do you have mysterious health problems with no explanations? Mold can lurk without a trace or scent. If this is happening where you spend time, you could be sick from mold and not even know it. Find out how to spot mold sickness. Use the questionnaire inside to see if you re an unsuspecting target of mold. In this book, Dr. Jill Crista gives you 5 proven tools to start your recovery from mold sickness. Learn what mold experts know. Arm yourself with reliable, effective ways to conquer mold; including which foods to eat, which ones to avoid, herbs that can help, and more. Dr. Jill Crista is a nationally recognized educator on illnesses associated with mold and mycotoxin exposure, and has recovered from mold herself. Don't be a victim to hidden mold!"--Page [4] of cover.
2018
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Books
Publisher
Wellness Ink,
Fishman, Seth.
"An exploration of the five main types of germs-bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, and helminths-and the human immune system that protects us against them"--
2022
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Books
Mould, Steve, 1978-
"¿Sabías que las primeras bacterias aparecieron hace 3600 millones de años, mucho antes de que llegaren los humanos? ¿O que hay un increíble tip de bacteria tres veces más pegajosa que el pegamento? Echa un vistazo a las bacterias, los virus y otros gérmenes y microbios en tu divertido primer libro de microbiología"--back cover. "In this fun, fact-packed science book for kids, young readers will discover the bacteria, viruses, and other germs and microbes that keep our bodies and our world running, as well as how and when they can be harmful and the precautions we can take to prevent them from becoming so. Meet a glowing squid, traveling fungus spores, and much more. The Bacteria Book walks the line between zew, gross!y and zoh, cool!,y exploring why we need bacteria and introducing readers to its microbial mates—viruses, fungi, algae, archaea, and protozoa"--publisher website.
2020 2018
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Regular print
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