Mysteries of the microscopic world
(2011)
By:
Fleury, Bruce E
Nonfiction
DVD
Series:
Call Numbers:
DVD/570/MYSTERIES
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2011]
DESCRIPTION
4 video discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 142 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
ISBN/ISSN
1598037668, 9781598037661, 1598037668, 9781598037661
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
24 lectures on 4 discs (30 minutes per lecture)
[An] "illustrated guided tour through a realm that is as teeming with exotic life as any rainforest -- and that is just as exciting" --Website
On container: IC1551A-01
Course number 1551
DVDs
Features more than 1,000 engaging visual elements, including eye-catching microscopic photographs, dynamic animations and images, and detailed charts and graphs
Accompanying guidebook contains glossary, biographical notes, and bibliographical references
Bruce E. Fleury, lecturer
CONTENTS
Disc 1:
Invisible realm --
Stone knives to iron plows --
Angel of death --
Germ theory --
Evolutionary arms race --
Microbial strategies
Disc 2:
Virulence --
Death by chocolate --
Bambi's revenge --
Germ of laziness --
The 1918 flu: a conspiracy of silence --
The 1918 flu: the Philadelphia story
Disc 3:
The 1918 flu: the search for the virus --
Immunity: self versus nonself --
Adaptive immunity to the rescue --
AIDS: the quiet killer --
Deadly strategy of AIDS --
Autoimmunity: self versus self
Disc 4:
Allergies and asthma --
Microbes as weapons --
Pandora's box --
Old world to new --
Close encounters of the microbial kind --
Microbes as friends