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Title Mysteries of the microscopic world / The Teaching Company.

Publication Info. Chantilly, Virginia : Teaching Co., [2011]

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  GREAT COURSES 579 FLEURY DISC 1-4    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  GC 579 FLE  DISC 1-4    Check Shelf
Description 4 videodiscs (12 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 142 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
NTSC rda
Motion pictures lcgft
Series The great courses
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Biology.
Performer Bruce E. Fleury, lecturer.
Note 24 lectures on 4 discs (30 minutes per lecture).
DVD, NTSC.
Course no. 1551.
Summary [An] "illustrated guided tour through a realm that is as teeming with exotic life as any rainforest -- and that is just as exciting" --Website.
Note 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.
Contents Disc 1: The invisible realm -- Stone knives to iron plows -- The angel of death -- Germ theory -- The evolutionary arms race -- Microbial strategies.
Disc 2: Virulence -- Death by chocolate -- Bambi's revenge -- The 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 -- The 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.
Subject Biology.
Microbiology.
Microbial invasiveness.
Microorganisms.
Genre/Form Educational films.
Filmed lectures.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Added Author Fleury, Bruce E., teacher.
Teaching Company., production company, publisher.
ISBN 1598037668
9781598037661
Music No. 1551 Teaching Company
IC1551A-01 Teaching Company
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