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【Micro Life: Miracles of The Miniature World Revealed】
《微小生物：揭露微觀世界的奇跡》
@英國DK原文書
@全彩精裝/336頁/開本26.1 x 30.8 cm
@作者：DK出版社編輯群, Foreword by Chris Packham
★喜歡攝影、自然和生物學的讀者的完美書籍。
本書從微觀的尺度介紹獨特而美麗的生命王國，以及每種生物如何應對生存挑戰──無論尺寸大小。
【本書特色】
★探索經常被忽視的微觀生命形式，本書運用極端特寫鏡頭，顯示神經細胞和毛囊…等細節
★藝術品等級的美麗圖像，提供讀者對生物結構和功能的更深入了解，並構建生物體如何在微觀層面上運作的畫面
★全面覆蓋自然界所有主要的生物群落。
★探索在自然界中發揮重要作用的被忽視的群體，例如佔世界動物80&物種的昆蟲、以及細菌──你我嘴裡的細菌數量比全世界的人口還多！
★這本書根據生物的主要組織功能來區分章節，包括運動、繁殖、能量和覓食(獲得養分與能量)、感知周圍環境、防禦…等。
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 nature book, you'll find:
- Microscopic life-forms (often neglected), and their larger 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 percent 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 organised according to the main functions of life: movement, reproduction, energy and feeding, sensing the surroundings, defence, etc.
- Foreword for the book written by Chris Packham
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 such as 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 defence. Suitable for all the family, this stunning book makes a wonderful gift for those interested in photography, nature or biology.
