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Mysteries of the microscopic world

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	guidebook	Moving image	Use in library	QR41.2 .F54 2011 guidebook	Off-site
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	DVD	Moving image	Use in library	QR41.2 .F54 2011 DVD	Off-site

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Description

4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in. +

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.

Series Statement

The great courses

Uniform Title

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Biology

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24 lectures on 4 discs (30 minutes per lecture).
DVD, NTSC.
Course no. 1551.
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.

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Princeton University Library