[compost_tea] Interesting Bacteria Field Guide -- Have you Seen it?

From: chris reid <reidchris_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:09:24 -0400

It's been a cool and rainy day today and I've been catching up on paperwork
and doing some computer research.

I found a title that may only be of marginal interest or may prove useful to
compost/compost tea makers. At the very least, people will appreciate the
potential for utility that the title has -- mainly, field identification
notes for the major GROUPS of bacteria (perhaps too general?).

Has anyone taken a look at this book?

It's called:

A Field Guide to Bacteria
Betsey Dexter Dyer, Betsey Dyer

  Paperback, May 2003
Other Formats: Hardcover


 New Book Price: $26.00 (NOTE: see Amazon and Abebooks.com for lower prices
and used copies - lowest price I found for a used copy was $15.95)


Product Details, per the Amazon website:

ISBN: 0801488540
Format: Paperback, 355pp
Pub. Date: May 2003 Publisher: Cornell University Press

 ABOUT THE BOOK

  From the Publisher
  In a guide perfect for naturalists, students, teachers, and tourists
alike, Betsey Dexter Dyer lets the reader know that it is possible to
observe bacteria with all the senses. Many groups of bacteria can be easily
identified in the field (or in the refrigerator) without a microscope.
Useful illustrations, including 120 color photographs, accompany Dyer's text
throughout.


  From The Critics
  Publisher's Weekly
This isn't a book on how to avoid E.coli and other nefarious bacteria that
invade our food and homes, but an amateur naturalist's guide to all sorts of
bacteria that can be seen (and smelled) without a microscope, from their
habitats (hot springs, marine mud flats, even urban areas), to how to
recognize and identify them in all their remarkable diversity. After all,
the author reminds us, bacteria are "the most predominant organisms on
Earth," and she even recommends taking a "bacteriocentric" point of view in
order to understand them. All the major groupings are covered, along with
information on how to culture bacteria, use a microscope and practice good
safety precautions. More than 100 color illustrations will assist the happy
bacteria hunter as well. (June) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Below is the link to the Amazon page for anyone interested in seeing it.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801488540/qid=1062442262/sr=1
-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-8609261-0095047?v=glance&s=books#product-details

sincerely,

Chris Reid



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