The books of science online 2013 #scio13

Took pics of the books on display at Science Online 2013.


Here they are

"Life on Man" - amazing book on human associated microbes

Just got this book by Theodor Rosebury in the mail: The Tree of Life Store - Life on Man.

I ordered it a few days ago after someone named Richard Montgomery posted a comment about it in relation to my "Human microbiome" talk that is posted at TED.

Just starting the book but it is awesome so far.  Definitely worth trying to get a copy.  Though it is out of print, I found many copies online ...

The Books of Science Online 2012 #scio12 #bookporn #sciencerocks cc: @avflox

Well, I am a book geek.  While others took pictures of all the tatoos, people, and more -- the #1 thing I took pictures of were the books on display ... (UPDATE - made a mini Amazon Store with all the books here).

UPDATE 2: August 2013.  Posterous is dead so deleted the links to the book pictures from Posterous below.  Changed it to Picasa.

Draft post cleanup #10: trip to LA artificially sweetened by Carolyn de la Peña

Yet another post in my "draft blog post cleanup" series.  Here is #10:

Went on a mini trip to UCLA for a mini meeting in November. It seemed appropriate that I brought with me to Los Angeles, land of empty pleasures - the new book from UC Davis Professor Carolyn de la Peña - "Empty Pleasures" on the history of artificial sweeteners. So I took a picture of the book overlooking part of LA from my hotel room:

The book is great read by the way ...

Fun with Google Books - Old Books on Bacteria

After discovering a copy of this great 100 year old book on "Bacteria in relation to Country Life" on Google Books I decided to snoop around for other old books on bacteria: Microbiology of the Built Environment – as of ~ 100 years ago: Bacteria in relation to country life

The Bacteria by Antoine Magnin in 1880

Bacteria: especially as they are related to the economy of nature by Sir George Newman

Bacteria: their relation to modern medicine, the arts and industries by Frank Bardwell 1891

Bacteria: what they are, what they do, and how they are cultivated by CHarles Marshall 1896

Bacteria: a lecture delivered at the Oamaru Athenæum and ...

Bacteria: or the general study of germs - by Edward McWeeney

Lectures on bacteria - Page 1 - by Anton Bary 1887

If you expand the search to "microbes" you get some other interesting ones

Microbes and the microbe killer

Microbes, ferments and moulds - Page 119

I am sure there are many others that are fascinating there. It is always interesting to me to see what people were thinking about in terms of microbes in the past. And Google Books is one heck of a convenient way to do this.

Crosspost from http://microBE.net: New, massive volumes on #metagenomics coming out soon

For those interested in microbial diversity and/or metagenomics there are two volumes that are coming out soon that are of interest:

• Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology I: Metagenomics and Complementary Approaches.
• Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology II: Metagenomics in Different Habitats

Edited by Frans J. de Bruijn these two volumes are the most comprehensive coverage of metagenomics out there right now. The chapters are almost overwhelming (full disclosure, I have two chapters in here - both of which are republications of Open Access papers I have published on metagenomics).  See below for full chapter lists.

Order from Amazon:

• Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology I: Metagenomics and Complementary Approaches
• Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology II: Metagenomics in Different Habitats
• Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology, Set