Thinking Small and Large
How Microbes Made and Can Save Our World
$32.40
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2026
Summary
The environmental crisis will not be solved by battery technology alone. Thinking Small and Large reveals the ingenuity of microbes at key stages in life’s 4 billion year history and highlights their developing role in resolving our deepest problem: climate change that is flooding and burning our world more menacingly every year.
Ground-breaking ongoing research with some of the most ancient bacteria is leading to a parallel carbon economy using engineered bacteria for fuel, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781837732067 |
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| ISBN-10: | 183773206X |
| Author: | Peter Forbes |
| Publisher: | Icon Books |
| Imprint: | Icon Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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About The Author
Peter Forbes
Peter Forbes is a science writer and journalist focusing on life sciences and natural history. He studied chemistry and worked for the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and in natural history publishing before transitioning to freelance writing. He resides in London and instructs the Narrative Non-Fiction course at City St George’s, University of London.
His debut full-length non-fiction book, The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature’s Book, an introductory work on biomimicry in engineering and materials, was longlisted for the Royal Society/Aventis Prize. He subsequently published Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage, which earned him the Warwick Prize for Writing.
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