Slime
A Natural History
$23.76
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
16 January 2023
Summary
Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our fascination. It is both a vehicle for pathogens and the strongest weapon in our immune system. Most of us know little about it and yet it is the substance on which our world turns. Slime exists at the interfaces of all things: between the different organs and layers in our bodies, and between the earth, water, and air in the environment. It is often produced in the fata…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783786855 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178378685X |
| Author: | Susanne Wedlich, Ayça Türkoglu |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 16 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 237g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
‘Susanne Wedlich is your smart and genial guide through the curious realms of natural goop, how we think of it, treat it and need it. An illuminating and eloquent story of slime, it will leave you appreciating in whole new ways the sticky stuff that covers our world, inside and out’ - Helen Scales, marine biologist and author of The Brilliant Abyss‘Rich and strange… a deft cultural history of the idea of slime as well as an up-to-the-minute exegesis of its science ’ - Daily Telegraph
About The Author
Susanne Wedlich
Susanne Wedlich studied biology and political science in Munich and has worked as a writer in Boston and Singapore. She is currently a freelance science journalist for Der Spiegel, National Geographic and Spektrum der Wissenschaft. She lives in Munich.
Ayca Turkoglu is a literary translator from German and Turkish. She lives in North London.
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