Microbe Book List
Books with Microbiology as a theme.
Books by Author
• Alibek, Ken. Biohazard. Dell Publishing, 2000
• Andrews, Michael. The Life that Lives on Man Taplinger Publishing, 1977
• Arrizablaga, Jon. The Great Pox. Yale University Press, 1997
• Astor, Gerald. The Disease Detectives. New American Library, 1984
• Atkinson, Donald T. Magic, Myths, and Medicine. FAWCETT, 1956
• Camp, John. Magic, Myth, and Medicine. Taplinger Publishing, 1973
• Atlas, Ronald. Many faces, Many Microbes. ASM Press, 2000
• Barker, Rodney. And the Waters Turned to Blood: The Ultimate Biological Threat. Simon & Schuster, 1997
• Barreft, Andrea. Ship Fever. NW Norton, 1995
• Biddle, Wayne. A Field guide to Germs. Doubleday, 1996
• Boudanis, David. The Secret House. Touchstone, 1986
• Briggs, Raymond. Fungus the Bogeyman. Penguin Books, 1977 (1993)
• Brock, Thomas. Robert Koch: A Life in Medicine. Science Tech Publishing, 1988
• Brock, Thomas. Readings from Scientific America: Microorganisms from smallpox to Lyme Disease. W.H. Freeman, 1990
• Brock, Thomas. Milestones in Microbiology. ASM Press, 1999
• Brooks, G. Year of Wonders. Viking Penguin, 2001.
• Burnett, F.M. & David 0. White. Natural History of lnfectious Disease. Cambridge, 1966
• Camus, Albert. The Plague. Random House, 1991
• Cartwright, Fredrick F. Disease and History. Dorset Press, 1972
• Christensen, C.M. Molds, Mushrooms, and Mycotoxins. University Minnesota Press, 1975
• Cohen, Mark N. Health and the Rise of Civilization. Yale University Press, 1989
• Collier, Richard. The Plague of the Spanish Lady: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919. Macmillan, London,1974
• Cook, Noble David. Born to Die: Diseases and New World Conquest, 1492-1650. Cambridge University Press, 1998
• Cook, Robin. Outbreak. Berkley Publishing Group, 1988.
• Cook, Robin. Contagion. G.P. Putnam, 1995
• Cook, Robin. Acceptable Risk. Berkley Publishing Group. 1996
• Cook, Robin. Toxin. Berkley Publishing Group. 1999
• Cook, Robin. Vector.Berkley Publishing Group, 2000
• Cooke, R.C. Fungi, Man and His Environment. Longman, 1977
• Coulter, Harris and Barbara Fisher. A Shot in the Dark: Why the P in the DPT Vaccination May be Hazardous to your Childs Health. Avery,1991
• Cravens, Gwneyth & John S. Marr. The Black Death. Ballantine, 1979
• Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park. Knopf, 1990 (not applicable)
• Crichton,Michael. The Andromeda Strain. Knopf, 1962 (1992)
• Crosby, Alfred W. America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918. Cambridge University,1989
• Dawood, Richard. How to Stay Healthy Abroad. Viking Penguin, 1988
• DeFoe, Daniel. Journal of the Plague Year. Penguin Group, 1972
• DeKruif, Paul. Microbe Hunters. Harbrace, 1953
• Desowitz, Robert. A Thorn in the Starfish: the Immune System and How it Works.WW Norton, 1987
• Desowitz, Robert. New Guinea Tape Worms and Jewish Grandmothers.WW Norton, 1981
• Desowitz, Robert. The Malaria Capers. WW Norton, 1993
• Desowitz, Robert. Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria. WW Norton, 1997
• Desowitz, Robert. Tropical Diseases: From 50,000 BC to 2500 AD. DIANE Publishing, 2000
• Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: the Fates of Humna Societies. WW Norton. 1997
• Dixon, Bernard. Magnificent Microbes. Atheneum, 1976
• Dixon, Bernard. Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World. W.H. Freeman, 1989 (1994)
• Dobell, C. Antony Van Leeuwenhoek and his "Little Animals". London: Bale Sons & Danielssons, 1932 (1958)
• Dubos, Rene. The White Plague. Rutgers University Press, 1998
• Eigen, Manfred. Steps Toward Life: A Perspective on Evolution. Oxford University Press, 1992
• Ewald, Paul. Plague Time: How Stealth Infections are Causing Cancers, Heart Disease, and other Deadly Ailments. Free Press, 2000
• Ewald, Paul W. Evolution of Infectious Disease. Oxford University Press, 1994
• Farrow, John. Damien the Leper. Bantam Books, 1998
• Findlay, W. FI.K. Wayside and Woodland Fungi, F. Warne Publishing, 1967
• Ford, Brian J. Single Lens. The Story of the Simple Microseope.Harper & Row, 1985
• Fox, Nichols. Spoiled - The Dangerous Truth about a Food Chain Gone Haywire. Basic Books, 1997
• Fox, Nichols. Spoiled - Why Our Food is Making us Sick and What We Can Do About It. Paperback Press, 1998
• Fox Nichols. It Was Probably Something You Ate. Viking Penguin Press, 1999
• Fuller, John G. Fever: The Hunt for a New Killer Virus. Grand Rapids, Zondervan Pub. House, 1974
• Garrett, Laurie. The Coming Plague. Viking Penguin, 1995
• Garrittson, Tess. Gravity. Pocket Books, 2000
• Geison, Gerald L. The Private Science of Louis Pasteur. Princeton University Press, 1995
• Gilbert, Oliver. Lichens. HarperCollins,2000
• Goodfield, June. Quest for the Killers. Birkhauser,1985
• Gottfried, Robert S. and Phyllis Corzine. The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe. Free Press, 1985
• Hailey, Arthur. The Final Diagnosis. Bantam Books, 1981
• Hall Stephen S. Invisible Frontiers Race to Synthesize the Human Gene.Grove Atlantic, 1987
• Hardy, Victor. Milestones and Milestones.
• Harris, Henry. The Birth of the Cell. Yale University Press, 1999
• Harrison, Gordon. Mosquitoes, Malaria and Man: A History of the Hostilities since 1880. E.P. Dutton, 1978
• Hudler, George W. Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds. Princeton University Press, 1998
• Hunderfund, R. C.,Magic, Myths, and Medicine.Kendal/Hunt Publishing, 1974
• Jones, James H. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Simon & Schuster, 1992
• Jones, James H. Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study University of North Carolina Press, 2000
• Karian, Arno. Man and Microbes. Simon & Schuster, 1995 • Karian, Arno. Biography of a Germ. Pantheon Books, 2000
• Kiple, K. F. Fliague, Pox & Pestilence. Barmes and Nobel Books, 1997
• Kirp, David L. Learning by Heart. AIDS and Schoolchildren in America’s Communities. Rutgers University Press, 1989
• Knutson, Roger M. Fearson Fauna: A Field Guide to the Creatures that Live in You. W. H. Freeman, 1999
• Kohn, G.C. Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence. Facts on File, Inc., 1995/2001
• Kolata, Gina. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It. Simon & Schuster ,2001
• Lappe',Marc. Evolutionary Medicine: Rethinking the Origins of the Disease. Sierra Club Books, 1994
• Large, E.C. The Advance of the Fungi. Henry Holt & Company, 1940
• Leavitt,Judith. Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health. Beacon Press, 1996
• Larson, Gary. There's a Hair in My Dirt. Harper Collins, 1998
• Lechavalier, Hubert A. and Morris Solotrovosky. Three Centuries of Microbiology. McGraw-Hill, 1965
• L'Estrange, Gerald. God Bless the Microscope! A history of the Royal Microscopical Society over 150 years. Royal Microscopical Soceity, Oxford, UK. 1989
• Luria, S. E. A Slot Machine, A Broken Test Tube. Harper Trade, 1984
• Mclean, Alistair. The Satan Bug. Chivers, 2000
• Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995
• Margulis, Lynn. Early Life.Science Books lnternational, 1982
• Margulis, Lynn. Symbiotic Planet: A New View of Evolution. Basic Books, 1998
• Margulis, Lynn and Rene' Fester. Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation, Speciation and Morphogenesis. MIT Press, 1991
• Margulis, Lynn and Dorian Sagan. Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution. Summit Books, 1986
• Marr, John. The Eleventh Plague. Harper Collins, 1998
• McCormick, Joseph, Susan Fisher-Hoch, and Leslie Alan Horvitz. Level Four: Virus Hunters of the CDC. Barnes & Noble, 1999
• McNeil, William H. Plagues and Fleoples. Doubleday, 1976
• Rathje, William and Cullen Murphy. Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. Harper Collins, 1992 • Neese, Randolf M. and George C. Williams. Why We Get Sick: The Science of Darwinian Medicine. Times Books, 1994
• Nikiforuk, Andrew. The Fourth Horseman: a short history of epidemics, plagues, famines, and other scourges. M.Evans, 1993
• Nourse, Alan Edward. The Fourth Horseman. Harper, 1983.
• O'Hearn, Elizabeth. Profiles of Women Scientists. Acropolis Books, 1985
• Oldstone, Michael. Viruses, Plagues and History. Oxford University Press, 1998
• Oishaker, Mark aand CJ Peters. Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World. Doubleday, 1998
• Porter, R. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind A Medical History of Humanity. W. W. Norton, 1997
• Postgate, John. Microbes and Man. Cambridge University Press, 1969 (3rd ed. 1992)
• Postgate, John. The Outer Reaches of Life. Cambridge University Press, 1994
• Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone. Doubleday, 1995
• Preston, Richard. The Cobra Event. Random House, 1998
• Que'tel, C. History of Syphilis. Polity Press, 1992
• Ramsboftom, J. Mushrooms and Toadstools. Collins, London, UK, 1953 (1972)
• Reddler, Kit and Gerry Davis. Mutant 59: The plastic eaters. Viking, 1972
• Rhodes, Richard. Deadly Feast: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague. Simon & Schuster, 1997
• Richards, Peter. The Medieval Leper. Boydell& Brewer, 2000
• Root-Bernstein, Robert and Michele. Honey, Mud, Maggots, and other Medical marvels. Houghton Mifflin, 1998
• Rosebury, Theodore. Microbes and Morals: the Strange Story of Venereal Disease. Viking, 1971
• Rosebury, Theodore. Life on Man. Penguin Putnam Childrens, 1969
• Rosenberg, Charles E. The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866. University of Chicago Press, 1987
• Rossmore, Harold W. The Microbes: Our Unseen Friends. Wayne State, 1976
• Roueche, Berton. Field Guide to Disease: A Handbook for World Travelers, 1969
• Roueche, Berton. Annals of Epidemiology, [14 Sherlock Holmes type stories]
• Roueche, Berton. The Medical Detectives. 2 vol. Truman Talley, 1984 (St. Martin's Press 1991)
• Roueche, Berton. The Orange Man.
• Roueche, Berton. Eleven Blue Men. Little, Brown, 1953
• Ryan, F. The Forgotten Plague. Little, Brown, & Co., 1992
• Sayre, Anne. Rosalind Franklin & DNA. WW Norton, 2000
• Schaechter, Moselio. In the Company of Mushrooms: A Biologists Tale. Harvard University Press, 1997
• Schierbeek, A. Measuring the Invisible World. Abelard-Schuman, 1959
• Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played on. St. Martin's Press, 1999
• Slaughter, Frank G. Plague Ship. Pocket Books, 1976
• Slaughter, Frank G. Epidemic. Doubleday, 1961
• Smith, Jane S. Patenting the Sun@: Polio and the Salk vaccine. Doubleday & Co., 1991
• Stein,Stanley and Lawrence G. Blochman. Alone No Longer the story of a man who refused to be one of the living dead. The Star. Carville, LA, 1963
• Stewart, George R. Earth Abides. Fawcett Book Group, 1971
• Swigart, Rob. Toxin. St. Martin's Press, 1989
• Swigart, Rob. Vector. St. Martin's Press, 1986
• Taylor, Michael Ray. Dark Life: Martian Nanobacteria, Rock-eating cave bugs, and other extreme organisms of the inner earth and outer space. Simon & Schuster Trade, 1999
• Thomas, Lewis R. Lives of a cell. Penguin, 1975
• Thomas, Lewis R..The youngest Science, notes of a medicine watcher. Viking Penguin, 1995
• Thomas, Lewis R. The Fragile Species. Harcourt Brace, 1996
• Thomas, Lewis R. The Medusa and the Snail. Viking Press, 1979
• Tomes, Nancy. The gospel of Germs: Men, Women and the Microbe in American Life. Harvard University Press, 1998
• Tucker, Jonathan B. ed. Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons. MIT Press, 2000
• Wainright, Milton. Miracle Cure, The Story of Antibiotics. Basil Blackwell,1992
• Wasson, Gordon R. Soma: Divine mushroom of immorality. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971
• Watts, Sheldon. Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism. Yale University Press, 1997
• Whelan, Elizabeth M. Toxic Terror: The truth behind the Cancer Scares. Prometheus Books, 1992
• Willis, Connie. Doomsday Book. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing group, 1993
• Wills, Christopher. Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues. Addison-Wesley, 1996
• Ziegler, P. The Black Death. Sutton Publishing, 1990 (1998)
• Zinsser, Hans. Rats, Lice, and History. Little Brown & Co., 1934
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