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Previous Volume 330:1026-1027 April 7, 1994 Number 14

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By John Postgate. 267 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. $24.95. ISBN 0-521-44010-6.

Postgate's accounts of the weird and wonderful ways of microbes are stories both of sophisticated science and of the extremes in the biologic world. In contrast to plants and animals, single-cell organisms exhibit a wide range of biologic activities and occupy diverse ecologic niches, from deep-sea hydrothermal vents at 112 °C to salt pans at 5-M sodium chloride to the intestines of 11,000-year-old mastodon remains. This book has two aims: to describe "all the processes of which living cells are capable" and, along the way, to provide the nonscientist reader with "the cultural delight in understanding science."

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