{"product_id":"lifes-engines-how-microbes-made-earth-habitable-science-essentials","title":"Lifes Engines How Microbes Made Earth Habitable Science Essentials","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to\u003cbr\u003e\n themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the \u003cbr\u003e\nchemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and \u003cbr\u003e\nus. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to \u003cbr\u003e\nexplore how these marvelous creatures made life on Earth possible--and \u003cbr\u003e\nhow human life today would cease to exist without them.  Paul Falkowski \u003cbr\u003e\nlooks \"under the hood\" of microbes to find the engines of life, the \u003cbr\u003e\nactual working parts that do the biochemical heavy lifting for every \u003cbr\u003e\nliving organism on Earth. With insight and humor, he explains how these \u003cbr\u003e\nminiature engines are built--and how they have been appropriated by and \u003cbr\u003e\nassembled like Lego sets within every creature that walks, swims, or \u003cbr\u003e\nflies. Falkowski shows how evolution works to maintain this core \u003cbr\u003e\nmachinery of life, and how we and other animals are veritable \u003cbr\u003e\nconglomerations of microbes.  A vibrantly entertaining book about the \u003cbr\u003e\nmicrobes that support our very existence, Life's Engines will inspire \u003cbr\u003e\nwonder about these elegantly complex nanomachines that have driven life \u003cbr\u003e\nsince its origin. It also issues a timely warning about the dangers of \u003cbr\u003e\ntinkering with that machinery to make it more \"efficient\" at meeting the\u003cbr\u003e\n ever-growing demands of humans in the coming century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul g.falkowski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44236116951100,"sku":"9780691173351","price":1721.25,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/lifes-engines-how-microbes-made-earth-habitable-science-essentials-9780691173351.jpg?v=1776788007","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/lifes-engines-how-microbes-made-earth-habitable-science-essentials","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}