Earn up to 5x points when you use your eBay Mastercard®. Recently, Professor Fleury served as an advisor for Warner Brothers' space epic Green Lantern, working on several classroom and laboratory scenes, and serving as a 'consulting xenobiologist' on alien life.
In the closing lecture on the human immune system, follow the microscopic chain of events that lead to allergies and asthma. The professor appears to be made out of stone, and his attempts at humor were lame. His career as a college reference librarian led him to Tulane University, where he became head of the university library's... 85% of reviewers would recommend this product, 73% of reviewers would recommend this product, 68% of reviewers would recommend this product, 95% of reviewers would recommend this product, 92% of reviewers would recommend this product, 67% of reviewers would recommend this product, 86% of reviewers would recommend this product, 87% of reviewers would recommend this product, 89% of reviewers would recommend this product, 80% of reviewers would recommend this product, 97% of reviewers would recommend this product, 91% of reviewers would recommend this product, 79% of reviewers would recommend this product, 77% of reviewers would recommend this product, 93% of reviewers would recommend this product, 71% of reviewers would recommend this product, 84% of reviewers would recommend this product, 90% of reviewers would recommend this product, 83% of reviewers would recommend this product, 66% of reviewers would recommend this product. He went on to earn an M.S. From here, it became even more interesting with lectures on germ evolution, epidemics, plagues, and germ warfare.
I highly recommend this series to everyone interested in knowing more about the unseen world around us and how it affects our lives. The professor has an encyclopedic knowledge from which to deliver an interesting and sometimes alarming message regarding the ongoing interaction between humans and the microbiological environment as well as the battle among microorganisms for survival and dominance. But the bad news is that many microbes mutate astonishingly quickly, making them highly adaptable in the evolutionary arms race with each other and with us. Given the proliferation of microbes in our midst, why aren't we sick all the time?
This was a top-of-the-line course. $15.00.
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2015. I find myself in agreement with many other reviewers who have commented that this course is more about history than microbiology. Have only read few chapters of book and watched 1 disk so far. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. and a Ph.D. in Biology, both from Tulane. We've sent a link and instructions to your email address to After receiving the item, contact seller within. MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never been before, to see things that are beyond their normal vision, yet literally right in front of their eyes. In the days before the invention of the microscope and the rise of modern medicine, how did people explain a killer plague? Subject to credit approval. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, See all details for Mysteries of the Microscopic World, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Follow the trail of one of the most infamous microbes of all time, Yersinia pestis, the cause of the Black Death.