Microlife That Makes Us Ill

Raintree Perspectives: The Amazing World Of Microlife

by Steve Parker

Explains why bacteria and viruses make people sick and how the body fights against them.

32 pages, Library Binding

First published July 20, 2005

About the author

Steve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.

Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.

Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.

Reviews

[Nhi Nguyễn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this book with 92% discount in price at the city's book fair in my country, and I must say I did make a right choice :)) The book is very interesting and informative, with lots of true enlarged images of the microlife (that sometimes could be kinda scary :D). I will definitely keep this book for my future children to read ha ha :))))