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Named to the New York Public Library's Best Books for the Teen Age 2006 As a tomboy growing up in Kansas, Amelia Earhart delighted in
trying new and risky things, once even building a roller-coaster in her
grandparents' backyard. In her 20s she fell in love with flight while
watching an aerobatics exhibition and grew even more enthralled when she
took her first airplane ride.

At age 24 she earned her pilot's wings and 1928 took part in the
transatlantic "Friendship" flight. Her willowy build, wholesome smile, and
tousled blonde hair invited comparison to the celebrated pilot Charles
Lindbergh, and "Lady Lindy" charmed the public with her unassuming manner.

In 1937, Earhart wed publisher George Putnam, who managed her career
and promoted her zealously, ensuring her status as the world's best-known
aviatrix. The next year, she soloed the Atlantic, afterward receiving the
Distinguished Flying Cross and began championing the efforts of women
throughout the world to explore careers - especially in aviation -
traditionally held by men.Tragically, just days before her fortieth birthday, Earhart, her
navigator Fred Noonan, and their plane vanished en route to tiny Howland
Island in the Pacific Ocean as they neared the end of their round-the-world
journey. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the greatest land and
ocean search ever undertaken but no trace of the missing flyers or their
craft were ever found.

To Amelia Earhart, even the sky was no limit to those with the
courage to test new boundaries.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• I Principles of Microbiology
• 1 Microorganisms and Microbiology
• 2 An Overview of Microbial Life
• 3 Macromolecules
• 4 Cell Structure/Function
• 5 Nutrition, Laboratory Culture, and Metabolism of Microorganisms
• 6 Microbial Growth
• 7 Principles of Microbial Molecular Biology
• 8 Regulation of Gene Expression
• 9 Essentials of Virology
• 10 Bacterial Genetics
• II Evolutionary Microbiology and Microbial Diversity
• 11 Microbial Evolution and Systematics
• 12 Prokaryotic Diversity: Bacteria
• 13 Prokaryotic Diversity: Archaea
• 14 Eukaryotic Cell Biology and Eukaryotic Microorganisms
• 15 Microbial Genomics
• 16 Bacterial, Plant and Animal Viruses
• III Metabolic Diversity and Microbial Ecology
• 17 Metabolic Diversity
• 18 Methods in Microbial Ecology
• 19 Microbial Habitats, Nutrient Cycles, and Interactions with Plants and Animals
• IV Pathogenicity, Host Responses, and Immunology
• 20 Microbial Growth Control
• 21 Human-Microbe Interactions
• 22 Essentials of Immunology
• 23 Molecular Immunology
• 24 Clinical Microbiology and Immunology
• V Microbial Diseases
• 25 Epidemiology
• 26 Person-to-Person Microbial Diseases
• 27 Animal-Transmitted, Arthropod-Transmitted, and Soilborne Microbial Diseases
• 28 Wastewater Treatment, Water Purification, and Waterborne Microbial Diseases
• 29 Food Preservation and Foodborne Microbial Diseases
• VI Microorganisms as Tools for Industry and Research
• 30 Industrial Microbiology/Biocatalysis
• 31 Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
• Appendix 1 Energy Calculations in Microbial Biogenetics
• Appendix 2 Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed

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Michael T. Madigan received a bachelor''s degree in biology and education from Wisconsin State University at Stevens Point in 1971 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1974 and 1976, respectively, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Bacteriology. His graduate work involved study of hot spring phototrophic bacteria under the direction of Thomas D. Brock. Following three years of postdoctoral training in the Department of Microbiology, Indiana University, where he worked on phototrophic bacteria with Howard Gest, he moved to Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he is now Professor of Microbiology. He has been a coauthor of Biology of Microorganisms since the fourth edition (1984) and teaches courses in introductory microbiology and bacterial diversity. In 1988 he was selected as the outstanding teacher in the College of Science, and in 1993 its outstanding researcher. In 2001 he was selected as the university''s outstanding scholar. His research has dealt almost exclusively with anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria, especially those species that inhabit extreme environments. He has published 95 research papers, has coedited a major treatise on phototrophic bacteria, and is Chief Editor for North America of the journal Archives of Microbiology. His nonscientific interests include reading, hiking, tree planting, and caring for his dogs and horses. He lives beside a quiet lake about five miles from the SIU campus with his wife, Nancy, two dogs, Willie and Plum, and Springer and Feivel (horses).

John M. Martinko attended The Cleveland State University and majored in biology. As an undergraduate student he participated in a cooperative education program, gaining experience in several microbiology and immunology laboratories. He then worked for two years at Case Western Reserve University as a laboratory manager, conducting research on the structure, serology, and epidemiology of Streptococcus pyogenes. He did his graduate work at the State University of New York at Buffalo, investigating antibody specificity and antibody idiotypes for his M.A. and Ph.D. (1978) in microbiology. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York on the structure of major histocompatibility complex proteins. Since 1981, he has been in the Department of Microbiology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he is currently the Chair and Associate Professor. His research interests include the effects of growth hormone in the immune response and the development of immunodiagnostic tests for soybean brown stem rot disease. His teaching interests include undergraduate and graduate courses in immunology. He also teaches a portion of a general microbiology course, with responsibility for immunology, host defense, and infectious diseases. He lives in Carbondale with his wife, Judy, a high school science teacher, and their daughters, Martha and Helen.

Jack Parker received his bachelor''s degree in biology and also received his doctoral degree in a biology program (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1973). His research project dealt with bacterial physiology and he completed his Ph.D. research while in the microbiology department at the University of Michigan. Following this, he spent four years studying bacterial genetics at York University in Toronto, Ontario. He has taught courses in bacterial genetics, general genetics, human genetics, molecular biology, and molecular genetics, and has participated in courses in introductory microbiology, medical microbiology, and virology primarily at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he is now a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Dean of the College of Science. His research has been in the broad area of molecular genetics and gene expression and has been focused most specifically on studies of how cells control the accuracy of protein synthesis. He is the author of approximately 50 research papers. His home is on the edge of the Shawnee National Forest in deep southern Illinois.