Anthony, William
Summary: Parasites are a nasty part of a healthy ecosystem, thriving off the nutrients of their hosts while their host is hurt in exchange. While they aren't beneficial to the host, understanding where parasites come from and how they infect the body is important for young readers. Through the vivid photographs complemented by comments from illustrated teaching companions, young readers get an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.8 ANTGardner, Scott Lyell
Summary: This book looks at the weird and wonderful world of parasites, the most abundant form of life on Earth. Parasites come in all forms and sizes and inhabit every free-living organism. Parasitism is now, and always has been, a way to survive under changing environmental conditions. From arctic oceans to tropical forests, Scott Gardner, Judy Diamond, and Gabor Racz investigate how parasites survive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.7 GARSummary: Stronger and more mobile than ever, humankind's oldest enemies-lethal micro-parasites-may very well be threatening the survival of the human race. Some were believed to have been eradicated from the industrialized world, only to reappear in drug-resistant strains. Others, previously known only to remote regions of the planet, are turning up anywhere an infected traveler can fly to. This program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program contrasts pernicious and benign parasites through four case studies: a flesh-eating organism that nearly causes the facial disfigurement of a young woman; a mysterious malaria attack contracted by an American man who has never traveled to an at-risk locale; a vacationing child who returns home with a boil on her neck containing a very large Tumbu fly maggot; and a woman who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Wood, John
Summary: What do different parasites look like under the microscope? Readers find out with this engaging look at a fascinating group of living things. The comprehensive main text discusses the different kinds of parasites that exist in the world and their specific functions within ecosystems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing, an imprint of Greenhaven Publishing, LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 578.65 WOOAlessi, Jolene
Contents: Forced to jump -- Horrible hairworm -- Transport host -- Grasshopper for lunch -- Infected! -- Looking for water -- The hairworm lives on -- How do we know? -- More parasites.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Animal Zom AlessiErman, Matthew
Summary: A man, a woman--and their parasites. Marcus has been alone since the loss of his closest friend and has just recently entered the dating scene, while Laura has drifted in and out of relationships since high school. They meet and strike up a good rapport, learning about each other, friendship, and how to deal with the slug-like parasites that have infected humanity. Bonding is a funny, quirky,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vault Comics 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ERMGrant, Mira.
Summary: Genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone's immune system, and even secrete designer drugs begin to change and want out of human bodies they occupy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF GRAAlessi, Jolene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Animal Zom AlessiAlessi, Jolene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Animal Zom AlessiNagle, Frances
Contents: Caterpillar conquest -- Wicked wasps -- Laying the eggs -- A nasty exit -- Zombie guards -- What's going on? -- Infected! -- It's catching -- Using parasites.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Animal Zom NagleZuk, M. (Marlene)
Summary: According to evolutionary biologist Zuk, germs and disease don't deserve their bad rep. Drawing on recent research and her own studies, she explains why disease is mankind's best friend, indeed the key that jump-started the entire evolutionary explosion. Along the way, she answers questions many of us dare not ask, such as: Why don't male birds have penises? Why are we attracted to our mates?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.07 ZUKNorman, Andy
Summary: "Philosopher Andy Norman dives into the world of mind-parasites, ideas that cause destructive thinking and extremism, and describes how to inoculate your mind to keep it safe from bad ideas"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 NORAlessi, Jolene
Contents: The lowly snail -- Frightening flatworm -- Worms in waste -- The sporocyst -- Disco snail -- Zombie behavior -- Caterpillar copy -- Life goes on -- Snail studies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Animal ZomAlessiTorres, John Albert
Summary: Zombies have invaded mainstream society in weekly television shows, blockbuster movies, comic books, and novels. While there is no scientific proof that the dead can indeed come back to life, there are many terrifying and fascinating examples of real-life zombies in the world around us. Through enthralling text and vivid photographs, students will learn how rabies, which causes the infected to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.6 TORNagle, Frances
Contents: What's wrong with the ants? -- Parasite problem -- Not new news -- Freaky fungus -- The death bite -- Chemical control -- Always on time -- Fighting back -- A parasite's parasite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Animal Zom NagleAxelrod-Contrada, Joan
Summary: "Discusses parasites and parasitoids that use mind control on their hosts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591 AXEGrant, Mira.
Summary: Sal and her family are trapped between bad and worse, and must find a way to compromise between the two sides of their nature before the battle becomes large enough to destroy humanity, and everything that humanity has built...including the chimera. The broken doors are closing. Can Sal make it home?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRALeif, Natalie
Summary: "An undead teen must find the boy he loves before he loses his mind and body"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC LEISigler, Scott.
Summary: As people across America are transformed into raving, paranoid, murderous monsters by a mysterious bioengineered parasite, Perry Dawsey confronts his own battle with the infection as he discovers that the parasites want something from him that goes beyond murder.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCOSummary: "Vincent Price stars as an obsessed doctor who discovers that fear manifests itself as a parasitic creature, which grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. If they scream, The Tingler can be destroyed. If they don't, it will sever the spinal column and kill them. He successfully isolates and removes The Tingler from a deaf-mute (Judith Evelyn) who has been scared to death by her devious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR TINLevitt, Alexandra.
Summary: Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face today is from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 LEVSummary: "Ginko sees what most cannot - Mushi, unexplainable forces which have altered the course of mankind since the genesis of life. Walking quietly through nature, Ginko investigates these rare embodiments of the primeval, aiding those plagued by the supernatural phenomena which surround the Mushi for reasons yet unknown. He is a Mushi-shi, one with the ability to peer into the places where the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME MUSEnnes, Hiron
Summary: "In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron's doctor has died. The doctor's replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates 2022