Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

by Ruth Kassinger

Book Overview

"No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this under-appreciated group its due." --Elizabeth Kolbert

Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would exist.

There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential to life on our planet for eons. Algae created...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544432932
• ISBN13: 9780544432932
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.6"