Table of Contents: “…Pasteur, silkworms, and the germ theory of disease -- Of caterpillars and crystals : bacterial toxins as insecticides -- Out of Africa : bacteria against mosquitoes and blackflies -- The virus that cures : the baculovirus gene expression system -- Scourge of the South Pacific : the rhinoceros beetle -- Bug against bug : invertebrate antibiotics -- Saved by a crab : Limulus amoebocyte lysate assay -- Sea sickness : diseases of edible shellfish -- Deadly hitchhikers : crustaceans and cholera -- Cloak and dagger : nematodes aginst insect pests -- Bad news for the good guys : diseases and parasites of bees -- The mysterious reappearing fungus : gypsy moth pathogen -- The sixth plague of Egypt : fungus and the desert locust -- Ad infinitum : insect symbiotic organisms -- Postscript : landmarks that tie our stories together.…”
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Table of Contents: “…. ; Confession ; I see only faces ; Spineless -- The nearest exit: For the sake of a single word ; Down and out ; The curse ; Removal of desire ; Sea sickness : (a poem in the oral tradition) ; Cream to butter ; Song of Jalil ; Automatic fire ; Colossal failures -- Unholy acts: The dark history of my people ; Angel flesh ; For Lorca ; Poetry ; Let the girls run ; Outsider ; Lone mothers ; Below the surface ; "The betrayal of images" -- What they have done: Summer attack ; The feast of sacrifice ; Fundamental ; Song of Qana ; The color grey ; The mask has fallen ; Love poem -- In God's name: In god's name ; Persona ; Wired ; Hard lessons ; Long shelf life ; The fault of silence ; I am afraid of what is coming -- Habits of the dead: Song of fall ; The color yellow, the color red ; I have not forgotten you ; History of our wars ; More than she bargained for ; The latest cut ; Birth of a nation -- Unnatural causes: The end ; Category five ; A life of narrow escapes ; Bread alone ; Acting alone ; In the confusion of waking -- Every small death: Rock bottom ; Hello? …”
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