B LO W B A C K explains the significant impact pressure equipment has on our daily lives by providing examples of common pressure-retaining items many would not identify as such.
Each one of us comes within close proximity of some type of pressure equipment every day, if not several times a day. B LO W B A C K explains the significant impact pressure equipment has on our daily lives by providing examples of common pressure-retaining items many would not identify as such.More important, itunderscores the need for vigilance by providing case histories and examples that are both educational and sometimes shockingB L O W B A C K is not a textbook. It is a fascinating collection of short stories and essays intended to build awareness of pressure equipment safety: from the basement hot water tank, to colossal electricity producing steam generators, to beer kegs, to the seemingly innocuous pocket inhaler. What distinguishes this book from others on the subject is the author’s crisp writing style combined with a dramatic storytelling quality. Replete with lavish illustrations and rare photos, B L O W B A C K engages the reader with little known antidotes as well as insight into some of North America’s most calamitous events.
Where do viruses, such as Ebola and HIV, come from and why they are so aggressive? This book changed tenets of evolutionary virology, developing the concepts of aggressive symbiosis and plague culling, which explain much of the horror of plague virus
The symbiotic pattern of evolution is everywhere and allows us a very different and fascinating window into the way symbiotic viruses work, since all viruses are symbiotic, including those involved in our human reproduction.
