Adventures in the World of Bacteria

◎The world of bacteria is so magical, come and explore it together

How small are bacteria? Who are the enemies of bacteria? Do bacteria look different? ... You can get answers to these questions in this book.

◎When reading popular science, of course you must read the works of popular science masters

Science popularization master Gao Shiqi is an out-and-out medical student who graduated from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Medicine. Gao Shiqi uses vivid and humorous language to describe the wonderful scientific world, presenting everything vividly in front of readers. In his writing, scientific knowledge is no longer obscure, but fun and interesting—this is the skill of the master of science popularization.

◎Cultivate scientific literacy with classics that span the ages

This book selects Gao Shiqi's classic works over the past few decades, among which the scientific fairy tale "The Autobiography of Fungi" was written during the Anti-Japanese War, and its starting point is to popularize the importance of cultivating good hygiene habits to the people. To this day, these popular science stories are still of great help to help young readers develop good living habits and last for a long time.

◎Pinyin notes for difficult points, enjoy barrier-free reading

In order to help readers to read without barriers, this book provides phonetic notation for rare and difficult characters, such as 鹤果之鲋 (fù), mushroom (xùn) and so on.

In addition, in order to remove reading barriers and let young readers learn more scientific knowledge, this book also adds a lot of detailed notes, such as:

Protozoa: Single-celled eukaryotes, small in size and able to complete life activities independently.

Trillion: Quantity unit, trillion is billion, and billion is trillion.

Gao Shiqi (1905-1988), a popular science writer in China. In 1925, he graduated from Beijing Tsinghua Preparatory School for Studying in America, and successively studied at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago, studying chemistry and bacteriology. Unfortunately, he was accidentally infected with encephalitis A virus due to a scientific experiment, which left sequelae and paralyzed the whole body. In the following decades, although he was "imprisoned in a chair by the devil that harms human health", he still devoted himself to the cause of popular science education in China and wrote many popular science literature and art works. Gao Shiqi's scientific sketches, with vivid, lively, vivid and fresh language, present a wonderful scientific world to readers.