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Microscopic World 2008 Calendar
Dennis Kunkel's Microscopic World 2008 Calendar features twelve full-page images (12" x 12") of microscopic subjects. The images were photographed through the scanning electron microscope by world-renowned microscopist Dr. Dennis Kunkel. Each image is alive with vivid color, revealing microscopic detail with exceptional clarity. This quality high-glose calendar is printed on 100 lb paper and the images are suitable for posting or framing. The 2008 Microscopic World Calendar includes: Cat Tongue Papillae, Capillary with Red Blood Cells and Purkinje Fiber, Tendons Attached to Bone Surface, Adult Male Black Fly Head, Allergenic Pollen, Peritoneal Macrophage, Penicillin Mould Fruiting Structure, Marine Dinoflagellates, Granary or Grain Weevil, Three Common Types of Bacterial Morphology, Leaf Surface Trichomes, and Yellow Jacket Wasp Wing Hooks. Detailed informative descriptions for each month appear on the inside front cover.
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Sneeze!
- By Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel
- Published in May 2007
- Published by Charlesbridge Publishing, Watertown, MA
- ISBN 978-1-57091-653-3
- 40 pages; 9 x 9 inches
- Cover Price: $16.95
Achoo!
Lily carries an armful of pollen-filled hay, Isaiah inhales ground black pepper, and Jonnie encounters mold spores in his damp basement. All three children are about to sneeze, and nothing can stop it.
Black-and-white photos of nine children in sneeze-inducing situations are contrasted with amazing micrographs of the allergens and physical and chemical irritants that cause the sneezes.
Science writer Alexandra Siy takes readers from the external world of mites, pollen, and mold into the body's nervous system, explaining how neurons, muscles, and lungs all work together to generate the sneeze reflex.
Dennis Kunkel's electron micrographs bring readers up close and personal to dust mites, spider silk, pollen, fungus, and more--all magnified 400 to 200,000 times.
Back matter includes a glossary of terms, sneeze trivia, a note about micrographs, and extended resources for further study.
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Selected Reviews for Sneeze
"With an opening likely to leave hypochondriacs in a state of blind panic, Siy and Kunkel return to introduce no fewer than nine children about to sneeze, each from a different cause, before going on to trace the reflex's complex neuron-muscular pathways. Kunkel's typically riveting micrographs zoom in on pollen grains, a single piece of ground pepper, a dust mite floating in a cloud of skin flakes and fecal pellets, mildew, a clot of house dust, cat dander, viruses and other sneeze-inducers - all beautifully colorized (properly so noted) and carefully labeled. Capped with a gathering of extra facts, stills from Thomas Edison's first moving picture (guess its title) and a list of resources, mostly from the web, this offering has it all - from explosive humor and drama to fascinating pictures, precise and clearly presented information, useful backmatter and a topic that touches on a universal experience." --- Kirkus Reviews 6/15/07
"Do you ever sneeze in the morning sunshine? Then you'll enjoy this
lively, charming, beautifully-designed and illustrated book, which gives us "nine sneezes for nine reasons." Written at a middle-school level, it will be of interest to a wide range of ages, from third-graders who will be able to read the titles, to adults, who all will learn something new. The simple but surprisingly sophisticated scientific explanations of why (and how) people sneeze are supported by black-and-white photographs of children caught in mid-sneeze and wonderful, full-page, colorized electron microphotographs displayed on a striking black background. Elements of each micrograph are labeled, and the magnifications are indicated, ranging from an image of a grain of pepper (x405) to a flu virus (x222,200). There is even the very first photograph of a (simulated) sneeze taken by Thomas Edison in 1888.
The first half of the book is about the many stimuli that induce sneezing, and this is followed by an explanation of how the nerves and muscles work to produce the explosive outburst of a sneeze. There is also a section on fascinating sneeze lore, reminding us to cover our noses and mouths when sneezing-and to wash our hands afterward. Finally, there is a page explaining how the micrographs are produced, a list of resources, and an excellent glossary.
Teachers will find this book to be a natural kick-off to a health unit or useful as an introduction to a study of neurons. Elementary teachers will want to read part of it to students, giving the youngsters plenty of time to ask questions. Students will want to revisit Sneeze! again and again, to enjoy pictures of children like themselves (oh-oh a pillow fight!). It may stimulate an interest in microphotography or interest students in how electrical impulses travel along nerves. Among the very best of science books for kids, this book is nothing to sneeze at!" --- National Science Teachers Association 9/17/07
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The Good, The Bad, The Slimy--The Secret Lives of Microbes
- By By Sara L. Latta and Dennis Kunkel
- Published in 2006
- Published by Enslow Publishers, Berkley Heights, NJ
- ISBN 978-0-7660-1294-3
- 128 pages; 6.5 x 9.25 inches
- Cover Price: $31.93
The Secret Lives of Microbes
Bacteria, viruses, and fungi . . . microbes are everywhere! You may think they are all harmful, but most microbes are beneficial. These tiny organisms are too small for us to see, but they impact our lives every day. Learn how microbes live in and on our bodies, help make food, live in extreme environments, and even change history. Sara L. Latta, with a master's degree in microbiology, tells of the fascinating world of the unseen microbes in our lives. Dennis Kunkel Ph. D. provides the fascinating electron micrographs to reveal the invisible world of microorganisms.
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Selected Reviews for The Good, The Bad, The Slimy
"This rich book about microbes is fascinating from cover to cover and will be useful to science curricula in middle and high school and for individual reading." --- Library Media Connection, April/May 2007
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Mosquito Bite
- By Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel
- Published in 2005
- Published by Charlesbridge Publishing, Watertown, MA
- ISBN 1-57091-591-1
- 32 pages; 9.25 x 9.25 inches
- Cover Price: $15.95
Ready or Not - Here I Come!
The seeker is a mosquito, Culex pipiens, and her search is a matter of life and death. She must find food - blood - to nourish the hundreds for tiny eggs inside her body.
The children's book, "Mosquito Bite," tells a tale of children encountering a mosquito while playing hide and seek. Follow the life story of a mosquito with larger-than-life electron microscope photos. Black and white photographs show the children's game of hide and seek, while astonishing micrographs show Culex mosquito and her world as seen through an electron microscopy. Zoom in for a close-up view: A blade of grass looks like a menacing field of spines. A mosquito's eye becomes a bundle of tightly packet tubes.
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Awards for Mosquito Bite
- Junior Library Guild Selection - 1/5/05
- 2005 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize Finalist - 12/1/05
- 2006 Orbis Pictus Honor Book for Outstanding Nonfiction - National Council of Teachers of English - 2/5/06
- NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book (National Science Teachers Association) 3/7/06
- Texas Bluebonnet Award Masterlist 2006-2007 - 4/1/06
Selected Reviews for Mosquito Bite
"Here children will get an engrossing glimpse of a smaller -- much smaller -- world that co-exists alongside their familiar one, as authors commingle black and white photographs of children at play around a water-filled tire, with digitally colored micrographs of a female mosquito hatching, reaching adulthood and seeking out the blood meal that will allow her to reproduce. Kunkel's ultra-close ups of bristly insect wings and heads, of diatoms, dead skin and red blood cells, make irresistible candy -- rendered even more fascinating by Siy's clear, specific descriptions and explanations." --- Kirkus Reviews 6/7/05
"Kunkel's color enhanced photomicrograph insets provide close-ups of mosquito anatomy, including wings, antennae and that pesky proboscis that causes problems for mammals. Show at magnifications of up to several thousand times with false color enhancement to highlight various features, the micrographs are sharply detailed and provide a wealth of scientific data. The text moves back and forth between discussion of one child's inevitable mosquito bit and the detailed information about the mosquito life cycle and development." --- The Horn Book 1/10/05
"Black and white photographs of an evening game of hide-and-seek are interspersed with stunning color enhanced microphotographs that record the life cycles of another 'seeker' - a female Culex pipiens mosquito looking for a meal. Siy's clear, readable text describes a boy's strategies in avoiding his human 'seeker' and the parallel search of Culex in the growing dusk. Kunkel's exceptional SEM photos provide unbelievable glimpses of red blood cells crammed in a tiny capillary, the feathery 'scales' on a mosquito's wings, and the complex cutting mechanism of its proboscis." --- School Library Journal 1/1/05
"Mosquito Bite provides a fascinating look at the mosquito through a story and accompanying electron microscope photos known as photomicrographs. Electron microscopes capture the details of objects with incredible clarity, up to many thousands of times magnification. The book's stunning photo show body part details of the mosquito (including the 'knives that probe into the skin and antennae hairs) as well as human blood cells and flakes of dry skin. The photos and story are so engaging that kids will barely realize they are learning about a mosquito's life cycle." --- Chesapeake Family 9/1/05
"A child is playing hide-and-go-seek with friends one summer night, as readers are warned: "Something else is looking for the boy." That something else is a female mosquito out for blood. In this innovative book that's not always seamless but nonetheless riveting, the children's story is intertwined with a study of the common house mosquito. The end matter swarms with more information about mosquitoes and micrographs and also includes a glossary and resources for further research." --- Booklist 1/15/2005
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Hidden Worlds - Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope
- By Steve Kramer, Photographs by Dennis Kunkel
- Available September 2001
- Published by Houghton/ Mifflin, Boston, MA
- ISBN 0618055460
- Ages 8 and Up
- 68 pages; 10 x 12 inches
- Cover Price: $16.00
There are hidden worlds in nature - places you can visit only with a microscope. For more that twenty-five years, Dennis Kunkel Ph.D. has been exploring these worlds. Through the lenses of powerful microscopes, he has examined objects most people have never even thought about: a mosquito's foot, a crystal of sugar, a grain of pollen, the delicate hairs on a blade of grass.
For Dennis, science has always been an adventure, and microscopes have given him the chance to make discoveries and explore new frontiers. Scientists from all over the world send him specimens to examine and photograph. Like a detective, he's never sure where his work will lead. Hidden Worlds takes you behind the scenes of Dennis's work and explains how he captures his remarkable images of microscopic life and objects. You will learn how Dennis became interested in microscopes as a boy, how he prepares specimens for study, and how different kinds of microscopes work. You will also have the chance to follow Dennis as he collects in the field - from ash-covered slopes of Mount St. Helens to the lava tubes, rainforests and beaches of his home state of Hawai'i.
Stephen Kramer's engaging text and Dennis Kunkel's dramatic photographs provide a fascinating look at the work of a microscopist and the remarkable worlds he explores.
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Awards for Hidden Worlds
- Best 100 Children's Books of the Year 2001 - The New York Public Library. 11/17/01
- Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children for 2002 - National Science Teachers Association / Children's Book Council. 12/4/01
- 2002 Notable Book - Association of Library Service to Children - American Library Association. 1/25/02
- 2001 John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers - John Burroughs Association. 3/18/02
- 2002 Orbis Pictus Recommended Books List for Outstanding Nonfiction - National Council of Teachers of English. 3/26/02
- The Best Children's Book of the Year 2002 - Children's Book Committee, Bank Street College of Education. 4/29/02
Selected Reviews for Hidden Worlds
"Outstanding photographs invite the reader into the world of microscopist Dennis Kunkel ... Photographs on every page show vividly colored specimens from minute dust mites magnified 560 times to the neuroglial cell from an Asian tiger mosquito magnified 22,925 times. An excellent addition to the science, biography and careers sections." --- Kirkus Reviews 8/15/2001
"An illuminating look at the work of a microscopist. ... It's fascinating to see the magnified pictures of jellyfish, dust mites and other creatures... this title offers a wealth of scientific information along with an insightful look at the world of an individual scientist." --- School Library Journal 9/29/2001
"The text nicely illustrates how a scientist explores, discovers, and formulates questions. The stunning color photographs provided by scientist, Dennis Kunkel, are the books real strength. ... Substantive, readable and visually outstanding." --- Booklist 8/1/2001
"As a microscopist, Kunkel has examined and photographed objects most of us have never stopped to think about: a mosquito's foot, a grain of sugar. His work allows everyone to perceive the invisible splendors that surround us." --- Smithsonian 10/31/01
"Dennis Kunkel is a microscopist, bringing his explorer's zeal to the usually invisible world. The book traces his career from his early interest in science. discussing enroute the different kinks of microscopes and the processes he uses. Kunkel's photographs are a considerable draw; the emphasis here is in the beauty rather than the ickiness of the microscopic world. The detailed and elaborate structure of plants, animals and basic cells achieves a genuine elegance through Kunkel's pictures, with their artificially contrasting hues subdued by the underlying gray scale coloration, leaving texture and structure at their most distinct." --- The Bulletin, December 2001
"Dennis Kunkel has a cool job. Unlike the content specialists profiled in the previous books in the Scientists in the Field series, Kunkel's expertise lies in the use of a sophisticated scientific tool - microscopy. As a result, he gets to be a modern Renaissance man, dabbling in a variety of science areas beyond his training in botany, muscle cells, post-volcanic eruption pond life, dust mites and critters in his own back yard. This uniquely kaleidoscopic focus allows author Kramer both to explain scientific equipment and procedures and to highlight the important role of technical equipment in scientific research. The profile of this scientist and his work includes typical biographical components, such as Kunkel's early interest in science, but also much detail on the nature of microscopic images and the reliance of science on observation. A particularly illuminating section on mosquitoes compares the images produced by increasingly powerful microscopes. Appropriately, the book prominently features Kunkel's breathtaking colorized microphotographs, a presentation enhanced by the sharp layouts. The clarity and detail in these images is remarkable." --- The Horn Book, December, 2001.
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MicroAliens - Dazzling Journeys with an Electron Microscope
- By Howard Tomb and Dennis Kunkel
- Published in 1993
- Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux; New York, NY
- ISBN 0-374-34960-6
- Ages 8 and Up
- 80 pages; 10 x 10 inches, 134 black and white electron micrographs
- Cover Price: $16.00
"MicroAliens" uses the powerful electron microscope to turn our everyday surroundings into incredible new worlds. Stunning creatures, beautiful scenery, and strange phenomena are revealed where we least expect them: in our back yards and our homes, in the air and the water, on us and inside us.
"MicroAliens" features 134 dramatic electron microscopic photographs (some with enlargements greater than 50,000 times actual size) along with a crisp text and spirited line drawings. It is a fascinating introduction to the microscopic workings of nature and the human body that will inspire budding scientists and naturalists of all ages.
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Awards for MicroAliens
- 1994 Book for the Teen Age New York Public Library 2/20/94
- 1994 John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers John Burroughs Association 3/16/94
- 1994 Children's Book of the Year Bank Street College 3/31/94
Selected Reviews for MicroAliens
"one of the year's most enchanting, entertaining, colorful volumes for a child's bookshelf." - People Magazine editors Susan Toepfer and Elizabeth Sporkin --- People Magazine 12/13/93
"Incredible new worlds are seen ... one is surprised by the creatures, scenery, and strange phenomena revealed where least expected. Young scientists will be inspired by this introduction to the microscopic world." --- Pick of the Lists, American Bookseller
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Dennis Kunkel's Microscopic World Gallery Prints
Astrographics is pleased to offer Dennis Kunkel's Microscopic World gallery prints––large-format photographic reproductions of your favorite images by world-renowned electron microscopist Dennis Kunkel printed onto high-quality photographic paper. Astrographics offers Microscopic World gallery prints in three 16" by 20" formats. These prints are truly impressive and are suitable for display in homes, offices, classrooms, museums, and corporate lobbies. And they make great gifts––for anyone with an interest in the hidden realms of the microscopic world.
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Dennis Kunkel's Microscopic World Poster
50 vibrant pictures with text from one of the world's best photomicroscopists, Dr. Dennis Kunkel. Enter one of Earth's most fascinating frontiers with fabulous up-close pictures (electron micrographs) arranged in categories of: algae, fungus and mold, medical, bacteria and viruses, insects and arachnids, ancient bacteria, and invertebrates.
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