I assume that you already know a good deal of microbiology. In this
book, I frequently use the word "we" by which I mean "you and I".
Together we are going to consider bacteriology from a broader
perspective and we will think our way through the important biological
problems that are frequently just skipped over in every microbiology
course. My most important reason for writing this book is to make
accessible the relevant thinking from fields of science other than
microbiology that are important to microbiology. The book is written for
people that have already have a fascination with bacteria, but can see
that their background for understanding is far complete. This book
consists of topics that are largely omitted from microbiology textbooks
and includes some mathematics, physics, chemistry, and evolutionary
biology. It contains a good deal of my own work, both experimental and
theoretical, together with a lot of speculation. If ten times bigger, it
would be a full text book on microbial physiology. A third of the
microbial physiology is covered by the recent is no longer treated even
in textbook by White (2000). Another third current specialized tests and
is greatly underrepresented in text books.
