In fact I'd be surprised if you didn't find yourself craving more detail. This book sets a cracking pace. There's no wallowing in tedious achievement. No sooner has a scaly micro-monster carved a hole in some one's head, than another execrable wretch is feasting on the vile jelly of an eyeball or tucking in to rare intestines. You certainly won't finish the book without succumbing to the urge to take a mega dose of Combantrin.

I found myself delighted with the descriptions of the immune system mounting desperate attacks on its foes and the rundown of the switch and bait tactics used by parasites like malaria to evade destruction just as the immune system powers up to unstoppable strength was equally fascinating. What pleased me most was that it was very much what we would expect to find. There was also treatment of the apparent 'automatic' actions of parasites, triggered by chemical signals, that allows them to do what they do.

We really are an environment, not an individual and we are evolving hand-in-hand with all the creatures around us - friends and foes.

P.S, I bought off amazon for ten bucks or so...well worth the beer money.

Seems rather fascinating! The subject does intrigue me, and it sounds understandable enough for the self-taught individual such as myself!

Ah, that would be a North American synonym for abundance.

A literal cornucopia is a wicker basket filled to overflowing with good fruits and vegetables, generally shaped like a horn.

All of us NA folks are seeing them all over the place right now because it is also a symbol from the harvest season which happens to be right about now.

Actually, the next few weeks are going to be a fairly secular event.

Next up is Halloween. All the kiddies dress up as superheros and ring door bells asking for candy. Also, for a few days before, the supermarkets will have full time employees watching the candy aisle to make sure that candy goes from the shelf to your cart and not the other way around. After all, there is no better way to prevent sick fucks from handing out candy with LSD in it.

The day after, when candy is half price, no one will enjoy such protection, nor was anyone ever protected from the fuck who could conceivably have done that a week earlier.

Then we have Thanksgiving which is a time to get together with family that you have not seen for a whole year and eat like food is going out of style. A typical menu will be roast turkey, goose and leg of lamb with a minimum of eight side dishes and a whole extra table full of crap that you would never eat the rest of the year.

Christmas is thanksgiving all over again except that it would be considered rude to not hand those relatives you never see some trivial gift. The total that you spend on such gifts is going to be like a whole week's salary.

The only actual religion for most NA folks is the fundies running around informing us that “Jesus is the reason for the season”. Well, I am happy that they can rhyme. Perhaps they have a future writing greeting cards.

Even so, it was never a religious holiday for the first 1800 years of the religion. It is an old Roman holiday that the early church didn't want anything to do with yet remnants of it are still with us today. Since then, it has been a huge holiday for those who own retail stores as they make more money in the next couple of months than they do the rest of the year.