{"product_id":"never-home-alone-from-microbes-to-millipedes-camel-crickets-and-honeybees-the-natural-history-of-where-we-live-9781541618305","title":"Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live","description":"\u003cb\u003eA natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In \u003ci\u003eNever Home Alone\u003c\/i\u003e, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the \u003ci\u003elactobacillus \u003c\/i\u003elounging on our kitchen counters. You are not alone. Yet, as we obsess over sterilizing our homes and separating our spaces from nature, we are unwittingly cultivating an entirely new playground for evolution. These changes are reshaping the organisms that live with us -- prompting some to become more dangerous, while undermining those species that benefit our bodies or help us keep more threatening organisms at bay. No one who reads this engrossing, revelatory book will look at their homes in the same way again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRob Dunn\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University and in the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Touched His Own Heart, The Wild Life of Our Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEvery Living Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, and his magazine work is published widely, including in \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic, Natural History, New Scientist, Scientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e. He has a PhD from the University of Connecticut and was a Fulbright Fellow. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650015695122,"sku":"9781541618305","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_96fd3ff8-a2f7-4817-8d1f-b31cb1766add.jpg?v=1733280600","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/never-home-alone-from-microbes-to-millipedes-camel-crickets-and-honeybees-the-natural-history-of-where-we-live-9781541618305","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}