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What if your city wasn't built for humans - but for microbes? In Parasite City: When Microbes Take Over Urban Life, author Mark E. Jemy reveals the astonishing truth hiding in plain sight. Beneath our streets, behind our walls, and inside our own bodies, trillions of invisible organisms are shaping the modern world - from the air we breathe to the thoughts we think. Through vivid storytelling and cutting-edge research, Jemy explores how microbes, fungi, and parasites have transformed our cities into living ecosystems. From subway rails coated with bacterial highways to biofilms in water pipes and fungi colonizing skyscrapers, every surface is part of an unseen civilization. You'll discover: - The hidden microbial ""architecture"" of subways, sewers, and skyscrapers - How urban parasites hack our minds and influence behavior - Why your phone is the new frontier of microbial evolution - The truth about air, food, and water in the post-pandemic city - The coming age of bio-designed architecture and symbiotic urban life Blending science, sociology, and storytelling, Parasite City turns the familiar into the profoundly alien. It's a wake-up call to see our homes and our cities not as sterile spaces but as vibrant, living organisms - co-created by us and the microbes we can't live without. Perfect for readers of The Hidden Life of Trees, I Contain Multitudes, and Spillover. Parasite City - A breathtaking look at how invisible life forms have quietly conquered the concrete world.

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