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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
Category: Science
From the author of the powerful, prescient Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicBreathless is the story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.Here is the story of SARS-C ...Show more
Breathless - The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
Category: Science
**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**From the author of Spillover, the book that predicted the pandemic, Breathless is the story of Covid-19 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists tasked with fighting it.Bestelling author David Quammen draws on countless inte ...Show more
Monster of God - The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen
Category: Non-Fiction
For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is ...Show more
On the Origin of Species Illustrated Edition by Charles Darwin; David Quammen (Editor)
Category: Science
On the Origin of Species is Charles Darwin's classic treatise on his theory of evolution and natural selection and is among the most important works in the history of science and evolutionary biology. When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of ...Show more
Spillover : Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
Category: Nature
The Chimp and the River by David Quammen
Category: Science
The real story of AIDS-how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people-is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises and yielded a radically new scenario of how AIDS began and spread. E ...Show more
The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
Category: Science
Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction ? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into islandlike fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eig ...Show more
The Tangled Tree - A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
Category: Nature
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, s ...Show more
The Tangled Tree - A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
Category: Nature
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018. Our understanding of the 'tree of life', with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely changed. This book is about a new method of telling the ...Show more
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