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1) Breathless: the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus

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Quammen, David

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

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"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"--

2) Spillover: animal infections and the next human pandemic

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Quammen, David

Language

English

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A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.

3) The tangled tree: a radical new history of life

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Quammen, David

Pub. Date

2018.

Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook

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In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, "our greatest living chronicler of the natural world" (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology affect our understanding of evolution and life's history.
In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out...

4) The chimp and the river: how AIDS emerged from an African forest

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Quammen, David

Publisher

W.W. Norton & Company

Pub. Date

[2015]

Language

English

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"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. Excerpted and adapted from the book Spillover, with a new introduction by the author, Quammen's ... investigation tracks the virus from chimp populations...

5) Natural acts: a sidelong view of science & nature

Author

Quammen, David

Publisher

W.W. Norton

Pub. Date

[2008]

Language

English

6) Biophilia, The diversity of life, Naturalist

Author

Wilson, Edward O

Series

Library of America volume 340

Publisher

The Library of America

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

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"Library of America presents three environmental classics from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner E.O. Wilson, a masterful writer-scientist whose graceful prose is equal to his groundbreaking discoveries. These books illuminate the evolution and complex beauty of our imperiled ecosystems and the flora, fauna, and civilization they sustain, even as they reveal the personal evolution of one of the greatest scientific minds of our age. Here are the lyrical,...

7) From the seashore to the seafloor: an illustrated tour of sandy beaches, kelp forests, coral reefs, and life in the ocean's depths

Author

Voight, Janet

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

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"Field Museum Associate Curator of Zoology and specialist in cephalopod mollusks, Janet Voight, has partnered with Peggy Macnamara, Artist-in-Residence at the Museum, to provide readers with an understanding of the ocean and its animals from the seashore to the seafloor. This book combines rich scientific descriptions of the animals that inhabit rocky and sandy shores, the fragility of coral reefs, and the ingenuity of creatures that must search for...