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  • Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

    National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic--a "luminous, passionate account of the defining crisis of our time." (The New York...
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  • Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

    This is the account 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.Breathless is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the...
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  • Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

    National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic--a "luminous, passionate account of the defining crisis of our time" (The New York...
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  • The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

    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...
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  • Contagio: La Evolución de Las Pandemias / Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    Contagio: La Evolución de Las Pandemias / Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

    EL LIBRO INTERNACIONAL DE REFERENCIA DURANTE LA CUARENTENA. Desde hace años, para los expertos y cualquier persona informada, el estallido de la siguiente pandemia era una cuestión de tiempo, y su origen, evidente: un virus latente en animales que diera el salto al ser...
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  • Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus

    In 1976 a deadly virus emerged from the Congo forest. As swiftly as it came, it disappeared, leaving no trace. Over the four decades since, Ebola has emerged sporadically, each time to devastating effect. It can kill up to 90 percent of its victims....
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  • Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind

    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...
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  • Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

    "Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions," said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts. For more than two decades, he has stuck to that credo....
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  • Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature (Revised, Expanded) by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature (Revised, Expanded)

    "Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions," said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts. For more than two decades, he has stuck to that credo....
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  • Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

    The next big human pandemic--the next disease cataclysm, perhaps on the scale of AIDS or the 1918 influenza--is likely to be caused by a new virus coming to humans from wildlife. Experts call such an event "spillover" and they warn us to brace ourselves....
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  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    The Best American Science and Nature Writing

    With The Best American Science and Nature Writing, Houghton Mifflin expands its stellar Best American series with a volume that honors our long and distinguished history of publishing the best writers in these fields. David Quammen, together with series editor Burkhard Bilger, has assembled...
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  • The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder

    From "one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking writers of natural history" (The Seattle Times), a collection of enduring essays that form a bestiary of wondrous creatures and a gallery of the human faces that peer at them. The Boilerplate Rhino brings together twenty-six...
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  • The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

    From the award-winning author of The Tangled Tree and The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for...
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  • The Heartbeat of the Wild: Dispatches from Landscapes of Wonder, Peril, and Hope by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    The Heartbeat of the Wild: Dispatches from Landscapes of Wonder, Peril, and Hope

    In this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed author David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature and explores the challenge of balancing the needs of both. For more than two decades, award-winning science and nature writer David Quammen has traveled to Earth's...
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  • The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution

    Twenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and what happened during the course of those two decades? The human drama and scientific...
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  • The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

    "Compulsively readable--a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism." --Bill McKibben, AudubonA brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times. Through personal observation, scientific theory, and history, David...
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  • The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

    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...
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  • The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

    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, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history...
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  • Wild Thoughts from Wild Places by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    Wild Thoughts from Wild Places

    In Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature writers. This collection of twenty-three of Quammen's most intriguing, most exciting, most memorable pieces introduces kayakers on the Futaleufu River...
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  • Yellowstone: A Journey Through America's Wild Heart by Quammen, David
    David Quammen

    Yellowstone: A Journey Through America's Wild Heart

    Best-selling author David Quammen takes readers on a breathtaking journey through America's most inspiring and imperiled ecosystem--Yellowstone National Park--in this monumental book on America's first national park. Yellowstone's storied past, rich ecosystem, and dynamic landscape are brilliantly portrayed in a captivating mosaic of photographs...
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