Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses by Lal, Pranay

Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780670095766)

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Format: Hardcover
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Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses by Lal, Pranay

Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses

$18.95
Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses by Lal, Pranay

Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses

$18.95
Format: Hardcover
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Viruses are the world's most abundant life form, and now, when humanity is in the midst of a close encounter with their immense power, perhaps the most feared. But do we understand viruses? Possibly the most enigmatic of living things, they are sometimes not considered a life form at all. Everything about them is extreme, including the reactions they evoke. However, for every truism about viruses, the opposite is also often true. So complex and diverse is the world of viruses that it merits being labelled an empire unto itself. And whether we see them as alive or dead, as life-threatening or life-affirming, there is an ineluctable beauty, even a certain elegance, in the way viruses go about their lives-or so Pranay Lal tells us in Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses.This is a book that defies categorisation.

Author: Pranay Lal
ISBN-10: 0670095761
ISBN-13: 9780670095766
Publisher: India Viking
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2021
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d
By Pranay Lal
By Pranay Lal
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Pranay Lal is a biochemist who works in the spheres of public health and environment. His first book Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent won the 2017 Tata Lit Prize, the World Book Fair Award, among others, and was named by Mint Lounge as one of the fifty must-read books about India since Independence. You can reach him at invisible.empire@tutanota.com.

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