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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
$35.00 AUD
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
**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
Ebola: The Natural and Human History by David Quammen
$14.99 AUD
Category: Science
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 per cent of its victims. In between these outbreaks, it is untraceable, hiding ...Show more
Monster of God : The man-eating predator in the jungles of history and the mind by David Quammen
$40.00 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Great and terrible flesh-eating beasts have always shared the landscape with humans. Now, of course, as humans spread and despoil the planet, predators may only survive on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. David Quammen is no armchair evolutionary theorist, and, in The Song of the ...Show more
Natural Acts - Sidelong View of Sci by QUAMMEN David
$33.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
"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. In this updated version of curiosity leads him ...Show more
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
First, a horse in Brisbane falls ill: fever, swelling, bloody froth. Then thirteen others perish. The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the trainer dies. What is going on? It takes months to establish that the cause is a virus which has travelled from a tree-dwelling bat to horse, and from horse to ...Show more
The Chimp and the River - How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest by David Quammen
$17.99 AUD
Category: History
The real story of AIDS - how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human and 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. Exc ...Show more
The Kiwi's Egg : Charles Darwin & Natural Selection by David Quammen
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no one had proposed a cogent explanation for HOW evolution occurs. Then, in September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that 'natural selection' among competing indi ...Show more
The Kiwi's Egg - Charles Darwin and Natural Selection by David Quammen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no one had proposed a cogent explanation for HOW evolution occurs. Then, in September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that 'natural selection' among competing indi ...Show more
The Tangled Tree - A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
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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