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38 produkter
Tangled Tree
A Radical New History of Life
Häftad, 2019
130 kr
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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 …
Spillover
the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Häftad, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
171 kr
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Read this gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can fight the current Covid-19 pandemic.WITH A NEW AFTERWORD ON CORONAVIRUSAs globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous …
Song Of The Dodo
Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
Häftad, 1997
219 kr
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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 island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the …
Tangled Tree
A Radical New History of Life
E-bok, 2018
167 kr
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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 …
Tangled Tree
A Radical New History of Life
Ljudbok, 2018
221 kr
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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 …
Reluctant Mr. Darwin
An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
Häftad, 2007
158 kr
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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 basis of these …
Natural Acts
A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
Häftad, 2009
314 kr
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"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 …
Chimp & the River
How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
Häftad, 2015
163 kr
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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 …
Ebola
The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
Häftad, 2014
180 kr
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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. In between these outbreaks, it is untraceable, …
The Best American Science and Nature Writing
Av David Quammen, Burkhard Bilger m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
283 kr
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Flight of the Iguana
A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
Häftad, 1998
189 kr
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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 the genes that threaten to destroy the …
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
Häftad, 1999
217 kr
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Besides bringing together a couple of decades worth of literate, incisive forays into the natural world, this collection of essays from the prize-winning author of THE SONG OF THE DODO is both a wake-up call and a testimonial. Gathered in the main from magazine articles, in particular the authors …
Yellowstone
A Journey Through America's Park
Inbunden, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
355 kr
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Best-selling author David Quammen takes readers on a breathtaking journey through America's most inspiring and imperilled ecosystem - Yellowstone National Park. Filled with amazing images captured by eight National Geographic photographers over an extensive two year deployment in the park, it is …
Heartbeat of the Wild
Dispatches From Landscapes of Wonder, Peril, and Hope
Inbunden, 2023
313 kr
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For more than two decades, award-winning science and nature writer David Quammen has traveled to Earth’s most far-flung and fragile destinations, sending back field notes from places caught in the tension between humans and the wild. This illuminating book features 20 of those assignments: …
Song of the Dodo
Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
E-bok, 2011
173 kr
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“Compulsively readable—a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” —Bill McKibben, Audubon A 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 …
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
E-bok, 2012
196 kr
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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 …
Boilerplate Rhino
Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
E-bok, 2012
182 kr
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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 of David …
Ebola
The Natural and Human History
E-bok, 2014
61 kr
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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% of its victims. In between these outbreaks, it is untraceable, hiding …
Spillover
Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Ljudbok, 2020
206 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. A gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can tackle a global pandemic. As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in …
Kiwi's Egg
Charles Darwin and Natural Selection
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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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 …
Flight of the Iguana
A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
E-bok, 2012
196 kr
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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 the genes that threaten to destroy the …
Tangled Tree
A Radical New History of Life
E-bok, 2018
199 kr
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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 …
Soul of Viktor Tronko
Ljudbok, 2014
715 kr
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When Soviet agent Viktor Tronko defected to the US in 1964, he made two intriguing claims: he insisted that Russia had not placed a mole inside the CIA, and that Lee Harvey Oswald had not been recruited to assassinate the president. Convinced that Tronko was working as a disinformation agent, the …
Song of the Dodo
Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
Ljudbok, 2019
558 kr
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“Compulsively readable—a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” —Bill McKibben, Audubon A 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 …
Breathless
The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Häftad, 2023
134 kr
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**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 and FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023***Shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2023*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 …
Breathless
The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Ljudbok, 2022
428 kr
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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 “l uminous, passionate account of the defining crisis of our time” ( The New York Times …
Breathless
The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Häftad, 2023
266 kr
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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 “l uminous, passionate account of the defining crisis of our time” ( The New York Times …
