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Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
by David Quammen
"Rich detail and vivid anecdotes of adventure....A treasure trove of exotic fact and hard thinking." —New York Times Book ReviewFor 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...
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Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
by David Quammen
"Rich detail and vivid anecdotes of adventure....A treasure trove of exotic fact and hard thinking." —New York Times Book ReviewFor 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...
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
by David Quammen
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...
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
by David Quammen
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...
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by David Quammen
A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases, Spillover is “fascinating and terrifying … a real-life thriller with an outcome that affects us all” (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction).In 2020, the novel coronavirus gripped the world in a global pandemic and led to the death...
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by David Quammen
A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases, Spillover is “fascinating and terrifying … a real-life thriller with an outcome that affects us all” (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction).In 2020, the novel coronavirus gripped the world in a global pandemic and led to the death...
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Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
by David Quammen
In this "frightening and fascinating masterpiece" (Walter Isaacson), David Quammen explores the true origins of HIV/AIDS. 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...
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Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
by David Quammen
In this "frightening and fascinating masterpiece" (Walter Isaacson), David Quammen explores the true origins of HIV/AIDS. 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...
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The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
by David Quammen
In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and for the next fifteen years he delighted Outside' s readers with his fascinating...
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The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
by David Quammen
In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and for the next fifteen years he delighted Outside' s readers with his fascinating...
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Great...
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Great...
by David Quammen
"Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spiritual journey."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review 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...
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Great...
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Great...
by David Quammen
"Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spiritual journey."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review 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...
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The Soul of Viktor Tronko (Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries)
The Soul of Viktor Tronko (Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries)
by David Quammen
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 CIA furiously did everything they...
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The Soul of Viktor Tronko (Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries)
The Soul of Viktor Tronko (Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries)
by David Quammen
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 CIA furiously did everything they...
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
by David Quammen
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo , is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment and wonders. In The...
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
by David Quammen
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo , is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment and wonders. In The...
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Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
by David Quammen
“A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story.” —Walter Isaacson 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...
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Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
by David Quammen
“A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story.” —Walter Isaacson 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...
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Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
by David Quammen
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 takes us to meet kayakers on the Futaleufu River of southern Chile, where Quammen...
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Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
by David Quammen
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 takes us to meet kayakers on the Futaleufu River of southern Chile, where Quammen...
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Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
by David Quammen
"David Quammen is simply the best natural essayist working today."--Tim Cahill, author of Lost in My Own Backyard"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...
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Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
by David Quammen
"David Quammen is simply the best natural essayist working today."--Tim Cahill, author of Lost in My Own Backyard"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...
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The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
by David Quammen
From the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. This book contains tales of vegetarian piranha fish, voiceless dogs, and a scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah.
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The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
by David Quammen
From the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. This book contains tales of vegetarian piranha fish, voiceless dogs, and a scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah.
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