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    Breathless

    David Quammen

    The definitive 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.

    'A luminous, passionate account…

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    Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

    David Quammen

    The definitive 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.

    Breathless is the story…

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

    David Quammen

    Rich detail and vivid anecdotes of adventure….A treasure trove of exotic fact and hard thinking. -New York Times Book Review

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

    David Quammen

    Tracking these great and terrible beasts through the toughest terrain in the world, Quammen is equally intrigued by the traditional relationship between the great predators and the people who live…

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    The Soul of Viktor Tronko

    David Quammen

    Inspired by a true story –Page 4 of cover.

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

    David Quammen

    Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist’s intellectual and spiritual journey. –Los Angeles Times Book Review

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    Contagio: La evolucion de las pandemias / Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

    David Quammen

    Examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world, describing a process called spillover where illness originates in wild animals before being passed to humans, and discusses…

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

    David Quammen

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    The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

    David Quammen

    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…

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    Yellowstone: A Journey Through America’s Park

    David Quammen

    This monumental book is an incredible journey through Yellowstone, America’s first national park.

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    Spillover: the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

    David Quammen

    First, a horse in Brisbane falls ill: fever, swelling, bloody froth. Then thirteen others drop dead. The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the trainer dies. This title tracks…

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

    David Quammen

    In Darwin’s time, island biogeography was the science that opened Victorian minds to the wonder of evolution. Today with all the world’s wild landscape being chopped into island-like fragments, it’s…

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    The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

    David Quammen

    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…

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

    David Quammen

    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.

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    Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

    David Quammen

    The definitive 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.

    Breathless is the story…

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    The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

    David Quammen

    In this frightening and fascinating masterpiece (Walter Isaacson), David Quammen explores the true origins of HIV/AIDS.

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    Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus

    David Quammen

    A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story. -Walter Isaacson

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    Wild Thoughts from Wild Places

    David Quammen

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    The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder

    David Quammen

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    Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

    David Quammen

    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. Breathless is the story of…

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    Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

    David Quammen

    This work is a revised and expanded edition of Quammen’s first book of nonfiction, and reprints some of his best-loved Natural Acts columns, which first appeared in Outside magazine in…

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    Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

    David Quammen

    A collection of essays that asks questions about mosquitoes, dinosaurs and cloning among other subjects.

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    Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

    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…

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    Breathless

    David Quammen

    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…

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    El Remiso Mr. Darwin: Un Retrato Intimo de Charles Darwin Y El Desarrollo de la Teoria de la Evolucion

    David Quammen

    El remiso Mr. Darwin es un libro recomendable para cualquiera que se haya preguntado no solo por lo que este cientifico dejo dicho sino tambien por su personalidad. A partir…

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    Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

    David Quammen

    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…

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    The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000

    David Quammen

    The editors have assembled selections from a remarkable group of writers–from John McPhee to Oliver Sacks to Wendell Berry–whose work have appeared in such periodicals as National Geographic, Science…

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

    David Quammen

    Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of…

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    E. O. Wilson: Biophilia, The Diversity Of Life, Naturalist (loa #340)

    Edward O. Wilson,David Quammen

    A landmark collected edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-renowned biologist, illuminating the marvels of biodiversity in a time of climate crisis and mass extinction.

    A landmark collected edition…

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    Evolution: A Visual Record

    Robert Clark

    Stunning images to reawaken us to the scientific process that drives the amazing diversity of life on earth

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    From the Seashore to the Seafloor: An Illustrated Tour of Sandy Beaches, Kelp Forests, Coral Reefs, and Life in the Ocean’s Depths

    Janet Voight

    An octopus expert and celebrated artist offer a deep dive to meet the enchanting inhabitants of the world’s marine ecosystems.

    Have you ever walked along the beach and wondered what…

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    Alexis Rockman

    Stephen Jay Gould,Jonathan Crary,David Quammen

    This richly illustrated volume is the first to offer a comprehensive overview of Rockman's oeuvre, from his early works, such as the fascinating yet disquieting Aviary, in which birds perch…

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    Notes from the Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia

    Edward Hoagland

    A journal from British Columbia, Notes from the Century Before , has an introduction by David Quammen.

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