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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
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
The Chimp and the River by David Quammen
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
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 spread. E ...Show more
The Tangled Tree - A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
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
The Tangled Tree - A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
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
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