David Quammen
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
$15.95 Read moreTwenty-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 … [more below]
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 039332995X
- Language: English
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Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature (Revised, Expanded)
$25.99 Add to cart“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
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393333604
- Language: English
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Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
$15.99 Read moreThe 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
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0393350843
- Language: English
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
$19.99 Add to cartIn 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 discov… [more below]
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1476776636
- Language: English
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
$21.99 Add to cartThe next big human pandemic–the next disease cataclysm, perhaps on the scale of AIDS or the 1918 influenza–is likely to be caused by a new virus coming to humans from wildlife. Experts call such an
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0393346617
- Language: English
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
$24.99 Add to cart“Compulsively readable–a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” –Bill McKibben, AudubonA brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The … [more below]
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 14 1997
- ISBN10: 0684827123
- Language: English
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
$29.99 Add to cartNational 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 … [more below]
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1982164360
- Language: English
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Yellowstone: A Journey Through America’s Wild Heart
$28.00 Add to cartBest-selling author David Quammen takes readers on a breathtaking journey through America’s most inspiring and imperiled ecosystem–Yellowstone National Park–in this monumental book on America’s firs… [more below]
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1426217544
- Language: English
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
$19.99 Add to cartNational 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 … [more below]
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982164379
- Language: English
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The Heartbeat of the Wild: Dispatches from Landscapes of Wonder, Peril, and Hope
$28.00 Add to cartIn 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.
For more than t- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1426222076
- Language: English
