The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

QUAMMEN, DAVID

Simon&Schuster

The Tangled Tree

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

William Collins

A revised and expanded edition of Quammenâs first book of nonfiction, including the best of his recent work.âLively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions,â 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 his first essay collection, Quammenâs lively curiosity leads him from New Mexico to Romania, from the Congo to the Amazon, asking questions about mosquitoes (what are their redeeming merits?), dinosaurs (how did they change the life of a dyslexic Vietnam vet?), and cloning (can it save endangered species?). This expanded edition returns to print Quammenâs best-loved âNatural Actsâ columns, which first appeared in Outside magazine in the early 1980s, and includes recent pieces such as âPlanet of Weeds,â an influential Harperâs cover story. The new Natural Acts is an eye-opening journey that will please both Quammen fans and newcomers to his work.

Natural Acts : A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

Avon/Books

When journalist Michael Kessler investigates the brutal murder of an old friend, the writer becomes involved in a deadly twenty-year-old secret

Soul of Viktor Tronko

Literature & Fiction

United States

DOUBLEDAY

A naturalist/scientist introduces unusual creatures and their surprising habits, in a study that emphasizes the wealth of variety in the animal kingdom rather than the "freakishness" of the uncommon

The Flight of the Iguana

Anchor

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

DELACORTE PRESS

The author of The Song of the Dodo laments the decline of the big predators--animals that are capable of stalking and killing humans--wondering how our psyche's will be affected when the last of these creatures is safely ensconced in a zoo. 35,000 first printing. First serial, The Atlantic.

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

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A revised and expanded edition of Quammen’s first book of nonfiction, including the best of his recent work. “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 his first essay collection, Quammen’s lively curiosity leads him from New Mexico to Romania, from the Congo to the Amazon, asking questions about mosquitoes (what are their redeeming merits?), dinosaurs (how did they change the life of a dyslexic Vietnam vet?), and cloning (can it save endangered species?). This expanded edition returns to print Quammen’s best-loved “Natural Acts” columns, which first appeared in Outside magazine in the early 1980s, and includes recent pieces such as “Planet of Weeds,” an influential Harper’s cover story. The new Natural Acts is an eye-opening journey that will please both Quammen fans and newcomers to his work.

Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

W.W.Norton&Company

A fresh look at Darwin's most radical idea, and the mysteriously slow process by which he revealed it. 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 competing individuals would lead to wondrous adaptations and species diversity. Twenty-one years passed between that epiphany and publication of On the Origin of Species. The human drama and scientific basis of Darwin's twenty-one-year delay constitute a fascinating, tangled tale that elucidates the character of a cautious naturalist who initiated an intellectual revolution. The Reluctant Mr. Darwin is a book for everyone who has ever wondered about who this man was and what he said. Drawing from Darwin's secret "transmutation" notebooks and his personal letters, David Quammen has sketched a vivid life portrait of the man whose work never ceases to be controversial.

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

Reference

W.W.Norton

A Booklist Top 10 Science Book of 2012, a 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a Daily Beast "Top 11 Book of 2012" A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia―but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field―netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo―with the world’s leading disease scientists. In Spillover Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Norton Trade Titles

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