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Biophilia; The Diversity of Life; Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson; David Quammen (Editor)
$74.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
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. Library of America presents three environmental classics from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner E. O. Wilson, a masterfu ...Show more
Natural Acts - Sidelong View of Sci by QUAMMEN David
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
"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 curiosity leads him ...Show more
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
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. What is going on? As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that origin ...Show more
The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction ? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into islandlike fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eig ...Show more
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