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A Planet of Viruses: Third Edition

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Availability:In StockContributor:Carl Zimmer, Ian Schoenherr (Illustrator)Publish date:2021-03-29Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226782591ISBN-10:022678259XUPC:9780226782591Book Category:Science, MedicalBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, ImmunologyBook Topic:VirologySize:7.30 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCAN16PGQX
In 2020, an invisible germ--a virus--wholly upended our lives. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering viruses everywhere they look: in the soil, in the ocean, even in deep caves miles underground.

Fully revised and updated, with new illustrations and a new chapter about coronaviruses and the spread of Covid-19, this third edition of Carl Zimmer's A Planet of Viruses pulls back the veil on this hidden world. It presents the latest research on how viruses hold sway over our lives and our biosphere, how viruses helped give rise to the first life-forms, how viruses are producing new diseases, how we can harness viruses for our own ends, and how viruses will continue to control our fate as long as life endures.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226782591ISBN-10:022678259XUPC:9780226782591Book Category:Science, MedicalBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, ImmunologyBook Topic:VirologySize:7.30 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCAN16PGQX
Zimmer, Carl: - Carl Zimmer is a columnist for the New York Times, where he has contributed articles since 2004. His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Evolution. His latest book is Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. His 2018 book, She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, won the 2019 National Academies Communication Award and was named the best science book of 2018 by the Guardian. He is professor adjunct of biophysics and biochemistry and a lecturer in English at Yale University. He lives in Guilford, CT.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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