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Spillover
- Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 20 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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As globalisation spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in animals but that can be transmitted to humans. Diseases that were contained are being set free, and the results are potentially catastrophic. In a journey that takes him from Southern China to the Congo, from Bangladesh to Australia, David Quammen tracks these infections to their source and asks what we can do to prevent some new pandemic spreading across the face of the earth.
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Incredible book, poorly narrated
- By Kindle Customer on 29-10-2024
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Spillover
- Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 20 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2020
- Language: English
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Non-member price: $33.99
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The Tangled Tree
- A Radical New History of Life
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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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 story of life on earth - through molecular phylogenetics. It involves a fairly simple method - the reading of the deep history of life by looking at the variation in protein molecules found in living organisms. For instance, we now know that roughly eight percent of the human genome arrived not through traditional inheritance from directly ancestral forms, but sideways by viral infection.
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Who are we, humans, living organisms?
- By Jorge Alvarez-Romero on 27-09-2024
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The Tangled Tree
- A Radical New History of Life
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2018
- Language: English
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Non-member price: $26.99
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Breathless
- The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-changing nature, and its capacity to kill us. David Quammen expertly shows how strange new viruses emerge from animals into humans as we disrupt wild ecosystems, and how those viruses adapt to their human hosts, sometimes causing global catastrophe. He explains why this coronavirus will probably be a 'forever virus,' destined to circulate among humans and bedevil us endlessly.
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Captivating and thoroughly researched
- By Cecilia B Shlegel on 21-01-2023
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Breathless
- The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 06-10-2022
- Language: English
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Contagio [Spillover]
- La evolución de las pandemias [Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic]
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Sebastián Rosas
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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En esta obra de referencia internacional, David Quammen se sumerge en la historia reciente de esas enfermedades zoonóticas, y persigue su rastro en compañía de los mejores científicos del mundo en la selva centroafricana, las cuevas de China meridional o las azoteas de Bangladés, pero también en los sofisticados laboratorios cuyo personal investiga virus letales bajo las más altas medidas de seguridad.
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Contagio [Spillover]
- La evolución de las pandemias [Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic]
- Narrated by: Sebastián Rosas
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 18-06-2020
- Language: Spanish
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Non-member price: $30.99
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The Soul of Viktor Tronko
- Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries
- By: David Quammen, Nancy Pearl - introduction
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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When Soviet agent Viktor Tronko defected to the US in 1964, he made two intriguing claims: he insisted that Russia had not placed a mole inside the CIA, and that Lee Harvey Oswald had not been recruited to assassinate the president. Convinced that Tronko was working as a disinformation agent, the CIA furiously did everything they could to break him. But Tronko had one more surprise for them: he refused to break.
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The Soul of Viktor Tronko
- Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 16-09-2014
- Language: English
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Non-member price: $35.99
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