The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses
10 best books like The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses (Dorothy Crawford): Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times, The Origins of AIDS, Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World, The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS, Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly, The River : A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS, An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect, The Geese of Beaver Bog, The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live, A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them
| Author | Arno Karlen |
| ISBN | 0684822709 |
AIDS, Lyme disease, and the deadly hantavirus are just a few of the dozens of new diseases to arrive in recent years. Old ones such as TB and cholera have returned with sharper virulence. Where do new diseases come from? Why are old ones back as vicious changelings? Why now? We created this epidemic of epidemics...
| Author | Jacques Pepin |
| ISBN | 0521186374 |
It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence...
| Author | Jessica Snyder Sachs |
| ISBN | 0809050633 |
Making Peace with Microbes
Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit...
The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS
| Author | Jonathan Engel |
| ISBN | 0061144886 |
From the Castro bathhouses to AZT and the denial of AIDS in South Africa, this sweeping look at AIDS covers the epidemic from all angles and across the world. Engel seamlessly weaves together science, politics, and culture, writing with an even hand—noting the excesses of the more radical edges of...
Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic Mountains,...
The River : A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS
| Author | Edward Hooper |
| ISBN | 0316372617 |
While science has devoted much of its efforts to finding a cure for AIDS, the sources of this deadly epidemic remain largely unexamined. Distinguished science journalist Edward Hooper presents the meticulously researched -- and highly readable -- history of HIV and its possible origins. Pursuing...
| Author | Sharman Apt Russell |
| ISBN | 0465071600 |
Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060957387 |
When award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich became the unwitting -- but doting -- foster parent of an adorable gosling named Peep, he was drawn into her world. And so, with a scientist's training and a nature lover's boundless enthusiasm, he set out to understand the travails and triumphs...
| Author | Colin Tudge |
| ISBN | 0307342042 |
This is a book that took me longer to read than any other book of 2016. And I stuck to the read diligently. But I think it is only going to be appreciated by those with scientific classification onus and supreme interest and patient love of BIRDS. There are many species and this is no short cut to their placements,...
| Author | Sue Hubbell |
| ISBN | 0395883245 |
"The real masterwork that Sue Hubbell has created is her life," David Quammen wrote in the New York Times. This book is, like its author, a unique achievement. Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees' lives through the seasons, Hubbell writes "about bees to be sure, but also about other things:...
| Author | Dorothy H. Crawford |
| ISBN | 0192807196 |
Combining tales of devastating epidemics with accessible science and fascinating history, Deadly Companions reveals how closely microbes have evolved with us over the millennia, shaping human civilization through infection, disease, and deadly pandemic. Beginning with a dramatic account...
| Author | Michael Shnayerson |
| ISBN | 0316735663 |
4 1/2 Stars. I grew up during a time when antibiotics where used and used again and used yet again. I have read this book because I have antibiotic resistance, including MRSA that lives inside my ankle as a result of an old break. This book was nearly always accessible to me because of my own medical history...
The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Mutant Germs Threatens Us All
| Author | Elinor Levy |
| ISBN | 0609609947 |
The strange new disease SARS erupted apparently out of nowhere and has spread at an astonishing rate. Scary as SARS itself is, the disease is also a warning of many possible such outbreaks to come. Featuring the disturbing story of SARS—where it came from, what it is, and how to protect yourself from...
| Author | Howard Markel |
| ISBN | 0375420959 |
The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Scourges that have plagued human beings since the ancients still threaten to unleash themselves; new maladies are brewing that have yet to make their appearance in the headlines; lethal germs employed as weapons of warfare and terrorism have reemerged...
| Author | Madeline Drexler |
| ISBN | 0142002615 |
As timely as it is urgent, this well-researched book from veteran science journalist Madeline Drexler delivers a compelling report on today's most ominous infectious disease threats. She focuses on a different danger in each chapter-from the looming risk of lethal influenza to in-depth information...
| Author | Frank Ryan |
| ISBN | 0007315120 |
The extraordinary role of viruses in evolution and how this is revolutionising biology and medicine.
Darwin's theory of evolution remains central to biological science and medicine. His explanation of the role of natural selection in driving the evolution of life on earth depended...
| Author | Barry E. Zimmerman |
| ISBN | 0071409262 |
Everything readers ever wanted to know about deadly viruses, killer parasites, flesh-eating microbes, and other lifethreatening beasties but were afraid to ask
What disease, known as "the White Death" has killed 2 billion people, and counting?
What fatal disease lurks undetected...
Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola: Nature, Accident, or Intentional?
| Author | Leonard G. Horowitz |
| ISBN | 0923550127 |
a thick compelling read. He's done a ton of research to link AIDS as a manmade virus and why it appeared in gay & central African populations simultaneously in the late 1970's. As a molecular biologist that deals with pathogenic microorganisms,I find his claims / theory deserve a cold hard look which...
| Author | Joseph J. Mistovich |
| ISBN | 0133369137 |
Prehospital Emergency Care , Tenth Edition, meets the National EMS Education Standards and is the most complete resource for EMT-B training. This best-selling, student-friendly book contains clear, step-by-step explanations with comprehensive, stimulating, and challenging material that...
Viruses, Plagues and History
| Author | Michael B.A. Oldstone |
| ISBN | 0195134222 |
The story of viruses and the story of humanity have been intertwined since the dawn of history. The first small cities formed not only the cradle of civilization, but the spawning ground for the earliest viral epidemics, the first opportunity for viruses to find a home in the human herd. This is a story...
The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology
| Author | Frederick K. Lutgens |
| ISBN | 0131874624 |
Using everyday, easy-to-grasp examples to reinforce basic concepts, this highly regarded handbook remains the standard introduction to meteorology and the atmosphere – components, problems, and applications. Includes the most up-to-date coverage of topics such as: ozone depletion; the...
Zika: The Emerging Epidemic
| Author | Donald G. McNeil |
| ISBN | 0393353966 |
Until recently, Zika—once considered a mild disease—was hardly a cause for global panic. But as early as August 2015, doctors in northeast Brazil began to notice a trend: many mothers who had recently experienced symptoms of the Zika virus were giving birth to babies with microcephaly, a serious...
| Author | Mary Dobson |
| ISBN | 1847240143 |
Miki got this at the book store for some light reading and since it was lying around I had to pick it up. Very interesting historical information regarding the diseases that have affected the world and some great information on the advances of medicine. I only wish that there was more pictures of what the...
