圖書標籤: 科普 virus 醫學 美國 biology 非虛構 英文 病毒
发表于2024-11-23
A Planet of Viruses pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, 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, in fact, 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. This fascinating book explores the hidden world of viruses-a world that each of us inhabit. Here Carl Zimmer, popular science writer and author of Discover magazine's award-winning blog The Loom, 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 for years to come. In this eye-opening tour through the frontiers of biology, where scientists are expanding our understanding of life as we know it, we learn that some treatments for the common cold do more harm to us than good; that the world's oceans are home to an astonishing 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 viruses; and that the evolution of HIV is now in overdrive, spawning more mutated strains than we care to imagine. The New York Times Book Review calls Carl Zimmer as fine a science essayist as we have.A" A Planet of Viruses is sure to please his many fans and further enhance his reputation as one of America's most respected and admired science journalists.
作者 卡爾·齊默(Carl Zimmer),知名科普作傢,在耶魯大學教授科學和環境寫作。他寫過多本廣受歡迎的科普作品,包括《演化》《在水的邊緣》《萬物身刻》等,曾於2007年摘得美國國傢科學院科學傳播奬(The National Academies Communication Award),這一奬項是該領域的桂冠榮譽。
譯者 劉暘(桔子),畢業於北京大學,後於芝加哥大學取得分子、遺傳及細胞生物學博士學位,九三學社成員,科學寫作者、記者,科學鬆鼠會成員,果殼網吱扭App主編。與他人閤著齣版《當彩色的聲音嘗起來是甜的》《一百種尾巴或一韆張葉子》《冷浪漫》等作品,另有譯作《共情時代》《永生的海拉》等。
很好的科普。總的來說,我們人類對病毒實在知之太少,而每一次病毒在人群中的爆發,幾乎都是因為人類的無知和侵略性,這次也是一樣。希望這次的病毒高抬貴手,來掃蕩一圈就走吧。
評分小科普
評分小中見大,不容小覷,微小的力量具有極強的統治力,很好的科普讀物,有點兒記錄片的感覺
評分A brief summary of representative viruses in layman terms, an interesting and informative easy read.
評分各種病毒小傳: Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Rhinovirus, Influenza Virus, Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), Bacteriophages, Marine Phages, Edogenous Retrovirus, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV, AIDS), West Nile Virus; SARS(Coronavirus), Ebola Virus; Smallpox; Mimivirus
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A Planet of Viruses pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024