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...(展开全部)

Digital Contagions is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus phenomenon. The book maps the anomalies of network culture from the angles of security concerns, the biopolitics of digital systems, and the aspirations for artificial life in software. The genealogy of network culture is approached from the stand...(展开全部)

A Planet Called Treason (1979) is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card about a radical regenerative named Lanik who is banished from his kingdom and travels to different regions of the planet, discovering the powers of the people living there. It was originally published by St Martin's Press and Dell Publishing Co. After being heavily revised, and growing...(展开全部)

Bird Planet presents the best work of Tim Laman, the world’s most celebrated bird photographer Birder extraordinaire Tim Laman is a superstar in one of photography’s most challenging pursuits: The quest to portray birds in the wild. A naturalist and explorer as well as a brilliant image maker, he has spent thousands of hours over more than 30 years wedged precariously in the to...(展开全部)

This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. This is a narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, as gleaned from a single pebble. It begins as the pebble-particles form amid unimaginab...(展开全部)

The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. - How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? - How do we stay human in a technological world? - How...(展开全部)

The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. - How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? - How do we stay human in a technological world? - How...(展开全部)

沃尔特•阿尔瓦雷茨（Walter Alvarez）， 美国地质学家，诺贝尔物理学奖得主路易斯•沃尔特•阿尔瓦雷茨之子。任教于柏克莱加州大学地球与行星科学系。因为与其父共同提出恐龙灭绝是因为小行星或彗星撞击地球的理论而闻名。 阿尔瓦雷茨生于美国加州伯克利。1962年于明尼苏达州卡尔顿学院获得地质学士，1967年获得普林斯顿大学地质学博士。他曾在荷兰任职于美国海外石油公司，在培养了考古地质学的兴趣以后，他离开了石油公司，并一度留在意大利研究古罗马时代的火山活动和对古罗马聚落的影响。之后，阿尔瓦雷茨进入哥伦比亚大学拉蒙特－多赫提地质观测所研究地中海地区的板块构造。他在意大利对古地磁学的研究使他开始关注意大利沿岸深海底石灰岩的地磁逆转。 沃尔特和其父亲路易斯•沃尔特•阿尔瓦雷茨最为人所知的就是发现在白垩纪-第三纪地层之间富含铱的黏土层。此外，他的研究还包括地...(展开全部)

Summary How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work. Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics. History is replete with references to plagues, pestilence, and contagion, but the devastation wrought by pandemics had been largely forgotten by the twenty-first century. No...(展开全部)

How Pathogenic Viruses Work is a concise summary of the basics of virology written in an understandable and entertaining manner. The book is composed of nine lectures covering the essential elements of virus-host interactions with descriptive graphics, helpful mnemonic tactics for retaining the concepts, and brief lecture reviews. This is an ideal text for medical, science, and...(展开全部)