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(0)Rob R Dunn
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This book reveals that our domestic domain is wild with insects and other small life beyond our imagination. From meal moths, to camel crickets, to germs and bacteria in the kitchen and bathroom, there is all manner of fungi, plants and insects in our homes despite all our obsessive cleaning. Our efforts to sterilize our homes may lead to a new playground for evolution, enabling deadly bacteria to thrive, rather than the species that help our immune...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Explores the story of the human heart, from the first "explorers" through the first heart surgeries to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Biologist Rob Dun grew up listening to stories of the Mississippi River, how it flooded his grandfather's town of Greenville, swallowing up the townsfolk and leaving behind a muddy wasteland. Years later, Dunn discovered the cause of the great deluge. The Army Corps of Engineers had tried to straighten the river, cutting off its meandering oxbows in order to allow for the easy passage of boats. They had tried to bend nature to their own design. But...