The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest, Paperback - David Quammen

Reducere. The real story of AIDS--how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people--is very...

Naomi Judd's life as a country music superstar has been nonstop success. But offstage, she has battled incredible adversity. Struggling through a c...

Reducere. David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book...

Two neuroscientists trace a sweeping new vision of consciousness across eighteen increasingly intelligent minds, from microbes to humankind and bey...

** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Juliet Nicolson is brilliant at recapturing mood, moment and character . These shadows hung over a country paral...

A remarkable partnership between the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya has built one of the ...

Reducere. A definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, here is the incredible story of the grassroots activists whose work turned...

Reducere. There is evil in the woods and it wants you dead.They warned us not to enter, but we didn't listen. The call too strong to ignore. And now there is...

Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David QuammenIn 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David QuammenFrom the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and ...

Reducere. An unprecedented and intimate look at the masking traditions of a Congolese tribeThe Kuba of the Democratic Republic of Congo are recognized throug...

ARMADILLO AND HARE live with their friends in the Big Forest. Hare loves dancing. Armadillo loves cheese sandwiches. Hare loves playing the tuba. A...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, "our greatest living chronicler of the natural world...

Reducere. Casting his expert eye over the rapidly diminishing areas of wilderness where predators still reign, the award-winning author ofThe Song of the Dod...

Reducere. Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that transmit these diseases all originate in ...

In the tradition of Cynthia Rylant and Arnold Lobel comes an utterly charming, hilarious, and heartfelt story of unlikely animal friendship and the...

Reducere. EL LIBRO INTERNACIONAL DE REFERENCIA DURANTE LA CUARENTENA. Desde hace a os, para los expertos y cualquier persona informada, el estallido de la si...

Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersAuthor(s): Joshua D. WadeNumber of pages: 64Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 7Cover type...

Reducere. In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white--or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts...

Reducere. In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fig...

AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. AIDS a...

Reducere. A gripping and timely book about the transmission of highly dangerous diseases from animal to human populations. 'A frightening and fascinating mas...

Reducere. This teen and young reader book is a richly illustrated biography about Horace King. In 1807, King was born into slavery on a South Carolina planta...

Reducere. What if a gift lived inside grief?When Bunny's father dies, she captures her grief in a bubble the color of his soul. She carries this grief with h...

Reducere. Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises up each fall to test his s...

With a revolutionary new "Climate Battery" design for near-net-zero heating and cooling By the turn of the nineteenth century, thousands of acres o...

This book follows the historical trajectory of African Americans and their relationship with the Mississippi River dating back to the 1700s and end...

Return From the Hollow Earth: War Between the Inner Worlds is the sequel to A Curious Pebble: The Hollow Earth and Pursuit of the Holy Lance, publi...

This well-illustrated book provides an up-to-date survey of a key period in the history of northern Ethiopia and south-central Eritrea. It is acces...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume focuses broadly on the history of the social welfare reform work of nineteenth-century African American women who founded in...

Reducere. In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to ...

The fourteen interviews in this book form an unprecedented wealth of material on authors' responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe. They ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises up each fall to test his s...

This expert guide offers readers creative and imaginative ways to enjoy the crops from their forest garden, from bamboo shoots and beech leaves to ...