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。
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.
發表於2024-11-28
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據理查德·普雷斯頓的《血疫》一書改編的同名美劇正在熱映,埃博拉病毒的威力,讓人聞之色變。可是普雷斯頓推薦的《病毒星球》一書卻讓人愛不釋手,黑色的封麵上繪製著五彩繽紛的病毒,看上去萌萌的,不知情的還以為是天馬行空的宇宙星辰呢。同是講病毒,科普作傢卡爾·齊默簡...
評分這段時間,繼續看完病毒係列。書過瞭一遍後,覺得其中三個章節裏,能總結齣一些有趣的結論,特分享: The Uncommon Cold 章節: 1. 感冒病毒也稱為“鼻腔病毒”,其結構非常簡單,隻有大概10個基因。讓人感到頭暈、發燒不是病毒引起的,而是人體的免疫係統引起的。 2. 感冒病毒...
評分 評分 評分圖書標籤: 科普 virus 醫學 美國 biology 非虛構 英文 病毒
A brief summary of representative viruses in layman terms, an interesting and informative easy read.
評分中規中矩的短小科普,比較失望。內容基本等於維基百科詞條串講。可能麵嚮大眾的科普讀物,所以幾乎沒有涉及任何機理,不夠硬。用詞過於簡化,幾乎不用術語,可能reassortment就是全書最準確的用詞瞭。句子比較樸實,換句話說讀起來比較乾。幾乎很少有作者自己的思考和議論,有的也都是一些老生常談的內容,並沒有什麼新穎的地方。不過作者還是非常嚴謹地為這本不足150頁的書添加瞭占據總頁數25%的引用文獻和名詞索引。現在非常擔心要不要讀作者Carl Zimmer的《Evolution》瞭。
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
評分小科普
評分感覺內容略微有些淺,更像是一本常識宣傳的小冊子,但常識也不是每個人生來就有的,也是需要學習的。給四顆星。
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