{"product_id":"a-planet-of-viruses-third-edition-9780226782591","title":"A Planet of Viruses: Third Edition","description":"In 2020, an invisible germ--a virus--wholly upended our lives. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fully revised and updated, with new illustrations and a new chapter about coronaviruses and the spread of Covid-19, this third edition of Carl Zimmer's \u003ci\u003eA Planet of Viruses\u003c\/i\u003e pulls back the veil on this hidden world. It 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 as long as life endures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZimmer, Carl:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eCarl Zimmer\u003c\/b\u003e is a columnist for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003ewhere he has contributed articles since 2004. His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Evolution. His latest book is \u003ci\u003eLife's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. \u003c\/i\u003e His 2018 book, \u003ci\u003eShe Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2019 National Academies Communication Award and was named the best science book of 2018 by the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e. He is professor adjunct of biophysics and biochemistry and a lecturer in English at Yale University. He lives in Guilford, CT.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717272342802,"sku":"9780226782591","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_12567761-5ab1-486d-9e92-b83e1f004447.jpg?v=1734614394","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-planet-of-viruses-third-edition-9780226782591","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}