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  • Blight

    Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

    **Winner of the 2024 Phi Beta Kappa Award for ScienceA New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Science News Favorite Book of 2023"Fungi sicken us and fungi sustain us. In either case, we ignore them at our peril." —Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Review of BooksA prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi—and how to avert further loss across species, including our own.**Fungi are ... Read more

    $18.29 CAD

  • Unnatural Selection

    How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene

    Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans might not like the result.Monosson reveals that the very code of life is more fluid than once imagined. ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Evolution in a Toxic World

    How Life Responds to Chemical Threats

    With BPA in baby bottles, mercury in fish, and lead in computer monitors, the world has become a toxic place. But as Emily Monosson demonstrates in her groundbreaking new book, it has always been toxic. When oxygen first developed in Earth's atmosphere, it threatened the very existence of life: now we literally can't live without it. According to Monosson, examining how life adapted to such early ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Natural Defense

    Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Protect Our Food and Health

    For more than a century, we have relied on chemical cures to keep our bodies free from disease and our farms free from bugs and weeds. We rarely consider human and agricultural health together, but both are based on the same ecology, and both are being threatened by organisms that have evolved to resist our antibiotics and pesticides. Patients suffer from C.diff, a painful, potentially lethal gut ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Blight

    Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

    Narrated by Rosemary Benson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 39 min

    Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease on earth, and a fungus that can persist in the environment without its host is here to stay. In Blight, Emily Monosson documents how trade, travel, and a changing climate are making us all more vulnerable to invasion. Populations of bats, frogs, ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory

    Women Scientists Speak Out

    Edited by Emily Monosson ...
    About half of the undergraduate and roughly 40 percent of graduate degree recipients in science and engineering are women. As increasing numbers of these women pursue research careers in science, many who choose to have children discover the unique difficulties of balancing a professional life in these highly competitive (and often male-dominated) fields with the demands of motherhood. Although ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

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  • Parasite Rex

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  • Overwhelmed

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