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The Zolta Configuration

The murder of a young man sets off a frantic, desperate search for copies of Edward Teller's top-secret plans for the hydrogen bomb, a search that involves an unusual and dangerous group of people

By David Quammen

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Paperback:

9780812508000 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, December 1, 1984), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: The murder of a young man sets off a frantic, desperate search for copies of Edward Teller's top-secret plans for the hydrogen bomb, a search that involves an unusual and dangerous group of people

Natural Acts

By David Quammen

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Hardcover:

9781558211735 | Lyons Pr, December 1, 1985, cover price $18.95

The Soul of Viktor Tronko

When journalist Michael Kessler investigates the brutal murder of an old friend, the writer becomes involved in a deadly twenty-year-old secret

By David Quammen

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Hardcover:

9780385195966 | Doubleday, June 1, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: When journalist Michael Kessler investigates the brutal murder of an old friend, the writer becomes involved in a deadly twenty-year-old secret

Paperback:

9780440201779, titled "Soul of Viktor Tronko" | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, December 1, 1988), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: When journalist Michael Kessler investigates the brutal murder of an old friend, the writer becomes involved in a deadly twenty-year-old secret

CD/Spoken Word:

9781491578575 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, September 16, 2014), cover price $9.99

9781491578278 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 16, 2014), cover price $14.99

Blood Line: Stories of Fathers and Sons

Three stories deal with a hunting trip, a young man's attempt to accept his father's suicide, and memories of the Civil War (view table of contents)

By David Quammen

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Paperback:

9781555662721 | Johnson Books, August 1, 2000, cover price $14.00

9781555971007 | Graywolf Pr, December 1, 1987, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Three stories deal with a hunting trip, a young man's attempt to accept his father's suicide, and memories of the Civil War

The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

A naturalist/scientist introduces unusual creatures and their surprising habits, in a study that emphasizes the wealth of variety in the animal kingdom rather than the 'freakishness' of the uncommon (view table of contents)

By David Quammen

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Hardcover:

9780385295925, titled "Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature" | Delacorte Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A naturalist/scientist introduces unusual creatures and their surprising habits, in a study that emphasizes the wealth of variety in the animal kingdom rather than the 'freakishness' of the uncommon

Paperback:

9780684836263 | Reprint edition (Scribner, February 1, 1998), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A naturalist/scientist introduces unusual creatures and their surprising habits, in a study that emphasizes the wealth of variety in the animal kingdom rather than the 'freakishness' of the uncommon

9780385263276 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, June 1, 1989), cover price $9.50 | also contains Scooby-Doo! Unmasks Monsters: The Truth Behind Zombies, Werewolves, and Other Spooky Creatures | About this edition: A naturalist/scientist introduces unusual creatures and their surprising habits, in a study that emphasizes the wealth of variety in the animal kingdom rather than the 'freakishness' of the uncommon

Natural Acts : A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

Product Description: A revised and expanded edition of Quammenâs first book of nonfiction, including the best of his recent work.âLively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions,â said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts...read more

By David Quammen

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9780380717385 | Avon Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A revised and expanded edition of Quammenâs first book of nonfiction, including the best of his recent work.

The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder

A collection of twenty-six essays about the natural world captures the relationship between human and animal, with such topics as rattlesnakes and their handlers, and spiders and arachnophobia. (view table of contents)

By David Quammen

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Hardcover:

9780684837284 | Scribner, April 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of twenty-six essays about the natural world captures the relationship between human and animal, with such topics as rattlesnakes and their handlers, and spiders and arachnophobia.

Paperback:

9780743200325, titled "Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder" | Scribner, April 17, 2001, cover price $17.00

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000

The first in a new annual anthology of the finest science writing to be published in 1999 features such works as Richard Preston's 'The Demon in the Freezer,' John McPhee's 'Farewell to the Nineteenth Century,' 'Brilliant Light' by Oliver Sacks, and other essays by Wendell Berry, Anne Fadiman, David Guterson, Peter Matthiessen, and other notable authors. Simultaneous. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Burkhard Bilger (editor) and David Quammen (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780618082940 | Houghton Mifflin, October 26, 2000, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Collects nature- and science-based essays by such authors as Anne Fadiman, Brian Hayes, Cullen Murphy, and Gary Taubes.

Paperback:

9780618082957 | Mariner Books, October 26, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Collects nature- and science-based essays by such authors as Anne Fadiman, Brian Hayes, Cullen Murphy, and Gary Taubes.

The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader: A Selection of Writings from the Field

Product Description: Long overshadowed by his contemporaries Charles Darwin and Thomas H. Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace was an English naturalist and pioneer evolutionist who researched biological diversity through extensive exploration and travel. Independent of Darwin, Wallace developed a theory of evolution through natural selection, which ultimately spurred Darwin to complete and publish his own Origin of Species...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jane R. Camerini (editor), David Quammen (foreword by) and Alfred Russel Wallace

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9780801867811 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Long overshadowed by his contemporaries Charles Darwin and Thomas H.

Killer Algae

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By Alexandre Meinesz, David Quammen (foreword by) and Daniel Simberloff (trans)

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Paperback:

9780226519234 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $26.00

The Origin of Species: Descent of a Text, With Modification

By David Quammen

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Paperback:

9780844410579 | Library of Congress, April 1, 2002, cover price $22.01

Alexis Rockman

By Jonathan Crary, Stephen Jay Gould and David Quammen

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Hardcover:

9781580931182 | Monacelli Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $75.00

Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind

The author of The Song of the Dodo laments the decline of the big predators--animals that are capable of stalking and killing humans--wondering how our psyches will be affected when the last of these creatures is safely ensconced in a zoo. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

By David Quammen

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Hardcover:

9780091799571 | Gardners Books, February 5, 2004, cover price $43.60 | About this edition: Great and terrible flesh-eating beasts have always shared the landscape with humans.

9780393051407 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 2003), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The author laments the decline of the big predators--animals that are capable of stalking and killing humans--wondering how our psyches will be affected when the last of these creatures is safely ensconced in a zoo.

Paperback:

9780393326093, titled "Monster Of God: The Man Eating Predator In The Jungles Of History And The Mind" | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 2004), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Laments the decline of the big predators--animals that are capable of stalking and killing humans--and wonders how our psyches will be affected when the last of these creatures is safely ensconced in a zoo.

Monster of God

By David Quammen

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Paperback:

9781844133239 | New edition (Vintage Uk, June 2, 2005), cover price $26.35

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin And the Making of His Theory of Evolution

Traces the twenty-one-year period between Charles Darwin's original idea about natural selection and the publication of On the Origin of Species, in an account that draws on his secret 'transmutation' notebooks and personal letters to offer insight into his experiences as a cautious naturalist. Reprint.

By David Quammen

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Hardcover:

9780393059816 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Traces the twenty-one-year period between Charles Darwin's original idea about natural selection and the publication of 'On the Origin of Species,' in an account that offers insight into his experiences as a cautious naturalist.

Paperback:

9780393329957 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Traces the twenty-one-year period between Charles Darwin's original idea about natural selection and the publication of 'On the Origin of Species,' in an account that offers insight into his experiences as a cautious naturalist.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781572705692 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 28, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Traces the twenty-one-year period between Charles Darwin's original idea about natural selection and the publication of 'On the Origin of Species,' in an account that offers insight into his experiences as a cautious naturalist.

The Long Follow: J. Michael Fay's Epic Trek Across the Last Great Forests of Central Africa

The award-winning essays offers a fascinating chronicle of one man's determined quest to make a two-thousand-mile trek across the jungles of the Congo and beyond, following eccentric New Jersey-born ecologist J. Michael Fay on his grueling 465-day odyssey through the Congo to Gabon's shore. 20,000 first printing.

By David Quammen

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Hardcover:

9780792255666 | Natl Geographic Society, November 21, 2006, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The award-winning essays offers a fascinating chronicle of one man's determined quest to make a two-thousand-mile trek across the jungles of the Congo and beyond, following eccentric New Jersey-born ecologist J.

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

Product Description: 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 in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world...read more

By David Quammen

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Hardcover:

9780684800837 | Scribner, April 1, 1996, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Takes a close-up look at island biogeography, the science of the geographic distribution of life on islands, and its significance in terms of evolution and extinction

Paperback:

9780684827124 | Reprint edition (Scribner, April 1, 1997), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Takes a close-up look at island biogeography, the science of the geographic distribution of life on islands, and its significance in terms of evolution and extinction

Prebinding:

9781439503294 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $31.00 | About this edition: 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 in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world.

Wild Thoughts from Wild Places

Product Description: In Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature writers. This collection of twenty-three of Quammen's most intriguing, most exciting, most memorable pieces takes us to meet kayakers on the Futaleufu River of southern Chile, where Quammen describes how it feels to travel in fast company and flail for survival in the river's maw...read more

By David Quammen

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Hardcover:

9780684835099 | Scribner, February 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of thoughts, essays, stories, and profiles from nature provides a look at such different places as the central Amazon, the South Pacific, and Cincinnati, detailing such adventures as kayaking on a Class V river in Chile and tracing the spread of the Ebola virus

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9780684852089 | Scribner, March 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of thoughts, essays, stories, and profiles from nature provides a look at such different places as the central Amazon, the South Pacific, and Cincinnati, detailing such adventures as kayaking on a Class V river in Chile and tracing the spread of the Ebola virus

Prebinding:

9781439503027 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature writers.

9780613920360 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A collection of thoughts, essays, stories, and profiles from nature provides a look at such different places as the central Amazon, the South Pacific, and Cincinnati, detailing such adventures as kayaking on a Class V river in Chile and tracing the spread of the Ebola virus

On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition

By David Quammen (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781402756399 | Ill edition (Sterling Pub Co Inc, October 7, 2008), cover price $35.00

9780134097077, titled "Later Life: The Realities of Aging" | Taylor & Francis, January 1, 1996, cover price $72.00 | also contains Later Life: The Realities of Aging

Paperback:

9781402789595 | Ill rep edition (Sterling Pub Co Inc, October 4, 2011), cover price $24.95

The Voyage of the Beagle

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Hardcover:

9781426203916 | Natl Geographic Society, February 3, 2009, cover price $24.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781934997581 | Abridged edition (Trafalgar Square Books, November 1, 2009), cover price $29.95

Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

A new edition of the author's first work of nonfiction traces his journeys throughout natural regions of the world to pose such lively questions as the redeeming merits of mosquitoes and the potential for cloning, in a volume complemented by the author's popular 'Natural Acts' columns. 20,000 first printing.

By David Quammen

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Hardcover:

9780393058055, titled "Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science & Nature" | Rev exp edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 30, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A new edition of the author's first work of nonfiction traces his journeys throughout natural regions of the world to pose such lively questions as the redeeming merits of mosquitoes and the potential for cloning, in a volume complemented by the author's popular 'Natural Acts' columns.

9780805239676 | Schocken Books, April 1, 1985, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss bats, octopuses, crows, snakes, cockroaches, dinosaurs, bisons, animal rights, hypothermia, sea cucumbers, black widow spiders, and mosquitoes

Paperback:

9780393333602 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 29, 2009), cover price $15.95

9781585742622 | Lyons Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss bats, octopuses, crows, snakes, cockroaches, dinosaurs, bisons, animal rights, hypothermia, sea cucumbers, black widow spiders, and mosquitoes

9780440556961 | Reprint edition (Dell Books, September 1, 1986), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss bats, octopuses, crows, snakes, cockroaches, dinosaurs, bisons, animal rights, hypothermia, sea cucumbers, black widow spiders, and mosquitoes

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780939643288 | Audio Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A revised and expanded edition of Quammenâs first book of nonfiction, including the best of his recent work.

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Product Description: âScience writing as detective story at its best.â âJennifer Ouellette, Scientific AmericanA New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award...read more

By David Quammen

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Hardcover:

9780393066807 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 2012, cover price $28.95

Paperback:

9780393346619 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 9, 2013), cover price $17.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9781480563827 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 9, 2013), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: âScience writing as detective story at its best.

9781480564442 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, September 9, 2013), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: âScience writing as detective story at its best.

The Soul of Viktor Tronko: Library Edition

Product Description: When Soviet agent Viktor Tronko defected to the US in 1964, he made two intriguing claims: he insisted that Russia had not placed a mole inside the CIA, and that Lee Harvey Oswald had not been recruited to assassinate the president...read more

By Mikael Naramore (narrator) and David Quammen

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9781491578421 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 16, 2014), cover price $52.97 | About this edition: When Soviet agent Viktor Tronko defected to the US in 1964, he made two intriguing claims: he insisted that Russia had not placed a mole inside the CIA, and that Lee Harvey Oswald had not been recruited to assassinate the president.

Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus

By David Quammen

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Hardcover:

9780391038455, titled "Inhabiting the Earth: Heidegger, Environmental Ethics, and the Metaphysics of Nature" | Prometheus Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $45.00 | also contains Inhabiting the Earth: Heidegger, Environmental Ethics, and the Metaphysics of Nature

Paperback:

9780393351552 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 20, 2014), cover price $13.95

The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

By David Quammen

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Paperback:

9780393350845 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 16, 2015), cover price $13.95

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