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Many of us are introduced to the amoeba in science class at school but know very little about the amazing life of this versatile, shape-shifting cell. A Is for Amoeba is packed with surprising stories that give listeners a richer appreciation of these astonishing microbes, revealing what amoebas have to tell us about the natural world and ourselves. Along the way, this entertaining and informative book shows how amoebas influenced figures like Friedrich Nietzsche, who saw in them an expression of the will to power, and Sigmund Freud, who likened the movements of amoebas to the human ego.

Humans have long observed animals for advanced warnings of danger. What can they tell us about the growing threat of viruses and other infectious organisms in the age of climate change? Coronaviruses jump from bats to chimpanzees to humans. You can give your cat the flu, and pass tuberculosis to an elephant. The scientific term for this –zoonosis – reveals how human and animal lives are inextricably linked. Scientists warn that human destruction of the environment is responsible for the accelerating spillover of animal diseases, posing a global health threat.

A wry and thought-provoking tale about the defiant, eccentric figures obsessed with Australia's deadliest reptiles. Raymond Hoser is known as the Snakeman, a moniker he has zealously defended. As a day job, Hoser runs a business in Melbourne that offers several services. One service is snake...

Over the past five hundred years, human exploration, settlement, and commerce have carried countless plants and animals far from their original homes, where they sometimes go on to transform familiar landscapes, cause large-scale agricultural damage, and endanger precious native species. But the...

'Your world will be larger for reading this book' CHLOE DALTON author of Raising Hare Welcome to the hidden, squirming world of parasites – some of the most misunderstood, and most important, creatures with whom we share the Earth. And our bodies. There is the tapeworm, which can grow one...

One of People's 15 Most Anticipated Books of Summer The Next Big Idea Club's July 2026 Must-Read Books From Annie Jacobsen, the author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A Scenario, a book on a subject that has long orbited her reporting: biological warfare. A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global...

inguine gehören zu den beliebtesten Tieren auf dem Globus, ihre Fangemeinde ist riesig und ihr Abbild begegnet uns überall. Ihre auffällige Erscheinung hat offensichtlich etwas Unwiderstehliches: Sie tragen ein einprägsames schwarz-weißes Federkleid, können zwar nicht fliegen, aber haben einen liebenswert-komischen Watschelgang. Bergab rutschen sie gern auf dem Bauch. Unbeeindruckt von Schnee und Eis, Sturm und Kälte ziehen sie in denkbar unwirtlichen Regionen ihren Nachwuchs auf.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is the official ⁠OpenStax Microbiology audiobook⁠, produced by ⁠Audileo⁠, a valued OpenStax Technology Partner. Microbiology covers the scope and sequence requirements for a single-semester microbiology course for non-majors. The book...

「わたし」の中に無数の生命が潜んでいる。あなたの中の「他者」とは何か？ 異なる生命体の共存と融合が形作る「生命」。最新研究でわかった「驚きの生命観」。

Growth and Decay of Coral Reefs: Fifty Years of Learning describes how coral reefs have alternately flourished and declined over the last fifty years and the dynamics of these changes. The study is based on recordings at thirty different locations along the Sudanese coast, visited by the author...

Welcome to the hidden, squirming world of parasites—some of the most misunderstood creatures with whom we share the Earth (and our bodies). "Astonishing, eye-opening, and inspiring." —Chloe Dalton, author of Raising Hare There is the tapeworm, which can grow 120 feet in length within the gut...

Bloomsbury presents The Most Perfect Thing by Tim Birkhead, read by Gareth Armstrong 'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of different shapes made...

From split-gill mushrooms to duck-billed platypuses, the spectacular science of sexual reproduction and creation of biodiversity on Earth. Let’s talk about sex. Not boring, human sex, but the endlessly fascinating, varied, and complex forms of reproduction in the rest of the natural world...

Beneath our feet lies a world of farmers, builders, soldiers, nurses, and explorers. In Life Among the Ants, Vance Randolph offers an engaging introduction to the remarkable biology and social organization of one of nature’s most successful insects. Beginning with the ant’s anatomy, senses...

The image most of us have of whalers includes harpoons and intentional trauma. Yet eating commercially caught seafood leads to whales’ entanglement and slow death in rope and nets, and the global shipping routes that bring us readily available goods often lead to death by collision. We—all of us—are whalers, marine scientist and veterinarian Michael J. Moore contends. But we do not have to be.

A bold, counterintuitive manifesto that argues vanity isn’t just okay—it’s an amazing way to build a body and life you love, from popular fitness influencer, cofounder of RP Strength, and PhD in Sports Physiology, Dr. Mike Israetel. People don’t hit the gym just for health or...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is the official OpenStax Biology 2e audiobook, produced by Audileo, an authorized OpenStax Technology Partner. Biology 2e is designed to cover the scope and sequence requirements of a typical two-semester biology course for science majors. The text...

We are surrounded by bold claims and quick fixes for improving our immune systems. In this expert guide, leading immunologist Daniel M. Davis sorts the fact from fiction. Is it true that orange juice can help ward off colds? How does age affect our immune system? Is mental health really...

Bloomsbury presents Bird Sense by Tim Birkhead, read by John Sackville What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a...

Fatigue has become the background hum of modern life. One in three adults says they feel exhausted most days. Coffee that used to help no longer does. Sleep that used to restore no longer does. And the harder you push, the worse it gets. Dr. Cary Yurkiw has spent decades treating thousands of patients — and watching the same pattern in the people he loves and the doctors he works alongside.