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戴维·夸曼
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David Quammen
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戴维·夸曼（David Quammen）著有十几本小说和非虚构图书，其中包括《血脉》（Blood Line）和《渡渡鸟之歌》（The Song of the Dodo）。他于2013年的《溢出》（Spillover）入围了多个重要图书奖的决选名单。他曾三次荣获国家杂志奖（National Magazine Award），为《户外》（Outside）、《哈珀斯》（Harper's）、《粉末》（Pow...
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《令人窒息：战胜致命病毒的科学竞赛》
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BREATHLESS: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
- 图书类型：大众社科
- 作者：David Quammen
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出 版 社：Simon & Schuster
代理公司：ANA/Lauren Li
页 数：224页
出版时间：2022年10月
代理地区：中国大陆、台湾
审读资料：电子稿
- 联系人：Rights
浏览次数：914
内容简介
这个故事讲述了全球科学界为破译冠状病毒SARS-CoV-2而进行的探索，追踪其来源，为对抗新冠大流行病提供疫苗。
《令人窒息》讲述了研究SARS-CoV-2的科学家们所看到的SARS-CoV-2在人类身上的激变旅程，它的来源、不断变化的性质以及它致死的能力。大卫·夸门（David Quammen）专业地展示了当我们破坏野生生态系统时，奇怪的新病毒是如何从动物传播至人类的，以及这些病毒是如何适应它们的人类宿主的，有时甚至会导致全球灾难的发生。夸门解释了为什么这种冠状病毒可能是一种“永远的病毒”，注定要在人类中循环，并以一种或另一种变体形式无休止地困扰着人类。当科学家...
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这个故事讲述了全球科学界为破译冠状病毒SARS-CoV-2而进行的探索，追踪其来源，为对抗新冠大流行病提供疫苗。
《令人窒息》讲述了研究SARS-CoV-2的科学家们所看到的SARS-CoV-2在人类身上的激变旅程，它的来源、不断变化的性质以及它致死的能力。大卫·夸门（David Quammen）专业地展示了当我们破坏野生生态系统时，奇怪的新病毒是如何从动物传播至人类的，以及这些病毒是如何适应它们的人类宿主的，有时甚至会导致全球灾难的发生。夸门解释了为什么这种冠状病毒可能是一种“永远的病毒”，注定要在人类中循环，并以一种或另一种变体形式无休止地困扰着人类。当科学家们努力用高科技工具和方法来捕捉、分析和控制它时，病毒找到了逃跑的方法。根据对近百名科学家的采访，包括中国和世界各地的顶尖病毒学家，夸门解释了：
- 传染病专家看到了大流行病的到来
- 二十多年来，一些科学家警告说，“下一次大流行病”将由一种易变的新病毒——很可能是冠状病毒——引起，但由于政治或经济原因，这种警告被忽略了
- 这种病毒的确切来源可能多年来都不为人所知，但一些线索是令人信服的，而一些推测可以被驳回
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《令人窒息》带领读者了解国际社会为了解和控制SARS-CoV-2所做的疯狂努力，就像站在研究病毒工作的杰出科学家的肩膀上窥视一样。
《纽约时报》称大卫·夸门是“我们在世的最伟大的自然世界记录者”。他赢得了三个国家杂志奖和许多科学写作奖，是《国家地理杂志》（National Geographic Magazine）的特约作家。他的作品《溢出效应:动物感染和下一次人类大流行病》（Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic）曾入围国家书评人协会奖（National Book Critics Circle award），还获得了其他一些奖项。
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“Prolific, award-winning science writer Quammen bring his story up to 2022, as the pandemic enters its third year with no end in sight. Authors who begin with 2019 events in the Wuhan meat market are fated to end with an anticlimax, but Quammen, casting his net more widely, does not have this problem. In addition to a hair-raising account of the ongoing pandemic, the author delivers an insightful education on public health and an introduction to numerous deadly epidemics over the past 50 years… Unsettling global health news brilliantly delivered by an expert.”
----Kirkus Reviews (STARRED REVIEW)
“Science journalist Quammen (Spillover) recounts in page-turning detail the scientific response to the Covid-19 pandemic...A must-read.”
----Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)
“Three years into the pandemic, Mr. Quammen, a prolific science journalist and author, uncovers all sorts of details about the efforts to investigate the spread of Covid and discern the features that made it so menacing. . . . An engagingly written chronicle of scientific inquiry.”
----The Wall Street Journal
"Breathless is as close to authoritative history — from the virus’s origins to vaccines and variants — as we have, told through scientists involved, and the signature ease of Quammen’s prose. It reads like a thriller in real-time."
----Chicago Tribune
"Accomplished science writer Quammen (The Tangled Tree, 2018; Spillover, 2012) fashions a sort of biography of the virus and a masterful scientific detective story...Quammen delivers a demanding and essential book about COVID-19."
----Booklist (STARRED REVIEW)
“A viral howdunnit that is pacy and unafraid to educate readers...Perhaps the real value of this book is that Quammen brings a naturalist’s eye to these debates. At the end, one is left with a deep appreciation of the diversity of nature and the serendipity of natural selection, which every day is shuffling and rearranging the genomes of viruses in ways that scientists can only begin to imagine."
----The Guardian
"A gripping, first-draft-of-history account of a virus’s first two years on Earth, pieced together from various lines of scientific evidence and then enlivened by metaphor."
----The Atlantic
相关资料
最新资讯：
Great news on David Quammen’s upcoming book – it’s just been longlisted for a National Book Award which will be decided on October 4: The committed noted:
Reflecting the incalculably far-reaching effects of the global pandemic, COVID-19 is addressed in three of this year’s Longlisted titles. Most closely tied to the ongoing pandemic, DavidQuammen interviewed close to 100 scientists and health officials in order to record the scientific response to COVID-19—from the frantic efforts to trace its origins to the development of an effective vaccine, and the ongoing quest to understand the disease’s long-lasting impacts in Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus.
Today’s Ranking on Amazon (3 weeks before publication with no publicity):
· #8 in Virology
· #34 in Zoology (Books)
· #78 in Biology (Books)
Terrific reviews coming in – ALL STARRED REVIEWS:
"A masterful scientific detective story. . . . Quammen delivers a demanding and essential book about COVID-19." ― Booklist (starred review)
"Science journalist Quammen recounts in page-turning detail the scientific response to the Covid-19 pandemic. . . . A must-read for anyone looking to get a better handle on the pandemic so far." ― Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“An authoritative new history of Covid-19 and its predecessors. . . . [Quammen] constructs a masterful account of viral evolution culminating in Covid-19. . . . Unsettling global health news brilliantly delivered by an expert.” ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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