A gripping and timely book about the transmission of highly dangerous diseases from animal to human populations. 'A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story' Walter Isaacson von...

The Tangled Tree von Quammen, David

The real story of AIDS-how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people-is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises...