6 Best science nature books like The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage by Tom Ireland

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The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage

By: Tom Ireland

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fight…

If you liked the science nature plot in The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage by Tom Ireland , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

By: Jennifer A. Doudna , Samuel H. Sternberg

4.08

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a c… read more

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2. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

By: Emily Monosson

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss ac… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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4. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

By: Max Solomon Bennett

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more

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5. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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6. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

By: Dan Egan

4.23

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more

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7. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more

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"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

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8. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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9. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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10. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

By: Susan Casey

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more

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Cover of Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle

11. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

By: Rebecca Boyle

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more

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Cover of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health by Anupam B. Jena

12. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

By: Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more

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  • science
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13. Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

By: Roy A. Meals

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining illustrated deep dive into muscle, from the discovery of human anatomy to the lates… read more

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14. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

By: Helen Czerski

4.23

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more

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Cover of Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen

15. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

By: David Quammen

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to deciphe… read more

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"The more numerous we become, the more crowded, the more interconnected, the more demanding of resources, the more invasive of wild places, the more disruptive of richly diverse ecosystems—the closer …"

-David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

Cover of We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds by Sally Adee

16. We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

By: Sally Adee

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that ru… read more

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Cover of Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama

17. Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations

By: Simon Schama

3.65

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Da millenni gli esseri umani e i virus coesistono e, suo malgrado, l'umanità più di una volta si è … read more

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Cover of The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir by Steffanie Strathdee

18. The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

By: Steffanie Strathdee

4.39

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of one woman's effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure tha… read more

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"A wise person once said, "The most important two days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why."

-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

"It's no joke that hospitals are now often referred to as the worst place to get well. Superbugs are looking out the hospital windows, licking their chops at the feast that awaits them in this era of …"

-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

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19. The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage

By: Tom Ireland

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fight… read more

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Cover of How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite by Chris Balakrishnan

20. How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite

By: Chris Balakrishnan

3.63

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, y… read more

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Cover of From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine by Ben Stanger

21. From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine

By: Ben Stanger

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Inside the quest to unlock the mysteries of development―and find the key to transforming our future… read more

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9 best-selling medical books like The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage by Tom Ireland

Transform Your Habits

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

Roy A. Meals

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

David Quammen

4.21

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Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

Charan Ranganath

3.95

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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

4.32

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The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

Helen Czerski

4.23

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