04104cam a2200781 4500 2061594472 TxAuBib 20250328120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593473610 0593473612 B0D9RJWN5Z Amazon 04c7a1c5-f94a-4228-bf59-0992d18e2813 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11025217 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Zimmer, Carl. Air-Borne [Libby eBook] : The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. Penguin Publishing Group, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. science books for adults. science gifts for adults. gifts for history buffs. history teacher gifts. history lovers gifts. History of Science. history buff gifts. science history. medicine books. medical books. Public Health. history books. science books. biology books. history gifts. science gifts. biology gifts. airborne book. health books. science book. biology book. Aerobiology. Innovation. pollution. Evolution. breathing. Medicine. wellness. Airborne. Science. Biology. History. Medical. health. Nature. breath. covid. Food. AIR. HTML:<b><i>The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside down</i></b><br /> Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air—and thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. This last great biological frontier remains so mysterious that it took over two years for scientists to finally agree that the Covid pandemic was caused by an airborne virus.<br /> In <i>Air-Borne,</i> award-winning <i>New York Times</i> columnist and author Carl Zimmer leads us on an odyssey through the living atmosphere and through the history of its discovery. We travel to the tops of mountain glaciers, where Louis Pasteur caught germs from the air, and follow Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh above the clouds, where they conducted groundbreaking experiments. We meet the long-forgotten pioneers of aerobiology including William and Mildred Wells, who tried for decades to warn the world about airborne infections, only to die in obscurity.<br /> <i>Air-Borne</i> chronicles the dark side of aerobiology with gripping accounts of how the United States and the Soviet Union clandestinely built arsenals of airborne biological weapons designed to spread anthrax, smallpox, and an array of other pathogens. <i>Air-Borne</i> also leaves readers looking at the world with new eyes—as a place where the oceans and forests loft trillions of cells into the air, where microbes eat clouds, and where life soars thousands of miles on the wind.<br /> Weaving together gripping history with the latest reporting on Covid and other threats to global health, <i>Air-Borne</i> surprises us on every page as it reveals the hidden world of the air. Nonfiction. History. Medical. Science. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-03-27 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=04c7a1c5-f94a-4228-bf59-0992d18e2813&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=04c7a1c5-f94a-4228-bf59-0992d18e2813&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)