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Informed, utterly blindsiding account." - Booklist, starred review It's falling from the sky and is in the air we breathe. It's in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It's microplastic and it's everywhere--including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming. A Poison Like No Other is the first book to fully explore this new dimension of the plastic crisis....

A fascinating exploration of the awe-inspiring, weird, and unsettling ingenuity of evolution. On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber's anus. To find a meal, the female bolas spider releases pheromones that mimic a female moth, luring male moths into her sticky lasso web. The Glyptapanteles wasp injects a caterpillar with her young, which feed on the victim, erupt out of it, then mind-control the poor (and s...

Die Magie der Bücher - und der Liebe Im Spätsommer 1983 verliert Johan Andersson durch ein Schiffsunglück seine große Liebe Lina. Er bricht alle Brücken hinter sich ab und beginnt ein neues Leben als Antiquar und Cafébesitzer. Er ist ein wenig menschenscheu, dafür unterhält er sich umso lieber mit den Figuren aus seinen Lieblingsbüchern, die ihm leibhaftig erscheinen. Doch William von Baskerville, Pippi Langstrumpf und der Pudel aus >Faust< ...

A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature-and ourselves Zombieism isn't just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It's real, and it's happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and moose-and even humans. In Plight of the Living Dead, science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre evolutionary history of mind cont...

Der gnadenlose Überlebenskampf der freien Wildbahn stellte schon so manche Spezies vor verzwickte Probleme. Doch die Evolution kennt immer eine Lösung, und sei sie auch noch so verrückt. So werden Ameisen zu Zombies, Beutelmäuse zu Testosteronmonstern und Wespen zu Sklavenhaltern. Mit bissigem Humor stellt Matt Simon die skurrilsten Überlebensstrategien des Tierreichs vor. Und unweigerlich fragt man sich: Liebe Evolution, was hast du dir da nu...

Waarom wespen rupsen hersenspoelen van Matt Simon is een prachtig boek dat laat zien hoe dieren door hun bijzondere aanpassingsvermogen als soort weten te overleven in de meest extreme omstandigheden. De meest onwaarschijnlijke dieren, van vingerdier en waterbeer tot pistoolgarnaal, snorpad en zombiemier passeren de revue. Een boek vol populaire wetenschap, humor en prachtige illustraties.

A bizarre collection of evolution tales . . . the weirder, the better." -Entertainment WeeklyA fascinating exploration of the awe-inspiring, unsettling ingenuity of evolution from Wired writer Matt Simon, author of Plight of the Living Dead (coming soon from Penguin Books)On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber's anus. To find a meal, the female bolas spider releases pheromones that mimic a female moth, luri...

A fascinating exploration of the awe-inspiring, weird, and unsettling ingenuity of evolution. On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber's anus. To find a meal, the female bolas spider releases pheromones that mimic a female moth, luring male moths into her sticky lasso web. The Glyptapanteles wasp injects a caterpillar with her young, which feed on the victim, erupt out of it, then mind-control the poor (and s...