Immune A Journey Into The Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive
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Immune
The book from the creator of the wildly popular science YouTube channel, Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell, a gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will change how you think about your body forever. Please note: the originally supplied fixed format edition of the eBook has now been replaced to address difficulties experienced by some readers. Please delete the previous version from your device and download the new edition. __________ 'A truly brilliant introduction to the human body's vast system for fighting infections and other threats' JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars 'Reads as if it's a riveting sci-fi novel . . . a delightful treat for the curious' TIM URBAN, creator of Wait But Why __________ You wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You're mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself. Meanwhile, an utterly epic war is being fought, just below your skin. Millions are fighting and dying for you to be able to complain as you drink your cup of tea and head out the door. So what, exactly, IS your immune system? Second only to the human brain in its complexity, it is one of the oldest and most critical facets of life on Earth. Without it, you would die within days. In Immune, Philipp Dettmer, the brains behind the most popular science channel on YouTube, takes readers on a journey through the fortress of the human body and its defences. There is a constant battle of staggering scale raging within us, full of stories of invasion, strategy, defeat, and noble self-sacrifice. In fact, in the time you've been reading this, your immune system has probably identified and eradicated a cancer cell that started to grow in your body. Each chapter delves deeply into an element of the immune system, including defences like antibodies and inflammation as well as threats like viruses, bacteria, allergies and cancer, as Dettmer reveals why boosting your immune system is actually nonsense, how parasites sneak their way past your body's defences, how viruses - including the coronavirus - work, and what goes on in your wounds when you cut yourself. Enlivened by engaging full-colour graphics and immersive descriptions, Immune turns one of the most intricate, interconnected, and confusing subjects - immunology - into a gripping adventure through an astonishing alien landscape. Challenging what you know and think about your own body and how it defends you against all sorts of maladies and how it might also eventually be your own downfall, Immune is a vital and remarkably fun crash course in what is arguably, and increasingly, the most important system in the body. __________
Evolution "On Purpose"
A unique exploration of teleonomy—also known as “evolved purposiveness”—as a major influence in evolution by a broad range of specialists in biology and the philosophy of science. The evolved purposiveness of living systems, termed “teleonomy” by chronobiologist Colin Pittendrigh, has been both a major outcome and causal factor in the history of life on Earth. Many theorists have appreciated this over the years, going back to Lamarck and even Darwin in the nineteenth century. In the mid-twentieth century, however, the complex, dynamic process of evolution was simplified into the one-way, bottom-up, single gene-centered paradigm widely known as the modern synthesis. In Evolution “On Purpose,” edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright, and Addy Pross, some twenty theorists attempt to modify this reductive approach by exploring in depth the different ways in which living systems have themselves shaped the course of evolution. Evolution “On Purpose” puts forward a more inclusive theoretical synthesis that goes far beyond the underlying principles and assumptions of the modern synthesis to accommodate work since the 1950s in molecular genetics, developmental biology, epigenetic inheritance, genomics, multilevel selection, niche construction, physiology, behavior, biosemiotics, chemical reaction theory, and other fields. In the view of the authors, active biological processes are responsible for the direction and the rate of evolution. Essays in this collection grapple with topics from the two-way “read-write” genome to cognition and decision-making in plants to the niche-construction activities of many organisms to the self-making evolution of humankind. As this collection compellingly shows, and as bacterial geneticist James Shapiro emphasizes, “The capacity of living organisms to alter their own heredity is undeniable.”
免疫
(全民醫學入門) X (人體免疫軍備全解說) X (47幅彩色插圖) 作者菲利普•德特默：千萬點閱、YOUTUBE最受歡迎科學頻道 KURZGESAGT創辦人 全面瞭解抗體、發炎和疫苗等防禦機制， 以及過敏、癌症、細菌的威脅。 比起打造「強大的免疫系統」，要追求「免疫系統的平衡」， 不再做無效養生。 當你醒來時，感覺喉嚨發癢而且頭有點痛。你在幫孩子打理好準備上學的同時，為此感到有些惱火。此時在皮膚之下，有一場史詩級的戰爭正在進行當中。數以百萬計的細胞正在為你犧牲，只是為了讓你在出門時還能夠抱怨。 但大多數人從未真正地停下來問——免疫系統究竟是什麼？ 免疫系統的複雜度僅次於人類的大腦，它是地球上生物最古老、也最關鍵的其中一面。沒有它，你會在幾天內死去。在《免疫》中，菲利普•德特默——YouTube 上最受歡迎科學頻道背後的首腦，帶領著讀者踏上了穿越人體堡壘和其防禦系統的旅程。一場規模驚人的戰鬥在身體內持續進行著，充滿了入侵、戰略、失敗和高尚自我犧牲的故事。事實上，在你閱讀本文時，免疫系統可能已經辨識出並消滅了開始在你體內生長的癌細胞。 本書共45個章節，每一章篇幅不長，各自鑽研免疫系統的其中一個元素，包括抗體和發炎等防禦機制，以及像是細菌、病毒感染、過敏和癌症等威脅。德特默揭示了為什麼提升免疫系統實際上是無稽之談、寄生蟲如何避開防禦系統潛入身體、病毒是如何運作的，以及當你割傷自己時，傷口中發生了哪些事情。 透過引人入勝的彩圖說明和身臨其境的描述，《免疫》將最複雜、相互關聯和令人困惑的一門學科——免疫學——變成一場扣人心弦的冒險，穿越令人驚嘆的異常景觀。當你讀完這本書，你會對免疫系統在你遭到病原體侵入時全力以赴地為你奮戰、甚至為你而死心懷感激；也會疫苗的作用原理有更清晰的理解，知道該不該讓孩子和自己接種疫苗；當你生病時，也不再會輕易聽信銷售員的花言巧語而買下大多無效的藥品；更不會害怕孩子因玩耍而弄髒身體。 瞭解就是力量。邀請您進入身體至關重要的這個系統，並開始這趟重要而精彩有趣的導覽行程。