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Bizarre health problems and plagues that wipe out people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and encouraged efforts by scientists to resolve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Refrigerator and beyond, Richard Preston’s bestselling works have mesmerized visitors everywhere by exhibiting them strange worlds of mother nature they never imagined.

Stress in Level 4 is a grand travel through the eerie and remarkable universe of Richard Preston, filled up with incredible heroes and mysteries that won't leave one’s brain. Here are remarkable true stories out of this acclaimed and award-winning author, including:

• The occurrence of “self-cannibals,” who suffer from a rare hereditary condition induced by one wrong letter in their DNA that causes those to compulsively chew up their own flesh–and why everyone may have a touch of this disease.
• The search for the unknown host of Ebola computer virus, an organism hidden somewhere in African rainwater forests, where in fact the disease discovers its way in to the human species, triggering outbreaks of unrivaled horror.
• The fantastic Russian brothers–“one mathematician divided between two systems”–who built a supercomputer in their apartment from mail-order parts in an attempt to find invisible order in the quantity pi (π).

In attractive, intimate, and exhilarating aspect, Richard Preston portrays the terrifying causes and constructive discoveries that are currently roiling and reordering our world, once again demonstrating himself a grasp of the nonfiction narrative and, as known in The Washington Post, “a science article writer with an uncommon gift for turning sophisticated biology into riveting page-turners.”


From the Hardcover release.

Category: Science & Math

Details

Publisher	Random House Audio
Language	English
ISBN
DATE	2008-08
Author	Richard Preston

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