Books Recommended by Jonathan Eisen
Biohazard
The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
Ken Alibek
Source: Jonathan Eisen mentioned this book on his "Some of my favorite books about Biological Warfare" list.
The Eleventh Plague
The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare
Leonard A. Cole
Source: Jonathan Eisen mentioned this book on his "Some of my favorite books about Biological Warfare" list.
Beating Back the Devil
Maryn McKenna
Source: Jonathan Eisen mentioned this book on his "Some of my favorite books about Infectious Disease" list.
Pandemic 1918
Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
Catharine Arnold
Source: Jonathan Eisen mentioned this book on his "Some of my favorite books about Infectious Disease" list.
Flu
The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
Gina Kolata
Source: Jonathan Eisen mentioned this book on his "Some of my favorite books about Infectious Disease" list.
Level 4
Virus Hunters of the CDC
Joseph B McCormick
Source: Jonathan Eisen mentioned this book on his "Some of my favorite books about Infectious Disease" list.
The Hot Zone
The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Richard Preston
Source: Jonathan Eisen mentioned this book on his "Some of my favorite books about Infectious Disease" list.
Microbe Hunters
Paul de Kruif
Source: Jonathan Eisen mentioned this book on his "Some of my favorite books about Infectious Disease" list.
The Coming Plague
Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Laurie Garrett
Source: Jonathan Eisen mentioned this book on his "Some of my favorite books about Infectious Disease" list.
Spillover
Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
David Quammen
Source: Jonathan Eisen mentioned this book on his "Some of my favorite books about Infectious Disease" list.
Virus
An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes
Marilyn J. Roossinck
Source: Jonathan Eisen mentioned this book on his "Some of my favorite books about Viruses" list.
A Planet of Viruses
Carl Zimmer
Source: Jonathan Eisen mentioned this book on his "Some of my favorite books about Viruses" list.
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
Jon L. Dunn
Source: "It’s the only book I give to people." - Jonathan Eisen
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