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'I had never planned to
become a Savannah baboon
when I grew up; instead I
assumed I would become a
mountain gorilla, '
writes Robert Sapolsky in
this riveting chronicle
of a scientist's coming
of age in remote Africa.
Upon graduating from
college, a booksmart and
na-ve Sapolsky leaves the
comforts of the
Northeastern United
States for the very first
time, to join a baboon
troop in Kenya as a young
transfer male'. An expert
in primate behaviour,
Sapolsky sets out to
study the relationship
between stress and
disease. As he observes
the Machiavellian
politics of the troop,
giving the primates
biblical names and
pinpointing his favourite
(Benjamin) and his
nemesis (Nebuchadnezzar),
he also immerses himself
in the society of the
neighbouring Masai
tribesmen and ventures
far from his camp on a
series of jaw-dropping
adventures. Combining
irreverence and humour
with the best credentials
in his field, Sapolsky
writes as originally and
vividly about people and
their society as he does
about animals and theirs.
A Primate's Memoir is the
culmination of over two
decades of experience and
research - an astonishing
masterpiece from the
unique talent Oliver
Sacks has called 'one of
the best
scientist-writers of our
time.'
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On February 1, 2003,
ten astronauts were
orbiting the planet.
Seven headed back to
Earth on the space
shuttle Columbia. They
never made it. And the
three men left behind
found themselves too far
from home.
Chris
Jones chronicles the
efforts of the
beleaguered Mission
Control in Houston and
Moscow as they work
frantically against the
clock to bring their men
safely back to Earth,
ultimately settling on a
plan that felt, at best,
like a long shot. Yet
even amid the danger,
the call of space is a
siren song, and Too
Far From Home details
beautifully the majesty
and mystique of space
travel, while reminding
us all how perilous it is
to soar beyond the
sky.
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On February 1, 2003,
ten astronauts were
orbiting the planet.
Seven headed back to
Earth on the space
shuttle Columbia. They
never made it. And the
three men left behind
found themselves too far
from home.
Chris
Jones chronicles the
efforts of the
beleaguered Mission
Control in Houston and
Moscow as they work
frantically against the
clock to bring their men
safely back to Earth,
ultimately settling on a
plan that felt, at best,
like a long shot. Yet
even amid the danger,
the call of space is a
siren song, and Too
Far From Home details
beautifully the majesty
and mystique of space
travel, while reminding
us all how perilous it is
to soar beyond the
sky.
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This fascinating
anthology introduces us
to a wide range of
arguments on the subject
of memory, the thread
that holds our lives,
and our history,
together. Arranged in
themed sections, the
book includes specially
commissioned essays by
the editors and by
writers with expertise in
different fields
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What would have happened
had America not dropped
the atom bomb at the end
of the Second World War?
How long would the US
government have been able
to hold on to the secret
of one of the greatest
scientific breakthroughs
of the 20th century and
retain its atomic weapons
monopoly? The bomb
programme was the
culmination of a huge,
multi-billion research
development project
involving thousands of
personnel across the
States. But what if, at
almost exactly the same
time, America had
discovered another strand
of weapons science even
more powerful than the
bomb - the creation of a
weightless aircraft which
needs no fuel but can fly
at 170, 000 miles per
second ? How would the US
have constructed such a
programme - and held on
to the secret for so
long? Defence journalist
Nick Cook enters the
labyrinth of a 50-year
conspiracy to suppress a
technology based on
anti-gravity way ahead of
its time.
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Will the universe
continue to expand
forever, reverse its
expansion and begin to
contract, or reach a
delicately poised state
where it simply persists
forever? The answer
depends on the amount and
properties of matter in
the universe, and that
has given rise to one of
the great paradoxes of
modern cosmology; there
is too little visible
matter to account for the
behaviour we can see.
Over 90 percent of the
universe consists of
'missing mass' or 'dark
matter' - what Lawrence
Krauss, in his classic
book, termed 'the fifth
essence'. In this new
edition of The Fifth
Essence, retitled
Quintessence after
the now widely accepted
term for dark matter,
Krauss shows how the dark
matter problem is now
connected with two of the
hottest areas in recent
cosmology: the fate of
the universe and the
'cosmological constant.'
With a new introduction,
epilogue and chapter
updates, Krauss updates
his classic and shares
one of the most stunning
discoveries of recent
years: an antigravity
force that explains
recent observations of a
permanently expanding
universe.
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Today, genes are called
upon to explain almost
every aspect of our
lives, from social
inequalities to health,
sexual preference and
criminality. Based on
Darwin's theory of
evolution and natural
selection, Evolutionary
Psychology with its claim
that 'it's all in our
genes' has become the
most popular scientific
theory of the late 20th
century. Books such as
Richard Dawkins's The
Selfish Gene, Edward
O.Wilson's Consilience
and Steven Pinker's The
Language Instinct have
become bestsellers and
frame the public debate
on human life and
development: we can see
their influence as soon
as we open a Sunday
newspaper. In recent
years, however, many
biologists and social
scientists have begun to
contest this new
biological determinism
and shown that
Evolutionary Psychology
rests on shaky empirical
evidence, flawed
premises and unexamined
political
presuppositions. In this
provocative and
ground-breaking book,
Hilary and Steven Rose
have gathered together
the most eminent and
outspoken critics of this
fashionable ideology,
ranging from Stephen Jay
Gould and Patrick Bateson
to Mary Midgley, Tim
Ingold and Annette
Karmiloff-Smith. What
emerges is a new
perspective on human
development which
acknowledges the
complexity of life by
placing at its centre the
living organism rather
than the gene.
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Today, genes are called
upon to explain almost
every aspect of our
lives, from social
inequalities to health,
sexual preference and
criminality. Based on
Darwin's theory of
evolution and natural
selection, Evolutionary
Psychology with its claim
that 'it's all in our
genes' has become the
most popular scientific
theory of the late 20th
century. Books such as
Richard Dawkins's The
Selfish Gene, Edward
O.Wilson's Consilience
and Steven Pinker's The
Language Instinct have
become bestsellers and
frame the public debate
on human life and
development: we can see
their influence as soon
as we open a Sunday
newspaper. In recent
years, however, many
biologists and social
scientists have begun to
contest this new
biological determinism
and shown that
Evolutionary Psychology
rests on shaky empirical
evidence, flawed
premises and unexamined
political
presuppositions. In this
provocative and
ground-breaking book,
Hilary and Steven Rose
have gathered together
the most eminent and
outspoken critics of this
fashionable ideology,
ranging from Stephen Jay
Gould and Patrick Bateson
to Mary Midgley, Tim
Ingold and Annette
Karmiloff-Smith. What
emerges is a new
perspective on human
development which
acknowledges the
complexity of life by
placing at its centre the
living organism rather
than the gene.
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The world could be
changed forever by new
biotechnologies: cloning,
'genomics' and, above
all, by genetic
engineering. 'Designer
crops' - GMOs - are
already with us. The
'designer baby' is now
being planned. We need to
understand the issues
involved and to find
acceptable and robust
ways to control our own
ingenuity. But how can we
do so when the ideas seem
so complex and various
that even the experts
appear confused? In the
1950s and '60s, growing
peas in his monastery
garden in Brno in
Moravia, Augustinian
friar Gregor Mendel
worked out the basic laws
of heredity. Once we
understand what Mendel
did and why - and why
nobody did it sooner -
all subsequent advances
fall naturally into place
and a brilliant light is
thrown on to the future
of humanity. The story of
genetics and its
underlying principles are
utterly compelling - and
beguilingly simple to
grasp.
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In 1966 a group of highly
respected aerospace
engineers revealed that
US scientists were
perfecting ways to
control gravity. They
predicted a breakthrough
would come by the end of
the decade, ushering in
an era of limitless,
clean propulsion for a
new breed of fuelless
transport systems - and
weapons beyond our
imagination. Of course it
never happened. Or did
it? Forty years on a
chance encounter with one
of the engineers who made
that prediction forces a
highly sceptical
aerospace and defence
journalist, Nick Cook,
to consider the
possibility that America
did indeed crack the
gravity code - and has
covered up ever since.
His investigations moved
from the corridors of
NASA to the dark
heartland of America's
classified weapons
establishment, where it
became clear that a half
century ago, in the
dying days of the Third
Reich, Nazi scientists
were racing to perfect a
Pandora's Box of high
technology that would
deliver Germany from
defeat. History says that
they failed. But the
trail that takes Cook
deep into the
once-impenetrable empire
of SS General Hans
Kammler - the man charged
by Adolf Hitler with
perfecting German secret
weapons technology - says
otherwise. In his pursuit
of Kammler, Cook finally
establishes the truth:
America is determined to
hang onto its secrets,
but the stakes are
enormous and others are
now in the race to
acquire a suppressed
technology.
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Today we are developing a
science that could change
the world - for good or
ill - more quickly and
more profoundly than ever
before. The science of
genetics promises - or
threatens - nothing less
than the creation of
life.
Colin Tudge
leads the reader gently
through the deepest
intricacies of genetics.
He traces its history. He
explores its awesome
power and its current
applications. And he
speculates on its
thrilling - or terrifying
- future. He has written
an essential book for
anyone interested in the
future of the human
race.
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Mike Stroud, polar
explorer, practising
hospital physician and
recently adviser to the
Ministry of Defence on
survival, sets out in
this fascinating book the
genetics, diet and
exercise that enable
humans to perform at
their peak.
Based
soundly in medical
science, Dr Stroud
analyses individual feats
of survival and athletic
prowess that illustrate
the way the body
functions at its best. He
dissects his own
challenging experiences
of crossing Antarctica
with Ranulph Fiennes,
running marathons in the
Sahara and participating
in gruelling
cross-country endurance
races in the United
States and gives some
tips on how to stay fit
for life for those of us
who find walking the dog
and endurance challenge -
First published to great
acclaim in 1998, this
fully updated edition now
includes a chapter on the
Global 7 Marathons in 7
Days with Sir Ranulph
Fiennes.
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Mike Stroud, polar
explorer, practising
hospital physician and
recently adviser to the
Ministry of Defence on
survival, sets out in
this fascinating book the
genetics, diet and
exercise that enable
humans to perform at
their peak.
Based
soundly in medical
science, Dr Stroud
analyses individual feats
of survival and athletic
prowess that illustrate
the way the body
functions at its best. He
dissects his own
challenging experiences
of crossing Antarctica
with Ranulph Fiennes,
running marathons in the
Sahara and participating
in gruelling
cross-country endurance
races in the United
States and gives some
tips on how to stay fit
for life for those of us
who find walking the dog
and endurance challenge -
First published to great
acclaim in 1998, this
fully updated edition now
includes a chapter on the
Global 7 Marathons in 7
Days with Sir Ranulph
Fiennes.
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This brilliant and
ambitious book is an
account of the events
that made our world the
place it is -
geologically,
climatically and
ecologically - and a call
for a new way of thinking
about history. 'We
learn', Tudge writes,
'to think only in
desperately trivial
twinklings of time... But
this contracted view of
time is not merely comic.
It is dangerous. ' The
proper sense of time, he
argues, is one that
allows us to appreciate
the world and see what we
are doing to it. If
humankind is to survive,
we must UNLEARN most of
what made us good at
dominating our
environment up to now.
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This fascinating
collection of essays
exposes us as the animals
that we are while
explaining behaviours
that are deeply and
recognizably human. The
first section, 'Our
Genes and Who We Are',
focuses on our genetic
endowment and the forces
it creates in our lives,
such as our need to seek
out beauty. Another essay
explains the invisible
genetic warfare that
takes place between men
and women as they
conceive a baby, which
continues as the foetus
develops.
The
second part of the book,
'Our Bodies and Who We
Are', ponders such
diverse topics as why
dreams are in fact
dream-like; why we are
sexually attracted to one
another; why Alzheimer's
disease tends to be a
post-menopausal
phenomenon; and why
grandmothers buying
groceries for their
grandchildren are part of
nature's Darwinian logic.
In the third section,
'Society and Who We Are,
' Sapolsky takes his
interdisciplinary
curiosity out into the
wilds of civilization and
poses such interesting
questions as when and why
our preferences in food
become fixed. Or, why do
desert cultures tend to
be monotheistic and
sexually repressed
whereas rainforest
dwellers tend towards
sexually-relaxed
polytheistic cultures?
Why do people from the
lower economic classes
have more health
problems?
In each
of these investigations,
we see Sapolsky's
brilliant mind
synthesizing a wealth of
research in a thoughtful,
engaging way that
satisfyingly reveals the
enormous complexity of
simply being a human
animal.
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When We Were Kids is a
book of original,
autobiographical essays
by twenty-seven
scientists, including
Paul Davies, Richard
Dawkins, Daniel C.
Dennett, Freeman Dyson,
Murray Gell-Mann,
Nicholas Humphrey, Lynn
Margulis, Steven Pinker
and Robert M. Sapolsky.
Each writer attempts to
identify that moment or
those influences in his
or her youth which
triggered the
determination to become a
scientist. Was there a
particular event or set
of circumstances? To what
extent did parents,
peers of teachers
contribute? Why
mathematics rather than
psychology; why biology
rather than physics? What
were the turning points,
mistakes, epiphanies?
Personal, passionate,
revealing, enthralling,
When We Were Kids tells
as much about life as it
does about science.
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Joy, sorrow, jealousy
and awe - these and other
feelings are the stuff of
our daily lives. Presumed
to be too private for
science to explain and
not to be essential for
comprehending human
rationality and
understanding, they have
largely been ignored. But
not by the great
seventeenth-century Dutch
philosopher Spinoza. And
not by Antonio Damasio.
In this book Dr Damasio
draws on his innovative
research and on his
experience with
neurological patients to
examine how feelings and
the emotions that
underlie them support the
governance of human
affairs.
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Is there a 'physics of
society'? Ranging from
Hobbes and Adam Smith to
modern work on traffic
flow and market trading,
and across economics,
sociology and psychology,
Philip Ball shows how
much we can understand of
human behaviour when we
cease to try to predict
and analyse the behaviour
of individuals and look
to the impact of
hundreds, thousands or
millions of individual
human decisions, whether
in circumstances in which
human beings co-operate
or conflict, when their
aggregate behaviour is
constructive and when it
is destructive. By
perhaps Britain's leading
young science writer,
this is a deeply
thought-provoking book,
causing us to examine our
own behaviour, whether
in buying the new Harry
Potter book, voting for
a particular party or
responding to the lures
of advertisers.
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With fascinating insight,
impeccable research,
and captivating writing,
controversial
psychoanalyst Jeffrey
Masson, a new father
himself, showcases the
extraordinary behaviour
of outstanding fathers in
the animal kingdom. From
the emperor penguin, who
incubates the eggs of his
young by carrying them
around on his feet for
two months, to the
sea-horse, the only male
animal that gives birth
to its young. Mason also
examines nature's worst
fathers; lions, bears,
and humans. A book that
will forever change our
perceptions of parenthood
and love.
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Stephen Jay Gould's
writing remains the
modern standard by which
popular science writing
is judged. Ever since the
last 1970s, his monthly
essay in Natural History
and his full-length books
have bridged the yawning
gap between science and
the wider culture. This
fascinating new
collection of essays
contains some of Gould's
bestw riting on a variety
of subjects ranging from
Leonardo da Vinci and
Martin Luther to fossils
and the history of
science. As always,
these essays brillantly
display his gift for
colloquial and vivid
explanation, and include
fascinating oddities from
the natural world and the
printed word.
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Today, genes are called
upon to explain almost
every aspect of our
lives, from social
inequalities to health,
sexual preference,
political orientation and
criminality. In this
incisive and original
account, Steven Rose
confronts the fashionable
ideology of
ultra-Darwinism, which
reduces humans to little
more than machines for
the replication of DNA.
Whilst recognising the
importance of genes and
natural selection,
Professor Rose argues
that the trajectory of
life (lifeline) depends
on the complex
interactions that occur
within cells, organisms
and ecosystems through
time and space. By
placing the organism
rather than the gene at
the centre of life, he
offers a bold new
perspective on biology
that acknowledges the
essentially complex
nature of life.
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Self Comes to Mind
explores two questions
that have haunted
philosophers,
neurologists, cognitive
scientists and
psychologists for
centuries: how do
brains construct minds,
and how do minds become
conscious?
Antonio
Damasio has spent the
past thirty years
studying and writing
about how the brain
operates, and his work
has garnered acclaim for
its singular melding of
the scientific and the
humanistic. In this
revelatory work, he
debunks the long-standing
idea that consciousness
is somehow separate from
the body, presenting
astounding new scientific
evidence that
consciousness
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Many aspects of the human
mind remain mysterious.
While Darwinian natural
selection can explain the
evolution of most life on
earth, it has never
seemed fully adequate to
explain the aspects of
our minds that seem most
uniquely and profoundly
human - art, morality,
consciousness,
creativity and language.
Yet these aspects of
human nature need not
remain evolutionary
mysteries. Until fairly
recently most biologists
have ignored or rejected
Darwin's claims for the
other great force of
evolution - sexual
selection through mate
choice, which favours
traits simply because
they prove attractive to
the opposite sex. But
over recent years
biologists have taken up
Darwin's insights into
how the reproduction of
the sexiest is as much a
focus of evolution as the
survival of the
fittest.Witty,
powerfully-argued and
continually
thought-provoking,
Miller's cascade of ideas
bears comparison with
such critical books as
Richard Dawkins' The
Selfish Gene and Steven
Pinker's The Language
Instinct. It is a
landmark in our
understanding of our own
species.
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The universe is made of
bits. The way in which
the universe registers
and processes information
determines what it is and
how it behaves. It has
been known for more than
a century that every
piece of the universe -
every electron, atom,
and molecule - registers
bits of information. It
is only in the last ten
years, however, with
the discovery and
development of quantum
computers, that
scientists have gained a
fundamental understanding
of just how that
information is registered
and processed.
Seth Lloyd
calls this fundamental
understanding of the
universe in terms of
information processing
'the computational
universe', and the
purpose of this book is
to show how the
programmed,
computational universe
works. Starting from
basic concepts of
physics, Programming
the Universe shows
how all physical systems
register information. It
gives an accessible
account of how
information is stored and
processed at the level of
electrons, atoms, and
molecules.
It
shows how the information
processing power of the
universe can be harnessed
to build quantum
computers and explains
how the universe itself
behaves like a gigantic
computer, transforming
and processing
information. It traces
the history of
information processing
from the big bang to the
present day, and reveals
how the computational
ability of the universe
promotes the evolution of
complex structures such
as life. Programming
the Universe is the
story of the universe and
the bits it is made
of.
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The universe is made of
bits. The way in which
the universe registers
and processes information
determines what it is and
how it behaves. It has
been known for more than
a century that every
piece of the universe -
every electron, atom,
and molecule - registers
bits of information. It
is only in the last ten
years, however, with
the discovery and
development of quantum
computers, that
scientists have gained a
fundamental understanding
of just how that
information is registered
and processed.
Seth Lloyd calls
this fundamental
understanding of the
universe in terms of
information processing
'the computational
universe', and the
purpose of this book is
to show how the
programmed,
computational universe
works. Starting from
basic concepts of
physics, Programming
the Universe shows
how all physical systems
register information. It
gives an accessible
account of how
information is stored and
processed at the level of
electrons, atoms, and
molecules.
It
shows how the information
processing power of the
universe can be harnessed
to build quantum
computers and explains
how the universe itself
behaves like a gigantic
computer, transforming
and processing
information. It traces
the history of
information processing
from the big bang to the
present day, and reveals
how the computational
ability of the universe
promotes the evolution of
complex structures such
as life. Programming
the Universe is the
story of the universe and
the bits it is made
of.
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Learning the basic laws
of physics - mechanics,
thermodynamics,
relativity, quantum
mechanics - can be a
struggle. But when that
master of deduction,
Sherlock Holmes, leads
the way, those difficult
concepts become crystal
clear. Colin Bruce brings
Holmes, Dr. Watson,
Professor Challenger of
Lost World fame, and
other favourite Conan
Doyle characters to life
to solve a Baker Street
dozen baffling science
mysteries: Murder on a
royal train - divers dead
of heatstroke at the
bottom of an icy sea - a
mysterious lady whose
brilliance is matched
only by her evil - an
epidemic of insanity
among the world's top
scientists. Bruce works
out the apparent
paradoxes of special
relativity and quantum
theory in visual and
logical terms. The effect
is extremely lucid, and
very entertaining for the
armchair scientist in all
of us.
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In the centuries since
Descartes famously
proclaimed, 'I think,
therefore I am, ' science
has often overlooked
emotions as the source of
a person's true being.
Even modern neuroscience
has tended until recently
to concentrate on the
cognitive aspects of
brain function,
disregarding emotions.
This attitude began to
change with the
publication of
Descartes' Error.
Antonio Damasio
challenged traditional
ideas about the
connection between
emotions and rationality.
In this wonderfully
engaging book, Damasio
takes the reader on a
journey of scientific
discovery through a
series of case studies,
demonstrating what many
of us have long
suspected: emotions are
not a luxury, they are
essential to rational
thinking and to normal
social behaviour.
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In the centuries since
Descartes famously
proclaimed, 'I think,
therefore I am, ' science
has often overlooked
emotions as the source of
a person's true being.
Even modern neuroscience
has tended until recently
to concentrate on the
cognitive aspects of
brain function,
disregarding emotions.
This attitude began to
change with the
publication of
Descartes' Error.
Antonio Damasio
challenged traditional
ideas about the
connection between
emotions and rationality.
In this wonderfully
engaging book, Damasio
takes the reader on a
journey of scientific
discovery through a
series of case studies,
demonstrating what many
of us have long
suspected: emotions are
not a luxury, they are
essential to rational
thinking and to normal
social behaviour.
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How and why does each of
us grow up to be the
person we are? What role
do genes play in shaping
our behaviour and
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There are many books
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the story of this search,
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