Selected as a Book of the Year by The New York Times The Economist Independent Observer & Mail on Sunday THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 Dramatic & precise A thrilling & comprehensive account of what seems certain to be the most radical controversial & to borrow from the subtitle intimate science of our time He is a natural storyteller A page-turner Read this book & steel yourself for what comes next' Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful & dangerous ideas in our history from bestselling prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee Spanning the globe & several centuries The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes & defines humans that governs our form & function This is an epic moving history of a scientific idea coming to life by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies But woven through The Gene like a red line is also an intimate history
- the story of Mukherjee's own family & its recurring pattern of mental illness reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives These concerns reverberate even more urgently today as we learn to read & write the human genome
- unleashing the potential to change the fates & identities of our children The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where a monk stumbles on the idea of a unit of heredity' It intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution & collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s The gene transforms post-war biology It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality temperament choice & free will This is a story driven by human ingenuity & obsessive minds
- from Charles Darwin & Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick James Watson & Rosalind Franklin & the thousands of scientists still working to understand the code of codes Majestic in its ambition & unflinching in its honesty The Gene gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity
- & a vision of both humanity's past & future



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The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of the perils of hubris the pitfalls of patriotism & duty unaccompanied by critical thinking' The most vivid moving
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- word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written here re-introduced by Max Hastings CS Forester's 1936 masterpiece follows Lt General Herbert Curzon who fumbled a fortuitous early step on the path to glory in the Boer War 1914 finds him an honourable decent brave & wholly unimaginative colonel Survival through the early slaughters in which so many fellow-officers perished then brings him rapid promotion By 1916 he is a general in command of 100000 British soldiers whom he leads through the horrors of the Somme & Passchendaele a position for which he is entirely unsuited & intellectually unprepared Wonderfully human with Forester's droll relish for human folly on full display this is the story of a man of his time who is anything but wicked yet presides over appalling sacrifice & tragedy In his awkwardness & his marriage to a Duke's unlovely unhappy daughter Curzon embodies Forester's full powers as a storyteller His half-hero is patriotic diligent even courageous driven by his sense of duty & refusal to yield to difficulties But also powerfully damned is the same spirit which caused a hundred real-life British generals to serve as high priests at the bloodiest human sacrifice in the nation's history A masterful & insightful study about the perils of hubris & unquestioning duty in leadership The General is a fable for our times

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The General in his Labyrinth is the compelling tale of Simon Bolivar a hero who has been forgotten & whose power is fading retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude & Love in the Time of Cholera ' It was the fourth time he had travelled along the Magdalena & he could not escape the impression that he was retracing the steps of his life' At the age of forty-six General Simon Bolivar who drove the Spanish from his lands & became the Liberator of South America takes himself into exile He makes a final journey down the Magdalene River revisiting the cities along its shores reliving the triumphs passions & betrayals of his youth Consumed by the memories of what he has done & what he failed to do Bolivar hopes to see a way out of the labyrinth in which he has lived all his life ' An exquisite writer wise compassionate & extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph' An imaginative writer of genius' Guardian' The most important writer of fiction in any language' Bill Clinton ...

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century On economic theory he ranks with Adam Smith & Karl Marx; & his impact on how economics was practiced from the Great Depression to the 1970s was unmatched The General Theory of Employment Interest & Money was first published in 1936 But its ideas had been forming for decades as a student at Cambridge Keynes had written to a friend of his love for ' Free Trade & free thought' Keynes's limpid style concise prose & vivid descriptions have helped to keep his ideas alive
- as have the novelty & clarity at times even the ambiguity of his macroeconomic vision He was troubled above all by high unemployment rates & large disparities in wealth & income Only by curbing both he thought could individualism the most powerful instrument to better the future' be safeguarded The twenty-first century may yet prove him right In The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) Keynes elegantly & acutely exposes the folly of imposing austerity on a defeated & struggling nation
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Earth is no longer the centre of the universe After the invention of the faster-than-light jump drive humanity is rapidly establishing new colonies But the vast distances of space mean that the protection of Earth's laws no longer exists When a nearby world attacks the new colony of Glenlyon turns to Robert Geary a former junior fleet officer & Mele Darcy once an enlisted Marine They must face down warships with nothing but improvised weapons & a few volunteers
- or die trying The only hope for lasting peace lies with Carmen Ochoa a Red from anarchic Mars & Lochan Nakamura a failed politician & their plan for a mutual alliance But if their efforts don't succeed space could become a battlefield between the first interstellar empires
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Every Friday the 13th 6th-grade genius Nate Bannister does three not-so-smart things to keep life interesting This time he taught a caterpillar to read mailed a love letter & super-sized his cat Proton before turning him invisible Now Proton is on the loose & Nate & his new friend Delphine must reverse the experiment before the cat crushes everything & everybody in town As if that's not enough the Red Death Tea Society known for its criminal activity killer tactics & tea-brewing skills is plotting against Nate & Delphine The dynamic duo must use their creativity courage & friendship to save the day Paul Tobin blends wacky humour & chaotic high jinks in this rip-roaring action-packed middle-grade debut;perfect for fans of David Walliams & Tom Gates ...

Promote your students' creativity & get them excited about learning! In this practical new book authors Denise Krebs & Gallit Zvi show you how to implement Genius Hour a time when students can develop their own inquiry-based projects around their passions & take ownership of their work Brought to you by Middle Web & Routledge Eye On Education the book takes you step-by-step through planning & teaching Genius Hour You'll learn how to guide your students as they Develop inquiry questions based on their interests; Conduct research to learn more about their topic of choice; Create presentations to teach their fellow students in creative ways; & Present their finished product for a final assessment At the end of the book you'll find handy FAQs & ready-made lessons & resources In addition a companion website wwwgeniushourguideorg offers bonus materials & regular updates to support you as you implement Genius Hour in your own classroom ...

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures In fact according to revolutionary new research some birds rival primates & even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence Like humans many birds have enormous brains relative to their size Although small bird brains are packed with neurons that allow them to punch well above their weight In The Genius of Birds acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds & how it came about As she travels around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of research
- the distant laboratories of Barbados & New Caledonia the great tit communities of the United Kingdom & the bowerbird habitats of Australia the ravaged mid-Atlantic coast after Hurricane Sandy & the warming mountains of central Virginia & the western states
- Ackerman not only tells the story of the recently uncovered genius of birds but also delves deeply into the latest findings about the bird brain itself that are revolutionizing our view of what it means to be intelligent Consider as Ackerman does the Clark's nutcracker a bird that can hide as many as 30000 seeds over dozens of square miles & remember where it put them several months later; the mockingbirds & thrashers species that can store 200 to 2000 different songs in a brain a thousand times smaller than ours; the well-known pigeon which knows where it's going even thousands of miles from familiar territory; & the New Caledonian crow an impressive bird that makes its own tools But beyond highlighting how birds use their unique genius in technical ways Ackerman points out the impressive social smarts of birds They deceive & manipulate They eavesdrop They display a strong sense of fairness They give gifts They play keep-away & tug-of-war They tease They share They cultivate social networks They vie for status They kiss to console one another They teach their young They blackmail their parents They alert one another to danger They summon witnesses to the death of a peer They may even grieve This elegant scientific investigation & travelogue weaves personal anecdotes with fascinating science Ackerman delivers an extraordinary story that will both give readers a new appreciation for the exceptional talents of birds & let them discover what birds can reveal about our changing world

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Evolutionary biologist & best-selling author Richard Dawkins explores the work of Charles Darwin As one of his heroes Darwin&s theory of evolution has always been at the crux of Dawkins criticism of creationism & religious reasoning In this fascinating series he brings these ideas to life in an effort to discuss Darwin&s influence on modern atheism ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This five-part series made by the team behind the award-winning series The Genius of Photography tells the story of design from the Industrial Revolution through 20s modernism the swinging 60s the designer 80s & up to the present day Features interviews with star designers like Philippe Starck & creatives from Apple & Ford; as well as design fans like Stephen Fry ...