Overview :Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life. Building... Read More
Overview :"Ridley writes with panache, wit, and humor and displays remarkable ingenuity in finding ways to present complicated materials for the lay r... Read More
Overview :"Chan and Ridley write with an urgency...that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how infectious-disease laboratories work and... Read More
Overview :The genome's been mapped.But what does it mean?Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twe... Read More
Overview :Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our ... Read More
Overview :Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneous. It follow... Read More
Overview :Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurt... Read More
Overview :Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Francis Crick is the first biography of the eminent scientist, co-discoverer of the double helix... Read More
Overview :Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt R... Read More
Overview :If, as Darwin suggests, evolution relentlessly encourages the survival of the fittest, why are humans compelled to live in cooperative, comp... Read More
Overview :Almost every schoolchild learns that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. But did he? And if he hadn't invented it, would we be still livi... Read More
Overview :The New York Times bestselling author of Genome and The Evolution of Everything revisits Darwin's revelatory theory of mate choice through t... Read More