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Themes include History, Civilization, Medical, Diseases, Genetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe basis for the Pbs Ken Burns Documentary \u003ci\u003eThe Gene: An Intimate History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself.\" –Ken Burns\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in \u003ci\u003eThe Gene: An Intimate History\u003c\/i\u003e, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” (\u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Journal-Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Gene\u003c\/i\u003e is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “\u003ci\u003eThe Gene\u003c\/i\u003e is a book we all should read” (\u003ci\u003eUsa Today\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. 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Take locusts, surging over the land in their millions, unable to slow down for a moment because the hungry ranks behind will literally bite their legs off if they don't stay one step ahead (actually, you might know a few people like that). But no matter how offputting an animal might be, behavioural scientist Ashley Ward can usually find something worth celebrating. Travelling the world from the Serengeti to the frozen Antarctic ocean, with stops in the muddy fields and streams of his native northern Yorkshire, he brings his curious eye and infectious humour right down to their level. The result is a world-expanding, myth-busting tour of some of nature's greatest marvels, in delightfully broad-minded company\"--Publisher's description.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. 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