The Selfish Gene: 50Th Anniversary Edition

Joanna Stern

What happens when intelligent machines aren't just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids? You've heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently, return hours of free time to our overworked brains, and make discoveries previously unima...

Gee, Henry

'Brilliant' - The Times 'Hugely informative and entertaining' - New Scientist 'Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately' - Eric Idle From the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, a thrilling and thought-provoking account of the rise and fall of humankind. For the first time in over ten millennia, the rate of human population growth is slowing d...

Metzl, Jamie

From a leading futurist and OneShared.World founder, a "brilliant" (Sanjay Gupta) book that explores how artificial intelligence and other revolutionary technologies are transforming our lives-and our future New technologies have the potential to improve our health, feed billions of people, supercharge our economies, store essential information for millions of years, and save ...

Isett, Brian

Interweaving science and storytelling, spirituality and art, a neuroscientist and an artist guide us toward a deeper understanding of how radically interconnected all of life is. A Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview selection! Starting from science, while reaching for spiritual truth, The Forgotten Teachers charts the evolution of life on Earth under the mentorship of six teachers: O...

Nathalie A. Cabrol

One of the world's leading astrobiologists takes us on an awe-inspiring journey across the cosmos to investigate some of humanity's most profound questions: Are we alone in the universe? And how did life on Earth begin?We are in a golden age in astronomy, living on the cusp of breakthroughs that will revolutionize our understanding of our place in the cosmos. Yet a profound que...

Tom Zeller Jr.

"Required reading for anyone with a head."--Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and FuzzFor the many millions of headache sufferers, a deeply reported, sometimes harrowing, and frequently humorous journey into the author's own excruciating headaches, and the science behind these surprisingly mysterious disorders that may, finally, offer relief. Virtually ever...

Richard Dawkins

From one of the world's great science writers and biologists: a book that reflects on the vast arc of evolutionary history and what it tells us about life on earth.How much do we really know about our past?For centuries, we have yearned to learn more about our ancestors and piece together the story of how we came to be. But language can only record so much. And fossils can be e...

Richard Dawkins

The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. u003cpu003eAs influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in ...

Richard Dawkins

Este libro deshace una buena parte de los equívocos que normalmente se proyectan sobre el evolucionismo; y sobre todo es un intento serio de explicar basándose en la teoría de Darwin cómo han podido llegar a existir formas de vida tan increíblemente complejas como nosotros mismos, a partir de los más simples materiales. En sus páginas, Dawkins rebate discursos teológicos acerca...

Richard Dawkins

Dawkins afirma la irracionalidad de la creencia en Dios y el daño que la religión ha infligido a la sociedad, desde las Cruzadas hasta el 11-S. Con rigor e ingenio examina a Dios en todas sus formas, desde el tirano obsesionado por el sexo del Antiguo Testamento, hasta el benigno relojero celestial de la Ilustración y muestra cómo la religión alienta las guerras y fomenta el fa...

Richard Dawkins

Desde su posición de declarado ateísmo, Dawkins disecciona en este libro la irracionalidad de la creencia en Dios y el daño que la religión, desde sus numerosas perspectivas, ha causado en la sociedad a través de los siglos. A través de un exhaustivo análisis de todos los argumentos que sustentan la religión, demuestra la improbabilidad de la existencia de un ser supremo y ofre...

Richard Dawkins

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don't lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often is ...