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The
Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins |
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson,
and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we
see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene.
Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce
themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn
it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain
us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer
many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't
thought of evolution in the same way since. Why are there miles and
miles of "unused" DNA within each of our bodies? Why should
a bee give up its own chance to reproduce to help raise her sisters
and brothers? With a prophet's clarity, Dawkins told us the answers
from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and
resources to produce more of their own kind. |
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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of
Belief - Lewis Wolpert |
Synopsis:
Why do 70 per cent of Americans believe in angels, and thousands more
that they have been abducted by aliens? Why does every society around
the world have a religious tradition of some sort? What makes people
believe in things when all the evidence points to the contrary? Why
do 13 per cent of British scientists touch wood? In "Through
the Looking Glass", the White Queen tells Alice that to believe
in a wildly improbable fact she simply needs to 'draw a long breath
and shut your eyes'. Alice finds this advice ridiculous. But don't
almost all of us, at some time or another, engage in magical thinking?
Professor Lewis Wolpert investigates the nature of belief and its
causes. He looks at belief's psychological basis and its possible
evolutionary origins in physical cause and effect. How did toolmaking
drive human evolution? Is it the lack of an explanation about fundamental
questions which is truly intolerable? |
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The
Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside - Richard
Benson |
Synopsis:
When Richard Benson was growing up he felt like the village idiot
with O'levels' glowing. School reports aren't much help when you're
trying to help a sow give birth, or drive a power harrow in a straight
line without getting half the hedgerow stuck in the tines. He left
Yorkshire to work as a journalist in London, but returned when his
dad called with the news that they were going to have to sell the
family farm, and, in so doing, leave the home and livelihood that
the Bensons had worked for generations. This is not only a moving
personal account, but also one that reflects a profound change in
rural life. |
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Ross
and Wilson Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness - Janet S.
Ross, Kathleen J.W. Wilson, Anne Waugh, Allison Grant |
Synopsis:
This long established best-selling text meets the needs of a wide
range of health care professionals, including nurses, nursing students,
students of allied health professions and complementary therapies,
paramedics and ambulance technicians. The purpose of the book is reflected
in its title, "Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness".
The text is written in straightforward language and is complemented
by extensive clear, full-colour illustrations. Each chapter provides
an explanation of: the normal structure and functions of the human
body and what occurs when disease or illness disrupts the normal processes.
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Mind
Over Mood: Cognitive Treatment Therapy Manual for Clients |
| Christine
Padesky, Dennis Greenberger. Synopsis: This guide draws on the authors'
experience as clinicians and teachers of cognitive therapy to help
clients successfully understand and improve their moods, alter their
behaviour, and enhance their relationships. Illustrated with case
examples, the book presents the skills for identifying problems, setting
goals, and achieving the desired changes.. |
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The
Earth: An Intimate History - Richard Fortey |
Reviews:
Sunday Times
'it provides a grandly unifying and intellectually satisfying theory
of almost everything geological, and Fortey does it full justice'
Telegraph
'...a thoroughly engrossing biography of the earth…it is as
though we’re leafing through the psychiatric case history
of our world...' |
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Rowing
Without Oars - Ulla-Carin Lindquist |
| Reviews:
The bookseller
'This is the affecting story of her final year, told in her own
words.'
Oliver Sacks
‘I have never read anything like it ... searing, beautiful,
terrifying, and, at the same time, affirming – and reassuring’ |
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Critical
Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another |
| Synopsis:
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.. |
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The
Earth from the Air |
| Amazon.co.uk
Review: French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and his devoted team
have spent five years putting together this voluminous gallery, selecting
195 images from 100,000 photographs taken from helicopters in the
skies over 75 countries. It is a staggering achievement and precisely
shows how vaguely we know our world. |
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A
Short History of Nearly Everything |
| Bill
Bryson. Synopsis: Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller:
but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain
his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly
Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from
the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there,
being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is
to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like
geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some
way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought
they could be interested in science.. |
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