The gene

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The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle).

“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

“Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” (The New York Times). 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.

“Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (The Washington Post). 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.

“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” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene 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. “The Gene is a book we all should read” (USA TODAY).

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The Gene

Rating: 4.7 / 5 | Prijs: € 13.95

Spanning the globe and several centuries this is the story of the quest to decipher the master code that makes and defines humans that governs our form and function it is also an intimate history of the author s own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness reminding us that genetics is Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

The Gene

Rating: 4.7 / 5 | Prijs: € 26.95

The 1 new york times bestseller the basis for the pbs ken burns documentary the gene an intimate history from the pulitzer prize winning author of the emperor of all maladies a fascinating history of the gene and a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously ingeniously picked apart Uiterlijk 29 november in huis .. MEER INFO

The Gene

Rating: 4.7 / 5 | Prijs: € 10.99

new york times number one bestseller the gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of the emperor of all maladies the story begins in an augustinian abbey in 1856 and takes the reader from darwin s groundbreaking theory of evolution t Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 mei 2017

Aantal pagina's: 608

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Hoofduitgeverij: Scribner Macmillan

Originele titel: The Gene: An Intimate History

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Product breedte: 155 mm

Product hoogte: 41 mm

Product lengte: 231 mm

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Verpakking breedte: 137 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 43 mm

Verpakking lengte: 229 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 1123 g

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EAN: 9781476733524

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