RUTHERFORD ADAM

Ο ΑΠΟΛΥΤΟΣ ΟΔΗΓΟΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΑ ΠΑΝΤΑ* ΠΕΡΙΠΟΥ
Στον επίτομο οδηγό τους, οι Ράδερφορντ και Φράι δίνουν μια ολοκληρωμένη εξιστόρηση του σύμπαντος και όλων όσα αυτό περιέχει - αφήνοντας απ' έξω μόνο τις πολύ βαρετές λεπτομέρειες. Διαβάστε για το πόσο παράξενο είναι τελικά το σύμπαν μας, πόσο αλλόκοτοι είμαστε εμείς οι άνθρωποι, και με ποιον τρόπο, τελικά, καταφέρνουμε κάπως και βγάζουμε μιαν άκρη μέσα απ' αυτό το χάος. Γυρεύοντας μιαν απάντηση σε σπαζοκεφαλιές που μόνο η επιστήμη μπορεί να απαντήσει, το γνωστό δίδυμο των επιστημονικών ντεντέκτιβ μας ξεναγεί σε έναν κόσμο όπου η ανθρώπινη ...
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(P/B) HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST
Racist pseudoscience may be on the rise, but science is no ally to racists. Instead science and history can be powerful allies against bigotry, granting us the clearest view of how people actually are, rather than how we judge them to be. HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics can and can't tell us about human difference. It is a vital manifesto for a twenty-first century understanding of human evolution and variation, and a timely weapon against the misuse of science to justify ...
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(H/B) CONTROL
Throughout history, people have sought to improve society by reducing suffering, eliminating disease or enhancing desirable qualities in their children. But this wish goes hand in hand with the desire to impose control over who can marry, who can procreate and who is permitted to live. In the Victorian era, in the shadow of Darwin's ideas about evolution, a new full-blooded attempt to impose control over our unruly biology began to grow in the clubs, salons and offices of the powerful. It was enshrined in a political movement that bastardi...
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(H/B) HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST

(P/B) A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration and a lot of sex. In this captivating journey through the expanding landscape of genetics, Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes now tell us about human history, and what history can now tell us ab...
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(P/B) A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration and a lot of sex. Since scientists first read the human genome in 2001 it has been subject to all sorts of claims, counterclaims and myths. In fact, as Adam Rutherford explains, our genomes should b...
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