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Gene : An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2016, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- ISBN
- 9781410490087
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cengage GALE
ISBN-10
1410490084
ISBN-13
9781410490087
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219676556
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
882 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Gene : an Intimate History
Publication Year
2016
Subject
Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Genetics, History
Features
Large Type
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science, Medical
Series
Thorndike Non Fiction Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-011417
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
616/.042
Edition Description
Large Type / large print edition
Synopsis
A #1 New York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the YearA Pulitzer Prize-winning AuthorWeaving science, social history, and personal narrative, Siddhartha Mukherjee tells the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, animating the quest to understand human heredity and its influence on our lives, personalities, fates, and choices., From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of "The Emperor of All Maladies" a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to read and write our own genetic information? The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. Throughout the narrative, the story of Mukherjee s own family with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness cuts like a bright, red line, reminding us of the many questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In superb prose and with an instinct for the dramatic scene, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Thomas Morgan to Crick, Watson and Rosa Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome. As "The" "New Yorker "said of" The Emperor of All Maladies," It s hard to think of many books for a general audience that have rendered any area of modern science and technology with such intelligence, accessibility, and compassion An extraordinary achievement. Riveting, revelatory, and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, and an essential preparation for the moral complexity introduced by our ability to create or write the human genome, "The Gene" is a must-read for everyone concerned about the definition and future of humanity. This is the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master."
LC Classification Number
RB155.M85 2016a
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