The Rational optimist, Matt Ridley

Автор: Ridley Matt
Название: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
ISBN: 006145205X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061452055
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Life is getting better--and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down -- all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people's lives as never before. The pessimists who dominate public discourse insist that we will soon reach a turning point and things will start to get worse. But they have been saying this for two hundred years.

Yet Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. Prosperity comes from everybody working for everybody else. The habit of exchange and specialization--which started more than 100,000 years ago--has created a collective brain that sets human living standards on a rising trend. The mutual dependence, trust, and sharing that result are causes for hope, not despair.

This bold book covers the entire sweep of human history, from the Stone Age to the Internet, from the stagnation of the Ming empire to the invention of the steam engine, from the population explosion to the likely consequences of climate change. It ends with a confident assertion that thanks to the ceaseless capacity of the human race for innovative change, and despite inevitable disasters along the way, the twenty-first century will see both human prosperity and natural biodiversity enhanced. Acute, refreshing, and revelatory, "The Rational Optimist" will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.

Автор: Ridley, Matt
Название: Genome
ISBN: 0060894083 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060894085
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"Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . . . . He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with inevitability." -- The New Yorker

The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Matt Ridley's Genome is the book that explains it all: what it is, how it works, and what it portends for the future

Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. Questions that will affect the rest of your life.

Genome offers extraordinary insight into the ramifications of this incredible breakthrough. By picking one newly discovered gene from each pair of chromosomes and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. From Huntington's disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome. It will help you understand what this scientific milestone means for you, for your children, and for humankind.

Автор: Ridley, Matt
Название: Genome,2000
ISBN: 185702835X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857028355
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene, from the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue.

Автор: Ridley, Matt
Название: The Red Queen
ISBN: 0060556579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060556570
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 1671.00 р.
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Описание: The Red Queen is the first book by the author of the New York Times bestseller and New York Times Notable Book Genome.

Автор: Matt Ridley
Название: The Rational optimist
ISBN: 0007378904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007378906
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 1715.00 р.
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