Nature via Nurture
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roo...
Birds, Sex and Beauty
In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand the rich origins and ongoing significance of Darwin's sexual selection theory. 'FASCINATING' The Times 'Matt Ridley is one of ...
Birds, Sex and Beauty
In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand the rich origins and ongoing significance of Darwin's sexual selection theory. 'FASCINATING' The Times 'Matt Ridley is one of ...
Origins of Virtue
Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive argument about the paradox of human benevolence.
Red Queen
Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how...
Rational Optimist
Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up. We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder, cleaner, more peaceful, more equal and longer-lived than any previous generation. Thanks to the unique human habits...
The Evolution Of Everything
The Evolution Of Everything [Bok / Pocket]
Genome
'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
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
'Mr. Ridley's best and most important work to date...there is something profoundly democratic and egalitarian--even anti-elitist--in this bottom-up approach: Everyone can have a role in bringing about change.' --Wall Street Journal The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneous. It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next, and it largely happens by trial and error--a version of natural selection. Much of the human world is the result of human action but not of human design: it emerges from the interactions of millions, not from the plans of a few. Drawing on fascinating evidence from science, economics, history, politics, and philosophy, Matt Ridley demolishes conventional
Francis Crick
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life. Building on a biographical tradition that can be traced back to Aubrey's 'Brief Lives', Dr Johnson's 'Lives of the ...
How Innovation Works
'Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success' Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. Innov...
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
'A delightful and fascinating book filled with insight and wit, which will make you think twice and cheer up.' -- Steven Pinker In a bold and provocative interpretation of economic history, Matt Ridley, the New York Times-bestselling author of Genome and The Red Queen, makes the case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change--what Ridley calls cultural evolution--will inevitably increase human prosperity. Fans of the works of Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel), Niall Ferguson (The Ascent of Money), and Thomas Friedman (The World Is Flat) will find much to ponder and enjoy in The Rational Optimist. For two hundred years the pessimists have dominated public discourse, insisting that things will soon be getting much worse. But in fact, 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. Africa is following
How Innovation Works
'Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success' Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. Innov...
Genome
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. The genome is our 100,000 or so genes. The genome is the collective r...
Viral
Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind.¿ Determining whether the¿virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to safeguard against the next pandemic. This disease will forever punctuate m...
Viral
Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind.¿ Determining whether the¿virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to safeguard against the next pandemic .
How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to Change the World?
Almost every schoolchild learns that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. But did he? And if he hadn't invented it, would we be still living in the dark? Acclaimed author Matt Ridley (The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything) explains ...
Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea
' An] intriguing philosophical journey into a critical issue within evolutionary theory that for too long has remained unresolved.' --Wall Street Journal Matt Ridley is one of our finest science writers. This book is a treat for bird lovers and evolutionary biologists alike.' --Richard Dawkins, author of The Genetic Book of The Dead and The God Delusion The New York Times bestselling author of Genome and The Evolution of Everything revisits Darwin's revelatory theory of mate choice through the close study of the peculiar rituals of birds, and considers how this mating process complicates our own view of human evolution. In all animals, mating is a deal. But few creatures behave as if sex is a simple, even mutually beneficial, transaction. Many more treat it with reverence, suspicion, angst, and violence. In the case of the Black Grouse, the bird at the center of Matt Ridley's investigation, the males dance and sing for hours a day, for several exhausting months, in an arduous and even
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
'A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.' (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Genome Brilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love. Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture--including why men propose marriage, the method behind our maddening notions of beauty, and the disquieting fact that a woman is more likely to conceive a child by an adulterous lover than by her husband. The Red Queen offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved.
Ore Deposit Geology
Mapping closely to how ore deposit geology is now taught, this textbook systematically describes and illustrates the major ore deposit types, linking this to their settings in the crust and the geological factors behind their formation. Written fo...
Evolution
Mark Ridley's Evolution has become the premier undergraduate text in the study of evolution. Readable and stimulating, yet well-balanced and in-depth, this text tells the story of evolution, from the history of the study to the most revent develop...
Philosophy of Music
New and distinctive approaches to five central topics in musical aesthetics are provided in this outstanding book. The topics are: understanding, representation, expression, performance and profundity. The theme of the book is the failure of the o...
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Art
Nietzsche is one of the most important modern philosophers and his writings on the nature of art are amongst the most influential of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This GuideBook introduces and assesses: Nietzsche's life and the backgroun...
Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols
Nietzsche's late works are brilliant and uncompromising, and stand as monuments to his lucidity, rigour, and style. This volume combines, for the first time in English, five of these works: The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsc...
Fakta om Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela föddes i en by i Sydafrika. I hela sitt liv kämpade han för de svarta människornas rättigheter. När han var 76 år blev han president. I den här boken kan du läsa om hans spännande liv. Den här boken ingår i vår serie "F...
The Vespers
Have you ever struggled to find the perfect monologue? Do you want to lose yourself in an unforgettable story? Do you want to be…transported? Philip Ridley’s The Vespers is a major work by a major writer. 100 original, self-contained monologues for actors (and readers) of all genders, all ages, and all levels of experience. Varying in length, style and structure – from the surreally comic to the heartbreakingly tragic – this is an essential toolkit for any actor (or anyone who enjoys a good story) with an introduction by Cath Badham, Lecturer in Performance at the University of Derby, UK.
Kingdom Keepers Ii
Kingdom Keepers Ii
Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance: Villains' Realm
Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance: Villains' Realm
Magical Map #1: Pirates of the Caribbean
New York Times bestselling author of the Kingdom Keepers series is back with an all-new Disney-inspired chapter book adventure Ten-year-old Gemma wishes everything could stay the same, but that's impossible after her mother accepts a new job at the Disney Parks in Orlando. Struggling to fit in and make friends, Gemma's focus is instead drawn to a weathered journal left behind in her mother's bookshop by a mysterious stranger. . . . After Gemma discovers a hand-drawn map of Walt Disney World, riddles begin appearing across the page like magic Even weirder are the problems her mother is facing at work: the animatronics on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride keep moving all on their own in the middle of the night. With the help of her brother, Torin, Gemma discovers that the map can transport them onto the Pirates attraction. But there's something wrong--this version of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride has real live pirates Will Gemma and Torin figure out a way to save the ride, or will
Kingdom Keepers V
Kingdom Keepers V
Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance The Shimmer
The first book in a new Kingdom Keepers series. In the near future, in the Epcot of Walt Disney's imagination, sixty thousand people live in a CommuniTree surrounding the forward-looking Walt Disney World theme park. Five unique families are among the residents--and some of the parents were once known as the Kingdom Keepers. Their identities are carefully guarded in order to raise their children without special treatment, most of the Kingdom Keepers work for the Walt Disney Company, and have settled into 'ordinary' and rewarding lives.When a messenger carrying a secret communication coincides with both a solar eclipse and Eli Whitman's thirteenth birthday--a few 'ordinary' kids are thrust into a battle to save Epcot and find their friend who has mysteriously disappeared. With their friend missing and their parents acting strangely, the Kingdom Kids discover they are in possession of unusual powers as they forge a bond to rescue their friend and uncover the truth about how real magic
Kingdom Keepers I
Kingdom Keepers I
Kingdom Keepers I
Kingdom Keepers I
Kingdom Keepers Iii
Kingdom Keepers Iii
Justice League: The Atom Project
Expanding the world of DC s hit Justice League Unlimited, these three heroes have one mission: control the chaos before it controls the world! In the wake of DC s blockbuster storyline Absolute Power, the superpowers of planet Earth are in chaos...and it's up to the newly re-formed Justice League to restore order to that chaos. Enter Ray Palmer and Ryan Choi, together the size-changing heroes called the Atom and the core of the science team on the Justice League s Watchtower. These brilliant minds have crafted the world's first superpower reallocation and backup system, code-named the Atom Project. But not everyone wants their powers back, and the volatile hero Captain Atom is hell-bent on preventing his missing atomic abilities from ever being found. Join Oscar-winning writer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, The Other History of the DC Universe), writer Ryan Parrott (co-creator of Rogue Sun), and The Bat-Man: First Knight artist Mike Perkins down the rabbit hole of an intense spy