Steve Jones's highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic breakthroughs from GM food to Dolly the sheep.'An essential sightseer's guide to our own genetic terrain.' Peter Tallack, Sunday Telegraph 'Superb and stimulating...an exhilarating trip around the double spiral of DNA, a rush of gravity-defying concepts and wild swerves of the scientific imagination.' J.G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph 'Not so much divination as demystification... An attempt to bring genetics and evolution more into the public domain. If, for instance, you...
Steve Jones's highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic breakthroughs from GM f...
The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films, mapping out the broader conceptual and contextual concerns that shape the meanings of both 'torture' and 'porn'.
The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to po...
Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their sex had at last been dispensed with. Dolly the Sheep - conceived without male assistance - had arrived. Her birth reminded at least half the population of how precarious man's position may be. What is the point of being a man? For a brief and essential instant he is a donor of DNA; but outside that glorious moment his role is hard to understand. This book is about science not society; about maleness not manhood. The condition is, in the end, a matter of biology,...
Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their sex had at last been disp...
This biography of Darwin explores his time spent in Britain, in particular Kent, and his years of work on the plants, animals and people that make their home in the land of his birth.
This biography of Darwin explores his time spent in Britain, in particular Kent, and his years of work on the plants, animals and people that make the...
Weaving together a journey from Marseilles to Madras via the South Pacific and the author's own memories of his seafaring grandfather, this book provides an inspired, eclectic narrative that links science with history, literature, and with our image of mankind.
Weaving together a journey from Marseilles to Madras via the South Pacific and the author's own memories of his seafaring grandfather, this book provi...
From AIDS to dinosaurs, from conservation to cloned sheep, bursting with anecdotes, jokes and irresistible facts, Almost Like a Whale is a popular account of the science that makes biology make sense.
From AIDS to dinosaurs, from conservation to cloned sheep, bursting with anecdotes, jokes and irresistible facts, Almost Like a Whale is a popular acc...
