Cantitate/Preț
Produs

The Gene: An Intimate History: Popularizarea științei - Medicina, Genetica

Autor Siddhartha Mukherjee
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mar 2017

The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from best-selling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee.

Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.

The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856, where a monk stumbles on the idea of a 'unit of heredity'. It intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms postwar biology. It reorganises our understanding of sexuality, temperament, choice and freewill. This is a story driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds - from Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin and the thousands of scientists still working to understand the code of codes.

This is an epic, moving history of a scientific idea coming to life by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. But woven through The Gene like a red line is also an intimate history - the story of Mukherjee's own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives. These concerns reverberate even more urgently today as we learn to 'read' and 'write' the human genome - unleashing the potential to change the fates and identities of our children.

Majestic in its ambition and unflinching in its honesty, The Gene gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity - and a vision of both humanity's past and its future.

Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (2) 7175 lei  24-30 zile +3131 lei  4-10 zile
  Random House – 22 mar 2017 7175 lei  24-30 zile +3131 lei  4-10 zile
  11890 lei  3-5 săpt.
Hardback (1) 19886 lei  3-5 săpt.
  Scribner – 16 mai 2016 19886 lei  3-5 săpt.

Din seria Popularizarea științei - Medicina, Genetica

Preț: 7175 lei

Preț vechi: 8444 lei
-15% Nou

Puncte Express: 108

Preț estimativ în valută:
1374 1490$ 1142£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 14-20 noiembrie
Livrare express 25-31 octombrie pentru 4130 lei

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780099584575
ISBN-10: 0099584573
Pagini: 593
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Vintage Books
Seriile Popularizarea științei - Medicina, Genetica, Gates Notes - Cărți recomandate de Bill Gates


Notă biografică

Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in many journals, including Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters. Visit his website at: SiddharthaMukherjee.com.