The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Isaacson Walter)(Compact Disc)

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Isaacson Walter)(Compact Disc)

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade,

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Isaacson Walter)(Pevná vazba)

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade,

The Code Breaker - Walter Isaacson

The best-selling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns.In 2012, Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna hit upon an invention that will transform the future of the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA.Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles

The Code Breaker - Walter Isaacson

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Doudna Jennifer A.)(Paperback)

BY THE WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 'A powerful mix of science and ethics . . . This book is required reading for every concerned citizen--the material it covers should be discussed in schools, colleges, and universities throughout the

Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures (Carey Nessa)(Paperback)

Just 45 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and vitamin-enhanced rice that could prevent half a million people going blind every year. But now GM is rapidly being supplanted by a new system

The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration (Burgess Colin)(Pevná vazba)

The Greatest Adventure explores the past, present, and future of the space race. The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the twentieth century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery, and exploration, as astronauts and cosmonauts were launched on space missions of

Innovators - How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Isaacson Walter)(Paperback / softback)

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works.What talents allowed certain inventors

Code-Breaker - The untold story of Richard Hayes, the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (McMenamin Marc)(Paperback / softback)

The incredible true story of how unassuming librarian and secret code-breaker Richard Hayes outwitted a Nazi spy and turned the tide of the World War

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (Isaacson Walter)(Paperback)

With a new introduction by the authors, this is the classic account of the American statesmen who rebuilt the world after the catastrophe of World War II. A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces six close friends who shaped the role their country would

Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9 (Kozubek Jim)(Paperback)

Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and effective methods for editing the human genome. This opens up startling new opportunities as well as

Return of the Continuums (Brody Jennifer)(Compact Disc)

As Myra Jackson and her friends set out to find the First Continuum, Captain Aero Wright and his two companions from the outer space Second Continuum find themselves banished for treason and stranded on Earth. Wright has vowed to complete his late father's mission to recolonize their ancestral

The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Ondaatje Michael)(Paperback)

The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share a great passion for film and storytelling, and whose knowledge and love of the crafts of writing and film shine through. It was on the set

The Crispr Generation: The Story of the World's First Gene-Edited Babies (Musunuru Kiran)(Paperback)

A leading physician, scientist, and expert in gene editing explains how a series of scientific breakthroughs led to the medical scandal of the decade. In November 2018, Dr. He Jiankui of Shenzhen, China, announced via YouTube that he had created the world's first gene-edited babies. It soon became

Shape of Things to Come - Exploring the Future of the Human Body (Burch Druin)(Paperback / softback)

In this humane and important exploration of modern medicine, Druin Burch examines the future of medicine, our changing physicalities and the implications of longer life. From birth to death and through the exploration of topics such as disease, sex, mind, eating and drinking, Burch tracks the

Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era-a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and

Convergence: Technology, Business, and the Human-Centric Future (Westphal Deborah)(Pevná vazba)

What does it mean to be human-centric? The Convergence is here. Each day the human race becomes more connected and interdependent. There is no longer a choice in the matter. There is no turning back. All aspects of human life are rapidly converging at an intersection of people, business, and

Leonardo Da Vinci (Isaacson Walter)(Paperback / softback)

He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on

The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (Stoever Jennifer Lynn)(Paperback)

The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see 'difference.' At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies

Steve Jobs : The Exclusive Biography - Walter Isaacson

'This is a riveting book, with as much to say about the transformation of modern life in the information age as about its supernaturally gifted and driven subject' - TelegraphBased on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a

Human Frontiers - The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking (Bhaskar Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A provocative, exciting exploration of the future of ideas - and the history of technological and cultural progress that has taken us to

Human/Machine: The Future of Our Partnership with Machines (Newman Daniel)(Paperback)

Will the workplace of the future be overrun by machines and robots? Are the new frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI) on the cusp of dethroning us in efficiency, intelligence and innovative potential? Automation and AI will augment our human world and potential. The winners of the future of

No Excuses: The Making of a Head Coach (Wojciechowski Gene)(Compact Disc)

From the legendary Oklahoma coach, a candid and inspiring memoir.When Bob Stoops took over as football coach in 1999, the Oklahoma Sooners were in disarray with back-to-back losing seasons. But in just two years' time, Stoops achieved the seemingly impossible: winning a national championship and

Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race (Carlson Jennifer)(Pevná vazba)

An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America todayThe United States is steeped in debates about guns. As discussions rage on, one issue has been overlooked--Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred