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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
Category: Non-Fiction
From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals a ...Show more
The Evolution of Everything - How small changes transform our world by Matt Ridley
Category: Science
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 ...Show more
Francis Crick Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
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 Poets' and Lytton Strachey's 'Eminent Victorians', this e ...Show more
Genome : The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
Category: Science | Series: P. S. Ser.
Following in the tradition of James Gleick' Chaos, Matt Ridly vividly explores the most profound scientific discovery of the century--the mapping of the human genome. But what does that mean? In witty, clear language, Ridley answers this question for your students. Genome helps them understand what the ...Show more
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
Category: Science
The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean?Arguably the most significant scientific discoveru 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 ...Show more
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
Category: Business
'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. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we ...Show more
Nature Via Nurture - Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley
Category: Science
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 roots of human behaviour. What makes us who we are? In Febru ...Show more
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human by Matt Ridley
Category: Science
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 roots of human behaviour. What makes us who we are?In Februa ...Show more
The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altruism? 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.
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
Category: Politics
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 of exchange and specialisation, our species has found in ...Show more
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: P.S.
Previously published in slightly different form in hardcover: HarperCollins, 2010.
The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
Category: Science
Citing the Red Queen from "Through the Looking Glass, " who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators, and answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture.