Genome, Ridley, Matt

Автор: Matt Ridley
Название: The Rational optimist
ISBN: 0007267126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007267125
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 7640 T
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Описание: Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up.

Автор: Ridley Matt
Название: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
ISBN: 006145205X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061452055
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 12470 T
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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. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people's lives as never before. The pessimists who dominate public discourse insist that we will soon reach a turning point and things will start to get worse. But they have been saying this for two hundred years.

Yet Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. Prosperity comes from everybody working for everybody else. The habit of exchange and specialization--which started more than 100,000 years ago--has created a collective brain that sets human living standards on a rising trend. The mutual dependence, trust, and sharing that result are causes for hope, not despair.

This bold book covers the entire sweep of human history, from the Stone Age to the Internet, from the stagnation of the Ming empire to the invention of the steam engine, from the population explosion to the likely consequences of climate change. It ends with a confident assertion that thanks to the ceaseless capacity of the human race for innovative change, and despite inevitable disasters along the way, the twenty-first century will see both human prosperity and natural biodiversity enhanced. Acute, refreshing, and revelatory, "The Rational Optimist" will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.

Автор: Ridley, Matt
Название: The Red Queen
ISBN: 0060556579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060556570
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 9500 T
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Описание: The Red Queen is the first book by the author of the New York Times bestseller and New York Times Notable Book Genome.

Автор: Ridley, Matt
Название: Agile Gene, The
ISBN: 006000679X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060006792
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 8310 T
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Описание: The bestselling author of GENOME chronicles a new revolution in our understanding of genes.

Автор: Ridley, Matt
Название: Francis crick
ISBN: 000721331X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007213313
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 6940 T
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Описание: Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life.

Автор: Matt Ridley
Название: The Rational optimist
ISBN: 0007378904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007378906
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 9030 T
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