Acquiring Genomes: A Theory Of The Origin Of Species
7 best books like Acquiring Genomes: A Theory Of The Origin Of Species (Lynn Margulis): Why Evolution Is True, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, A Case of Conscience, Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
| Author | Jerry A. Coyne |
| ISBN | 0670020532 |
Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact.
In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the "evidence," the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection....
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
| ISBN | 0393308189 |
More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science.
Ever Since Darwin,...
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
| Author | Svetlana Alexievich |
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style,...
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
| Author | Malcolm Gladwell |
| ISBN | 0316478520 |
In July 2015, a young black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in rural Texas. Minutes later she was arrested and jailed. Three days later, she committed suicide in her cell. What went wrong? Talking to Strangers is all about what happens when we encounter people we...
| Author | James Blish |
| ISBN | 0345438353 |
Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance...
Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain
| Author | Sarah Vallance |
| ISBN | 1542043026 |
The searing, wry memoir about a woman’s fight for a new life after a devastating brain injury.
When Sarah Vallance is thrown from a horse and suffers a jarring blow to the head, she believes she’s walked away unscathed. The next morning, things take a sharp turn as she’s led from work to...
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
| Author | Sam Harris |
| ISBN | 1439171211 |
Sam Harris' first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to non-believing scientists - agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed,...
