Genetics & Genomics
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Understanding the Nature‒Nurture Debate
$19.99 Add to cart- Series: Understanding Life
- Author: Turkheimer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1108958168
- Language: English
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Ancestors: Identity and DNA in the Levant
$31.00 Add to cartFrom a leading authority on population genetics, a deep dive into ancestry and origins in the Middle East that interrogates culture, identity, migration, and ethnicity to reframe what it means to be i… [more below]
- Author: Zalloua, Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593730909
- Language: English
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The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture
$29.99 Add to cartFor more than 150 years, the question of nature versus nurture has been one of the most contentious issues in the human sciences. On the one side are “blank-slaters,” who believe we are mainly shaped
- Author: Conley, Dalton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324092637
- Language: English
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Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer’s Families and the Search for a Cure
$30.00 Add to cartThe riveting account of a community from the remote mountains of Colombia whose rare and fatal genetic mutation is unlocking the secrets of Alzheimer’s disease
In the 1980s, a neurologist named Franci- Author: Smith, Jennie Erin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0525536078
- Language: English
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The Extended Selfish Gene
$39.99 Read moreThe Selfish Gene is a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. In it Professor Dawkins articulates a gene’s eye view of evolution – a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of informati… [more below]
- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198788789
- Language: English
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Cloning: A Beginner’s Guide
$14.95 Read moreWould you drink milk from a cloned cow? Should we clone extinct or endangered species? Are we justified in using stem cells to develop cures? When will we clone the first human? Ever since Dolly the s… [more below]
- Series: Beginner’s Guides
- Author: Levine, Aaron D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1851685227
- Language: English
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Genomics and Personalized Medicine: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartIn 2001 the Human Genome Project succeeded in mapping the DNA of humans. This landmark accomplishment launched the field of genomics, the integrated study of all the genes in the human body and the re… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
- Author: Snyder, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0190234768
- Language: English
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The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are
$21.50 Add to cartA deeply reported look at home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on our culture and on individual lives
You swab your cheek or spit in a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Week… [more below]- Author: Copeland, Libby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1419747932
- Language: English
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
$16.99 Read more“A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling autho
- Author: Metzl, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1728214130
- Language: English
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Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLess than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the center of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in extent, and that the planets, sun, and stars all rotated … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Charlesworth, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198804369
- Language: English
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
$20.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history.
Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is pro- Author: Reich, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1101873469
- Language: English
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Genetics 101: From Chromosomes and the Double Helix to Cloning and DNA Tests, Everything You Need to Know about Genes
$16.99 Read moreA clear and straightforward explanation of genetics in this new edition of the popular 101 series.
Our genetic makeup determines so much about who we are, and what we pass on to our children–from ey- Series: Adams 101
- Author: Skwarecki, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1507207646
- Language: English
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Genomics in the AWS Cloud: Analyzing Genetic Code Using Amazon Web Services
$50.00 Read morePerform genome analysis and sequencing of data with Amazon Web Services
Genomics in the AWS Cloud: Analyzing Genetic Code Using Amazon Web Services enables a person who has moderate familiarity with A
- Author: Vacher, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1119573378
- Language: English
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What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
$20.00 Read moreThe renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every reader c
- Author: Nurse, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541150
- Language: English
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The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
$29.00 Read moreNamed one of The New Yorker’s BEST BOOKS OF 2022 SO FAR
The next frontier in technology is inside our own bodies. Synthetic biology will revolutionize how we define family, how we identify disease an- Author: Webb, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1541797914
- Language: English
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
$17.95 Read moreIn 1994 Bryan Sykes was called in as an expert to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy for over 5000 years–the Ice Man. Sykes succeeded in extracting DNA from
- Author: Sykes, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323145
- Language: English
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Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend
$18.99 Add to cartHave you ever heard of a person who left you wondering, “How could someone be so twisted? So evil?” Prompted by clues in her sister’s diary after her mysterious death, author Barbara Oakley takes the … [more below]
- Series: Psychology
- Author: Oakley, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: October 21 2008
- ISBN10: 1591026652
- Language: English
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Infinite Life: The Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution, and Life on Earth
$29.95 Add to cartAn expansive investigation into the most unifying and enduring structure in the history of life–and a story of biological richness at a moment when so much of our precious biodiversity hangs in the b… [more below]
- Author: Howard, Jules
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367748
- Language: English
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The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
$35.00 Add to cartFrom a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms: reading them as documents describing ancient worlds
An exquisitely camouflaged lizard has a desiccat- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278098
- Language: English
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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
$20.00 Read moreVisit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http: //armandleroi.com/index.html
Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the
- Author: LeRoi, Armand Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0142004820
- Language: English
