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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
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Category: Science
'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But ...Show more
Control : The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
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Category: Science
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for mol ...Show more
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
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Category: Non-Fiction
* FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST *Throughout history, people have sought to improve society by reducing suffering, eliminating disease or enhancing desirable qualities in their children. But this wish goes hand in hand with the desire to impose control over who ca ...Show more
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality by Adam Rutherford
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Category: Non-Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez 'Seriously important' Bill Bryson 'A fascinating debunking of racial pseudoscience' Guardian Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal ...Show more
How to Argue with a Racist (HB) by Adam Rutherford
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Category: Science
Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal to science to strengthen racist ideologies is on the rise - and increasingly part of the public discourse on politics, migration, education, sport and intelligence. Stereotypes and myths about race are expressed not ...Show more
The Book of Humans - A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us by Adam Rutherford
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Category: Science
WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war?Sex for pleasure?Creating art?Mastery of fire? In this thrilling tour of the animal kingdom, Adam Rutherford tells the story of how we became the unique creatures we are today. Illuminated by the latest scientific discoveries, THE BOOK OF HUMANS is a dazzling compendium ...Show more
The Book of Humans - The Story of How We Became Us by Adam Rutherford
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Category: Science
'Charming, compelling and packed with information. I learned more about biology from this short book than I did from years of science lessons. A weird and wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us that sets us apart ...Show more
Where Are You Really From? by Adam Rutherford
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Category: Non-Fiction
'Laugh out loud funny - and you'll learn lots too!' - Adam Kay, author of Kay's Anatomy Who do you think you are? Have you ever thought about who you might be related to? What if we told you that you were related to EXTRAORDINARY EMPERORS, GREAT KINGS and MAGNIFICENT QUEENS? Well, your majesty, you ar ...Show more
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