Почему человеческая история развивалась так по-разному по всему земному шару? И чему это может научить нас в отношении нашего нынешнего кризиса? • Джаред Даймонд приводит доводы в пользу того, что география и биогеография, а не раса, сформировали противоположные судьбы европейцев, азиатов, коренных американцев, африканцев к югу от Сахары и австралийских аборигенов • Амбициозный синтез истории, биологии, экологии и лингвистики, "Оружие, микробы и сталь" - это новаторское и гуманное научно-популярное произведение, которое может дать экспертное представление о нашем современном мире • Книга на английском языке • 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens • A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years; now with a new afterword to mark the 20th anniversary of publication • 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens • Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis? • Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians
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Jennifer Doudna, the world-famous scientist behind CRISPR, 'one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' (New York Times), describes its power to reshape the future of all life and warns of its use • A handful of discoveries have changed the course of human history. This book is about the most recent and potentially the most powerful and dangerous of them all • It is an invention that allows us to rewrite the genetic code that shapes and controls all living beings with astonishing accuracy and ease. Thanks to it, the dreams of genetic manipulation have become a stark reality: the power to cure disease and alleviate suffering, to create new sources of food and energy, as well as to re-design any species, including humans, for our own ends
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For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on. Then, in the late nineteenth century, medics began going where no one had dared go before • In eleven landmark operations, Thomas Morris tells us stories of triumph, reckless bravery, swaggering arrogance, jealousy and rivalry, and incredible ingenuity, from the trail-blazing ‘blue baby’ procedure to the first human heart transplant. The Matter of the Heart gives us a view over the surgeon’s shoulder, showing us the heart’s inner workings and failings. It describes both a human story and a history of risk-taking that has ultimately saved millions of lives
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