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The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical...

Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human being`s relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day, when species are going extinct at more than 1,000 times the natural rate, renders this question acutely important.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road comes the heart-wrenching journey of a family facing an unthinkable destiny, whose flawed genetic code might hold the long-sought key to a cure for dementia. In the idyllic American town of Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania, there...

Demonstrating nature and nature inside of us with an insightful narrative and artist perspective from Donald Fillman MD.

A tiny and easily overlooked item—a single hair—unexpectedly discovered in one of the great treasures of a vast museum collection leads the author on a quest to solve one of the most long-standing, highly debated mysteries of American history. A team of outstanding scientists, historians...

Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the...

From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T Rex from hatching to adulthood Tyrannosaurus rex is a prehistoric celebrity. Exceeding 40 feet in length and weighing over 9 tons, the largest individuals of this dinosaurian species were intimidating...

In questo breve e graffiante saggio, Stefan Klein esplora la storia del pensiero creativo attraverso le rivoluzioni che hanno caratterizzato il percorso della specie umana, dalle innovazioni dell'età della pietra alla scoperta della scrittura, fino ai computer e all'intelligenza artificiale. Veniamo così a conoscenza del cervello collettivo, del potere dei simboli, degli spazi di possibilità che si intravvedono a seguito di una crisi e, non da ultimo, delle forme di intelligenza future.

Was haben Lene, die gesunde Sportlehrerin, Thomas, der lebensfrohe und fitte Lektor, Dominik, der wissenschaftlich erfolgreiche Institutsdirektor und die Katzenmutter Karin gemeinsam? Sie sind plötzlich an Krebs erkrankt und wurden mit modernen medizinischen Behandlungsmethoden therapiert. Ob Krebs im Magen, Enddarm, in der Bauchspeicheldrüse oder im lymphatischen System, warum hat nur Karin überlebt? Dieser Frage geht Professor Christoph Wagener auf ungewöhnliche Weise nach und macht mit diesem Buch eine historische, anekdotische und kriminalistische Reise.

Nie war der Traum vom ewigen Leben so aktuell wie heute. Jung, aktiv, gesund und attraktiv wollen wir sein, und das auch im hohen Alter. Nun haben Wissenschaftler das große Rätsel unserer Vergänglichkeit entschlüsselt. Und sie haben erste Techniken entwickelt, die den Alterungsprozess kontrollieren. Der Wissenschaftsjournalist Ulrich Bahnsen nimmt uns mit auf eine spannende Reise zu den weltweit führenden Altersforscher:innen und entdeckt epigenetische Therapien, mit deren Hilfe wir unseren Körper um Jahrzehnte verjüngen können.

Die vielfach ausgezeichnete Biochemikerin Renée Schroeder über den Menschheitstraum als Motor der Wissenschaft. Wissen Sie, was ein Xenobot ist? Es ist der erste lebende Roboter, hergestellt aus embryonalen Stammzellen eines Frosches. Diese Frosch-Roboter sind nur eines der vielen, bis vor kurzem ungeahnten Ergebnisse der biotechnologischen Forschung. Die Entwicklung ist rasant, etwa in der Gentechnologie, in der Bioinformatik, oder in der synthetischen Biologie, ein junges Forschungsgebiet, das programmierbare Organismen mit neuen Eigenschaften schaffen will.

"Animal communication doesn’t need to resemble human language to be full of meaning and nuance. Arik Kershenbaum delivers an expert overview of the astonishing discoveries made in the last few decades" —Frans de Waal From leading zoologist Arik Kershenbaum, a delightful and groundbreaking...

Cuteness is an area where culture and biology get tangled up. Seeing a cute animal triggers some of the most powerful psychological instincts we have – the ones that elicit our care and protection – but there is a deeper story behind the broad appeal of Japanese cats and saccharine greetings cards. Joshua Paul Dale, a pioneer in the burgeoning field of cuteness studies, explains how the cute aesthetic spread around the globe, from pop brands to Lolita fashion, kids' cartoons and the unstoppable rise of Hello Kitty.

This book, edited by biologist Ann Gauger, clears up common misconceptions regarding intelligent design, showing why it is an argument not from ignorance but from knowledge and how the evidence for God's design of the natural world is growing.

First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergson's L'évolution créatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This outstanding new translation, the first for over a hundred years, brings one of Bergson's most important and ambitious works to a new generation.

In GATTACA Has Fallen: how population genetics failed the populace, Dr. Ian Myles explains that the root of all of these issues is the belief that genetics meaningfully guide our fate. Using less controversial examples like eczema and allergic diseases, the book demonstrates how claiming there are genes for asthma is similar to claiming there are genes for intellect or favorite flavor of tea.

Why do so many of us have trouble falling asleep? Why do our thoughts spin in wild directions after dark? More important: why do we dream? In this groundbreaking new book, investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney sets out to discover how the sleeping world reverberates in the waking one. Unlock the power of the immune system at the same time you dig deeply into the source of creativity. Discover the evolutionary process that forges both memory and emotions.

With humanity facing its greatest series of simultaneous crises, Ervin Laszlo offers a scientifically based perspective on what is called for at this critical juncture of our existence: a phase of upshift to higher levels of order and coherence to keep us on our evolutionary path. This book lays out why this upshift is needed, what resources we possess to draw upon, and what the action steps are that will move us all toward this achievable vision of well-being and wholeness.

This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley ("Darwin's Bulldog") and his grandson, the scientist, conservationist, and zoologist Julian Huxley.

Eine faszinierende Vorstellung: Wie wäre es, wenn sich die biologische Uhr, die in jedem von uns tickt, anhalten ließe – oder sogar ein Stück zurückdrehen? Und das nicht bloß gefühlt, sondern messbar? Dieses Versprechen ist seit Kurzem Realität. Der junge Forschungszweig der Epigenetik hat den Deckel von der Altersuhr gehoben – und in aktuellen Studien nun sogar den Sprung in die praktische Anwendung geschafft. Genau darum geht es in diesem Hörbuch: Was kann ich ganz konkret tun, um meine Altersuhr zurückzudrehen? Um wie viele Monate oder gar Jahre lässt sich der Zeiger zurückstellen?