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"Starred Review. Reeves deploys his considerable writing skill in portraying Rutherford's personality ... capturing the full aspect of the man."—Booklist Born in colonial New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford grew up on the frontier—a different world from Cambridge, to which he won a scholarship at the age of twenty-four. His work revolutionized modern physics. Among his discoveries were the orbital structure of the atom and the concept of the "half-life" of radioactive materials. Rutherford and the young men working under him were the first to split the atom, unlocking tremendous...

When a wolf is locked up, it begins to spin around in its cage, his defense mechanisms are activated, his natural cunning sharpens in order to escape... and finally, he howls. If a documentary zoologist is confined, he will immediately investigate the reason for his isolation; but when he is told that a pangolin and a bat are the reason, he will realize that something is wrong. For someone who --with the main objective of writing revealing scripts for documentaries-- is used to interpreting the behavior of sharks and ants, deciphering the cryptic language of science professionals and...

És la natura la nostra mare? Procura la mare natura un entorn estable, pacífic i lliure de contaminació perquè els seus fills puguem prosperar en llibertat? Ens proporciona una extensa farmaciola d'herbes guaridores que poden retornar-nos la salut sense els fatals efectes secundaris de la medicina occidental' És l'ésser humà el fill més pervers de la mare natura, l'únic que arriba a matar per plaer? Afavoreix la natura el reciclatge i la sostenibilitat? És la vida moderna una vida antinatural' Contra Natura examina, des del prisma de la biologia evolutiva, aquestes i moltes altres...

'An ideal introduction [to Stephen Hawking]' - Independent 'Astonishingly comprehensive - clearer than Hawking himself' - Focus Stephen Hawking was a world-famous physicist with a cameo in The Simpsons on his CV, but outside of his academic field his work was little understood. To the public he was a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling A Brief History of Time, and yet spent the majority of his life confined to a wheelchair and almost completely paralysed. Hawking's major contribution to science was to integrate the two great theories of 20th-century...