The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would. Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned ​a curiosity ​of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code. Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids? After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.

The Code Breaker

US(a.)

From The Bestselling Author Of Here's Looking At Euclid, A Dazzling New Book That Turns Even The Most Complex Math Into A Brilliantly Entertaining Narrative.  From Triangles, Rotations And Power Laws, To Cones, Curves And The Dreaded Calculus, Alex Takes You On A Journey Of Mathematical Discovery With His Signature Wit And Limitless Enthusiasm. He Sifts Through Over 30,000 Survey Submissions To Uncover The World's Favourite Number, And Meets A Mathematician Who Looks For Universes In His Garage. He Attends The World Mathematical Congress In India, And Visits The Engineer Who Designed The First Roller-coaster Loop.  Get Hooked On Math As Alex Delves Deep Into Humankind's Turbulent Relationship With Numbers, And Reveals How They Have Shaped The World We Live In--

The Grapes of Math

Sally Ride

Fahrenheit 451

Drop Dead Healthy

Ruins

Argues That The Growth Of Social Networking And Increased Openness Online Is Beneficial In The Digital Age And Can Lead To Increased Collaboration And Changes In The Way People Organize, Govern, Teach, And Learn. The Ages Of Publicness -- The Prophet Of Publicness: Mark Zuckerberg -- Public Choices : Private Germans ; The German Paradox ; My Public Parts ; My Private Parts -- The Benefits Of Publicness : Publicness ... ; Builds Relationships ; Disarms Strangers ; Enables Collaboration ; Unleases The Wisdom (and Generosity) Of The Crowd ; Defuses The Myth Of Perfection ; Neutralizes Stigmas ; Grants Immortality ... Or At Least Credit ; Organizes Us ; Protects Us -- A History The Private And The Public : Fiendish Kodakers ; Technology Fears ; The Making Of The Modern Public ; The Public Sphere -- The Public Press : Gutenberg's And God's Gift ; The Making And Unmaking Of Mass Media -- What Is Privacy? : How Do You Define Privacy? ; How Do We Protect Privacy? ; The Ethics Of Privacy And Publicness -- How Public Are We? : We Have Met The Public, And They Are Us ; How Public Is Too Public? ; Oversharing -- The Public You : Identity And Reputation ; Public Advice -- The Sharing Industry : The Public Economy ; Evan Williams: Blogger And Twitter ; Dennis Crowley: Dodgeball And Foursquare ; Philip Kaplan: Blippy ; Josh Harris: We Live In Public And Wired City -- The Radically Public Company : Imagine ; Open-and-shut Case Studies -- By The People : Killing Secrecy ; Beyond Openness -- The New World : Who Will Protect Publicness? ; Principles Of Publicness. Jeff Jarvis. Includes Bibliographical References.

Public Parts

11/22/63

The Facebook Effect

The Dead Emcee Scrolls

1776

Team of Rivals

Lies My Teacher Told Me

This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Now a Hulu limited series starring Christopher Abbott, George Clooney, Kyle Chandler, and Hugh Laurie. Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—books of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer. Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos from Joseph Heller’s personal archive; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.

Catch-22

A Farewell to Arms

The Great Gatsby

Simon and Schuster