{"id":21591,"date":"2025-01-02T13:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T13:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/?p=21591"},"modified":"2025-01-24T22:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T22:09:25","slug":"new-in-the-collection-january-2025-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/blog\/2025\/01\/new-in-the-collection-january-2025-1\/","title":{"rendered":"New in the collection (January 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An overview of selected new books in Szil\u00e1rd Library, with a word from their authors, reviewers and publishers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n \n The Medical Revolution of Messenger RNA (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2023) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Fabrice Delaye<\/p>\n

To the casual observer, it took just 10 months to develop a vaccine against the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, using the messenger RNA (mRNA). What most people don’t know is that this apparently breakthrough technology had been in development for three frustrating decades – and this book tells the story of how mRNA’s medical potential was finally realized.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The Age of Melt: What Glaciers, Ice Mummies, and Ancient Artifacts Teach Us about Climate, Culture, and a Future without Ice (Timber Press 2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Lisa Baril<\/p>\n

Thousands of organic artifacts are emerging from patches of melting ice in mountain ranges around the world. “The Age of Melt” explores what these artifacts reveal about culture, wilderness, and what we gain when we rethink our relationship to the world and its most precious and ephemeral substance\u2014ice. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Coaching for Performance: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership (John Murray Business 2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Sir John Whitmore<\/p>\n

This 6th edition has been updated throughout to reflect today’s new world of work, and will revolutionize the traditional approach to organizational culture. Insightful real-world examples serve to champion inclusivity, alongside practical exercises which place an increased value on trust and responsibility.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Understanding Living Systems (Cambridge University Press 2023) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Raymond Noble and Denis Noble<\/p>\n

“Takes the story of evolution from where Darwin left it, including his ideas on creative purpose and acquired characteristics. By adding the control of chance by organisms, it makes Darwin’s theories compatible with the freedom to choose.” (Professor Samuel Shem, NYU School of Medicine)<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The Neuroscience of Yoga and Meditation (Handspring Publishing Limited 2023) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Brittany Fair<\/p>\n

This book presents a comprehensive review of scientific research on the effects of yoga and meditation on the brain. The author offers tools for interpreting scientific literature and explores the current limitations in studying these practices.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The Three Functional States of Proteins: Structured, Intrinsically Disordered, and Phase Separated (Academic Press 2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Edited by Timir Tripathi and Vladimir N. Uversky<\/p>\n

This book explores how structured proteins, intrinsically disordered proteins, and phase separated proteins contribute to the complexity of cellular life, and offers insights into their roles in both health and disease.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Molecular Storms: The Physics of Stars, Cells and the Origin of Life (Springer 2023) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Liam Graham<\/p>\n

Using cutting-edge research, \u201cMolecular Storms\u201d takes us on a dazzling journey from the early universe to the interior of the smallest living things. There, in a nanoscale world of biological devices, it explains the physics behind the chemical system which we call Life.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n "Yours Ever, Freeman": The Wisdom Of Freeman Dyson (WSPC 2023) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Edited by Dwight E. Neuenschwander<\/p>\n

“Yours Ever, Freeman” is devoted to the correspondence between Professor Dyson and his students, that regularly exchanged letters from April 1993 to December 2019. His responses went beyond answering questions, as he enlarged the scope of the questions by sharing stories from his experiences. The book’s title comes from the way Professor Dyson signed his letters.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The Dynamic Nature of Mitochondria: From Ultrastructure to Health and Disease (CRC Press 2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Edited by Andreas S. Reichert<\/p>\n

This book gives an amazing view on a conceptual change in our understanding of mitochondrial biology. The dynamic nature of mitochondria occurs at an intramitochondrial level but also includes its ability to interact with other organelles and to modulate multiple signalling pathways. It is thus not surprising that alterations or inabilities to ensure this dynamic behaviour is linked to ageing and human diseases. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The MANIAC (Penguin Press 2023) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Benjam\u00edn Labatut<\/p>\n

A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory and the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital life, and cellular automata. Through a chorus of family members, friends, colleagues, and rivals, Labatut shows us the evolution of a mind unmatched and of a body of work that has unmoored the world in its wake.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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