{"id":2786,"date":"2022-07-01T09:39:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T09:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2024-05-14T12:56:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:56:03","slug":"special-edition-for-summer-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/blog\/2022\/07\/special-edition-for-summer-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Special edition for summer holidays"},"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

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\n \n What is life? (David Fickling Books, 2021) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Paul Nurse<\/p>\n

Nobel prize-winner Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In this book, he takes up the challenge of defining life in a way that every reader can understand. It is a shared journey of discovery; step by step he illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The end of genetics : designing humanity's DNA (Yale University Press, 2021) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By David B. Goldstein<\/p>\n

Brilliant overview of what we do and do not know about human genetics, pointing to the complex, yet largely unexplored, issues we must be most careful about as we move into an era of increasing numbers of parents exercising direct control over the genomes of their children.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Journey of the mind : how thinking emerged from chaos (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam<\/p>\n

Why do minds exist? How did mud and stone develop into beings that can experience longing, regret, love, and that are aware of their own experience? Journey of the Mind is the first book to offer a unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, the Self, and civilization emerged incrementally out of chaos.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Never split the difference : negotiating as if your life depended on it (Random House Business, 2017) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Chris Voss with Tahl Raz<\/p>\n

This book takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles of negotiating summarized by FBI kidnapping negotiator Chris Voss.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Seven games (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Oliver Roeder<\/p>\n

A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why-and how-we play them. Checkers, Backgammon, Chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and Bridge. Funny, fascinating and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Animal beauty : on the evolution of biological aesthetics (The MIT Press, 2019) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Christiane N\u00fcsslein-Volhard<\/p>\n

In this illustrated exploration of colors and patterns and how they function in the social life of animals, Nobel Prize\u2013winning biologist Christiane N\u00fcsslein-Volhard examines key examples of ornament and sexual selection and lays the groundwork for biological aesthetics. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n A hidden legacy : the life and work of Esther Zimmer Lederberg (Oxford University Press, 2021) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

by Thomas E. Schindler<\/p>\n

The story of institutional discrimination known as The Matilda Effect. In the decade leading up to the discovery of the DNA double helix, Esther Zimmer Lederberg’s collaborated with her husband, Joshua Lederberg, to establish the new field of bacterial genetics, which earned Joshua the 1958 Nobel Prize, but Esther’s contributions were overlooked by the Nobel committee.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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\n \n When life nearly died : the greatest mass extinction of all time (Thames & Hudson, 2015) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Michael J. Benton<\/p>\n

When Life Nearly Died documents not only what happened during this gigantic mass extinction but also the recent renewal of the idea of catastrophism: the theory that changes in the earth’s crust were brought about suddenly in the past by phenomena that cannot be observed today. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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\n \n Ultrasocial (Cambridge University Press, 2021) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By John M. Gowdy<\/p>\n

Ultrasocial is a fascinating exploration of the future direction of humanity: Can we forge a better, more egalitarian, and sustainable future by changing current socioeconomic – and ultimately destructive – path? John Gowdy explores how this might be achieved.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The treeline : the last forest and the future of life on Earth (Jonathan Cape, 2022) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Ben Rawlence<\/p>\n

The Arctic treeline is the frontline of climate change, where the trees have been creeping towards the pole for fifty years already. Deeply researched and beautifully written, The Treeline is a spellbinding blend of nature, travel and science writing, underpinned by an urgent environmental message.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n

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Before summer holidays, drop by the library and choose a book! We suggest designing human genetics, origin of thinking, games, animal aesthetics,….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8023],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-new-books"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16827,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/16827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}