Here is the story of three gifted women trained by the famed Louis Leakey. This book, "a sensitive and revealing contribution to the legend of a unique sisterhood" (Chicago Tribune), tells of three women who each gave her mature life to the love, study, and defense of another primate species.
Maverick, publicity hound, risk-taker, brash, controversial, genius, manic, rebellious, visionary, audacious, arrogant, feisty, determined, provocative. His autobiography shows they are all justified (Nature )
An all-action autobiography (, Books Of The Year Financial Times )
Craig Venter has scorched a trail through genetics … A Life Decoded is a page-turner throughout (New Scientist )
The first genetic autobiography. It is also a cracking story (, Books Of The Year The Times )
The man who shook up the cosy world of scientific research … a brilliant book. Beautifully written, it is not only the most gripping but also the most important scientist's autobiography since James Watson's Double Helix (Sunday Telegraph )
Rebel, maverick, outsider and the Bono of genetics … the book is a voyage of discovery (Guardian )
May be as important a book as James D. Watson's Double Helix (, Books Of The Year Sunday Times )
Few scientists have stoked the flames of debate quite like Craig Venter … A blow-by-blow journey through a frankly astonishing career (Scotsman )
'This book marks the beginning of something new. It is the first molecular biography … Venter's account is never less than engaging' Sunday Times'A wonderfully original work … brims with entertaining revelations about the feuds, fights and friendships that underlie great research projects' Financial Times Magazine
The story of the enigmatic man who organized chemistry into the periodic table--and of how he tried to organize Imperial Russia. Dmitrii Mendeleev: It's a name we recognize, but only as the disheveled scientist pictured in our high school chemistry textbook, the creator of the periodic table of elements. Until now little has been known about the man, but A Well-Ordered Thing draws a portrait of this chemist in three full dimensions. Historian Michael Gordin also details Mendeleev's complex relationship with the Russian Empire that was his home. From his attack on Spiritualism to his humiliation at the hands of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, from his near-mythical hot-air balloon trip to his failed voyage to the Arctic, this is the story of an extraordinary man deeply invested in the good of his country. And the ideals that shaped his work in politics and culture were the same ones that led a young chemistry professor to start putting elements in order. Mendeleev was a loyal subject of the Tsar, but he was also a maverick who thought that only an outsider could perfect a modern Russia. A Well-Ordered Thing is a fascinating glimpse into the world of Imperial Russia--and into the life of one of its most notorious minds.
