Signs of Life: The Language And Meanings of DNA (Penguin science)

Science & Math

Pollack, Robert

Biological Sciences

Penguin

The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning, and Free Will in Modern Medical Science

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Columbia University Press

Arguing that modern science is largely influenced by irrational impulses, the author reveals the influence of unconscious fears, repressed memories, and uncontrolled desires on modern scientific inquiry.

The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Called "provocative," "magnificent," and "lucid" by critics, SIGNS OF LIFE presents a fresh and engaging look at nature's most wondrous chemical. DNA, biologist Robert Pollack suggests, should be seen as a work of great natural literature, a three-billion-year-old, continuously evolving text. Displaying a rare gift for metaphor, Pollack draws on his thirty years of research and study to show how DNA provides a complete instruction book for all living things. Until recently, the book has been indecipherable, but we are now beginning to read and edit this text in ways that will transform all our lives. Yet the power to change the human genome brings with it enormous responsibilities, and Pollack argues that if we fail to achieve a fuller understanding of the multiple meanings of DNA, we risk disaster. With the grace of a born writer and teacher, Pollack has written a book that will change the way people think about science, literature, and the future of our species.

Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA

Mariner Books

Readings in mammalian cell culture

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Humanity is a part of Nature, yet every thinking person at one time or another asks herself or himself, "How did we get here? What makes me different from the rest of Nature?” In The Course of Nature an artist and a scientist ask those questions with full respect for all contexts, both scientific and not. Amy Pollack’s figures stand on their own as elegant summaries of one or another aspect of Nature and our place in it. Robert Pollack’s one-page essays for each illustration lay out the underlying scientific issues along with the overarching moral context for these issues. Together the authors have created a door into Nature for the non-scientist, and a door into the separate question of what is right, for both the scientist and the rest of us.

The Course of Nature: A Book of Drawings on Natural Selection and Its Consequences

Evolution

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Laboratory Manual in Medical Microbiology

Whittier Pubn

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