50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Biologi

Vinnare av Augustpriset 2015 och utnämnd till "Årets bok om svensk historia 2015" av Nättidningen Svensk Historia Vetenskapsjournalisten Karin Bojs bestämde sig för att släktforska på djupet och låta DNA-trådarna knyta ihop henne själv med forntidens människor. Hon läste studier, intervjuade forskare och reste i ett tiotal länder för att följa spåren bakåt. Sedan 1980-talet har DNA-tekniken genomgått en enastående utveckling. Den har revolutionerat såväl kriminalteknike...

Releasedatum: 2015-08-04 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 79,00 kr

Utnämnd till "Årets bok om svensk historia 2016" av Nättidningen Svensk Historia Först befolkades nuvarande Sverige av stenåldersjägare. Efter några tusen år anslöt bönderna. Det har DNA-tekniken nyligen lärt oss. Men bara några få procent av nu levande svenska män kan spåra sina fädernelinjer till de första jägarna och de första bönderna. De allra flesta – runt 80 procent – härstammar från ett fåtal mäktiga män som kom hit i samband med bronsåldern.När vi lägger ...

Releasedatum: 2016-11-04 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 89,00 kr

#1  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”— Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” ( LITHUB ), AND “BEST” ( THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER ) BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF  ESSENCE ’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS ...

Releasedatum: 2010-02-02 129,00 kr

#1 Bestseller in both hardback and paperback: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE _______ 'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian 'Jaw-dropping.' - The Times 'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.' - The Sunday Times ' It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book. ' - The Daily Telegraph _______ 'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practic...

Releasedatum: 2019-10-03 115,00 kr

Galen i humlor är en gränslös kärleksförklaring till en liten men mycket betydelsefull varelse. Med engagemang och värme berättar biologiprofessorn Dave Goulson allt som ar värt att veta om humlor (och lite till). Har ryms också en större berättelse. Hur humlorna mår säger nämligen det mesta om hur vår planet mår. Och slutsatsen är tydlig låt oss odla vår trädgård. Denna hyllade bok spänner över många olika ämnen: kärleken till naturen, känsligheten hos våra ekosystem...

Releasedatum: 2015-04-01 25,00 kr

Mycket har hunnit hända inom DNA-forskningen sedan Karin Bojs skrev Augustprisvinnaren Min europeiska familj - de senaste 54 000 åren (2015) och uppföljaren Svenskarna och deras fäder - de senaste 11 000 åren (2016). Bland annat börjar forskare kunna urskilja hur vandringsmönstren har skilt sig åt för Europas fäder och mödrar. En hel del, visar det sig. Karin Bojs borrar i äldre påståenden om folkvandringar och könsroller, och visar vad den allra senaste vetenskapen kan säga. Res...

Releasedatum: 2022-09-16 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 159,00 kr

2020-talet måste bli handlingens och den realistiska klimatoptimismens årtionde! Detta är boken för dig som tar klimatproblemen på allvar och vill ha en snabb uppdatering om läget, utmaningarna och vad forskarna säger. Men som också längtar efter att fokusera på de positiva trender och lösningar som nu växer fram i världen. Och om hur Sverige och EU kan ta täten och bli klimatomställningens främsta föredömen. Bråttom men inte kört är uppbyggd med korta frågor och begripliga...

Releasedatum: 2020-09-21 95,00 kr

' How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point . When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside of you? Many scientists believe that emotions come from a specific part of the brain, triggered by the world around us. The thrill of seeing an old friend, the fear of losing someone we love – each of these sensations seems to arise...

Releasedatum: 2017-03-23 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 59,00 kr

COMING TO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ON 27 MAY 2019 _________ In March 2014, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported. By October 2014, it had become the largest and deadliest occurrence of the disease. Over 4,500 people have died. Almost 10,000 cases have been reported, across Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the United States. Impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone is the terrifying, true-life account of when this highly infectious virus spread from the rainforests of Africa to the ...

Releasedatum: 2012-12-31 115,00 kr

What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself – a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind’s fitful development from unruly clumps of seaborne cells to the fi...

Releasedatum: 2017-03-09 59,00 kr

'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration and a lot of sex. In this captivatin...

Releasedatum: 2016-09-08 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 69,00 kr

Richard Dawkins is one of the finest minds in science, and in this superb collection of essays and letters, he demonstrates the depth of his knowledge and the rich variety of his interests. Whether he is examining postmodernism or the Human Genome Project, penning a letter to his daughter, or writing a moving eulogy to Douglas Adams and e-mailing Stephen Jay Gould, Dawkins writes with an intellectual vigour and grace that is second to none. This is a very human collection that shows not only the...

Releasedatum: 2010-12-16 49,00 kr

Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses. Why do organisms and ecosystems scale with size in a remarkably universal and systematic fashion? Is there a maximum size of cities? Of animals and plants? What about companies? Can scale show us how to create a more sustainable future? By applying the rigour of physics to questions of biology, visionary physicist Geoffre...

Releasedatum: 2017-05-18 49,00 kr

'A fantastic compendium of skeptical thinking and the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction.' Richard Wiseman, author 59 Seconds 'Thorough, informative, and enlightening... If this book does not become required reading for us all, we may well see modern civilization unravel before our eyes.' Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry In this tie-in to their popular 'The Skeptics Guide to the Universe' podcast, Steven Novella, along with 'Skeptic...

Releasedatum: 2018-10-04 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 45,00 kr

Norsk succébok som sålts över hela världen! Insekter finns överallt – på de högsta bergen, men också i Londons tunnelbana där till och med en egen, unik art av myggor utvecklats. De finns inuti valrossars näsborrar och i datorer! De bär sina skelett på utsidan, som en rustning. De kan ha öron på knäna, ögon på sina penisar och tungor under sina fötter. Insekterna får världen att gå runt. Utan dem, ingen pollinering – men inte heller någon förmultning. Inte heller någo...

Releasedatum: 2019-07-05 139,00 kr

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME PRIZE ALL IN THE MIND? - Can meditation fend off dementia? - Can the smell of lavender affect the immune system? - Can your thoughts ease physical pain? In Cure, award-winning science writer Jo Marchant travels the world to meet the physicians, patients and researchers on the cutting edge of mind-body medicine. Asking how the brain can heal the body and how we can all make changes to ke...

Releasedatum: 2016-02-18 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 95,00 kr

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene , which provided a new perspective on evolution, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of life's dynamics as Jim Al-Khalili and Jo...

Releasedatum: 2014-11-06 115,00 kr

'Pontzer's findings have huge implications for our attitudes to exercise, diet and public health' Mark Webster, Sunday Times A myth-busting tour of the body's hidden foundations from a pioneering evolutionary biologist 'Public health strategies stubbornly cling to the simplistic armchair engineer's view of metabolism, hurting efforts to combat obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and the other diseases that are most likely to kill us' Herman Pontzer's ground-breaking research has revealed h...

Releasedatum: 2021-03-02 115,00 kr

A piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live—"excellent and timely." ( The New Yorker )   Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) historical epidemics, contemporary analyses, and cutting-edge research from a range of sci...

Releasedatum: 2020-10-27 45,00 kr

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Nobody deals with challenging subjects more interestingly and compellingly than Adam Rutherford, and this may be his best book yet. This is a seriously important work' BILL BRYSON 'A fascinating and timely refutation of the casual racism on the rise around the world. The ultimate anti-racism guide for data-lovers everywhere' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ *** Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal to science to strengthen racis...

Releasedatum: 2020-02-06 59,00 kr

“A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Genome Brilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love. Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy ...

Releasedatum: 2012-02-14 109,00 kr

'A gripping new drama in science ... if you want to understand how the concept of life is changing, read this' Professor Andrew Briggs, University of Oxford When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper question: what is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it. And yet, hu...

Releasedatum: 2019-01-31 115,00 kr

Din hjärna gör den till den du är, fyller dig med känslor och ger dig din personlighet. Den rymmer barndomens minnen, den förälskar sig och den kan tolka komplicerade mönster, läsa mellan raderna och förstå ironi. Men hjärnan lockar dig också till att göra dåliga val och den belönar beroende. Hjärnan är stjärnan inviger dig i hemligheterna kring vårt mest otroliga organ. Läkaren och hjärnforskaren Kaja Nordengen tar oss med på en spännande resa genom hjärnans olika rum: V...

Releasedatum: 2017-08-15 149,00 kr

The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION, Richard Dawkins. The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information,' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by whic...

Releasedatum: 2014-03-20 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 49,00 kr

** SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** ** NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT, GUARDIAN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** **Winner of 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction** Enter a new dimension - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory ...

Releasedatum: 2022-06-30 189,00 kr

Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design features, but also many bugs and weaknesses. Problem is you don't get an owner's manual. You have to just plug and play. As a result, most of us never properly understand how our brains work and what they're truly capable of. We fail get the best out of them, ignore some of their most useful features and struggle to overco...

Releasedatum: 2018-09-20 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 49,00 kr

New York Times Bestseller New York Times Notable Book of 2016 • NPR Great Read of 2016 • Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Economist, Smithsonian, NPR's Science Friday, MPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Times (London) From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin—a “microbe’s-eye view” of the world that reveals a mar...

Releasedatum: 2016-08-09 125,00 kr

The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories. Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims' p...

Releasedatum: 2014-05-06 119,00 kr

“In Missing Microbes , Martin Blaser sounds [an] alarm. He patiently and thoroughly builds a compelling case that the threat of antibiotic overuse goes far beyond resistant infections.”— Nature Renowned microbiologist Dr. Martin J. Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the equilibrium and health of our bodies. Now this invisible Eden is under a...

Releasedatum: 2014-04-08 105,00 kr

"En forskare med mer tyngd än Paul Nurse får man leta efter. Han är också en magnifik berättare. /... / Jag lärde mig enormt mycket, och jag njöt i varje ögonblick under resans gång." Philip Pullman, författare "En så gott som perfekt guide till det komplexa under som är livet." Bill Bryson, författare "Hans bok är inte bara kunnig på grund av hans långa erfarenhet, den är också klok, visionär och personlig. Jag läste den i ett svep och kände mig upprymd efteråt, som om jag...

Releasedatum: 2021-12-21 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 189,00 kr

Life is all around us, abundant and diverse, it is extraordinary. But what does it actually mean to be alive? 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. He traces the roots of his own curiosity and knowledge to reveal how science works, both now and in t...

Releasedatum: 2020-09-03 105,00 kr

With a new afterword, Why You Are Here: A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate summit As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet contains my witness statement, and my vision for the future - the story of how we...

Releasedatum: 2020-10-01 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 115,00 kr

Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize A New Statesman Book of the Year This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once and for all? Galloping through centuries...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-12 55,00 kr

David Norman discusses some of the most fascinating and iconic creatures to walk our Earth. Introducing the different famillies of dinosaurs, he discusses how they were first discovered and interpreted, and looks at how scientific break-throughs have changed our understanding of dinosaurs over the years.

Releasedatum: 2017-09-21 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 119,00 kr

Vad har format homo sapiens till den art vi är idag? En art som byggt upp avancerade samhällen, lärt sig bota sjukdomar och lyckats tämja naturen. Men också en art som ständigt grubblar över varför vi är här. Johan Frostegård berättar kunnigt och läsvärt mänsklighetens stora berättelse. I en elegant kombination av humaniora, biologi och kulturhistoria ger han nya perspektiv på homo sapiens uppkomst och utveckling. Människan har under hela sin existens påverkats av både kultur...

Releasedatum: 2017-02-28 29,00 kr

The story of the most significant biological breakthrough of the century - the discovery of the structure of DNA. 'It is a strange model and embodies several unusual features. However, since DNA is an unusual substance, we are not hesitant in being bold' By elucidating the structure of DNA, the molecule underlying all life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionised biochemistry. At the time, Watson was only 24. His uncompromisingly honest account of those heady days lifts the lid on the real...

Releasedatum: 2012-09-06 49,00 kr

‘Steve Brusatte, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs , brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors in a beautifully written book that . . . makes the case for them as creatures who are just as engaging as dinosaurs.’ – The Sunday Times , ‘Best Books For Summer’ 'In this terrific new book, Steve Brusatte . . . brings well-known extinct species, the sabre-toothed tigers and the woolly mammoths, thrillingly back to life' – The Times The passing of th...

Releasedatum: 2022-06-09 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 95,00 kr

~THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER~ A deep-dive into the astonishing nature and true science of longevity Molecular Biologist Nicklas Brendborg takes us on a journey from the farthest reaches of the globe to the most cutting-edge research to explore everything the natural world and science have to offer on the mystery of aging. From the centuries-old Greenland shark and backwards-aging jellyfish to the man who fasted for a year and the woman who successfully edited her own DNA, this book follows the ...

Releasedatum: 2022-05-26 39,00 kr

Hur låter valars kärlekssång? Hur kan en hund lära sig namnet på över tusen föremål? Hur fungerar fågelsångens grammatik? Och vad menar fladdermössen med sitt surrande i sommarnatten? Djurens sätt att kommunicera var länge ett mysterium, men på senare år har vetenskapen tagit stora steg mot att verkligen förstå djurens språk. I vissa fall kan vi till och med lära oss att tala med dem. Med hjälp av ny teknik och ett öppet sinnelag har vi idag fått avgörande insikter i både...

Releasedatum: 2019-09-03 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 129,00 kr

We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved. But if we are evolution's greatest creation, why are we so badly designed? We have retinas that face backward, we must find vitamins and nutrients in our diets that other animals simply make for themselves and millions of us can't reproduce successfully without help from modern science. And that's just the beginning of the story. Biologist Nathan H. Lents takes us on an entertaining and illuminating tour of our four-billion-year-long evolutionary ...

Releasedatum: 2018-05-03 59,00 kr

2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist "Science book of the year" — The Guardian One of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018 One of Publishers Weekly 's Top Ten Books of 2018 One of Kirkus 's Best Books of 2018  One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018 One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018 “Extraordinary”— New York Times Book Review    "Magisterial"— The Atlantic "Engrossing"— Wired "Leading contender as the most outstanding nonf...

Releasedatum: 2018-05-29 109,00 kr

We not only share nearly 99% of our genes with chimps, we also have some 35% in common with daffodils. Throughout much of the animal and even plant kingdoms, almost the same ancient genes code for almost the same proteins. And further, to everyone's astonishment, the genes involved in making the complex eyes of fruitflies are close matches to those involved in making the very different eyes of octopuses and people. So what leads to the nature's 'endless forms most beautiful'? The key to this mys...

Releasedatum: 2012-03-29 59,00 kr

•  A New York Times  Notable Book • “The richest, freshest, most fun book on genetics in some time.” — The New York Times Book Review We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible History of the Human Race  Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where we may be going. While some boo...

Releasedatum: 2014-10-09 95,00 kr

A groundbreaking book that will transform how we understand ourselves and our families by revealing that everything we thought we knew about genetics is wrong. Your experiences, no matter how seemingly inconsequential - from bullies to crushes to what you eat for dinner - have all left an indelible mark within you. And more importantly, within your genes. Inheritance is a guidebook for change. No longer do we have to settle for what we've been given. We can write our own story. We're taught that...

Releasedatum: 2014-04-10 45,00 kr

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and author of the international bestseller The Double Helix, tells the story of the amazing molecule since its discovery fifty years ago, following modern genetics from his own Nobel prize-winning work in the fifties to today's Dolly the sheep, designer babies and GM foods. Professor Watson introduces the science of modern genetics, along with its history and its implications, in this magnificent guide to one of the most triumphant achi...

Releasedatum: 2008-09-04 125,00 kr

Ever since the phrase "fight or flight" was coined in the 1920s, the common understanding has been that the mind respond to danger in one of two ways - either fleeing in blind panic, or fighting through it. But as scientists unlock the secrets of the human brain, a more complex understanding of the fear response has emerged. It turns out that the ancient brain circuitry wired to process fear is also intricately tied to our ability to master new skills, and that the icy sensation of terror can ac...

Releasedatum: 2009-12-08 105,00 kr

“Signature in the Cell is a defining work in the discussion of life’s origins and the question of whether life is a product of unthinking matter or of an intelligent mind. For those who disagree with ID, the powerful case Meyer presents cannot be ignored in any honest debate. For those who may be sympathetic to ID, on the fence, or merely curious, this book is an engaging, eye-opening, and often eye-popping read” — American Spectator Named one of the top books of 2009 by the Times Litera...

Releasedatum: 2009-06-23 139,00 kr

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson turns to the most controversial aspect of the coronavirus epidemic - vaccinations - in the fourth installment of the best-selling Unreported Truths series. When Pfizer and Moderna announced in November that their mRNA vaccines had cut coronavirus infections by 95 percent with few side effects, the world rejoiced. But in the months since, the truth has proven to be far more complex. Countries like Israel and Britain have seen sharp short-term spikes in...

Releasedatum: 2021-03-23 25,00 kr

How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Why does eugenics still loom large in the 21st century, despite its genocidal past? Did eugenics work? Could it work? Or was it always a pseudoscientific fantasy? Throughout history, people have sought to reduce suffering, eliminate disease and enhance desirable qualities in their children. In the Victorian era eugenics, a full-blooded attempt to impose control over unruly biology, began to grow among the pow...

Releasedatum: 2022-02-03 89,00 kr

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson offers all a combined version of three booklets in the controversial and best-selling Unreported Truths about Covid series - at one low price. Since the publication of the first booklet in June, Unreported Truths has offered an honest counterpart to over-the-top media coverage about the risks of the coronavirus and ways to stop it. Part 1 focused on the ways governments count and report Covid-19 deaths. Part 2 covered the history of lockdowns and the ...

Releasedatum: 2020-12-15 65,00 kr