Ridley, Matt

Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch--the endless fascination human beings have for design rather than...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015

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Ridley, Matt.

Summary: Looks at one newly described gene from each of the twenty-three human chromosomes and explains how each one contributes to our uniqueness as a species.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 RID

Ridley, Matt

Summary: Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation that will shape the twenty-first century. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 RID

Chan, Alina

Summary: "In this uniquely insightful book, a scientist and a writer join forces to try to get to the bottom of how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical southern China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometres away in the city of Wuhan. They grapple with the baffling fact that the virus left none of the expected traces that such outbreaks usually...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Damon, Matt

Summary: After being presumed dead on a mission to Mars, an astronaut is left behind by his crew and must find a way to survive and signal to Earth that he is still alive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2016

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Rigney, Matt.

Summary: Discusses how the great fish, such as marlin, bluefin tuna, and swordfish, are now threatened by destructive and sometimes illegal fishing, inept fishery management practices, and changes in ocean's ecology.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597.48 RIG

Mosca, Julia Finley

Summary: "As a girl coming of age during the Civil Rights Movement, Patricia Bath made it her mission to become a doctor. When obstacles like racism, poverty, and sexism threatened this goal, she persevered--brightening the world with a game-changing treatment for blindness!"--Inside book jacket.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Innovation Press 2017

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