03877cam a2200361 4500 406292519 TxAuBib 20191013120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781508211402 150821140X 03fbfd04-a767-4f15-9e32-16d79e236679 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2565705 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mukherjee, Siddhartha. The Gene [Libby Audiobook] : An Intimate History. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2016. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 533MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 532MB. HTML:<b>2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction</b><br /> <b>The #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> Bestseller</b><br /> <b>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book<br /> A <i>Washington Post</i> and <i>Seattle Times</i> Best Book of the Year</b><br /> <br /> <b>From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Emperor of All Maladies</i>—a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick" (<i>Elle</i>).</b><br /> "Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>The Emperor of All Maladies</i> in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in <i>The Gene: An Intimate History</i>, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of <i>Paradise Lost</i>" (<i>The New York Times</i>). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.<br /> <br /> "Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories...[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry" (<i>The Washington Post</i>). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee's own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.<br /> <br /> "A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future" (<i>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel</i>), <i>The Gene</i> is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. "<i>The Gene</i> is a book we all should read" (<i>USA TODAY</i>). Nonfiction. Sociology. History. Medical. Media Type: Audiobook. Notable Books for Adults. Audie Award Nominee. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2019-12-13 22:00:03. Boutsikaris, Dennis. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/2565705-TheGene.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=03fbfd04-a767-4f15-9e32-16d79e236679&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/2565705-TheGene.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=03fbfd04-a767-4f15-9e32-16d79e236679&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)