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    The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

    Matt Ridley

    Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up.

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    Birds, Sex and Beauty

    Matt Ridley

    From acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley, a new book that studies the peculiar mating behaviour of birds to better understand the origin of beauty and humanity itself.

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    Birds, Sex, and Beauty

    Matt Ridley

    The New York Times bestselling author of Genome and The Evolution of Everything revisits Darwin's revelatory theory of mate choice through the close study of the peculiar rituals of birds…

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    The Evolution of Everything: How Small Changes Transform Our World

    Matt Ridley

    ‘If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make … it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of…

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    The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture

    Matt Ridley

    The bestselling author of Genome chronicles a new revolution in the world'sunderstanding of genes.

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    The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

    Matt Ridley

    Citing the Red Queen from Through the Looking Glass, who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity’s best strategy for outwitting…

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    The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

    Matt Ridley

    A book that makes the case for evolution over design and skewers a widespread but dangerous myth: that we have ultimate control over our world –

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    How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

    Matt Ridley

    Originally published as How innovation works: serendipity, energy and the saving of time in Great Britain in 2020 by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers –Title page verso

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    The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts And the Evolution of Cooperation

    Matt Ridley

    If, as Darwin suggests, evolution relentlessly encourages the survival of the fittest, why are humans compelled to live in cooperative, complex societies? In this fascinating examination of the roots of…

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    The Origins of Virtue

    Matt Ridley

    Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a…

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    Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code

    Matt Ridley

    Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life.

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    How Innovation Works

    Matt Ridley

    ‘Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success’ Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and…

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    Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

    Matt Ridley

    A fascinating tour of the human genome… . If you want to catch a glimpse of the biotech century that is now dawning, and how it will make life better…

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    Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code

    Matt Ridley

    Ridley traces Crick’s life from middle-class mediocrity through his leap into biology at the age of 31 and his co-discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

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    The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

    Matt Ridley

    Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from…

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    Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

    Matt Ridley

    An investigation of genetic science. The book of about 100,000 words, is divided into 23 chapters, a chapter for each chromosome.

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    Down to Earth: Contrarian View of Environmental Problems

    Matt Ridley

    Dr Ridley is one of a number of environmentalists who are seeking to counter the inaccurate and misleading opinions of ‘mainstream environmentalism’. This volume brings together a selection of 30…

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    Claves de la Innovacion

    Matt Ridley

    La innovacion es la actividad mas importante de nuestra epoca: trae progresos espectaculares a nuestro nivel de vida, pero tambien, en ocasiones, cambios inquietantes a la sociedad. Matt Ridley entiende…

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    The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

    Matt Ridley

    Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to…

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    The Year the World Went Mad: A Scientific Memoir

    Mark Woolhouse

    Professor Mark Woolhouse, advisor to the Scottish and UK governments, gives his account of the pandemic period, explains what was done wrongly and why, and warns that pandemics will recur.

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    Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19

    Alina Chan,Matt Ridley

    Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to…

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    How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to Change the World?

    Matt Ridley,Stephen Davies

    Did Thomas Edison invent the light bulb? According to Matt Ridley, many others can lay claim to this breakthrough moment - it was bound to emerge sooner or later. Ridley…

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    Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19

    Matt Ridley,Alina Chan

    Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to…

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    Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19

    Alina Chan,Matt Ridley

    Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to…

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    Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19

    Alina Chan,Matt Ridley

    Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to…

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    Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead?

    Steven Pinker,Matt Ridley,Alain de Botton,Malcolm Gladwell

    In a world driven by technology and ever-closer global networks, is humanity approaching a Golden Age, or is the notion of progress an illusion born in the West?

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    Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead?: The Munk Debates

    Steven Pinker (Harvard University),Matt Ridley,Alain De Botton,Malcolm Gladwell

    Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations…

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