Jonathan Weiner

A Story of Evolution in Our Time

The Beak of the Finch

A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior

Time, Love, Memory

Draws on interviews with leading researchers to explore the possibility of human immortality and whether or not it could be attainable in the near future, and explains the science behind the most cutting-edge research in the field.

The Strange Science of Immortality

Long for This World

Zack Bonnie

Anne M Carley

A CEDU Memoir

Dead, Insane, or in Jail

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne Major, natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour, and we can watch. In this dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research, Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself. The Beak of the Finch is an elegantly written and compelling masterpiece of theory and explication in the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould. With a new preface.

Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS -- Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper is a powerful account of their story, as they travel together to the edge of medicine. The book brings home for all of us the hopes and fears of the new biology. In this dramatic and suspenseful narrative, Jonathan Weiner gives us a remarkable portrait of science and medicine today. We learn about gene therapy, stem cells, brain vaccines, and other novel treatments for such nerve-death diseases as ALS, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's -- diseases that afflict millions, and touch the lives of many more. "The Heywoods' story taught me many things about the nature of healing in the new millennium," Weiner writes. "They also taught me about what has not changed since the time of the ancients and may never change as long as there are human beings -- about what Lucretius calls 'the ever-living wound of love.'" This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

One Family's Journey to the Edge of Medicine

His Brother's Keeper

Tim Folger

Collects nature- and science-based essays by such authors as Anne Fadiman, Brian Hayes, Cullen Murphy, and Gary Taubes.

The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2005

Examines the structure and evolution of the earth, discusses its climate, weather, and natural resources, tells what studies of the sun and the planets reveal about the earth, and describes the probable effects of a nuclear war

Planet Earth

?Que parte de nuestro destino esta decidido antes del nacimiento? ?Que esta escrito y en que codigos? ?Que cadena de reacciones puede llevarnos a pensar o provocarnos la risa? ?Que genes determinan que un insecto se desplace hacia la luz o hacia la sombra? Saymour Benzer, uno de los mayores biologos del siglo XX, ofrece las primeras y sorprendentes respuestas. Su historia y sus increibles estudios sobre el comportamiento de las moscas de la fruta son descritos en esta biografia novelada, en la que tambien se lleva a cabo un repaso por la andadura cientifica de los ultimos cien anos. Tiempo, amor, memoria muestra como Benzer cambio nuestras ideas sobre la conducta de los seres vivos. El autor de estas paginas, Jonathan Weiner, premio Pulitzer, es uno de los escritores especializados de Estados Unidos.

en busca de los orígenes del comportamiento

Tiempo, amor, memoria

The author examines the threat of the greenhouse effect on the planet, the hole in the ozone layer, and the decimation of forests, and details the steps necessary to reverse these disasters

Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth

The Next One Hundred Years

The story of Nobel Prize–winning discoveries regarding the molecular mechanisms controlling the body’s circadian rhythm. How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's Fly Rooms at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer, and his asssociates are in the process of finding answers, often astonishing ones, to these questions. Part biography, part thrilling scientific detective story, Time, Love, Memory forcefully demonstrates how Benzer's studies are changing our world view--and even our lives. Jonathan Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch, brings his brilliant reporting skills to the story of Seymour Benzer, the Brooklyn-born maverick scientist whose study of genetics and experiments with fruit fly genes has helped revolutionize or knowledge of the connections between DNA and behavior both animal and human.

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