Steve Jones

 ¿Hay una explicación científica detrás de las famosas plagas de Egipto? ¿Y de la edad de Matusalén? ¿Y de tantos otros sucesos que tomamos por milagrosos? La Biblia es sometida a examen con todo el

The Origin of Species is the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure the genius of Charles Darwin's other works. The Beagle voyage, too, occupied only five of the fifty years of his career. He spent only five weeks on the Galapagos and on his return never left Britain again. Darwin wrote six million words, in nineteen books and innumerable letters, on topics as different as dogs, barnacles, insect-eating plants, orchids, earthworms, apes and human emotion. Together, they laid the foundations of modern biology. In this beautifully written, witty and illuminating book, Steve Jones explores the domestic Darwin, the sage of Kent, and brings his work up to date. Great Britain was Charles Darwin's other island, its countryside as much, or more, a place of discovery than had been the Galapagos. It traces the great naturalist's second journey across its modest landscape: a voyage not of the body but of the mind.

Takes us from Mendel to the human gene map and the treatment if inborn disease, giving enough information to help us make the moral decisions that we will face.

La sangre siempre ha mantenido unidas a las familias y a las naciones, el Antiguo Testamento fue el primer libro de genética y la idea de la herencia es tan poderosa que su estudio fue prohibido en la Union Sovietica durante treinta años. En la sangre muestra como la genetica esta incomodamente proxima a las cuestiones que se plantean la filosofia, la teologia e incluso la politica. En opinion de muchos, representa una amenaza para la autonomia humana: si todo esta programado en los genes ¿que margen queda para el libre albedrio? Si la sociedad no es mas que un mecanismo para garantizar la transmision de los genes, ¿como siguen siendo posibles el bien y el mal? Actualmente la genetica ejerce una singular fascinacion, a la par que se ha convertido en una fuente de confusiones. STEVE JONES pasa revista a estos temas fundamentales, antiguos problemas que ahora se reformulan en el lenguaje de la ciencia, los plantea de forma original e incluso les da respuesta.

THE SINGLE HELIX is a miscellany of a hundred easy pieces about science. It brings to life a vast diversity of subjects, united under the banner of scientific truth - the universal solvent that brings clarity to almost all the mysteries of the world we live in. Scientists are trained to know ever more about even less but here Steve Jones sets out deliberately to explore subjects in which he is emphatically not an expert (although his favourite snail, the single Helix of his title, does poke in a tentacle here and there). His insatiable curiosity and enthusiasm as he sheds light on unexpected corners of knowledge combine to produce science writing at its very best. From chaos in the heavens to the fight against creationism, from optical illusions in tartan to the mathematics of elections and what rules the sex lives of cats THE SINGLE HELIX is a scientist's look at sciences other than his own - and as a result its author has been forced to make the complicated simple enough for even a biologist to understand.

Bob Bloomfield is, in the words of his best friend's wife, a 'selfish, arrogant a*sehole', who hasn't spent a great deal of time making friends in his 49 years on earth.But what if he could change? What if Bob could stop the very thing that has made him the man he is, the death of his younger brother, Tom in 1986.If he could save Tom, could he save himself?. . . And what if all it took was a phone call - to his childhood self?

Our sun drives the weather, forms the landscape, feeds and fuels - but sometimes destroys - the creatures that live upon it, controls their patterns of activity, makes chemicals in the skin that cheer up those who bask in its rays, and for the ancients was the seat of divine authority. In Here Comes the Sun, Steve Jones shows how life on Earth is ruled by our nearest star. It is filled with unexpected connections; between the need to stay cool and man's ability to stand upright, between the power of memory and the onset of darkness, between the flow of solar energy through the plants and animals and of wealth through society, and between Joseph Goebbel's 1938 scheme to make Edinburgh the summer capital of a defeated Britain and the widening gap in the life expectancy of Scottish men compared to that of other European men brought on by thnat nation's cloudy climate.Its author charts some of his own research in places hot and cold across the globe on the genetic and evolutionary effects of sunlight on snails, fruit-flies and people and shows how what was once no more an eccentric specialism has grown to become a subject of wide scientific, social and political significance. Stunningly evocative, beautifully written and packed full of insight, Here Comes the Sun is Steve Jones's most personal book to date.

Illuminating!' Professor Brian Cox'Every Steve Jones book is a masterclass in clear and captivating writing with tantalising detours into beguiling anecdotes. Here Comes the Sun is dense with ideas and stories and, like all his books, it will change the way you see the world around you' Robin Ince Our sun drives the weather, forms the landscape, feeds and fuels - but sometimes destroys - the creatures that live upon it, controls their patterns of activity, makes chemicals in the skin that cheer up those who bask in its rays, and for the ancients was the seat of divine authority. In Here Comes the Sun, Steve Jones shows how life on Earth is ruled by our nearest star.It is filled with unexpected connections; between the need to stay cool and man's ability to stand upright, between the power of memory and the onset of darkness, between the flow of solar energy through the plants and animals and of wealth through society, and between Joseph Goebbel's 1938 scheme to make Edinburgh the summer capital of a defeated Britain and the widening gap in the life expectancy of Scottish men compared to that of other European men brought on by thnat nation's cloudy climate. Its author charts some of his own research in places hot and cold across the globe on the genetic and evolutionary effects of sunlight on snails, fruit-flies and people and shows how what was once no more an eccentric specialism has grown to become a subject of wide scientific, social and political significance. Stunningly evocative, beautifully written and packed full of insight, Here Comes the Sun is Steve Jones's most personal book to date.

Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their sex had at last been dispensed with. Dolly the Sheep - conceived without male assistance - had arrived. Her birth reminded at least half the population of how precarious man's position may be. What is the point of being a man? For a brief and essential instant he is a donor of DNA; but outside that glorious moment his role is hard to understand. This book is about science not society; about maleness not manhood. The condition is, in the end, a matter of biology, whatever limits that science may have in explaining the human condition. Today's advances in medicine and in genetics mean at last we understand why men exist and why they are so frequent. We understand from hormones to hydraulics how man's machinery works, why he dies so young and how his brain differs from that of the rest of mankind.

Las memorias de Steve Jones, un mago de la guitarra que, con Sex Pistols, cambió la historia de la música. Coincidiendo con el 40 aniversario del nacimiento del punk, Steve Jones se ha decidido a con

Sin los Sex Pistols no existiría el punk. Y sin Steve Jones no existirían los Sex Pistols. Él fue quien fundó Kutie Jones and his Sex Pistols, la banda que posteriormente se convirtió en los Sex Pistols, con su compañero de clase Paul Cook, que inicialmente fue el lider del grupo. Coincidiendo con el medio siglo del nacimiento del punk, que celebra la inmensa influencia y la gran relevancia cultural que este movimiento tiene en la musica, la moda o las artes visuales todavia hoy en dia, Steve Jones se ha decidido por fin a contar su historia. Una historia que empieza en los barrios de Hammersmith y Sheperd?s Bush, en el oeste de Londres, donde un chico solitario y descuidado que vivia de pequeños hurtos descubrio el glam de David Bowie y Roxy Music, y se acabo convirtiendo en uno de los primeros punks callejeros que Malcolm McLaren y Vivienne Westwood acogieron. Por primera vez, Jones escribe sobre la tristeza de no haber conocido nunca a su padre, del abandono y el abuso que sufrio por parte de su padrastro, y como su interes por la musica y la moda lo salvaron de pasar una vida marcada por los centros de prision preventiva y la carcel. Desde el Kings Road de los años setenta, los años de Sex Pistols, el punk rock y la grabacion del album inmortal Never Mind the Bollocks, hasta su exilio voluntario en Nueva York y Los Angeles donde batallo con el alcohol, la heroina y la adiccion al sexo, este libro es el relato de un improbable mago de la guitarra que con los Sex Pistols cambio el rumbo de la musica para siempre.

· ¿Hay una explicación científica detrás de las famosas plagas de Egipto? ¿Y de la edad de Matusalén? ¿Y de tantosotros sucesos que tomamos por milagrosos? · La Biblia es sometida a examen con todo e