Sex, Science And Profits
Published on 1. January 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-09-928193-1 (ISBN)
Description
The question 'What is art?' is frequently debated, but 'What is science?' appears to be discussed less often - though the answers could reveal far more about us.
Is science a public good? Does science mean progress? Or is science something more exploitative - driven by profit, promoted by businesses and institutions looking for economic and political power?
In this ground-breaking study in the tradition of Richard Dawkins and Jared Diamond, Terence Kealey shows how an understanding of sexual and natural selection can transform our view of progress in economics, business and technology. Richly multi-disciplinary, witty, brilliant and thought-provoking, it is an important and controversial book.
Is science a public good? Does science mean progress? Or is science something more exploitative - driven by profit, promoted by businesses and institutions looking for economic and political power?
In this ground-breaking study in the tradition of Richard Dawkins and Jared Diamond, Terence Kealey shows how an understanding of sexual and natural selection can transform our view of progress in economics, business and technology. Richly multi-disciplinary, witty, brilliant and thought-provoking, it is an important and controversial book.
Reviews / Votes
A bracing argument, and Kealey writes clearly and well...fascinating * Guardian * Hugely ambitious, stupendously confident and unrelentingly provocative. It is indeed a tropical storm of a book; it throws out a whirlwind of ideas, it deluges its readers with facts and statistics, buffets them with challenges to conventional wisdom and leaves them feeling like heroes when they survive the commotion of reading it * Sunday Telegraph * Absorbing...a gloriously idiosyncratic work * Sunday Times * Rip-roaring... Kealey's gallop through capitalism, sociology, history, economics and science is a stimulating and splendid read * The Times * An entertaining canter through global history...energy and muscular prose are much in evidence * The Times Higher Educational Supplement * Extraordinary... a brilliant, counter-intuitive argument in favour of individualism and market forces * Mail on Sunday * Kealey writes with enthusiasm and panache... exhilarating and exciting * Lancet *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
551 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-928193-1 (9780099281931)
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Terence Kealey
Sex, Science And Profits
E-Book
10/2010
1st Edition
Vintage Digital
€12.99
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Person
Terence Kealey is a clinical biochemist specialising in the biochemistry of hair. He is currently Vice Chancellor of the University of Buckingham and he writes regularly for the Spectator, the Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph and the New Scientist.