Name: Every Living Thing
SKU: 64316906
Price: 584.00 TWD
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Author: Jason Roberts
ISBN: 9781529400489

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Physical Book

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Jason Roberts

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Maclehose Press Quercus

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Paperback

ISBN13

9781529400489

Every Living Thing

Jason Roberts (Author) · Maclehose Press Quercus · Paperback

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Synopsis "Every Living Thing"

The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life. In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster''s flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France''s royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic, ever-changing swirl of complexities. Both began believing their work to be difficult, but not impossible--how could the planet possibly hold more than a few thousand species? Stunned by life''s diversity, both fell far short of their goal. But in the process they articulated starkly divergent views on nature, on humanity''s role in shaping the fate of our planet, and on humanity itself. The rivalry between these two unique, driven individuals created reverberations that still echo today. Linnaeus, with the help of acolyte explorers he called "apostles" (only half of whom returned alive), gave the world such concepts as mammal, primate and homo sapiens--but he also denied species change and promulgated racist pseudo-science. Buffon coined the term reproduction, formulated early prototypes of evolution and genetics, and argued passionately against prejudice. It was a clash that, during their lifetimes, Buffon seemed to be winning. But their posthumous fates would take a very different turn. With elegant, propulsive prose grounded in more than a decade of research, bestselling author Jason Roberts tells an unforgettable true-life tale of intertwined lives and enduring legacies, tracing an arc of insight and discovery that extends across three centuries into the present day.

Jason Roberts

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Jason Roberts (Arcadia, California, 1962) es un destacado escritor, biógrafo y autor estadounidense. Licenciado por la Universidad de California en Santa Cruz, ha alternado su labor literaria con la docencia en instituciones como la Universidad de Stanford.Saltó a la fama internacional con su ópera prima A Sense of the World (2006), una aclamada biografía que fue finalista del prestigioso National Book Critics Circle Award.Posteriormente, consolidó su prestigio literario con Todos los seres vivos (Every Living Thing), una obra sobre la rivalidad histórica entre el naturalista Carl Linneo y el pensador Georges-Louis de Buffon. Este trabajo de investigación y narrativa le otorgó el Premio Pulitzer de Biografía.Su estilo destaca por abordar la historia y la ciencia desde una perspectiva accesible, entrelazando vidas y descubrimientos que han moldeado nuestra concepción del mundo.

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