Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (2022)
Thrilling and highly persuasive … set to become a landmar, transforming our understanding of how life works.
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Gaia Vince, author of Nomad Century
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (2022)
Amazing! Takes science writing to a new level ... made me think about life on earth in a completely different way
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Daniel M. Davis, author of The Secret Body
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (2022)
Hugely ambitious and tremendously exciting ... Transformer shows how a molecular dance from the dawn of time still sculpts our lives today
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Olivia Judson, author of Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
Nobody explains the inner secrets of the living cell better than Nick Lane
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Richard Fortey, author of Fossils
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
An exhilarating account … stretching from the first stirrings of living matter to the psychology of consciousness
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Mark Solms, author of The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (2022)
Nick Lane never writes about the living world without offering entirely new perspectives on how life itself works ...Biochemistry has never looked more exciting
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Phillip Ball, author of Critical Mass
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (2022)
One of the most creative of today’s biologists…this is a book filled with big ideas, many of which are bold instances of lateral thinking
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Michael Marshall,New Scientist
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (2022)
Compulsively readable… a riveting journey, ranging from the flow of energy to new ways of understanding cancer
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Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (2022)
I loved every page of Nick Lane's new book
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Lee Smolin, author of Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (2022)
Hugely important ... In Transformer, chemistry is quite literally brought to life
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Jim Al-Khalili, author of The World According To Physics
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
One of my favourite authors
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Bill Gates
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (2022)
An exciting new approach to the science of life
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Kirkus Reviews
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
Compulsively readable… a riveting journey, ranging from the flow of energy to new ways of understanding cancer
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Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
Thrilling and highly persuasive … set to become a landmark
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Gaia Vince, author of Nomad Century
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
I loved every page of Nick Lane's new book
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Lee Smolin, author of Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
Hugely important ... In Transformer, chemistry is quite literally brought to life
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Jim Al-Khalili, author of The World According To Physics
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
Amazing! Takes science writing to a new level
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Daniel M. Davis, author of The Secret Body
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
Hugely ambitious and tremendously exciting
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Olivia Judson, author of Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
Marvellously engaging … refocused my astronomer's gaze on the vital chemistry of life on our own planet
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John Grunsfeld, former NASA Chief Scientist and Astronaut
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
Fascinating … Nick Lane brings together biology, chemistry, and physics to illuminate the role of energy in bringing matter alive
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Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
Biochemistry has never looked more exciting
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Phil Ball, author of Critical Mass
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
An exciting new approach to the science of life
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Kirkus Reviews
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
"The Vital Question” is a stunning inquiry into the origin of life. I loved this book
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Bill Gates
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
One of the deepest, most illuminating books about the history of life to have been published in recent years
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ECONOMIST
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
A strikingly unconventional view of biology… Dr. Lane’s broad perspective, which attempts to address the origins of life, sex and death, is seductive and often convincing.
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Tim Requarth (NEW YORK TIMES)
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
He is an original researcher and thinker and a passionate and stylish populariser. His theories are ingenious, breathtaking in scope, and challenging in every sense ... intellectually what Lane is proposing, if correct, will be as important as the Copernican revolution.
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Peter Forbes (GUARDIAN)
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
A bold, eloquent, confident book… Nick Lane is not only a master storyteller, but this is his research… he’s that rare species, a scientist who can illuminate the bewildering complexities of biology with clear, luminous words
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Adam Rutherford (OBSERVER)
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
Comes triumphantly close to cracking the secret of why life is the way it is, to a depth that would boggle any ancient philosopher's mind.
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Matt Ridley (TIMES)
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
Nick Lane is emerging as one of the most imaginative thinkers about the evolution of life on Earth... A scintillating synthesis of a new theory of life.
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Clive Cookson (FINANCIAL TIMES)
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
Succeeds brilliantly… I cannot recommend The Vital Question too highly. Lane's vivid descriptions and powerful reasoning will amaze and grip the reader.
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Caspar Henderson (TELEGRAPH)
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
This is a book of vast scope and ambition, brimming with bold and important ideas... The arguments are powerful and persuasive... an incredible, epic story.
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Michael Le Page (NEW SCIENTIST)
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
An exciting tale, thrillingly told... This is a potent book, one that not only brings you up to date with biology but also stuns you with the wonder of it all.
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Bryan Appleyard (SUNDAY TIMES)
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015)
A tour de force of inventive science.
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Philip Ball (PROSPECT)
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (2009)
Original and awe-inspiring... an exhilarating tour of some of the most profound and important ideas in biology
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NEW SCIENTIST
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (2009)
Nick Lane is one of the most exciting science writers of our time.
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THE INDEPENDENT
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (2009)
With its vast scope, page-turning revelations and elegant prose, Nick Lane's Life Ascending is everything one could hope for in a science book.
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THE TELEGRAPH
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (2009)
This is a science book that doesn't cheat: the structure is logical, the writing is witty, and the hard questions are tackled head on.
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Tim Radford (THE GUARDIAN)
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (2009)
Excellent and imaginative... full of surprises.
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Lewis Wolpert (NATURE)
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (2009)
With clarity and vigor... Lane smoothly pulls in evidence to show how the critical components and mechanisms of complex life could have developed.
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NEW YORK TIMES
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (2005)
Magnificent... explains life's workings, fabric and inner logic with a previously unapproachable coherence.
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PROSPECT
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (2005)
Audacious... For anyone interested in some of the most profound questions of twenty-first century science. Clearly and forcefully propounded.... This is a new take on why we are here. Do, please, read this book.
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John F. Allen (NATURE)
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (2005)
Impressive… readable, provocative and often persuasive… undoubtedly important. An exciting and unusual book.
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Jonathan Hodgkin (TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT)
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (2005)
Full of startling insights into the nature and evolution of life as we know it.
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THE ECONOMIST, Books of the Year 2005
Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (2002)
Highly ambitious.... Oxygen is a piece of radical scientific polemic, nothing less than a total rethink of how life evolved between about 3.5 billion and 543 million years ago, and how that relates to the diseases we suffer from today.... This is science writing at its best
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FINANCIAL TIMES
Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (2002)
Lane's book is an extraordinary orchestration of disparate scientific disciplines, connecting the origins of life on earth with disease, age and death in human beings.
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John Cornwell, SUNDAY TIMES, Books of the Year, 2002
Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (2002)
Lane has written a wonderful book about the dual role of oxygen in life and death.... This is a scientific saga as compelling as any creation myth and Lane tells it with appropriate zeal.
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Tim Lenton, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT
Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (2002)
Enthralling.... An excellent book. It held me spellbound for a 7 hour plane flight. I recommend it unreservedly.
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Barry Halliwell, FREE RADICAL RESEARCH