Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes a human being.

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'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.

Here Comes the Sun

Steve Jones' Body Mind Spirit system shows you how to excel at whatever life throws at you, from self-defence on the streets, dealing with office bully tactics or giving a speech in front of a crowd of people. Using kung fu, dynamic meditation and chi gung, this is a unique guide to achieving success, confidence and balance in modern life.

 The Intelligent Warrior is a unique guidebook to finding balance and success in life, teaching the reader how to cope with any situation- whether a spiritual, mental or physical challenge- that modern life can throw at you.

 Steve Jones has developed his own Body Mind Spirit (BMS) system, which encourages the development of all three areas in order to find the focus and balance required to achieve your goals. His system is a hybrid of kung fu, dynamic meditation and chi gung.

 As well as being a book for martial arts students, this book is ideal for anyone wanting to succeed in business. Steve Jones uses martial arts in the same way that Bill Phillips, Baron Baptiste and Tony Buzan use body building, yoga and mind-maps, as a tool to achieving mental and physical prowess.

 The Intelligent Warrior will show readers how to:. sharpen mental acuity. defeat depressive thoughts. win at work. face off aggressors. be socially confident

The Intelligent Warrior - Command Personal Power with Martial Arts Strategies

From genes to cells

Steve Jones's highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic breakthroughs from GM food to Dolly the sheep. 'An essential sightseer's guide to our own genetic terrain.' Peter Tallack, Sunday Telegraph

 'Superb and stimulating.an exhilarating trip around the double spiral of DNA, a rush of gravity-defying concepts and wild swerves of the scientific imagination.' J. G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph

 'Not so much divination as demystification. An attempt to bring genetics and evolution more into the public domain. If, for instance, you ever wondered just what genetic engineering is about, here is as good a place as any to discover. Few have Jones's ability to communicate a difficult idea with such humour, clarity, precision and ease.' Laurence Hurst, Times Higher

 'Sensitive to the social issues raised by genetics. yet Jones's interest reaches beyond contemporary social issues to the human past, to what genetics can and cannot tell us about our evolution and patterns of social development. He interleaves a broad knowledge of biology with considerations of cultural, demographic and - as his title indicates - linguistic history. At once instructive and captivating.' Daniel J. Kevles, London Review of Books

The Language of the Genes

The Serpent's Promise - The Bible Retold as Science

Wildlife Watching Around Ventnor, Isle of Wight This short booklet dscribes the wildlife one is likely to see around the coastal town of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, England. This is a wonderfully rich area, with high chalk downlands and rocky shoreline presenting visitors with the perfect wildlife holiday destination, and those looking to move to the island with the perfect home ground. This is part of a two-part set, the accompanying volume, Bird Watching Around Ventnor, Isle of Wight, providing a deep-dive intio the area's bird life. All author proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to marine wildlife conservation.

Wildlife Watching Around Ventnor, Isle of Wight

Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk. And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who, with his schoolmate Paul Cook, formed the band that eventually went on to become the Sex Pistols, and who was its original leader. From a lonely, neglected boy roaming the streets of Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush, living off his wits and petty thievery, to becoming one of the first generation of ragamuffin punks taken under the wings of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, Lonely Boy is the story of an unlikely guitar hero who, with the Sex Pistols, transformed twentieth-century culture and kick-started a social revolution.

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