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Brought to you by Penguin. 'Wonderful, mind-broadening... a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any you'll find in science fiction' - The Times, Book of the Week Humans have three or four colour-detecting cones in their retinas. Mantis shrimp have 16. In fact, their eyes seem to...

Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It’s an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words, you contain multitudes. These microscopic companions sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key...

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The New York Times bestseller now available for young listeners! Explore the amazing ways animals see, hear, and feel the world, with Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong. Did you know that there are turtles who can track the Earth's magnetic fields? That some fish use electricity to talk to each other?...

In his prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller, An Immense World, Ed Yong invited us to perceive the world through other animals’ senses. Now he transforms our view of the world once again by revealing the hidden wonders of life at different scales. All around us, just beyond our awareness, life...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed...

Just as he did in his New York Times bestseller, An Immense World, Ed Yong expands our perception of nature, this time by revealing the astonishing ways living things operate at different scales. "A tour de force. Life Beyond Measure is an invitation to transcend the limits of our bodies and...

Il nostro corpo brulica di decine di trilioni di microbi. È un mondo intero, una colonia piena di vita. In altre parole, conteniamo moltitudini. I nostri partner microscopici costruiscono gli organi, ci proteggono dalle malattie, condizionano il nostro comportamento e ci bombardano con i loro geni. Hanno anche in mano le chiavi per comprendere tutta la vita sulla Terra. In "Contengo moltitudini", Ed Yong ci aiuta a aprire gli occhi, invitandoci a osservare noi stessi e gli altri animali sotto una nuova luce, meno come individui e più come rigogliosi ecosistemi.