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The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives
Helen Pearson
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Description for The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 31. Weight in Grams: 304.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE 'Eye-opening, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives' Financial Times 'Superb' Literary Review The remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain today In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on the planet, and the simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born, schooled, parent and die. This is the tale of these studies and the remarkable discoveries that have come from them. Touching almost every person in Britain today, they are one of our best-kept secrets. 'If you ever wondered whether the circumstances of your early life steered you along a particular path, look no further than this book ... highly readable ... a goldmine of social history' Eric Kaufmann, Literary Review 'Hugely engaging ... the scientists are an irresistibly eccentric, passionate bunch' Nick Curtis, Evening Standard
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141976617
SKU
V9780141976617
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99-22
About Helen Pearson
Helen Pearson is a science journalist and editor for the international science journal Nature. She has been writing for Nature since 2001 and her stories have won accolades including the 2010 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award and two best feature awards from the Association of British Science Writers. Based in London, she has a PhD in genetics and spent eight years with Nature in New York. The Life Project is her first book, and was highly commended at the British Medical Association Book Awards in 2017.
Reviews for The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives
Incredible
Tech Insider
Persuasively argues ... the beauty and sheer vision of these longitudinal cohort studies
Telegraph
Pearson has done a real service in explaining how wide-ranging these extraordinary and little-known studies have been
Michael Prodger
The Times
Fascinating ... A cogent exploration of Britain's groundbreaking birth-cohort studies ... The Life Project does a great service in bringing them and the people at their heart to life
Andrew Steptoe
Nature
A highly readable, deeply informative book ... If you ever wondered whether the circumstances of your early life steered you along a particular path, look no further than this book ... [Pearson] does a superb job of bringing [the cohort studies] to life ...
Eric Kaufmann
Literary Review
Hugely engaging, and gives much to chew on ... the scientists are an irresistibly eccentric, passionate bunch
Nick Curtis
Evening Standard
The Life Project is in many ways a very British story ... Absorbing ... A tribute to Helen Pearson's skill as a writer
Keith Kahn-Harris
Independent
Fascinating
Alice Jones
Independent
Intriguing ... [A] fine, detailed book
Jenni Russell, 'Must Reads'
Sunday Times
A spellbinding account of the UK's pioneering cohort studies ... [A] cogent, persuasive book
Robin McKie
Observer
Highly enjoyable ... Reading this book has reminded me of how much we owe to birth cohorts and their participants ... Delightful
Kate Pickett
author of The Spirit Level
Fascinating, shocking, heartening ... The greatest scientific experiment in modern British history
Dominic Sandbrook
Daily Mail
Eye-opening book, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives ... Part scientific narrative and part postwar social history, along with some fantastically cut-throat academic politics ... A very British success story
Isabel Berwick
Financial Times
An elegant mix of science and human drama, The Life Project was - by a considerable measure in my view - the best science book published this year
Robin McKie, Best Science Books of 2016
Observer
An elegant mix of science and human drama, The Life Project was - by a considerable measure in my view - the best science book published this year
Robin McKie, Best Science Books of 2016
Observer
Tech Insider
Persuasively argues ... the beauty and sheer vision of these longitudinal cohort studies
Telegraph
Pearson has done a real service in explaining how wide-ranging these extraordinary and little-known studies have been
Michael Prodger
The Times
Fascinating ... A cogent exploration of Britain's groundbreaking birth-cohort studies ... The Life Project does a great service in bringing them and the people at their heart to life
Andrew Steptoe
Nature
A highly readable, deeply informative book ... If you ever wondered whether the circumstances of your early life steered you along a particular path, look no further than this book ... [Pearson] does a superb job of bringing [the cohort studies] to life ...
Eric Kaufmann
Literary Review
Hugely engaging, and gives much to chew on ... the scientists are an irresistibly eccentric, passionate bunch
Nick Curtis
Evening Standard
The Life Project is in many ways a very British story ... Absorbing ... A tribute to Helen Pearson's skill as a writer
Keith Kahn-Harris
Independent
Fascinating
Alice Jones
Independent
Intriguing ... [A] fine, detailed book
Jenni Russell, 'Must Reads'
Sunday Times
A spellbinding account of the UK's pioneering cohort studies ... [A] cogent, persuasive book
Robin McKie
Observer
Highly enjoyable ... Reading this book has reminded me of how much we owe to birth cohorts and their participants ... Delightful
Kate Pickett
author of The Spirit Level
Fascinating, shocking, heartening ... The greatest scientific experiment in modern British history
Dominic Sandbrook
Daily Mail
Eye-opening book, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives ... Part scientific narrative and part postwar social history, along with some fantastically cut-throat academic politics ... A very British success story
Isabel Berwick
Financial Times
An elegant mix of science and human drama, The Life Project was - by a considerable measure in my view - the best science book published this year
Robin McKie, Best Science Books of 2016
Observer
An elegant mix of science and human drama, The Life Project was - by a considerable measure in my view - the best science book published this year
Robin McKie, Best Science Books of 2016
Observer