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Dr Adam Rutherford Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Adam Rutherford is a geneticist, author, and broadcaster. Back off man, I'm a scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL Genetics, race, eugenics, history of science, movies, books, cricket, +–=÷×

40 books
Book Cover for: Mr. Wilder and Me, Jonathan Coe

Mr. Wilder and Me

Jonathan Coe
Dr Adam RutherfordDr Adam Rutherford

Oh I absolutely ADORED this book.

Paperback, 2023

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics, Adam Rutherford

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Adam Rutherford
Dr Adam RutherfordDr Adam Rutherford

Very lengthy review of my eugenics book Control in the Times Lit Supplement, largely positive but does conclude that I am a moralising guru. FINALLY someone sees my potential as a cult. A total cult.

Paperback, 2023

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and Other Train Wrecks, Justin Webb

The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and Other Train Wrecks

Justin Webb
Dr Adam RutherfordDr Adam Rutherford

The Gift of a Radio is my favourite book of 2022 so far. @JustinOnWeb’s memoir of class and social turmoil in the 1970s: sad, funny and sharp, often in the same sentence. I suppose all countries are silly on inspection, but he revels in the particular oddities of England. https://twitter.com/JustinOnWeb/status/1485997603703734278

Paperback, 2024

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution, Alison Bashford

The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution

Alison Bashford
Dr Adam RutherfordDr Adam Rutherford

@philipcball @PeaseRoland @jonWturney @matthewcobb What a delight! And on 20th September, Matthew will be on Start the Week, alongside Alison Bashford talking about the Huxleys, the PR still done by Annabel, and presented by. me! https://t.co/M2mtrXGfpB

Hardcover, 2022

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Lyrics: 1961-2020, Bob Dylan

The Lyrics: 1961-2020

Bob Dylan
Dr Adam RutherfordDr Adam Rutherford

This morning I dreamt that I was presenting #StartTheWeek on @BBCRadio4 but they changed all the topics and guests at 08:45 to be about the lyrics of Bob Dylan. Nothing to do with the fact that I’m presenting Start the Week next Monday. 😳

Hardcover, 2016

$60.00$35.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Book Cover for: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe
Dr Adam RutherfordDr Adam Rutherford

Reading the excellent Empire of Pain by @praddenkeefe and - rather prosaically - if Mortimer and Raymond Sackler are the models for Mortimer and Randolph Duke from Trading Places and Coming to America. https://t.co/dXZmvHgFN2

Paperback, 2022

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Death-Ray, Daniel Clowes

The Death-Ray

Daniel Clowes
Dr Adam RutherfordDr Adam Rutherford

10 comics to know me 1. The Death Ray - Daniel Clowes 2. Hellblazer Hard Times 3. Batman Year One 4. Wytches @Jock4twenty 5. Icehaven Daniel Clowes 6. Spider-Man annual 1979 7. Top Ten/49ers Alan Moore 8. The Killing Joke Alan Moore 9. From Hell Alan Moore 10. Dark Phoenix Saga https://t.co/MHoatvWUrM

Paperback, 2023

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death, Nick Lane

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

Nick Lane
Dr Adam RutherfordDr Adam Rutherford

There’s been a flurry of truly outstanding biology books (@WaspWoman @nicholaraihani) in the great UCL popularising tradition - Haldane, Medawar, Jones). Nick Lane is in that top tier, and has slipped out another belter, a stone cold classic.

Paperback, 2023

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: This Land Is Your Land, Woody Guthrie

This Land Is Your Land

Woody Guthrie
Dr Adam RutherfordDr Adam Rutherford

Gimme some songs that relate to eugenics/replacement theory, either in title or theme (can be vague): * Bad Blood by Taylor Swift * Last of the Great American Dynasties by Taylor Swift * She's lost Control Again by Joy Division * This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie

Hardcover, 2020

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard. NOVEL by: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard. NOVEL by: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924

Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad
Dr Adam RutherfordDr Adam Rutherford

Novels: Leviathan, Paul Auster Gatsby Slaughterhouse 5 Piranesi, Susanna Clarke Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison Nostromo, Joseph Conrad The Periodic Table, Primo Levi Birdsong The Death Ray, Daniel Clowes The Secret History, Donna Tartt https://t.co/cXl5s7N9FF

Paperback, 2017

$18.73$9.36 + Free shipping50% off your first book