Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley is a renowned British journalist, businessman, and author, best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics.
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Cuckoo
Mixes hard science with soft nature in a satisfying way. - Matt Ridley
Nick Davies
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The Selfish Gene
Turned evolutionary biology on its head and was written like a great detective story. - Matt Ridley
Richard Dawkins
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Into the Silence
The account of the 1920s Everest expeditions. - Matt Ridley
Wade Davis
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Rubicon
Outstanding. - Matt Ridley
Tom Holland
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What You Want
A delightful verse novel about philosophy. - Matt Ridley
Constantine Phipps
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One Summer
A charming account of the events of 1927 in America. - Matt Ridley
Bill Bryson
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Unravelling the Double Helix
Uncovers those who almost found the secret of life. - Matt Ridley
Gareth Williams
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My Family and Other Animals
Matt Ridley recommended this book in a "What Should I Read Next" interview.
Gerald Durrell
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The Skeptical Environmentalist
Most of the environmental trends in the world are getting better not worse. - Matt Ridley
Bjørn Lomborg
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p53
[A fabulous chance] to eavesdrop on science in the making. - Matt Ridley
Sue Armstrong
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The Bottomless Well
Points out that the cheaper energy gets the more we use. - Matt Ridley
Peter Huber
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Whole Earth Discipline
Describes how one of the things he did was spawn a back-to-the-land movement with people growing their own vegetables and forming communes. - Matt Ridley
Stewart Brand
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The Double Helix
An astonishing literary achievement, and it was about the greatest scientific discovery of the 20th century. - Matt Ridley
James D. Watson Ph.D.
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Freezing Order
Fascinating and frightening. - Matt Ridley
Bill Browder
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The Vital Question
A brilliant new analysis of the origin of life, by the man who has himself done more than anybody to crack the problem. - Matt Ridley
Nick Lane
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The Ultimate Resource 2
[The author] is really the god of this subject in many ways. - Matt Ridley
Julian Lincoln Simon
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The Fabric of Civilization
A fascinating, surprising and beautifully written history of technology, economics, and culture, told through the thread of textiles. - Matt Ridley
Virginia Postrel
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Alchemy
Buy this book. I loved it. It’s full of great insights. - Matt Ridley
Rory Sutherland
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The Origin of Species
[Changed] science and [reached] the public. - Matt Ridley
Charles Darwin
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The Martian
I loved the fact that the hero never once implies that it’s courage, spirit and faith that saves him [...] just lots of practical tinkering and problem-solving: Science the crap out of it. - Matt Ridley
Andy Weir
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Dynasty
It’s fascinating on how, inch by inch, Augustus and his successors surreptitiously turned a republic into an autocracy. - Matt Ridley
Tom Holland
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What Technology Wants
Realises that there’s an inexorability about the way technology changes and that it’s almost as if technology has its own agenda. - Matt Ridley
Kevin Kelly
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The Hockey Stick Illusion
A great piece of detective work on a key scientific blunder. - Matt Ridley
A W Montford
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