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The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives

The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives

by HelenPearson (Author)

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 416
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 25 Feb 2016
ISBN 10: 184614826X
ISBN 13: 9781846148262

Media Reviews
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 *
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 ... [The Life Project lays] devastatingly bare the collapse of social mobility in the past few decades -- Dominic Sandbrook * Daily Mail *
Intriguing ... [A] fine, detailed book -- Jenni Russell, 'Must Reads' * Sunday Times *
[An] eye-opening book ... 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 *
Fascinating -- Alice Jones * Independent *
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 *
[The Life Project] is hugely engaging, and gives much to chew on -- Nick Curtis * Evening Standard *
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 *
Pearson has done a real service in explaining how wide-ranging these extraordinary and little-known studies have been -- Michael Prodger * The Times *
Persuasively argues ... the beauty and sheer vision of these longitudinal cohort studies * Telegraph *
[Pearson] does a superb job of bringing [the cohort studies] to life ... [A] highly readable, deeply informative book -- Eric Kaufmann * Literary Review *
Incredible * Tech Insider *
Author Bio
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 of her years with Nature in New York.