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Codex Orféo: A Novel

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Codex Orféo: A Novel

Codex Orféo: A Novel
Springer | Life Sciences | May 29 2016 | ISBN-10: 3319306219 | 290 pages | pdf | 23.37 mb

Authors: Tobias, Michael Charles
Provides an arresting meditation on what survival really means, through a deeply evocative novel
Explores the ethical limits of science through expertly written fiction
Encompasses themes from ecology, philosophy and anthropology in a literary thriller
Startles readers with an unexpected ending and a tense, hard-hitting plot


Explore shattering ethical, political and practical quagmires in this gripping ecological thriller. A tense plot deals with devastating scientific, secret intelligence and geopolitical issues. “You alright, Professor?” Mal asked in a whisper.
“Yeah, I’ll be alright.”
World renowned ecologist, UCLA Professor David Lev, aged 84, has just begun a contemporary odyssey. From delivering a plenary address on climate change at the Rio+20 UN Summit, he must prevail on a journey through sub-zero hurricane-force gales, impenetrable bogs and twelve foot drifts of ice in the forests of Belarus. Along the way, Lev’s journey directs us to consider such profound questions as: Are we our Brother’s Keeper? What are the ethical limits of science? And, finally, at what price, glory? It is not only Lev’s story that is the key to this page-turner but also an account from the days of World War II and the Holocaust, which hinges on survival. A constellation of richly nuanced, deeply drawn characters whose enmeshed lives and unique circumstances speak with resonance, melancholy, inspiration and unrelenting drama are all part of this complex and thought-provoking novel - including cutting-edge biochemist Dr Taman Chernichevsky. What has he discovered?

Number of Illustrations and Tables
2 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics
Popular Science in Nature and Environment
Fiction
Popular Life Siences
Ecology

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