Les mémoires du leader de The Libertines et The Babyshambles, l'un des derniers héros romantiques et littéraires du rock.Début des années 2000. The Libertines ravivent soudain la flamme du rock le plus pur, celui qui puise à la source des années 1960 et du punk, celui qui mise sur l'énergie vitale sans jamais négliger les mélodies. Un art dont peu connaissent la véritable valeur mais qui a le pouvoir de bouleverser des existences.Le groupe fondé par Peter D...

Science and scientists have found themselves in conflict with powerful interests since Galileo, but perhaps never before have they been under attack on so many fronts. When it comes to climate change, vaccinations and the causes of disease, genetically modified organisms and even evolution, it’s hard to tell where science ends and vested interests, politics and wishful thinking begin. Or is it?The Knowledge Wars examines the nature of scientific knowledge through the contr...

For those who look, and think deeply, new connections emerge. Peter Doherty, one of the world's foremost authorities on immunology, recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine, and an active and respected commentator on public health, reflects in this book on empire, war and tennis. Doherty identifies the origins of modern tennis within its imperial context, relating seemingly unlikely connections between the sport, its players and national militaries. He traces the fate of tennis-a...

Unexpurgated recent personal journals and tour diaries documenting the turbulent life and misadventures of Libertines and Babyshambles frontman, Peter Doherty. The book hit headlines upon release in July 2014, not least because of entries about the rock star's famous, often tragic, friends including Peaches Geldof, Amy Winehouse and a certain supermodel.Truthful, provocative and sensitive, 'From Albion to Shangri-La' chronicles six tumultuous years (2008 - 2013) in the life of Pete...

Conque quieres ganar el premio Nobel… En estas páginas, cargadas de anécdotas y agudas reflexiones, Peter Doherty —que en 1996 mereció el de Medicina— te dice cómo hacerlo, al menos si te interesa alguna de las ciencias premiadas cada año en Estocolmo. Aquí encontrarás una lúcida exposición sobre el funcionamiento de la ciencia experimental, desde la actividad en el laboratorio hasta la redacción de artículos y la búsqueda de recursos; valiosos consejos sobre qué, dónde y con quién estudia...

The Nobel Prize-winning medical researcher recounts his unlikely career journey in a memoir that "opens the vault to the world of science" ( Nature).Beginning with his humble origins in Australia, Peter Doherty tells how he developed an interest in immunology and describes his award-winning, influential work with Rolf Zinkernagel on T-cells and the nature of immune defense. In prose that is both amusing and astute, Doherty reveals how his nonconformist upb...

La scienza è ricerca della verità. Ma la verità non è certa, come quella che si sarebbero attesi gli antichi filosofi, perché la natura è imprevedibile. E in questo si nasconde la meraviglia della scienza. In questo affascinante viaggio nel mondo della scienza, Peter Doherty, primo veterinario a cui l’Accademia di Svezia abbia conferito il Premio Nobel per la Medicina, ci racconta con una prosa divertente e sagace le straordinarie storie dei premi Nobel passati, offrendoci al contempo le s...

Tout ce qu’on raconte est vrai : Pete Doherty est un toxico. Pete est un salop. Pete est un escroc. Pete est séducteur. Pete est un poète. Pete est ce qui est arrivé de mieux à l’Angleterre depuis les Beatles. Pete écrit comme un Dieu. Pete est pathétique. Pete est un truqueur. Pete écrit des chansons sublimes. Pete a ken Kate Moss. Pete vend son âme aux dealeurs. Pete est un pur. Pete est un dandy. Pete est un poseur. Pete adore l’argent. Pete est vulnérable. Pete est un voleur. Pete est un ...

At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world—from tufted puffins in Puget Sound to griffon vultures in India, pigeons in East Asia, and wedge-tailed shearwaters off the islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef—Doherty illuminates birds' role as an early warning system for threats to the heal...

In An Insider's Plague Year, Nobel laureate and prominent COVID-19 authority Professor Peter Doherty recounts his response to the pandemic as it developed from January 2020-February 2021. As citizens and governments around the world suddenly became acutely dependent on the capacity of scientists to understand and recommend appropriate public health policy responses to the disease, Doherty and his team were at the forefront. In his always conversational style, Doherty systematicall...

Provocante et sensible, voici la chronique de six années de la vie de Peter Doherty à travers des extraits de journaux intimes. L’artiste, l’un des musiciens anglais les plus doué, joue franc jeu et revient sur son « horrible » addiction, mais aussi sur ses amours, ses amitiés et son caractère, avec une poésie troublante. Des artistes comme Amy Winehouse s’invitent directement dans ces carnets de tournée, très « sex, drugs and rock’n’roll ».Peter Doherty est un auteur-compositeur-in...

Nobel Prize-winner Peter Doherty's enthusiasm and curiosity about the world around him informs this atmospheric collection of stories on illumination, hot air and burning in all their guises. Written with great style and richly intimate with personal anecdotes, A Light History of Hot Air is concerned with the world and the simple beauty of science. Doherty shines a unique, tangential light of insight that reveals his subjects in new and unexpected ways.A childhood in Queensland awa...