<body bgcolor="#E1F0C2"> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" width="765" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="62" align="left"> <IMG NAME="Image10" SRC="Image1_1x1.gif" width="65" height="42" BORDER="0"></td> <td width="696" background="images/topback.jpg"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="62" align="left" background="images/lback.jpg"> </td> <td width="696"> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="12"> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" colspan="2"> <table border="0" width="673" bordercolor="#003300" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="95" bgcolor="#E1F0C2" align="center"><a href="home.htm"><font face="Arial" size="2">Home Page</font></a></td> <td width="96" bgcolor="#E1F0C2" align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="about.htm"> Books</a></font></td> <td bgcolor="#E1F0C2" width="96" align="center"><font size="2"><a href="cv.htm">Full C.V.</a></font></td> <td width="96" bgcolor="#E1F0C2" align="center"><font size="2"><a href="photo.htm">Photograph</a></font></td> <td width="96" bgcolor="#E1F0C2" align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="interview.htm">Interview</a></font></td> <td width="96" bgcolor="#E1F0C2" align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="links.htm">Links</a></font></td> <td width="96" bgcolor="#E1F0C2" align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="contact.htm">Contact</a></font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="17%" valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/mr04.jpg" width="91" height="87"> <p align="center"><i><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="background-color: #E1F0C2"><a href="cv.htm">Full CV</a></span></font></b></i></p> <p align="center"> </td> <td width="83%" align="center"> <p align="center"><i><font face="Georgia" size="5">Matt Ridley's Books</font></i></p> </center> <blockquote> <p align="left"><i><b><font size="2"><a href="redqueen.htm">The Red Queen:</a> </font></b><font size="2">Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature<br> <b><a href="origins.htm">The Origins of Virtue:</a> </b>Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation<br> <b><a href="genome.htm">Genome:</a> </b>The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters<br> <b><a href="nature.htm">Nature Via Nurture:</a> </b>Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human<br> His biography of <b><a href="undercon.htm">Francis Crick</a></b> will be published in 2006</font></i></p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </table> <blockquote> <p align="left"><font size="2">Doctor Matt Ridley has had careers in journalism, as a scientific correspondent and as an author on genetics and human behaviour. His books include The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, Genome and Nature Via Nurture. He currently continues to write while pursuing an active bisness career and has both active and past directorships, including Chair of the International Centre for Lfe, Newcastle upon Tyne, and of Northern Rock plc</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="2">Ridley’s books have sold over half a million copies, been translated into 23 languages and been short-listed for six literary prizes. In 2004 he won the National Academies Book Award from the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="2">As well as writing, Matt Ridley has a parallel career in business. Between 1996 and 2003 he was the founding chairman of the International Centre for Life, a Ł70 million science park and education project. He is currently non-executive chairman of Northern Rock plc.</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="2">He has ingeniously combined his chromosomes with those of his wife, the neuroscientist Professor Anya Hurlbert, to produce two entirely new human beings. They live at <a href="http://www.blagdonestate.co.uk" target="_blank"><b><i> Blagdon</i></b></a> near Newcastle upon Tyne.</font></p> </blockquote> <center> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p> </p> </body>