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What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
by Nurse, Paul
Month: 9
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
List Price: $20.00

Hailed by Philip Pullman as a great communicator who is also as distinguished a scientist as there could be, Paul Nurse writes with delight at life's richness and a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. With What Is Life? he delivers a brief but powerful work of popular science in the vein of Carlo Rovelli's Seven Brief Lessons in Physics.

Nurse takes readers on a wondrous journey through five fundamental biological ideas-the ...(more)

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