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By: Brookes, Martin
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Alexandria, VA, U.S.A., Time-Life Education, Incorporated: 1998
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 1342
ISBN: 073700035X
Condition: Fine
8vo. 192 pgs. Fine softcover, clean and unmarked, in stiff wraps with matching illustrated paper cover. Kraft-paper colored pages with black print, with illustrations and drawings scattered informally alongside each topic. Content is presented clearly and imaginatively, useful and entertaining for novice, student and scientist alike. "From Mendel and the garden peas to the world-embracing Human Genome Project, discover what you need to know about what genes are and what they do. This book moves from the earliest experiments to the discoveries of Watson and Crick to modern efforts to iden... View more info
By: Miller, Jonathan and Borin Van Loon
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Writers & Readers: 1982
Edition: No Additional Printings Indicated
Seller ID: 1856
ISBN: 0906495954
Condition: Very Good
175pgs. Very Good+ condition hardcover in Very Good+ jacket. Clean and unmarked, binding sound. Jacket has no chips or tears, very slight age-toning to edges. Clever, entertaining, informative and very readable introduction to Darwin's life and theories as well as an overview of the general history and controversy of the development of scientific thought into branches such as evolutionary biology, molecular biology and genetics. Illustrated throughout with the imaginative drawings and cartoons of Borin Van Loon. Includes a postscript and section on further reading. For similar illustrative sty... View more info
