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Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.256kg
ISBN: 9780670920723
ISBN 10: 067092072
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 30 January 2014
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General/trade
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Highly recommended * Daily Express * Elegant and informative. A thing of wonder and a repository of fascinating facts * Mail on Sunday * Brims with fascinating details, infectious enthusiasm . . . the terrain he covers is so richly brought to life * Guardian * Chock-full of insights, rich in detail. Inserts fascinating scientific snippets and anecdotes about our organs into the wider history of our changing understanding of our bodies * The Sunday Times * Magnificent, inspired. Stimulating scientific hypotheses, bold philosophic theories, illuminating quotations and curious facts. I recommend it to all * Daily Telegraph *
Magnificent, inspired. Stimulating scientific hypotheses, bold philosophic theories, illuminating quotations and curious facts. I recommend it to all * Daily Telegraph * Chock-full of insights, rich in detail. Inserts fascinating scientific snippets and anecdotes about our organs into the wider history of our changing understanding of our bodies * The Sunday Times * Brims with fascinating details, infectious enthusiasm . . . the terrain he covers is so richly brought to life * Guardian * Elegant and informative. A thing of wonder and a repository of fascinating facts * Mail on Sunday * Highly recommended * Daily Express *
Magnificent, inspired. Stimulating scientific hypotheses, bold philosophic theories, illuminating quotations and curious facts. I recommend it to all Daily Telegraph Chock-full of insights, rich in detail. Inserts fascinating scientific snippets and anecdotes about our organs into the wider history of our changing understanding of our bodies The Sunday Times Brims with fascinating details, infectious enthusiasm ... the terrain he covers is so richly brought to life Guardian Elegant and informative. A thing of wonder and a repository of fascinating facts Mail on Sunday Highly recommended Daily Express
Author Information
Hugh Aldersey-Williams is a writer and curator with interests ranging from science to architecture and design. His prolific career as a freelance journalist included a five-year stint as the design critic of the New Statesman. He has written a number of books on design, as well as The Most Beautiful Molecule (1994), the story of the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a molecular form of the element carbon. More recently, he is the author of Findings- Hidden Stories in First-Hand Accounts of Scientific Discovery, and the curator of two exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Zoomorphic- New Animal Architecture and Touch Me- Design and Sensation. He lives in Norfolk with his wife, son and two Maine coon cats.
