Description: Title: What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology Author: Nurse, Paul Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Binding: Hardcover Pages: 160 Dimensions: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.70d Product Weight: 0.6 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780393541151 The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every reader can understand.It is a shared journey of discovery; step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology--the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information. He introduces the scientists who made the most important advances, and, using his personal experiences in and out of the lab, he shares with us the challenges, the lucky breaks, and the thrilling eureka moments of discovery.Nurse writes with delight at life's richness and with a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. To survive the challenges that face us all today--climate change, pandemic, loss of biodiversity and food security--it is vital that we all understand what life is.
Price: 22.99 USD
Location: La Vergne, Tennessee
End Time: 2024-12-07T17:17:14.000Z
Shipping Cost: 9.95 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Book Title: What Is Life? : Five Great Ideas in Biology
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Life Sciences / Biology
Genre: Science
Item Weight: 10.9 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Paul Nurse
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
