The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
by Shubin, Neil
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307378438
- ISBN 13
- 9780307378439
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 2013. x, 225 pages, illustrations, maps; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "In this book, the author shows how the entirety of the universe's fourteen-billion-year history can be seen in our bodies as he moves from our very molecular composition (a result of stellar events at the origin of our solar system) through the workings of our eyes." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.
Synopsis
Neil Shubin is the author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, which was chosen by the National Academy of Sciences as the best book of the year in 2009 . Trained at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley, Shubin is associate dean of biological sciences at the University of Chicago. In 2011 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200192
- Title
- The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
- Author
- Shubin, Neil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0307378438
- ISBN 13
- 9780307378439
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES;
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