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Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew Cobb
27.99 NZD
Category: Science
Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our place in the natural world. The code forms the most striking proof of Darwin's hypothesis that all organisms ...Show more
Life's Greatest Secret: The Story of the Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew Cobb
55.00 NZD
Category: Science
Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of a greater struggle to understand life's secrets.Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code, the thing that ultima ...Show more
The Egg & Sperm Race by Matthew Cobb
27.99 NZD
Category: History
Where do we come from? For thousands of years we really had no clue how living things were created - great thinkers like Aristotle and Plato had attempted to explain what became known as the problem of 'generation', but neither really had the tools or the insight to solve the mystery. The result was a w ...Show more
The Genetic Age - Our Perilous Quest to Edit Life by Matthew Cobb
36.99 NZD
Category: Science
How fifty years of genetic engineering have brought us to the brink of a profound and disturbing future, from Baillie Gifford-shortlisted scientist Matthew Cobb
The Idea of the Brain: A History by Matthew Cobb
69.99 NZD
Category: Science
We've been trying to make sense of the link between our minds and our bodies since the very dawn of civilisation. Now the pace is hotting up. Join the biologist and historian Matthew Cobb (Life's Greatest Secret) to explore the weird theories, blasphemous experiments and terrifying operating theatres t ...Show more
The Idea of the Brain: A History by Matthew Cobb
27.99 NZD
Category: Science
A monumental, sweeping journey from the ancient roots of neurology to the most astonishing recent research, which Henry Marsh (Admissions) called an 'intellectual tour de force' Longlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the u ...Show more
The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis by Matthew Cobb
55.00 NZD
Category: Military
The French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II was a struggle in which ordinary people fought for their liberty, despite terrible odds and horrifying repression. Hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen and women carried out an armed struggle against the Nazis, producing underground anti-fascist ...Show more
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