How Life Works
09 November 2023
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Enticingly read by the author, Philip Ball.
'An essential primer on humanity’s ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . . Excellent . . . Ball is a terrific writer.' – Adam Rutherford, The Guardian
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is – from Science Book Prize winner Philip Ball.
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Details
09 November 2023
1061 minutes
9781529096026
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Ball is a terrific writer . . . An essential primer in our never-ending quest to understand lifeAdam Rutherford, The Guardian
Ball is a ferociously gifted science writer . . . There is so much [here] that is amazing . . . urgent . . . astonishing.The Sunday Times
Ball is a ferociously gifted science writer . . . There is so much [in How Life Works] that is amazing . . . urgent . . . astonishing.The Sunday Times
A mind-stretching book . . . Ball is a clarifier supreme. It is hard to imagine a more concise, coherent, if also challenging, single volume written on the discoveries made in the life sciences over the past 70 years.The Spectator