A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology

Jim Endersby

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$37.00 • £29.95 • €33.50

ISBN 9780674032279

Publication Date: 08/05/2009

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544 pages

6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches

12 halftones

United States and its dependencies only

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Jim Endersby is a Reader in the History of Science at the University of Sussex.

Awards & Accolades

2004 Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction, Royal Society of Literature

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