- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General, Miscellanea, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Genetics
"In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In THE VIOLINIST'S THUMB, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life: DNA.
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Spare, contemporary, classical in form and warm.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Sam Kean
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 409
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Transworld Publishers Limited, Little, Brown and Co.
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, tur, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9781306763837
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