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Francis Crick Discoverer of the genetic code by Matt Ridley
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Eminent Lives | Reading Level: good
Discoverer of the Genetic Code Francis Crick, who died at the age of eighty-eight in 2004, will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the great scientists of all time. Between 1953 and 1966 he made and led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life ...Show more
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: good
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more
Thomas Jefferson - Author of America by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives | Reading Level: very good
Leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of America's founding father, situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years. Whether in politics, literature, science o ...Show more
Thomas Jefferson - Author of America by Christopher Hitchens
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives | Reading Level: very good
In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father--a man conflicted by power who wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as ambassador to France yet yearned for a ...Show more
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