Transient and strange notes on the science of life
A collection of personal essays that probe the places where science touches our lives most intimately. Expertly weaving her own experiences of motherhood and marriage with a attention to the natural world, Greenfieldboyce grapples with the weighty dualities of life: birth and death, constancy and im...
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
[2024]
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| Edition: | [Hardcover edition]. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-214). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The symbol of a tornado -- What else is there? -- A very charming young black hole -- Pum pum pum -- Spider at the window -- A life so precarious as a flea's -- Everybody does it! -- Automatic beyond belief -- A moment of silence -- My eugenics project. | |
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