Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell - Softcover

Angier, Natalie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446390607 ISBN 13: 9780446390606

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1989

Synopsis

Describes the search for the genes that control cancer, explains the difficulties of research in molecular biology, and assesses progress towards a more detailed understanding of cancer

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About the Author

NATALIE ANGIER writes about biology for the New York Times, where she has won a Pulitzer Prize, the American Association for the Advancement of Science journalism award, and other honors. She is the author of The Beauty of the Beastly, Natural Obsessions, and Woman, named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, People, National Public Radio, Village Voice, and Publishers Weekly, among others. A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist, Woman is "a text so necessary and abundant and true that all efforts of its kind, for decades before and after it, will be measured by it" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Angier lives with her husband and daughter outside of Washington, D.C.

Review

 'Lively, lucid ... portrays the look and feel of science' (Washington Post Book World )

'The debut of one of the few really first-rate writers in science' (E.O. WILSON )

'A work of grand adventure, beauty and literature' (Chicago Tribuen )

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0446390607
• ISBN 13: 9780446390606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400