The Beak of the Finch : Evolution in Real Time
by Weiner, Jonathan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good (+)
- ISBN 10
- 0224042300
- ISBN 13
- 9780224042307
- Seller
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Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Jonathan Weiner is one of the most distinguished popular-science writers in the country: his books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker , Slate , Time , The New York Times Magazine , The Washington Post , The New Republic , Scientific American , Smithsonian , and many other newspapers and magazines, and he is a former editor at The Sciences . He is the author of The Beak of the Finch ; Time, Love, Memory ; Long for This World ; His Brother's Keeper ; The Next One Hundred Years ; and Planet Earth . He lives in New York, where he teaches science writing at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
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- Bookseller
- Godley Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027538
- Title
- The Beak of the Finch : Evolution in Real Time
- Author
- Weiner, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good (+)
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224042300
- ISBN 13
- 9780224042307
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 9.5 x 6.5 inches
- Keywords
- Galapagos, Peter Rosemary Grant, Darwin
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- Nature;
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