The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by Weiner, Jonathan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679400036
- ISBN 13
- 9780679400035
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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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
- Chaparral Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PARSweiBEA
- Title
- The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
- Author
- Weiner, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679400036
- ISBN 13
- 9780679400035
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994-05-02
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 26 oz
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