What Is Life?
Five Great Ideas in Biology

A fun collection of a famous Nobel prize-winner life scientist's perspective on what life precisely is.... Life as genes, as info, as chemistry (oh, la-la, that pesky chem!), as evolution... Among other things.... How DNA works (as much as we know - we don't geteverything, just bits). Quite a lot of......more

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Ever since the success of Carlo Rovelli's Seven Brief Lessons in Physics there has been a fashion for short, smart-looking small hardbacks which almost always have a number in the title or subtitle. Paul Nurse's new (and first) book fits in perfectly as an attractive little number with the subtitle......more

In the 1940s Erwin Schrodinger asked, "What is Life?".  Since then, many scientists have tried to give a more complete answer. Paul Nurse, who won the Nobel Prize for the co-discovery of  molecules that control cell division in the cell cycle, has taken his lifetime in biology to try to answer this......more