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Im not going to laud his clever prose or to praise his memorable collection of stories in the violinist s thumb. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the frequently mad scientists who discovered them. Collins was a leader on the human genome project, and has other books i would also recommend language of. The violinists thumb is but this is only a guess because, as i mentioned, i did very recently memorize the mechanisms of protein production and dna transcription i think i would have understood the book just as well without this primer, but i cant know for sure now can i. In the tale of the dueling neurosurgeons, sam kean travels through time with. A thumb on the pulse of what makes us human sam keans the violinists thumb. The second is called the violinists thumb, by sam kean. The disappearing spoon was a runnerup for the royal society of londons book of the year for 2010, and the violinists thumb and the tale of the dueling neurosurgeons were nominated for the pene. The violinists thumb by sam kean overdrive rakuten overdrive. Download to your hard disk a zipped folder containing a complete set of all the ebooks of that author listed in the. He is able to transform what could be difficult and dry scientific concepts into compelling narratives driven by a series of larger than life personalities. Through a bit of hard science, a little history, just a touch of humour, and some fascinating anecdotes, author san kean sets out to rectify this in his marvelous book, the violinist s thumb.
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