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The Why of Things

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Why of Things

By Peter V. Rabins

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About the book

From the author of the landmark bestseller The-Thirty-Six-Hour-Day comes a lucid, engaging, and nuanced treatment of one of the essential questions in science, medicine, and life: "Why?"

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9780231164733

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2015

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1

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The Why of Things

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Paperback

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