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Edition: Softcover Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr, Irvington, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780231102056ISBN:0231102054
Description: New, Never Read, Not a Rem. Small softcover, new, never read, not a remainder. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1996-04-15
ISBN-13:9780231102056ISBN:0231102054
Description: Like New. 1996, 1st edition Hardback. Faint shelf wear to DJ else new condition. Clean/ unmarked text. Distinguished feminist historian explories the interplay of macnines and metaphors in modern scientific inquiry. read more
Description: Like New. Exact ISBN match, exactly as shown, several dog earred page corners, otherwise this is an exceptionally nice clean copy with clean text and tight square binding. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN-13:9780231102056ISBN:0231102054
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PR
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780231102056ISBN:0231102054
Description: New. Refiguring Life begins with the history of genetics and embryology, showing how discipline-based metaphors have directed scientists' search for evidence. Keller continues with an exploration of the border traffic between biology and physics, focusing... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN-13:9780231102056ISBN:0231102054
Description: Refiguring Life begins with the history of genetics and embryology, showing how discipline-based metaphors have directed scientists' search for evidence. Keller continues with an exploration of the border traffic between biology and physics, focusing on the question of life and the law of increasing entropy. In a final section she traces the impact of new metaphors, born of the computer revolution, on the course of biological research. Keller shows how these metaphors began as objects of ... read more
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