About this title: In this combination of medical history and biography, science essayist Carl Zimmer discusses the discovery of the human brain in 17th-century England, and the subsequent experiments that revealed how it functioned. Zimmer focuses closely on the work of a group of Oxford scientists including Thomas Willis, a doctor who performed the first autopsy ...
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine straight w/o creases, binding tight, no reader/remainder/library marks, covers/pgs flat w/sharp corners, very slight shelf wear. 367 numbered pgs., Audience: General/trade. Photos/other info available by e-mail. Daily orders/e-mail responses. E-mail confirmation of shipment. Books stored in smoke-free, climate controlled environment. Check our feedback. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Pr
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780743230384ISBN:0743230388
Description: Good++ in Very Good jacket. About 35 pages show single vertical lines in margins marking particular passages, occasionally a single word underlined, no marginalia apart from the odd question mark; binding tight, text clean, no rips or tears, 367 pages. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743272056ISBN:0743272056
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2004-01-06
ISBN-13:9780743230384ISBN:0743230388
Description: Like New. This book is just like new-clean, tight and unmarked. A lightly read copy in great condition. * Delivery confirmation on all domestic orders. Fast Shipping. read more
Description: Fine. 0743230388 Free Press hardcover w/dustjacket, 2004, 1st edition/1st printing, dj price $26.00, unused, No marks/tears or defects...Fine/Fine (just like new)...Bubble-wrapped and ed in a Box w/ confirmation. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780743230384ISBN:0743230388
Description: Very Good in very good jacket. Dust jacket has slight wear to top corners. Pages have no marks, bends or tears. Binding tight. Appears unread. Not a remainder. read more
Description: Very good. Publishers Overstock. A Very Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the extremities. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 30 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Description: Like New. Free Press, 2004, 1st printing, HC with DJ. Close to like new, clean, tight, lightly used, no markings or highlighting, minimal wear on book, minor edge wear on DJ. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Free Pr
Date Published: 2005-06-01
ISBN-13:9780743272056ISBN:0743272056
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743272056ISBN:0743272056
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Edition: First Trade Paperback
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Arrow, London
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780099441656ISBN:0099441659
Description: Fine. 8vo. xii, 367pp, index, refeences, notes. Card covers. Slightest of toning to page edges. How the secrets of the brain and its function were uncovered in 18th century England and the profound effect this had on the philosophies of man. read more
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