Body Clock
by Hughes, Dr Martin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0864381077
- ISBN 13
- 9780864381071
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK * Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1992* Publisher: Andromeda Oxford Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Brown cloth, Gilt title to spine. No Bumps or Rubs, No Visible Faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Coloured compass diagram, NOT PRICE CLIPPED some very minor shelf wear to edges. One small nick to top edge, (1/8?) Near FINE* Contents condition: Coloured end papers, PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY clean, crisp, tight and bright, No inscriptions, very slight tanning to page edges. Near FINE * Illustrations: Colour Photographs, Diagrams & Line Drawings throughout.* Pages: 185 pp. text. vi pp. Acknowledgements & Index.* Bodyclock looks at growth, development and maturation. It asks such questions as: How does the body change through time? What illnesses and health risks are mainly associated with which life stages and can we anticipate and avoid them? How, in health terms, can we make the most of our lives? A FINE clean copy in a near FINE dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5120
- Title
- Body Clock
- Author
- Hughes, Dr Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0864381077
- ISBN 13
- 9780864381071
- Publisher
- Andromeda Oxford Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Abingdon UK 191
- This edition first published
- 1989
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- Spine
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