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Luminous Fish: Tales of Science and Love
by Margulis, Lynn (signed)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1933392339
- ISBN 13
- 9781933392332
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About This Item
White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first and only book of fiction from Lynn Margulis, published four years before she died. Inscribed on the title page: "For Kanshi Kashi [sp?], with love of life, matter and you. Anticipation for our WIMWK project. What is matter? What is life? 2012? Love, Lynn. 20 Triangle [?], April 9, 2010." Uncommon or scarce signed.
Margulis was an influential "rebel" scientist whose theories on the importance of symbiosis in evolution--in particular that cell organelles were originally independent bacteria--were long rejected by the male-dominated scientific community before they were accepted as brilliantly insightful. She courted controversy throughout her career and remains one of then most decorated women in science. Among many other awards, Margulis received the National Medal of Science in 1999 from Bill Clinton, and the Linnean Society awarded her its Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2008. Her first marriage was to Carl Sagan.
A collection of linked stores that "reveals science from the inside." Ernest Callenbach writes in praise on the rear of the jacket, "Difficult artists and writers are plentiful in fiction, but Lynn Margulis has a unique and vivid gift for portraying work-driven scientists and their mystified, vexed, or frustrated mates and friends." A fine book in fine jacket.
Margulis was an influential "rebel" scientist whose theories on the importance of symbiosis in evolution--in particular that cell organelles were originally independent bacteria--were long rejected by the male-dominated scientific community before they were accepted as brilliantly insightful. She courted controversy throughout her career and remains one of then most decorated women in science. Among many other awards, Margulis received the National Medal of Science in 1999 from Bill Clinton, and the Linnean Society awarded her its Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2008. Her first marriage was to Carl Sagan.
A collection of linked stores that "reveals science from the inside." Ernest Callenbach writes in praise on the rear of the jacket, "Difficult artists and writers are plentiful in fiction, but Lynn Margulis has a unique and vivid gift for portraying work-driven scientists and their mystified, vexed, or frustrated mates and friends." A fine book in fine jacket.
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- Rural Hours
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1090
- Title
- Luminous Fish: Tales of Science and Love
- Author
- Margulis, Lynn (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 1933392339
- ISBN 13
- 9781933392332
- Publisher
- Chelsea Green
- Place of Publication
- White River Junction, VT
- Date Published
- 2007
- LCCN
- 2006025902
- Keywords
- Fiction, Scientists
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