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Nine Pints - A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood

English · Paperback

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Informationen zum Autor Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World (long-listed for the Ulysses Reportage Prize) , The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste (Portobello, 2008; shortlisted for the BMA Book Prize) and Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything (Portobello, 2013; winner of a Mountbatten Maritime Award), and Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood (Portobello, 2018). Rose writes frequently for the Guardian , New Statesman and many other publications, and her two TED talks, on sanitation and seafaring, have had 3 million views. http://rosegeorge.com/site/ Klappentext From a prize-winning writer, a fascinating exploration of blood: the stuff of life, the stuff of nightmares, and one of the most expensive liquids on the planet.

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Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World, and (for Portobello) The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste, which was judged one of the best books of 2008 by the Economist, and one of the top ten science books of the same year by the American Library Association, and Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that brings you Ninety Percent of Everything, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, and won the Mountbatten Literature Award by the British Maritime Foundation. Rose writes frequently for the Guardian, the New Statesman and many others, and her two TED talks, on sanitation and seafaring, have had 3 million views.
http://rosegeorge.com/site/

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Authors Rose George, George Rose
Publisher Granta Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 31.08.2019
 
EAN 9781846276149
ISBN 978-1-84627-614-9
Dimensions 130 mm x 200 mm x 22 mm
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)

HEALTH & FITNESS / General, popular science, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Popular medicine & health, Social and cultural history, Popular medicine and health

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