To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Organismal to Molecular Biology  Genetics & Genomics

Who Wrote the Book of Life A History of Genetic Code

By: Lily E Kay
424 pages, 29 Half-tones
Who Wrote the Book of Life
Click to have a closer look
Select version
  • Who Wrote the Book of Life ISBN: 9780804734172 Paperback Mar 2000 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
    £35.99
    #103226
  • Who Wrote the Book of Life ISBN: 9780804733847 Hardback Dec 2000 Out of Print #103222
Selected version: £35.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Related titles

About this book

Details the historical process whereby the central biological problem of DNA-based protein synthesis came to be metaphorically represented as an information code and a writing technology, and consequently as a theistically resonant "book of life".

Contents

Preface; Abbreviations; 1. The genetic code: imaginaries and practices; 2. Spaces of specificity: the discourse of molecular biology before the age of information; 3. Production of discourse: cybernetics, information, life; 4. Scriptural technologies: genetic codes in the 1950s; 5. The Pasteur connection: Cybernetique Enzymatique, Gene Informateur, and Messenger RNA; 6. Matter of information: writing genetic codes in the 1960s; 7. In the beginning was the wor(l)d; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Customer Reviews

By: Lily E Kay
424 pages, 29 Half-tones
Media reviews
'You'd be hard pressed to find a more entertaining cast of characters than the 'code-cracking' scientists who populate [this book]. ... A thoroughly rewarding read.' Wired
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides