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How Life Works

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09 November 2023
560 pages
9781529095999
Imprint: Picador

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Ball is a terrific writer . . . An essential primer in our never-ending quest to understand life
Ball is a ferociously gifted science writer . . . There is so much [here] that is amazing . . . urgent . . . astonishing.
Ball is a ferociously gifted science writer . . . There is so much [in How Life Works] that is amazing . . . urgent . . . astonishing.
A mind-stretching book . . . Ball is a clarifier supreme. It is hard to imagine a more concise, coherent, if also challenging, single volume written on the discoveries made in the life sciences over the past 70 years.