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Product Description: Here, Walter Gratzer offers a marvelous smorgasbord of stories taken from the history of nutrition, providing an engaging account of the struggle to find the ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have waylaid the unwary...read more

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9780192806611 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 6, 2005, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: Colorful anecdotes taken from the history of nutrition and portraits of the scientists who advanced understanding of diet and digestion are provided in this account of the struggle to find the ingredients of a healthy diet.

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9780199205639 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 12, 2007, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Here, Walter Gratzer offers a marvelous smorgasbord of stories taken from the history of nutrition, providing an engaging account of the struggle to find the ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have waylaid the unwary.

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Product Description: Our lives are dominated by giant molecules, which have remarkable properties, some of which are only just being discovered and exploited by science, though many have long been exploited far more effectively by Nature. Giant molecules dominate our lives - from the proteins and DNA within us to the man-made fibres of our clothes and the many plastics that we use every day...read more

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9780199550029 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 30, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Our lives are dominated by giant molecules, which have remarkable properties, some of which are only just being discovered and exploited by science, though many have long been exploited far more effectively by Nature.

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9780199562138 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 4, 2011), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Our lives are dominated by giant molecules, which have remarkable properties, some of which are only just being discovered and exploited by science, though many have long been exploited far more effectively by Nature.

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More than two hundred extracts from literature, biographies, memoirs, reportage, and poetry introduce the giants of science and explore the impact of science on the world
By Walter Gratzer (editor)

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9780393028362 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1990, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: More than two hundred extracts from literature, biographies, memoirs, reportage, and poetry introduce the giants of science and explore the impact of science on the world

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