The Song Of The Cell Av Siddhartha Mukherjee

<b><b>Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences </b></b><b>and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize! </b><BR><BR><b><b>Named a <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by <i>The Economist</i>, <i>Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, </i>the New York Public Library, and more!</b><BR><BR><b>In <i>The Song of the Cell</i>, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>The Emperor of All Maladies</i> and the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>The Gene </i>“blends cutting-edge research, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, and gorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like a literary page-turner” (<i>Oprah Daily</i>).</b></b><BR><BR>Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept thro