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The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives
Helen Pearson
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Description for The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 31. Weight in Grams: 304.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE 'Eye-opening, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives' Financial Times 'Superb' Literary Review The remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain today In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on ... Read more
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE 'Eye-opening, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives' Financial Times 'Superb' Literary Review The remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain today In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141976617
SKU
V9780141976617
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About Helen Pearson
Helen Pearson is a science journalist and editor for the international science journal Nature. She has been writing for Nature since 2001 and her stories have won accolades including the 2010 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award and two best feature awards from the Association of British Science Writers. Based in London, she has a PhD in genetics and spent eight ... Read more
Reviews for The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives
Incredible
Tech Insider
Persuasively argues ... the beauty and sheer vision of these longitudinal cohort studies
Telegraph
Pearson has done a real service in explaining how wide-ranging these extraordinary and little-known studies have been
Michael Prodger
The Times
Fascinating ... A cogent exploration of Britain's groundbreaking birth-cohort studies ... The Life Project does ... Read more
Tech Insider
Persuasively argues ... the beauty and sheer vision of these longitudinal cohort studies
Telegraph
Pearson has done a real service in explaining how wide-ranging these extraordinary and little-known studies have been
Michael Prodger
The Times
Fascinating ... A cogent exploration of Britain's groundbreaking birth-cohort studies ... The Life Project does ... Read more