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Tag Archives: physiology

Frances Ashcroft’s The Spark of Life reviewed for the Telegraph

Posted on July 6, 2012 by simonings
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Do you make a big, satisfying book about electricity, or a small, exhilarating book about physiology? Here, the one is trapped within a not entirely successful attempt at the other.  http://bit.ly/KSS4GM

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