Last week I announced that I had 17 autographed copies of the US hardback edition of Microcosm, and in 85 minutes you folks cleared me out. There were a few cries of "Arg!" later on Facebook and Twitter, to which I responded that I still needed to deal with more books in advance of our house renovation. And so (voice turning crazy), here's the next deal: we've got 8 autographed copies of the British hardback edition of
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life.
It's out of print, but between now and next Tuesday, it's available for ten dollars from my Amazon store. Again, here's a quick description of Microcosm: In the book, I tilt at one of my favorite windmills--the definition of life. But rather than try to take on all of life on Earth, I chose one species--the one that we know best of all. That ...