Origins
How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives
$34.10
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
5 July 2011
Summary
What makes us the way we are? Some say it’s the genes we inherit at conception. Others are sure it’s the environment we experience in childhood. But could it be that many of our individual characteristics–our health, our intelligence, our temperaments–are influenced by the conditions we encountered before birth?
That’s the claim of an exciting and provocative field known as fetal origins. Over the past twenty years, scientists have been developing a radically new unde…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743296632 |
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| ISBN-10: | 074329663X |
| Author: | Annie Murphy Paul |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 5 July 2011 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 137mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
“Informative and wise…Structuring her exploration of the subject around the nine months of her own (second) pregnancy, she provides a balanced, common-sense view of an emerging field of uncertain science.” -Jerome Groopman, New York Times Book Review
Annie Murphy Paul
Annie Murphy Paul is a magazine journalist and book author who writes about the biological and social sciences. Born in Philadelphia, she graduated from Yale University and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A former senior editor at Psychology Today magazine, she was awarded the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Slate, Discover, Health, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many other publications. She is the author of Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives and The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves.
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