Sentinel Chickens
What Birds Tell Us About Our Health And Our World
$29.73
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2012
Summary
Sentinel Chickens shows us how birds provide insights at the cutting edge of science and merit our sustained attention.‘The idea of ‘sentinel chickens’ seemed pretty incongruous when I first heard the phrase as a young undergraduate … The notion of the humble chicken waiting like a trained soldier, alert and focused, for some unseen and approaching enemy just didn’t seem likely. Hens en garde!‘And yet guard they do. Not only chickens, but puffins, eagles, canaries and toucans- birds of all ki…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522861105 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522861105 |
| Author: | Peter Doherty |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2012 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 140mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Peter Doherty
Peter Doherty’s pioneering research into human immune systems earned him the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1996. He was Australian of the Year and awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1997 and currently divides his professional time between the University of Melbourne and St Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, where he is helping unravel the mystery of childhood cancer.
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