As both a naturalist as well as someone for whom the substance looms unusually large in daily life, the recent publication by Oxford University Press of Blood; A Very Short Introduction is an occasion that was awaited with particularly high interest. Now that a copy has reached my desk, no time has been wasted in exploring what its author Christopher Cooper has written about his subject.
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