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The Nuts and Bolts of Life
Paul Heiney
This history describes how Willem Kolff - defiant, ingenious and stubborn - worked under impossible conditions in a country under the merciless occupation of Nazism to solve the problem of kidney failure and to change the course of human history.
256 pages, 18 b&w illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 1, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780750928946 |
| Publishers | The History Press Ltd |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 545 g (Weight (estimated)) |
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