It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read The Book of Life by Barbara Katz Rothman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The much heralded "completion" of the human genome project in the year 2000 raises urgent questions: Do we now have a map of who we are? How will we control the uses of the potentially healing but also likely destructive and highly marketable information genetics brings us? Using her own life as well as her research, Barbara Katz Rothman presents an impassioned defense for the theory that humans are not "ready made from the factory", as one recent popular book on genetics put it, but social beings who grow, mature, and learn who they are.
The Book of Life by Barbara Katz Rothman is 276 pages long, and a total of 70,656 words.
This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 26 minutes to read The Book of Life aloud.
The Book of Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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