by David Evans · Macmillan Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780435272104
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«Lady Portia's Revenge and Other Stories» is an elementary-level graded reader by David Evans, published by Macmillan Education in paperback.
The book brings together three stories: in one, Lady Portia meets again a journalist who changed her life; in another, a suitcase of dollars and a teddy bear complicate María's life; in the third, a scientist doubts that snakes dance to music. They are short stories for practising reading in English.
1993 edition, 64 pages in English. Part of the Heinemann Guided Readers series, Elementary level (about 1100 basic words).
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language and readers of any age, with elementary-level stories.
David M. Evans is Professor of Statistical Genetics and Head of Genomic Medicine at the Diamantina Institute at the University of Queensland. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Queensland in 2003, after which he completed a four-year postdoc at the University of Oxford's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. During his postdoc, he conducted research for the International HapMap Project and the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. In 2007, he became a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol, where he conducted research on genome-wide association studies based on the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. He became a professor at the University of Queensland in 2013. He is known for researching the genetics of complex traits in humans, such as osteoporosis, asthma, and binge eating. He was an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2015 and 2016.
