D. G. Mackean - Cambridge IGCSE™ Biology 4th Edition

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ISBN: 978 1 3983 1045 2

eISBN: 978 1 3983 1070 4

D G Mackean and Dave Hayward 2021

First published in 2002

Second edition published in 2009

Third edition published in 2014

This edition published in 2021 by

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