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Author: Christine Leunens
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781873982198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKate Lester grows up in Florida under the tu telage of her domineering widowed mother, who gives her daug hters an unusual education and a bizarre view of the world. '
Author: Michael Marshall
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-11-20
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 022671537X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the primordial soup to meteorite impact zones, the Manhattan Project to the latest research, this book is the first full history of the scientists who strive to explain the genesis of life. How did life begin? Why are we here? These are some of the most profound questions we can ask. For almost a century, a small band of eccentric scientists has struggled to answer these questions and explain one of the greatest mysteries of all: how and why life began on Earth. There are many different proposals, and each idea has attracted passionate believers who promote it with an almost religious fervor, as well as detractors who reject it with equal passion. But the quest to unravel life’s genesis is not just a story of big ideas. It is also a compelling human story, rich in personalities, conflicts, and surprising twists and turns. Along the way, the journey takes in some of the greatest discoveries in modern biology, from evolution and cells to DNA and life’s family tree. It is also a search whose end may finally be in sight. In The Genesis Quest, Michael Marshall shows how the quest to understand life’s beginning is also a journey to discover the true nature of life, and by extension our place in the universe.
Author: Grant Naylor
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780140178869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christofer Nigro
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Published: 2021-02-06
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781735805429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWill the First Batch be just the Beginning... or the beginning of The End? Sadako Sōzō, the evil heiress of the powerful corporate empire Hidora Neo, inherits a secret buried in the Antarctic ice that will change the world. Four decades later, daikaiju have become a reality, thanks to the corrupt scientists of Hidora Neo using their secrets from the South Pole. Ivan Strand and his government-sanctioned rivals, Bionautics Inc., will rise to the challenge, striving to create their own giant monsters. An epic battle of the genetically modified organisms is imminent!Meanwhile, enigmatic doors opened at the bottom of the world will unleash an ancient evil older than time. Lives will be lost trying to drive it back to whatever Hell it came from.A savior in the form of an otherworldly force will awaken, ready to take them all on to save the Earth from an apocalypse.Rated Ex (Explicit) - Contains graphic violence, strong language, and other intense themes.
Author: Ricardo Amils
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2021-01-14
Total Pages: 1853
ISBN-13: 9783642278334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe interdisciplinary field of Astrobiology constitutes a joint arena where provocative discoveries are coalescing concerning, e.g. the prevalence of exoplanets, the diversity and hardiness of life, and its increasingly likely chances for its emergence. Biologists, astrophysicists, biochemists, geoscientists and space scientists share this exciting mission of revealing the origin and commonality of life in the Universe. The members of the different disciplines are used to their own terminology and technical language. In the interdisciplinary environment many terms either have redundant meanings or are completely unfamiliar to members of other disciplines. The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology serves as the key to a common understanding. Each new or experienced researcher and graduate student in adjacent fields of astrobiology will appreciate this reference work in the quest to understand the big picture. The carefully selected group of active researchers contributing to this work and the expert field editors intend for their contributions, from an internationally comprehensive perspective, to accelerate the interdisciplinary advance of astrobiology.
Author: Eric Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-03-31
Total Pages: 703
ISBN-13: 1107121884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUniting the foundations of physics and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary and integrative book explores life as a planetary process.
Author: Jenny Volvovski
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2012-09-26
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1452108226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScientists answer seventy-five questions pertaining to the natural world, ranging from whether earthquakes are predictable to why whales sing. Each question features an accompanying illustration.
Author: Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780486495224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic of biochemistry offered the first detailed exposition of the theory that living tissue was preceded upon Earth by a long and gradual evolution of nitrogen and carbon compounds. "Easily the most scholarly authority on the question...it will be a landmark for discussion for a long time to come." — New York Times.
Author: Johnjoe McFadden
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780393323108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarrying physics and biology, McFadden theorizes that evolution may not be random but directed, and that quantum mechanics endows living organisms with the ability to initiate specific actions, including new mutations. Illustrations.
Author: Thomas Pierce
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-01-08
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0698144929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wild, inventive ride of a short story collection from a distinctive new American storyteller. The author of the forthcoming novel, The Afterlives. The stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals take place at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the intimate and the infinite. A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a hot- air balloon pilot, parents and children, believers and nonbelievers, the people in these stories are struggling to understand the absurdity and the magnitude of what it means to exist in a family, to exist in the world. In “Shirley Temple Three,” a mother must shoulder her son’s burden—a cloned and resurrected wooly mammoth who wreaks havoc on her house, sanity, and faith. In “The Real Alan Gass,” a physicist in search of a mysterious particle called the “daisy” spends her days with her boyfriend, Walker, and her nights with the husband who only exists in the world of her dreams, Alan Gass. Like the daisy particle itself—“forever locked in a curious state of existence and nonexistence, sliding back and forth between the two”—the stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals are exquisite, mysterious, and inextricably connected. From this enchanting primordial soup, Pierce’s voice emerges—a distinct and charming testament of the New South, melding contemporary concerns with their prehistoric roots to create a hilarious, deeply moving symphony of stories.
