Author : Christine Leunens
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Aversion
ISBN : 9781873982198
Kate 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 : Grant Naylor
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Red Dwarf (Television program)
ISBN : 9780140178869
Author : Michael Marshall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 022671537X
From 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 : Christofer Nigro
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2021-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781735805429
Will 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
Page : 1853 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642278334
The 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
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1107121884
Uniting the foundations of physics and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary and integrative book explores life as a planetary process.
Author : Steven Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1101444207
A fascinating deep dive on innovation from the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Unexpected Life The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery--these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the breakthrough technologies that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven Johnson's answers are revelatory as he identifies the seven key patterns behind genuine innovation, and traces them across time and disciplines. From Darwin and Freud to the halls of Google and Apple, Johnson investigates the innovation hubs throughout modern time and pulls out the approaches and commonalities that seem to appear at moments of originality.
Author : Jenny Volvovski
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1452108226
Scientists 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
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 9780486495224
This 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
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393323108
Marrying 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.
