Book Description
Explains our current knowledge about life's origins, focusing on recently discovered "superbugs" which may have arrived here on asteroids, and arguing that life grew from primitive information-processing systems.
Author : P. C. W. Davies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 068486309X
Explains our current knowledge about life's origins, focusing on recently discovered "superbugs" which may have arrived here on asteroids, and arguing that life grew from primitive information-processing systems.
Author : Paul Davies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1439126828
ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE? In his latest far-reaching book, The Fifth Miracle, internationally acclaimed physicist and writer Paul Davies confronts one of science's great outstanding mysteries -- the origin of life. Three and a half billion years ago, Mars resembled Earth. It was warm and wet and could have supported primitive organisms. If life once existed on Mars, might it have originated there and traveled to Earth inside meteorites blasted into space by cosmic impacts? Davies builds on the latest scientific discoveries and theories to address the larger question: What, exactly, is life? Is it the inevitable by-product of physical laws, as many scientists maintain, or an almost miraculous accident? Are we alone in the universe, or will life emerge on all Earth-like planets? And if there is life elsewhere in the universe, is it preordained to evolve toward greater complexity and intelligence? On the answers to these deep questions hinges the ultimate purpose of mankind -- who we are and what our place might be in the unfolding drama of the cosmos.
Author : Paul Davies
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 1999
Category :
ISBN : 9780965796606
Author : William Joyce Cowen
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 1954
Category : American literature
ISBN :
A little French girl in a factory town promises her absent father to take care of her pretty young stepmother, and to make sure that the expected baby is a boy.
Author : William Joyce COWEN
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 1954
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ISBN :
Author : Han Nolan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0547892551
A sleepy, God-fearing community in Alabama erupts in chaos when a flamboyant artist from New York City returns to her hometown for an artistic experiment. “A fresh voice and an enigmatic subject combine to make kids engage in an activity they probably don’t do much-contemplate.” —Booklist
Author : Sarah Morgan
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1474050689
Get your copy of Sarah Morgan’s new Christmas novel Snowed in for Christmas now! Praise for Sarah Morgan: ‘Christmas isn't Christmas without a Sarah Morgan novel to inhale, and she’s knocked it out of the heart-warming, uplifting park again’ Laura Jane Williams
Author : Scott Brown
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2001-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1623681332
Adam Taliaferro had it all: smarts, an easy-going personality, and incomparable athletic ability. None of that seemed to matter, however, on that fateful September day when his father was given startling news: Do not expect your son to walk. Ever. Since that numbing day, Taliaferro, the Penn State freshman cornerback who was paralyzed after he tackled an Ohio State running back, has defied the odds. Before he had spinal-fusion surgery, he made a vow to his mother: "Mom, I'm not going out like this." Three months later, he walked out of a Philadelphia hospital on crutches, determined to complete his amazing recovery, making the name "Adam Taliaferro" synonymous with courage and perseverance.
Author : Bruce Fife
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781583332047
When taken as a supplement, used in cooking, or applied directly to the skin, coconut oil has been found to promote weight loss, help protect against many diseases, strengthen the immune system, improve digestion, and prevent premature aging of the skin.
Author : Lawrence Weschler
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0307819035
In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime’s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible for the overwhelming majority of human-rights abuses, still retain tremendous power—and will not abide any settling of accounts. Now, New Yorker staff reporter Lawrence Weschler tells the extraordinary story of how, against tremendous odds, torture victims and human-rights activists in two Latin American countries—Brazil and Uruguay—tried to bring their torturers to justice and to rehabilitate their whole societies from harrowing periods of silence and repression. In this first of his two accounts, he tells how a tiny group of torture victims, clerics, and human-rights activists in Brazil launched an extremely risky, nonviolent plot to get even with the former torturers by publishing an indisputable account of their savage system of repression—indisputable because it is drawn from the regime’s own files. In the second, set in Uruguay, he tells how a more broadly-based movement attempted to bring to light the dark history of a military regime engaged in more political incarceration per capita than any other on earth at that time. In this illuminating and beautifully written book (portions of which appeared in five issues of The New Yorker), Weschler examines what a small number of individuals can do to retrieve history and truth from the hands of torturers.