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Author | : Ben McFarland |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2016-03-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0190275022 |
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A World From Dust describes how a set of chemical rules combined with the principles of evolution in order to create an environment in which life as we know it could unfold. Beginning with simple mathematics, these predictable rules led to the advent of the planet itself, as well as cells, organs and organelles, ecosystems, and increasingly complex life forms. McFarland provides an accessible discussion of a geological history as well, describing how the inorganic matter on Earth underwent chemical reactions with air and water, allowing for life to emerge from the world's first rocks. He traces the history of life all the way to modern neuroscience, and shows how the bioelectric signals that make up the human brain were formed. Most popular science books on the topic present either the physics of how the universe formed, or the biology of how complex life came about; this book's approach would be novel in that it condenses in an engaging way the chemistry that links the two fields. This book is an accessible and multidisciplinary look at how life on our planet came to be, and how it continues to develop and change even today. This book includes 40 illustrations by Gala Bent, print artist and studio faculty member at Cornish College of the Arts, and Mary Anderson, medical illustrator.
Author | : Trent Reedy |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 054557806X |
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Winner of the Christopher Medal and a "heart-wrenching" Al Roker's Book Club selection on the Today Show. Zulaikha hopes. She hopes for peace, now that the Taliban have been driven from Afghanistan; a good relationship with her hard stepmother; and one day even to go to school, or to have her cleft palate fixed. Zulaikha knows all will be provided for her--"Inshallah," God willing. Then she meets Meena, who offers to teach her the Afghan poetry she taught her late mother. And the Americans come to her village, promising not just new opportunities and dangers, but surgery to fix her face. These changes could mean a whole new life for Zulaikha--but can she dare to hope they'll come true?
Author | : Charles R. Pellegrino |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1999-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780380787425 |
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When a gigantic ecological eruption causes dust mites to rapidly reproduce and become flesh-eating insects, paleobiologist Richard Sinclair and a group of survivors must try to stop this deadly phenomenon before the entire world is destroyed. Reprint.
Author | : B. V. Larson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2014-04-09 |
Genre | : Space colonies |
ISBN | : 9781497591714 |
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The Galactics arrived with their Battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spans the Milky Way. Our only worthwhile trade goods are our infamous mercenary legions, elite troops we sell to the highest alien bidder.In 2122 a lost colony expedition contacts Earth, surprising our government. Colonization is against Galactic Law, and Legion Varus is dispatched to the system to handle the situation. Earth gave them sealed orders, but Earth is thirty-five lightyears away. The Legion commanders have a secret plan of their own. And then there's James McGill, who was never too good at listening to authority in the first place...In DUST WORLD, book two of the Undying Mercenaries Series, McGill is promoted to Specialist and sent to a frontier planet outside the Empire. Earth's status within the Empire will never be the same.
Author | : Christian De Duve |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1995-01-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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A sweeping portrait--covering four billion years--of the possible origins and evolution of life on earth, written by a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist on the cutting edge of research into these issues.
Author | : Kara Swanson |
Publisher | : Enclave Publishing |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Fairy tales |
ISBN | : 9781621841296 |
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The truth about Neverland is far more dangerous than a fairy tale... Claire Kenton believes the world is too dark for magic to be real--since her twin brother was stolen away as a child. Now Claire's desperate search points to London...and a boy who shouldn't exist. Peter Pan is having a beastly time getting back to Neverland. Grounded in London and hunted by his own Lost Boys, Peter searches for the last hope of restoring his crumbling island: a lass with magic in her veins. The girl who fears her own destiny is on a collision course with the boy who never wanted to grow up. The truth behind this fairy tale is about to unravel everything Claire thought she knew about Peter Pan--and herself.
Author | : Carolyn Steedman |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813530475 |
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In this witty, engaging, and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced an originaland sometimes irreverentinvestigation into how modern historiography has developed. Dust: The Archive and Cultural History considers our stubborn set of beliefs about an objective material worldinherited from the nineteenth centurywith which modern history writing and its lack of such a belief, attempts to grapple. Drawing on her own published and unpublished writing, Carolyn Steedman has produced a sustained argument about the way in which history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world. Steedman begins by asserting that in recent years much attention has been paid to the archive by those working in the humanities and social sciences; she calls this practice "archivization." By definition, the archive is the repository of "that which will not go away," and the book goes on to suggest that, just like dust, the "matter of history" can never go away or be erased. This unique work will be welcomed by all historians who want to think about what it is they do.
Author | : Hugh Howey |
Publisher | : John Joseph Adams |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544838262 |
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Wool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall.
Author | : S.E. Smith |
Publisher | : Montana Publishing |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2016-03-29 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1942562837 |
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2016 Gold Winner of the Wishing Shelf Book Awards! Dust wakes to discover the world as he knew it is gone after fragments of a comet hit Earth. It isn’t the only thing that has changed, though, so has Dust. He now possesses powers that continue to grow, and a dangerous encounter after he leaves his home leads to a new discovery – other survivors. As they travel through the wasteland, looking for the best place to rebuild, they discover a creature that has risen from the ashes, one that is determined to possess Dust's powers. It will take the skills of not just Dust, but those of his friends, if they are to survive. Follow a new band of unlikely heroes as they fight to make Earth a better, safer place! A NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, the internationally acclaimed S.E. Smith presents a new story with her signature humor and unpredictable twists! Exciting adventure, sweet romance, and iconic characters have won her a legion of fans. Over TWO MILLION books sold!
Author | : Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2014-01-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307961214 |
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From a breathtaking new voice, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya—a story of power and deceit, unrequited love, survival and sacrifice. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His grief-stricken sister, Ajany, just returned from Brazil, and their father bring his body back to their crumbling home in the Kenyan drylands, seeking some comfort and peace. But the murder has stirred memories long left untouched and unleashed a series of unexpected events: Odidi and Ajany’s mercurial mother flees in a fit of rage; a young Englishman arrives at the Ogandas’ house, seeking his missing father; a hardened policeman who has borne witness to unspeakable acts reopens a cold case; and an all-seeing Trader with a murky identity plots an overdue revenge. In scenes stretching from the violent upheaval of contemporary Kenya back through a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s, we come to learn the secrets held by this parched landscape, buried deep within the shared past of the family and of a conflicted nation. Here is a spellbinding novel about a brother and sister who have lost their way; about how myths come to pass, history is written, and war stains us forever.