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  • Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb

    The Spectre of Impossibility

    by David Deamer ...
    Series series Thinking Cinema
    David Deamer establishes the first ever sustained encounter between Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books and post-war Japanese cinema, exploring how Japanese films responded to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From the early days of occupation political censorship to the social and cultural freedoms of the 1960s and beyond, the book examines how images of the nuclear event appear in post ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Hunt for FOXP5

    A Genomic Mystery Novel

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Genetics professor Michelle Murphy loses her husband under mysterious circumstances and without warning, while their brilliant eight year old daughter Avalon, adopted in Kazakhstan, stubbornly believes she is a mutant.As if this were not enough she soon finds herself thrown into the middle of a quickly thickening plot, where the legacy of Genghis Khan meets the hunt for FOXP5, a genetic ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • First Life

    Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began

    by David Deamer ...
    This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life’s connection to the stars, David Deamer introduces astrobiology, a new scientific discipline that studies the origin and evolution of life on Earth and relates it to the birth and death of stars, planet formation, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Hunt for FOXP5

    A Genomic Mystery Novel

    Narrated by Nancy Wu ...
    Series series The Science and Fiction Series

    Unabridged

    13 hours 32 min

    Genetics professor Michelle Murphy loses her husband under mysterious circumstances and without warning, while their brilliant eight-year-old daughter Avalon, adopted in Kazakhstan, stubbornly believes she is a mutant.As if this were not enough she soon finds herself thrown into the middle of a quickly thickening plot, where the legacy of Genghis Khan meets the hunt for FOXP5, a genetic ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Assembling Life

    How Can Life Begin on Earth and Other Habitable Planets?

    by David Deamer ...
    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 40 min

    In Assembling Life, David Deamer addresses questions that are the cutting edge of research on the origin of life. For instance, how did non-living organic compounds assemble into the first forms of primitive cellular life? What was the source of those compounds and the energy that produced the first nucleic acids? Did life begin in the ocean or in fresh water on terrestrial land masses? Could life ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins

    by Elaine Morgan ...
    In this lively and controversial book Elaine Morgan presents a challenging interpretation to the question of human evolution. With brilliant logic she argues that our hominid ancestors began to evolve in response to an aquatic environment.Millions of years ago something happened that caused our ancestors to walk on two legs, to lose their fur, to develop larger brains and learn how to speak. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Long and the Short of It

    The Science of Life Span & Aging

    "[A] whimsical book on aging . . . the author mixes art, science, and humor to brew a highly readable concoction, presenting one aging theory after another." — Publishers WeeklyEverything that lives will die. That's the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age: people vary wildly in their patterns of aging and their life spans—and that variation is nothing compared to what's ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introducing Genetics

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    by Steve Jones ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes a human being.Introducing Genetics takes us from the early work of Mendel to the discovery of DNA, the human gene map and the treatment of inborn ... Read more

    $5.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution

    Over millions of years in the fossil record, hominin teeth preserve a high-fidelity record of their own growth, development, wear, chemistry and pathology. They yield insights into human evolution that are difficult, if not impossible, to achieve through other sources of fossil or archaeological data. Integrating dental findings with current debates and issues in palaeoanthropology, this book ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Biochemistry and Genetics of Recq-Helicases

    Biochemistry And Genetics of RecQ-Helicases provides a background into the role of helicases in general and RecQ helicases specifically in DNA repair. Helicases- enzymes which break down hydrogen bonds between nucleic acid strands in a nucleoside triphosphate-dependent manner-are ubiquitous in biology, participating in processes as diverse as replication, repair, recombination, transcription, and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Initiation of DNA Replication in Eukaryotes

    Edited by Daniel L. Kaplan ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Every time a cell divides, a copy of its genomic DNA has to be faithfully copied to generate new genomic DNA for the daughter cells. The process of DNA replication needs to be precisely regulated to ensure that replication of the genome is complete and accurate, but that re-replication does not occur. Errors in DNA replication can lead to genome instability and cancer. The process of replication ... Read more

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