Tag: Life

Parallel Worlds Evolution Of Life Across The Cosmos


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English | 2025 | ISBN: 9811298823 | 255 Pages | PDF (True) | 9.4 MB
Humanity is fast approaching the point of being able to answer the age-old question: Are we alone in the cosmos? The answer will almost certainly turn out to be ‘no’. This is virtually guaranteed by two discoveries made in the last hundred years or so: that the Milky Way is just one of countless galaxies; and that the number of planets beyond our solar system ― ‘exoplanets’ ― is vast.But what is extraterrestrial life actually like? What kinds of creatures roam the surfaces of alien planets or swim in their seas? Are they typically in the genre of ‘life as we know it’, or are they characterized by exotic forms and as-yet undiscovered metabolism? In Parallel Worlds, Wallace Arthur argues that we should expect to find creatures that are similar in broad terms to those of Earth. This can be anticipated because the environments of habitable planets have many parallel features, so Darwinian natural selection should work in parallel ways, producing broadly parallel trees of life.This book takes the form of a step-by-step argument in favour of the hypothesis that there are multiple worlds inhabited by life-forms that are broadly parallel to those of our home planet. Like all good hypotheses, it’s testable. The testing won’t be easy, and it isn’t imminent; but it will happen eventually, providing humanity lasts for long enough.

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Open Socrates The Case for a Philosophical Life


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English | January 14th, 2025 | ISBN: 1631498460 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 2.94 MB
An iconoclastic philosopher revives Socrates for our time, showing how we can answer-and, in the first place, ask-life’s most important questions.

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Loyal to Empire The Life of General Sir Charles Monro, 1860-1929


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English | ISBN: 0750965991 | 2016 | 352 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Winston Churchill did not describe General Sir Charles Monro in the most glowing terms. Referring to Monro’s brave decision to recommend a withdrawal from the Gallipoli disaster, Churchill said: ‘He came, he saw, he capitulated.’Monro was one of a handful of senior officers selected to command a division with the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 and also led a corps on the Western Front as the war progressed.After Gallipoli he was instrumental in supporting the war effort from India as commander-in-chief and was directly involved in the aftermath of the Amritsar massacre by Brigadier General Dyer. His earlier life included distinguished service on the North West Frontier and in South Africa, and he was responsible for dramatically improving tactics within the army.Loyal to Empire brings to life the interesting character of General Monro, perhaps the least well known of all the British First World War commanders, and reassesses the legacy of his important military contributions.

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Jack the Ripper’s Streets of Terror Life During the Reign of Victorian London’s Most Brutal Killer


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English | ISBN: 1782122125 | 2013 | 208 pages | EPUB | 27 MB
This is a new take on the Jack the Ripper story. Focusing on the people who lived through the Ripper’s reign of terror, it shows what happened when familiar London streets suddenly became the hunting grounds of a monster. This book looks at the crimes of Jack the Ripper through the eyes of the Londoners who had to survive his career of brutal savagery. It follows the way the crimes affected the local population, the rumors that swept the streets, the alarms, the riots, the persecutions, the suspicions, and the sheer naked terror of the awful autumn when Jack the Ripper stalked the streets. This is the authentic version of how the case of the Ripper pulled apart lives in London’s East End.

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Evolution of Bioenergetics from Elements to Life


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English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031766679 | 305 Pages | PDF (True) | 38 MB
This book begins with the creation of the elements used in life and how these elements, as atoms, bound together into organic compounds and polymerized into lipids, peptides, and nucleotides. The text stresses the role and importance of the elements C, H, O, N, P, S, the univalent and multivalent ions, and the requirement of liquid water to foster prebiotic life. Expert author Dr. David Stowe explains the role of early molecular interactions in developing the first living prokaryote bacteria and their eventual engulfment as organelles to make eukaryotes that allowed their sophistication into specialized cells and large multicellular organisms. The book uniquely traces the genesis of bioenergetics and uses cardiac cell mitochondia as an evolutionary example for modern bioenergetic function. This book is geared toward graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and other academics interested in evolutionary biochemistry with an emphasis on the early development of bioenergetics leading to modern, high energy mitochondria.

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El Campesino Life And Death In Soviet Russia


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English | 2020 | ISBN: 1016433409 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 0.6 mb
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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You Can Heal Your Life 40th Anniversary Edition


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English | October 8, 2024 | ISBN: 1401976913 | 336 pages | MOBI | 68 Mb
Newly repackaged for its 40th anniversary edition, this mega best-selling book features beautiful illustrations and timeless wisdom into the mind-body connection.

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