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Life ascending : the ten great inventions of evolution / by Lane, Nick.(CARDINAL)593492; Lane, Nick;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-309, 313-326) and index.The origin of life -- DNA -- Photosynthesis -- The complex cell -- Sex -- Movement -- Sight -- Hot blood -- Consciousness -- Death.Nick Lane expertly reconstructs the history of life by describing the ten greatest inventions of evolution (including DNA, photosynthesis, sex, and sight), based on their historical impact, role in organisms today, and relevance to current controversies.
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Molecular evolution.;
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Life ascending : the ten great inventions of evolution / by Lane, Nick.(CARDINAL)593492;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index.The origin of life -- DNA -- Photosynthesis -- The complex cell -- Sex -- Movement -- Sight -- Hot blood -- Consciousness -- Death.Nick Lane expertly reconstructs the history of life by describing the ten greatest inventions of evolution (including DNA, photosynthesis, sex, and sight), based on their historical impact, role in organisms today, and relevance to current controversies.
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Molecular evolution.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Oxygen : the molecule that made the world / by Lane, Nick,1967-(CARDINAL)333850;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-359) and index.Introduction : Elixir of life -- and death -- In the beginning : the origins and importance of oxygen -- Silence of the aeons : three billion years of microbial evolution -- Fuse to the Cambrian explosion : Snowball Earth, environmental change and the first animals -- The Bolsover dragonfly : oxygen and the rise of the giants -- Treachery in the air : oxygen poisoning and X-irradiation : a mechanism in common -- Green planet : radiation and the evolution of photosynthesis -- Looking for LUCA : last ancestor in an age before oxygen -- Portrait of a paradox : vitamin C and the many faces of an antioxidant -- The antioxidant machine : a hundred and one ways of living with oxygen -- Sex and the art of bodily maintenance : trade-offs in the evolution of aging -- Eat! or you'll live forever : the triangle of food, sex and longevity -- Gender bender : the rate of living and the need for sexes -- Beyond genes and destiny : the double-agent theory of aging and disease -- Life, death and oxygen : lessons from evolution on the future of aging -- Glossary.
Subjects: Oxygen; Oxygen; Oxygen in the body; Biogeochemical cycles;
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The vital question : energy, evolution, and the origins of complex life / by Lane, Nick,1967-author.(CARDINAL)333850;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I: The problem. What is life? ; What is living? -- Part II: The origin of life. Energy at life's origin ; The emergence of cells -- Part III: Complexity. The origins of complex cells ; Sex and the origins of death -- Part IV: Predictions. The power and the glory -- Epilogue: From the deep.A biochemist, building on the pillars of evolutionary theory and drawing on cutting-edge research into the link between energy and genes, argues that the evolution of multicellular life was the result of a single event.
Subjects: Life; Cells; Energy metabolism.;
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Transformer : the deep chemistry of life and death / by Lane, Nick,1967-author.(CARDINAL)333850;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A renowned biochemist's illuminating inquiry into the Krebs cycle and the origins of life. What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from generation to generation, right back to the origin of life. In Transformer, biochemist Nick Lane reveals a scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight -- how the same simple chemistry gives rise to life and causes our demise. Lane is among the vanguard of researchers asking why the Krebs cycle, the "perfect circle" at the heart of metabolism, remains so elusive more than eighty years after its discovery. Transformer is Lane's voyage, as a biochemist, to find the inner meaning of the Krebs cycle -- and its reverse -- why it is still spinning at the heart of life and death today. Lane reveals the beautiful, violent world within our cells, where hydrogen atoms are stripped from the carbon skeletons of food and fed to the ravenous beast of oxygen. Yet this same cycle, spinning in reverse, also created the chemical building blocks that enabled the emergence of life on our planet. Now it does both. How can the same pathway create and destroy? What might our study of the Krebs cycle teach us about the mysteries of aging and the hardest problem of all, consciousness? Transformer unites the story of our planet with the story of our cells -- what makes us the way we are, and how it connects us to the origin of life. Enlivened by Lane's talent for distilling and humanizing complex research, Transformer offers an essential read for anyone fascinated by biology's great mysteries. Life is at root a chemical phenomenon: this is its deep logic."--
Subjects: Krebs cycle.; Death (Biology); Cells; Biology.; Chemistry.;
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Power, sex, suicide : mitochondria and the meaning of life / by Lane, Nick,1967-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-512) and index.The deepest evolutionary chasm -- Quest for a progenitor -- The hydrogen hypothesis -- The meaning of respiration -- Proton power -- The origin of life -- Why bacteria are simple -- Why mitochondria make complexity possible -- The power laws of biology -- The warm-blooded revolution -- Conflict in the body -- Foundations of the individual -- The asymmetry of sex -- What human prehistory says about the sexes -- Why there are two sexes -- The mitochondrial theory of ageing -- Demise of the self-correcting machine -- A cure for old age?Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that. Mitochondria have their own DNA, with their own small collection of genes, separate from those in the cell nucleus. It is thought that they were once bacteria living independent lives. Their enslavement within the larger cell was a turning point in the evolution of life, enabling the development of complex organisms and, closely related, the origin of two sexes. Unlike the DNA in the nucleus, mitochondrial DNA is passed down exclusively (or almost exclusively) via the female line. That's why it has been used by some researchers to trace human ancestry daughter-to-mother, to 'Mitochondrial Eve'. Mitochondria give us important information about our evolutionary history. And that's not all. Mitochondrial genes mutate much faster than those in the nucleus because of the free radicals produced in their energy-generating role. This high mutation rate lies behind our ageing and certain congenital diseases. The latest research suggests that mitochondria play a key role in degenerative diseases such as cancer, through their involvement in precipitating cell suicide. Mitochondria, then, are pivotal in power, sex, and suicide. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Nick Lane brings together the latest research findings in this exciting field to show how our growing understanding of mitochondria is shedding light on how complex life evolved, why sex arose (why don't we just bud?), and why we age and die. This understanding is of fundamental importance, both in understanding how we and all other complex life came to be, but also in order to be able to control our own illnesses, and delay our degeneration and death. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.
Subjects: Mitochondria.; Mitochondrial DNA.; Energy metabolism.; Eukaryotic cells;
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Pilates for men [videorecording] by Jackson, Lindsey.(CARDINAL)603839; Eclectic DVD Distribution (Firm); Enhance.;
Filmed, edited and authored by Addictive Media ; Enhance production team, Simon Marcus ... [et. al.] ; music by Jim Hawkins.Instructor, Lindsey Jackson ; participants, Twig Robbins, Nick Lane-Fox.Ideal for those new to Pilates and those ready to move up a gear. Focus and loosen with a warm up, stretch and develop strength with a multi level workout, challenge yourself with a bonus power section and chill with a relaxation.DVD, NTSC region 0; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Exercise for men.; Physical fitness for men.; Pilates method.;
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Fierce people [videorecording] / by Dunne, Griffin.; Wechsler, Nick.; Wittenborn, Dirk.; Lane, Diane.(CARDINAL)345193; Yelchin, Anton.(CARDINAL)354379; Sutherland, Donald,1935-; Stewart, Kristen,1990-(CARDINAL)348962; Perkins, Elizabeth,1960-; De la Huerta, Paz,1984-; Evans, Chris,1981-(CARDINAL)343584; Johnson, Allyson C.,1959-; After Dark Films (Firm); Industry Entertainment.; Fierce People Productions.; Lions Gate Home Entertainment.(CARDINAL)340727;
DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 or 2.0; 1.85:1 widescreen format.Diane Lane, Anton Yelchin, Donald Sutherland, Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Perkins, Paz De la Huerta and Chris Evans.Director of photography, William Rexer ; editor, Allyson C. Johnson ; music, Nick Laird-Clowes.Rating: R; language, drug use, sexuality/nudity and some violence."Fierce People" takes an inside look at the upper classes, examining the darkness that lurks beneath the surface of good manners. This unflinching drama exposes the trappings of wealth and privilege, and their overwhelming power to seduce and corrupt.
Subjects: Feature films.; Film adaptations.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Film adaptations.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Wealth; Upper class; Corruption;
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Becky [videorecording] / by Yale, Jordan,film producer.; Murnion, Cary,1975-film director.; Milott, Jonathan,1973-film director.; Morris, Nick,screenwriter.; Skye, Ruckus,screenwriter.; Skye, Lane,screenwriter.; Wilson, Lulu,2005-actor.; James, Kevin,1965-actor.; McHale, Joel,1971-actor.(CARDINAL)590342; Redbox Entertainment,presenter.; Yale Productions,production company.; BoulderLight Pictures,production company.; Quiver Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Music by Nima Fakhrara ; co-executive producer, Tara Finegan, Tim Hegarty ; executive producer, Shaun Sanghani [and five others].Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, and Joel McHale.MPAA rating: R; for strong bloody violence, grisly images, and language.Spunky and rebellious, Becky is brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father Jeff in an effort to try to reconnect. The trip immediately takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick, suddenly invade the lake house.Blu-ray, widescreen 2.40:1, 5.1 Dolby audio.
Subjects: Horror films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Teenage girls; Home invasion; Revenge;
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Becky [videorecording] / by Yale, Jordan,film producer.; Murnion, Cary,1975-film director.; Milott, Jonathan,1973-film director.; Morris, Nick,screenwriter.; Skye, Ruckus,screenwriter.; Skye, Lane,screenwriter.; Wilson, Lulu,2005-actor.; James, Kevin,1965-actor.; McHale, Joel,1971-actor.(CARDINAL)590342; Redbox Entertainment,presenter.; Yale Productions,production company.; BoulderLight Pictures,production company.; Quiver Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
DVD, widescreen 2.40:1, 5.1 Dolby audio.Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, and Joel McHale.Music by Nima Fakhrara ; co-executive producer, Tara Finegan, Tim Hegarty ; executive producer, Shaun Sanghani [and five others].MPAA rating: R; for strong bloody violence, grisly images, and language.Spunky and rebellious, Becky is brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father Jeff in an effort to try to reconnect. The trip immediately takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick, suddenly invade the lake house.
Subjects: Horror films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Teenage girls; Home invasion; Revenge;
Home use only.
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 14
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