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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life by Lane Nick
mobi |eng | 2005-10-12 | Author:Lane, Nick [Lane, Nick]

Proton leak But there is a diabolical catch. We have seen that the muscles contribute little to the resting metabolic rate: the danger of oxygen toxicity means that blood is ...
( Category: Cell Biology May 13,2014 )
THE MASTER AND HIS EMISSARY by Iain McGilchrist
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Iain McGilchrist

CHAPTER 9 THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION THE PERIOD OF PERHAPS SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS THAT USED TO BE KNOWN AS THE Dark Ages, between the fall of Rome in the ...
( Category: Neuropsychology May 10,2014 )
Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated) by Rudyard Kipling
epub |eng | 2011-08-28 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

( Category: Classics May 9,2014 )
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Sam Kean

PART IV BELIEFS AND DELUSIONS CHAPTER EIGHT The Sacred Disease In this section we shift from the physical brain to the mental brain. Common sense tells us there’s a sharp ...
( Category: Biology May 8,2014 )
The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by David Quammen
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:David Quammen [Quammen, David]

IV NEAR SIGHT BEAST IN THE MIRROR Science Uncovers Another Chimpanzee In 1699, more than a century before the birth of Charles Darwin, a London physician named Edward Tyson dissected ...
( Category: Animals May 8,2014 )
Cry of the Kalahari by Mark James Owens
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mark James Owens

11 The van der Westhuizen Story Delia It is not easy to remember that in the fading light of day . . . the shadows always point toward the dawn. ...
( Category: Botswana May 8,2014 )
Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
epub |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Padgett, Jason & Seaberg, Maureen Ann [Padgett, Jason]

I tried to escape to these familiar visions when I was uncomfortable. Even if something was very beautiful, I found it could overwhelm me. This was never more clear than ...
( Category: Scientists May 8,2014 )
In Search of Memory by Kandel Eric R
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-17 | Author:Kandel, Eric R. [Kandel, Eric R.]

WITH THE TOOLS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND THE SUPPORT of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in hand, we could now address questions about genes and memory. Since 1961 my experimental ...
( Category: Neurology May 7,2014 )
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And Answers to 100 Other Weird and Wacky Questions About How the World Works by New Scientist
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:New Scientist

For each dead bird there are, fortunately, plenty of burying beetles of the family Silphidae that will promptly fly to the scene from a considerable distance away, attracted by the ...
( Category: Biological Sciences May 7,2014 )
Trespasser by Paul Doiron
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-10 | Author:Paul Doiron

22 I slid on the edges of my feet down the icy slope and ordered Barter out of the way. Maybe because he didn’t know what else to do, he ...
( Category: Murder May 7,2014 )
Peter Benchley's Creature by Peter Benchley
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-04 | Author:Peter Benchley

* * * It spiraled downward, clutching its prey in its claws, gnawing with its teeth at the soft white flesh. It sucked and drank and chewed and swallowed. By ...
( Category: Suspense May 7,2014 )
Don't Look Behind You!: A Safari Guide's Encounters With Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos by Peter Allison
mobi |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Peter Allison

After a month at Jedibe, news came through that I had to get into Maun immediately to sit a guide’s licence exam, then return to Mombo. After a trip to ...
( Category: General May 7,2014 )
Antarctica by Gabrielle Walker
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Gabrielle Walker

This is also when territorial troubles can start to play out, when it really starts to matter if someone is sitting in your chair. Last winter, Larry, Jake and a ...
( Category: Earth Sciences May 6,2014 )
Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God by Greg Graffin & Steve Olson
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Greg Graffin & Steve Olson

From my earliest childhood, my parents encouraged and highly valued creativity. My dad’s favorite gifts around holidays and birthdays were oil paints, sable brushes, and plastic models of aircraft or ...
( Category: Science & Religion May 6,2014 )
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
mobi, epub |eng | 1956-01-01 | Author:Gerald Durrell

The phosphorescence was particularly good that night. By plunging your hand into the water and dragging it along you could draw a wide golden-green ribbon of cold fire across the ...
( Category: General May 6,2014 )

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