Steps towards Life: A Perspective on Evolution

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This fascinating work, co-authored by a Nobel Prize winning scientist, extends Darwin's ideas on natural selection back into evolutionary time and applies them to the molecular "fossil record" that preceded the origin of life. Using the techniques of molecular biology, the book demonstrates
that life on Earth is the inevitable result of certain chance events that took place in the unique history of our planet. Further, we can not only precisely formulate the laws governing the emergence of life, but we can test them under controlled laboratory conditions. In fact, the authors show
how it is perfectly possible to construct evolutionary accelerators--machines which optimize the conditions for certain events and which can be used to demonstrate their theoretical conclusions in laboratory experiments. The book is organized in three sections. The first 10 chapters form the main
text. Each is introduced by quotations from Thomas Mann's classic novel The Magic Mountain, a work that is deeply concerned with the themes presented here in scientific form. In the second part, important biological ideas form the themes of 15 colorfully illustrated 'vignettes," which can be read
separately or as elaborations on the main text. The final section summarizes key events in the history of molecular biology and includes an extensive glossary of technical terms. Written for a wide audience, and already highly successful in the original German edition, this book brings fresh
insight to the search for evolutionary origins. In addition to general readers, who will find it clear and accessible, the book will interest students and scientists in biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology, and evolution.

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Origin of life: how simple molecules started to replicate.......1998-07-15

This is a short book, but full of facts and insights. Eigen presents his ideas about the origin of life, i.e. how "inorganic" molecules started to replicate and fill the earth. The book is full of ingenious new concepts, backed in almost every case by biochemical experimental results (this is something Stuart Kauffman seldoms does: At Home in the Universe is about the same chemical/biochemical processes, but only about consepts, no data to back the ideas). Eigen's book is concise, even too terse. Some knowledge of (bio)chemistry is absolutely required, as the arguments in the book are not just hand waving but show equations and sequences (for those with more verbal approach to evolution, Claus Emmeche book "The Garden in the Machine" gives a good discussion on the relationship between the real life and the artificial model systems used to study it.)

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Gives medical students 500 questions, answers, and explanations to prepare for the histology and cell biology sections of the USMLE Step 1. The new edition includes many new questions in the two-step clinical format to simulate the USMLE Step 1.

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Good Book - Good prep for Step 1.......2006-03-29

This pre-test book was the only text I studied for cell biology in step one. It helped me out a lot and I did very well on that section of the exam. I recommend this book.

anatomy pretest.......2005-09-24

I wish I had realized that this was the old edition. The book has great information and was in great condition. It came in a timely fashion.

Anatomy, Histology, and Cell Biology: PreTest Self-Assessment and Review (Pretest Series)

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Anatomy, Histology, and Cell Biology: PreTest Self-Assessment and Review (Pretest Series)
Robert Klein , and George C. Enders
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Medical
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Featuring a bold new look both in and out and a BRAND NEW title in Pathophysiology, the totally revamped PreTest Basic Science series offers an unrivaled study regimen for course work or examination preparation. Each title contains 500 multiple-choice questions which parallel the format and degree of difficulty found on licensing exams. Detailed answers are provided along with references to the recent literature and a bibliography. When used in concert with the appropriate PreTest simulated exam, these title provide an authoritative review for USMLE Steps 1, 2 3 as well as FMGEMS exams.

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Great review book for microscopic and gross anatomy.......2003-03-10

This PreTest includes many clinical questions and bridges cell biology, physiology, human anatomy, embryology, and an introduction to pathology. It was very useful during the anatomy courses and helped me to a 244 on USMLE I. I know, there isn't much pure histology on the boards, but this book helped me quickly review the microscopic and gross anatomical structure of the body and prepare for USMLE I. First Aid gave me a list of areas to emphasize, but it has errors and is too lightweight for those students who want to excel and do a first rate residency.

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During his distinguished career spanning more than 50 years, Nobel laureate (Chemistry) Glenn T Seaborg published over 500 works. This volume puts together about 100 of his selected papers. The papers are divided into five categories. Category I consists of papers which detail the discovery of 10 transuranium elements and numerous heavy isotopes of special importance. Category II papers describe the discovery of a number of isotopes which became the workhorses of nuclear medicine or found other applications. Papers in Category III describe how the chemical properties of transuranium elements were originally determined, how chemistry is applied in nuclear sciences, and other chemical investigations, including early work done with the great chemist G N Lewis. Papers in Category IV cover radioactive decay chains and nuclear systematics. Lastly, papers in Category V illustrate how the powerful methods of chemistry are used to explain nuclear reactions in low, intermediate and high energy nuclear physics.

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Despite decades of research and progress in the theory of generalized solutions to first-order nonlinear partial differential equations, a gap between the local and the global theories remains: The Cauchy characteristic method yields the local theory of classical solutions. Historically, the global theory has principally depended on the vanishing viscosity method. The authors of this volume help bridge the gap between the local and global theories by using the characteristic method as a basis for setting a theoretical framework for the study of global generalized solutions. That is, they extend the smooth solutions obtained by the characteristic method. The authors offer material previously unpublished in book form, including treatments of the life span of classical solutions, the construction of singularities of generalized solutions, new existence and uniqueness theorems on minimax solutions, differential inequalities of Haar type and their application to the uniqueness of global, semi-classical solutions, and Hopf-type explicit formulas for global solutions. These subjects yield interesting relations between purely mathematical theory and the applications of first-order nonlinear PDEs. The Characteristic Method and Its Generalizations for First-Order Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations represents a comprehensive exposition of the authors' works over the last decade. The book is self-contained and assumes only basic measure theory, topology, and ordinary differential equations as prerequisites. With its innovative approach, new results, and many applications, it will prove valuable to mathematicians, physicists, and engineers and especially interesting to researchers in nonlinear PDEs, differential inequalities, multivalued analysis, differential games, and related topics in applied analysis.

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Beaumarchais's comedic sequel to The Barber of Seville, chronicling the misadventures of the title character

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Beaumarchais, Le Mariage De Figaro (ST)
J.B. Ratermanis
Manufacturer: Voltaire Foundation
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Beaumarchais, Le Mariage de Figaro.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Manufacturer: Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de. Beaumarchais, Le Mariage de Figaro. Edition critique avec les variantes de la version scenique originale etablie par Gerar Kahn. (SVEC 2002:12) (text in French) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002. Quality paperback, 520pp. As new, clean, tight and bright condition.
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Beaumarchais: Le Mariage de Figaro (French Texts)

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Beaumarchais: Le Mariage de Figaro (French Texts)
Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais
Manufacturer: Duckworth Publishers
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Classiques Bordas : Le Mariage de Figaro

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Release Date: 2003-08-21

Dossier pédagogique Le Mariage de Figaro

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Pendant ma longue proscription, quelques amis zélés avaient imprimé cette pièce, uniquement pour prévenir l'abus d'une contrefaçon infidèle, furtive, et prise à la volée pendant les représentations. Mais ces amis eux-mêmes, pour éviter d'être froissés par les agents de la Terreur, s'ils eussent laissé leurs vrais titres aux personnages espagnols (car alors tout était péril), se crurent obligés de les défigurer, d'altérer même leur langage, et de mutiler plusieurs scènes.

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LE MARIAGE DE FIGARO

Manufacturer: Classiques Larousse
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Le Mariage De Figaro
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Avec une biographie chronologique de Beaumarchais, le texte integral de la piece et de sa preface, les eclaircissements de l-auteur sur les caracteres et les costumes, l'Epitre dedicatoire, les variantes du Monologue, l'analyse methodique de l'oeuvre, des notes, des questions, des sujets de devoirs par Pol Gaillard.

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