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A Shooting Star

By: William Buckel

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No good deed ever goes unpunished is the theme for this edition. Colby drives his jeep south to compete in the Baja 500 desert classic. While there he saves the life of Selena, an illegal immigrant. In doing so he alienates an American Industrialist who sends assassins to kill them both. They are chased from Mexico along the Pacific coast. It is all dumped in the hands of Private Investigator, Jackie Star, a female Rambo and vigilante. She finds murder and corruption all the way to the Senate. How far will she go to save her clients?

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1105708241

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9781105708244

Final Closure

By: William Buckel

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Final Closure

By: William Buckel

Jackie Star returns in this her fifth adventure. At eighteen years of age she was a security guard at a resort in Bedrock, Washington, near the Snake River. A lone shooter walks into a local restaurant and kills six people. Jackie pursues the gunman to the building roof and during a scuffle throws the man over the edge. He falls ten floors to his death taking with him the reason for the massacre. Fourteen years later Jackie receives a letter which drives her north to finally solve the mystery.

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1300398434

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9781300398431

The Geochemical Origin of Microbes

By: William F. Martin,Karl Kleinermanns

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The Geochemical Origin of Microbes

By: William F. Martin,Karl Kleinermanns

This is a textbook covering the transition from energy releasing reactions on the early Earth to energy releasing reactions that fueled growth in the first microbial cells. It is for teachers and college students with an interest in microbiology, geosciences, biochemistry, evolution, or all of the above. The scope of the book is a quantum departure from existing “origin of life” books in that it starts with basic chemistry and links energy-releasing geochemical processes to the reactions of microbial metabolism. The text reaches across disciplines, providing students of the geosciences an origins/biology interface and bringing a geochemistry/origins interface to students of microbiology and evolution. Beginning with physical chemistry and transitioning across metabolic networks into microbiology, the timeline documents chemical events and organizational states in hydrothermal vents – the only environments known that bridge the gap between spontaneous chemical reactions that we can still observe in nature today and the physiology of microbes that live from H2, CO2, ammonia, phosphorus, inorganic salts and water. Life is a chemical reaction. What it is and how it arose are two sides of the same coin. Key Features Provides clear connections between geochemical reactions and microbial metabolism Focuses on chemical mechanisms and transition metals Richly illustrated with color figures explaining reactions and processes Covers the origin of the Earth, the origin of metabolism, the origin of protein synthesis and genetic information as well as the escape into the wild of the first free-living cells: Bacteria and Archaea

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249

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CRC Press

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1003859526

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9781003859529

Governmentality

Critical Encounters

By: William Walters

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Governmentality

Critical Encounters

By: William Walters

First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago, "governmentality" has become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences today. What is "governmentality"? How does this perspective challenge the way we understand political power and its contestation? This new introduction offers advanced undergraduate and graduate students both a highly accessible guide and an original contribution to debates about power and governmentality. The book aims to serve four main functions: To situate governmentality as an intellectual development within Foucault’s thinking about the microphysics of power and his genealogical methods; To reveal how research in governmentality has changed as the idea encounters new academic fields, political contexts and regional settings; To examine one of the more recent encounters between governmentality and the social sciences - its interaction with international relations and global politics; To offer researchers some methodological suggestions for undertaking studies in governmentality, stressing that its critical edge becomes blunted if it is detached from historical/genealogical modes of inquiry. This book offers a set of conceptual and methodological observations intended to keep research in governmentality a living, critical thought project. Above all, it argues that the challenge of understanding the world calls for the addition of new thinking equipment to the governmentality toolbox. Governmentality: Critical Encounters will prove useful for students of social and political theory, international relations, political sociology, anthropology and geography.

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Routledge

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1136301534

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9781136301537

Mitochondria and Anaerobic Energy Metabolism in Eukaryotes

Biochemistry and Evolution

By: William F. Martin,Aloysius G. M. Tielens,Marek Mentel

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Mitochondria and Anaerobic Energy Metabolism in Eukaryotes

Biochemistry and Evolution

By: William F. Martin,Aloysius G. M. Tielens,Marek Mentel

Mitochondria are sometimes called the powerhouses of eukaryotic cells, because mitochondria are the site of ATP synthesis in the cell. ATP is the universal energy currency, it provides the power that runs all other life processes. Humans need oxygen to survive because of ATP synthesis in mitochondria. The sugars from our diet are converted to carbon dioxide in mitochondria in a process that requires oxygen. Just like a fire needs oxygen to burn, our mitochondria need oxygen to make ATP. From textbooks and popular literature one can easily get the impression that all mitochondria require oxygen. But that is not the case. There are many groups of organismsm known that make ATP in mitochondria without the help of oxygen. They have preserved biochemical relicts from the early evolution of eukaryotic cells, which took place during times in Earth history when there was hardly any oxygen avaiable, certainly not enough to breathe. How the anaerobic forms of mitochondria work, in which organisms they occur, and how the eukaryotic anaerobes that possess them fit into the larger picture of rising atmospheric oxygen during Earth history are the topic of this book.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110612410

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9783110612417

Images of Language

Six essays on German attitudes to European languages from 1500 to 1800

By: William Jervis Jones

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Images of Language

Six essays on German attitudes to European languages from 1500 to 1800

By: William Jervis Jones

This volume consists of six essays on interrelated themes, focusing on key aspects of language reflection during the period 1500-1800, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century. German speakers are seen attempting to discover and define the nature of adjacent languages, whilst also shaping and demarcating the identity and image of their native tongue. The first essay outlines and illustrates what European linguists believed, in an age before the advent of comparative philology, about the historical-genetic position of German within the circle of Classical and modern European languages. Three further essays explore the surprisingly rich diversity of approach and method in earlier foreign-word purism, the puristic use of lexis and metaphor (with special reference to gender-specific imagery), and prominent reaction to the intrusive foreign word in German military usage. The last two essays span a wide range of attitudes and reaction to the French language among German speakers, and early German perceptions of that marginal (and in the popular view excessively contaminated) language, English. The work makes frequent reference to contemporary views of other languages, including Hebrew, Greek Latin, Italian and Spanish. Documented with much new material from about 300 original sources, these essays bring to light the ideas aired by many hitherto neglected personalities, whilst also deepening our understanding of better-known figures and their work.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027283834

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9789027283832

The Complete Stories of William Cullen Bryant

By: William Cullen Bryant

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The Complete Stories of William Cullen Bryant

By: William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant wrote short stories? Indeed he did, and this volume collects and evaluates them for the first time. During the seven years before the 1832 British publication of Poems firmly established his reputation as a poet in the U.S., Bryan becameÊa key figureÊin New York City's circle of fiction writers. His tales compare favorably with those of his contemporary Washington Irving, and his varied experiments in a new genre anticipate future developments by half a century and more. Gado's previous book presented Bryant as a major exponent of American literary nationalism and the prime antecedent of Whitman and Frost; here, he retrieves a body of short fiction from the fringe of oblivion andÊboth shines a light onÊthe neglected decade preceding Poe and Hawthorne andÊexaminesÊ Bryant's tales as part of that history. Ê "Frank Gado's first-rate selection of William Cullen Bryant's poetry and prose and his persuasive essays on Bryant's contribution to American prosody and culture restoreÊ[him] to his rightful place in American literary history as the philosophical poet too long overlooked. An essential volume." ÑBrenda Wineapple,ÊWhite Heat and Ecstatic NationÊ

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Antoca Press

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1611685699

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9781611685695

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A Shooting Star

A Shooting Star

Final Closure

Final Closure

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The Geochemical Origin of Microbes

Governmentality

Governmentality

Mitochondria and Anaerobic Energy Metabolism in Eukaryotes

Mitochondria and Anaerobic Energy Metabolism in Eukaryotes

Images of Language

Images of Language

The Complete Stories of William Cullen Bryant

The Complete Stories of William Cullen Bryant

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