![]() ![]() He was a founding member of the UCL Consortium for Mitochondrial Research, and is Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Life’s Origin and Evolution. He is currently a professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London. It connects the origin of life with the devastation of cancer, the first photosynthetic bacteria with our own mitochondria, sulphurous sludges with the emergence of consciousness, and the trivial differences between ourselves with the large-scale history of our planet. Nick Lane received his PhD from the Royal Free Hospital Medical School. ![]() To understand this cycle is to fathom the deep coherence of the living world. At its core is an amazing cycle of reactions that uses energy to transform inorganic molecules into the building blocks of life - and the reverse. A better question goes back to the formative years of biology: what processes animate cells and set them apart from lifeless matter? In Transformer, Nick Lane turns the standard view upside down, capturing an extraordinary scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight. Yet there is no difference in information content between a living cell and one that died a moment ago. 'One of my favourite science writers' Bill Gates 'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili For decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. ![]()
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![]() So here it is : The King of Attolia is without any doubt one of the best book I’ve ever read, View Spoiler » not to brag, but I’ve read thousands – alright I am bragging, you got me « Hide Spoiler and Eugenides – that brilliant, clever, endearing, funny, perfect snake – is currently looking down at us, perched at the top of the podium of my favorite characters. Hurry, hurry, and listen carefully now, because god helps me, View Spoiler » (I’m giggling just using that locution, because God and me, well) « Hide Spoiler I’m feeling so elated that I’m not sure I might not burst into flames shortly. After getting caught in the palace of Attolia, Eugenides loses his right hand, and, seemingly, his ability to thieve. ![]() Soon the corrupt Attolian court will learn that its subtle and dangerous intrigue is no match for Eugenides. THE QUEEN OF ATTOLIA, by Megan Whalen Turner, continues the story of Eugenides, thief of the Queen of Eddis, this time using a third person narrative, and a much darker plot. Though struggling against his fate, the newly crowned king is much more than he appears. Poor Costis knows he is the victim of the king's caprice, but his contempt for Eugenides slowly turns to grudging respect. ![]() The King of Attolia ( The Queen's Thief #3)Įugenides drags a naive young guard into the center of the political maelstrom. ![]() ![]() ![]() After single or multiple doses, nacubactam pharmacokinetics appeared linear, and exposure increased in an approximately dose-proportional manner across the dose range investigated. No serious AEs, dose-limiting AEs, or deaths were reported. No clinically relevant dose-related trends were observed in laboratory safety test results. There was no apparent relationship between drug dose and the pattern, incidence, or severity of AEs. Nacubactam was generally well tolerated, with the most frequently reported adverse events (AEs) being mild to moderate complications associated with intravenous access and headache. Healthy participants received single ascending doses of nacubactam of 50 to 8,000 mg, multiple ascending doses of nacubactam of 1,000 to 4,000 mg every 8 h (q8h) for up to 7 days, or nacubactam of 2,000 mg plus meropenem of 2,000 mg q8h for 6 days after a 3-day lead-in period. Nacubactam is a novel β-lactamase inhibitor with dual mechanisms of action as an inhibitor of serine β-lactamases (classes A and C and some class D) and an inhibitor of penicillin binding protein 2 in Enterobacteriaceae The safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of intravenous nacubactam were evaluated in single- and multiple-ascending-dose, placebo-controlled studies. ![]() ![]() In the 1970s and 80s I could make mistakes and hopefully learn from them. ![]() With a huge list of suspects, Max must pursue the truth and allow justice to prevail.īeing a mother of five, Brennan realized “I did not grow up with social media. Max sees immediately he is a gentle giant who loved his sister in spite of her cruelty that caused a peer to commit suicide. A mentally challenged eighteen year old, stepbrother to Ivy, is suspected by her mother of being the murderer. The plot has a cyber bully, Ivy, falling off a cliff was she pushed or was it accidental? Maxine Revere, an investigative reporter that works on cold cases, is asked to find the truth about the fall. This intense plot also focuses on psychological issues involving a mentally challenged character and how family dynamics play into divorce. ![]() The author makes a good point about how social media makes it easier for someone to say mean things without any repercussions. The novel delves into very relevant issues from cyber bullying to social media’s role within people’s lives. ![]() Poisonous by Allison Brennan is a very powerful story. You can read all of our book reviews and author interviews by clicking on the Books category link in the right side bar. The following book review is a special for BlackFive readers provided by Elise Cooper. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I not only admired him, I wanted to be Joe Stockdale. My theater professor Joe Stockdale was a major influence on me. “I’ve debated that decision many times over the ensuing years, but all in all it seems that writing was what I was meant to do.” “When a book I wrote in the ’60s, Coffee, Tea or Me?, sat on The New York Times bestseller list for months and spurred a bidding war for motion picture rights, I figured my decision to become a writer was a good one,” he recalls. That’s excellent training for a writer, notes Bain. He also worked in public relations for a while, which he credits with teaching him to think about what the public wants and how to deliver it. That’s a full career for anyone, so you might not realize how many other characters he’s been: officer-in-charge of Armed Forces Radio in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, television personality, radio series writer and producer, nightclub owner, jazz quintet leader, and co-founder, with his wife Renée Paley-Bain, of Hyphenates, a company providing communication and publishing services. ![]() If you check out Donald Bain’s homepage, you’ll find that he’s the author and ghostwriter of more than 115 books, including more than 40 as fictional alter-ego Jessica Fletcher, from Murder, She Wrote. ![]() ![]() He didn't change his name to "Henry David" until he had graduated from Harvard, although he never petitioned the government to do so officially. He was named after a recently deceased paternal Uncle, David Thoreau. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.ĭavid Henry Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, to John and Cynthia Thoreau. He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. ![]() Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817- born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is famous for Civil Disobedience, on resistance to civil government and among 22 other books that Thoreau published. ![]() ![]() Together they'll battle demons, travel through a glittering and dangerous serpent realm, and discover that their enemy isn't at all who they expected.Includes a bonus PDF of the book's glossary. Along with her soul-sister, Mini, Aru will team up with Brynne, an ultra-strong girl who knows more than she lets on, and Aiden, the boy who lives across the street and is also hiding plenty of secrets. ![]() But, for better or worse, she won't be going it alone. Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes (A Pandava Novel Book 3) audiobook, by Roshani Chokshi. ![]() If she doesn't find the arrow by the next full moon, she'll be kicked out of the Otherworld. If that weren't bad enough, somehow Aru gets framed as the thief. Instead, they're turning people into heartless fighting-machine zombies. ![]() The god of love's bow and arrow have gone missing, and the thief isn't playing Cupid. Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling author Roshani Chokshi and her sequel to Aru Shah and the End of Time.Aru is only just getting the hang of this whole Pandava thing when the Otherworld goes into full panic mode. ![]() ![]() ![]() With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors-lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes-and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.Shadows on the Grass:Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. ![]() ![]() Out of Africa:In this audiobook, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I assure you my friends, this book is about as far away as you can get from those genres and I loved every second of it. This book is intense, shocking, gripping and it will bother you are your very core. I normally read the sweeter, softer romance novels with the occasional YA book thrown in for good measure. When I read the first chapter of this book I was utterly dumbfounded. From the story’s reckless opening to it’s unforgettable conclusion, And Then Run’s net of desire, psychosis, and philosophy keeps readers unwillingly identifying with Jerome’s psycopathic tendencies, and wondering about the boundaries of their own personal realities. And yet, he seems to be fighting a losing battle with reality. Jerome has everything – looks, money, women, friends. Eric Hublot’s sociopathically pornographic, bizarrely philosophical debut novel follows the life of anti-hero Jerome Esterson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Much of the research of The Anarchy is built on pre-existing studies of the East India Company and eighteenth-century India, although it is accompanied by an important assortment of manuscripts and Mughal chronicles from Indian and British archives. In his latest work The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, William Dalrymple charts the disintegration of India into a state of civil strife and atomisation, providing a valuable window of entry through which the British sealed their rule over the subcontinent. ![]() The rapid collapse of the mighty and opulent Mughal Empire in the early eighteenth century stands as almost an enigma of history, but perhaps what was even more improbable was its complete replacement not by a rival state, but by a European trading company a century later. The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. ![]() Tracking the Company’s ruthless profiteering and territorial conquests, The Anarchy is not only a fine addition to Dalrymple’s studies of the emergence of British rule in India, but also prompts reflection on the dangers of corporate excess in our present, writes Thomas Gidney. In The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, William Dalrymple gives a new character-driven account of the ascent to power of the East India Company following the collapse of the Mughal Empire and the resulting ‘anarchy’ that followed. ![]() |