Rainbow And The Worm The The Physics Of Organisms 3rd Edition

Author : Mae-Wan Ho
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810234270
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rainbow and the Worm written by Mae-Wan Ho and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly unusual book is a serious inquiry into Schrodinger's question, "What is life?", and at the same time a celebration of life itself. It takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through many areas of contemporary physics, from non-equilibrium thermodynamics and quantum optics to liquid crystals and fractals, all necessary for illuminating the problem of life. In the process, the reader is treated to a rare and exquisite view of the organism, gaining novel insights, not only into the physics but also into "the poetry and meaning of being alive". This book is intended for all who love the subject.

Author : Mae-Wan Ho
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9814338419
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rainbow and the Worm written by Mae-Wan Ho and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly unusual book began as a serious inquiry into Schrödinger's question, “What is life?”, and as a celebration of life itself. It takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through many areas of contemporary physics, from non-equilibrium thermodynamics and quantum optics to liquid crystals and fractals, all necessary for illuminating the problem of life. In the process, the reader is treated to a rare and exquisite view of the organism, gaining novel insights not only into the physics, but also into “the poetry and meaning of being alive.” This much-enlarged third edition includes new findings on the central role of biological water in organizing living processes; it also completes the author's novel theory of the organism and its applications in ecology, physiology and brain science.

Author : Mae-wan Ho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789812839688
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rainbow And The Worm written by Mae-wan Ho and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mae-Wan Ho
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814390895
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Rainbow H2O written by Mae-Wan Ho and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique synthesis of the latest findings in the quantum physics and chemistry of water that will tell you why it is so remarkably fit for life. It offers a novel panoramic perspective of cell biology based on water as "means, medium, and message" of life. This book is a sequel to The Rainbow and The Worm, The Physics of Organisms, which has remained in a class of its own for nearly 20 years since the publication of the first edition. Living Rainbow H2O continues the fascinating journey in the author's quest for the meaning of life, in science and beyond. Like The Rainbow and The Worm, the present book will appeal to readers in the arts and humanities as well as scientists; not least because the author herself is an occasional artist and poet. Great care has been taken to explain terms and concepts for the benefit of the general reader. At the same time, sufficient scientific details are provided in text boxes for the advanced reader and researcher without interrupting the main story.

Author : Mae-Wan Ho
Publisher : Gateway Books (GB)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetic Engineering, Dream Or Nightmare? written by Mae-Wan Ho and published by Gateway Books (GB). This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume claims that genetic engineering is inadequately researched technology that is out of control. It aims to show how genetic determinism is at odds with the reality of scientific findings.

Author : Robyn C. Friend
Publisher : Cascade Pass, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781880599815
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Clean Sky written by Robyn C. Friend and published by Cascade Pass, Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Decheng Yang
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981283379X
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RNA Viruses written by Decheng Yang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive book on human/animal gene responses to RNA viral infections, including prevalent, emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses such as HIV, SARS-CoV, West Nile virus, influenza virus and many others. Human gene responses are reviewed by leading virologists worldwide in the following aspects: (i) the altered gene expression profiles at the transcriptional and translational levels detected with cutting-edge technologies such as cDNA microarray and proteomics; (ii) host innate and adapted immune responses to viral replication in target organs; (iii) virus-activated signal transduction pathways in cell survival, apoptosis and autophagosomal pathways; and (iv) the small interfering RNA/microRNA-mediated gene silencing pathway, a recently characterized new host defense mechanism against viral infection. Organized into 29 highly accessible and well-illustrated chapters, this volume explores state-of-the-art knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of RNA virus infection and host?virus interactions. This comprehensive compilation of the altered gene expression profiles and signal transduction pathways in host cells in response to the majority of human/animal RNA viruses opens new directions for basic and clinical research on viral pathogenesis, and also provides valuable biomarkers for researchers to select gene targets in the development of diagnostic tests and antiviral therapeutics for a number of infectious diseases.

Author : Gerald H. Pollack
Publisher : Ebner and Sons Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life written by Gerald H. Pollack and published by Ebner and Sons Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the current wisdom of how cells work. It emphasizes the role of cell water and the gel-like nature of the cell, building on these features to explore the mechanisms of communication, transport, contraction, division, and other essential cell functions. Written for the non-expert, the book is profound enough for biologists, chemists, physicists and engineers.--From publisher description.

Author : Marcus Pfister
Publisher : NorthSouth (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780735811102
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rainbow Fish Birthday Book written by Marcus Pfister and published by NorthSouth (NY). This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Syed Nomanul Haq
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401118981
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Names, Natures and Things written by Syed Nomanul Haq and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jabir ibn Hayyan, for a long time the reigning alchemical authority both in Islam and the Latin West, has exercised numerous generations of scholars. To be sure, it is not only the vexed question of the historical authorship and dating of the grand corpus Jabirianum which poses a serious scholarly challenge; equally challenging is the task of unraveling all those obscure and tantalizing discourses which it contains. This book, which marks the first full-scale study of Jabir ever to be published in the English language, takes up both challenges. The author begins by critically reexamining the historical foundations of the prevalent view that the Jabirian corpus is the work not of an 8th-century individual, but that of several generations of Shi'i authors belonging to the following century and later. Tentatively concluding that this view is problematic, the author, therefore, infers that its methodological implications are also problematic. Thus, developing its own methodological matrix, the book takes up the second challenge, namely that of a substantive analysis and explication of a Jabirian discourse, the Book of Stones. Here explicating Jabir's notions of substance and qualities, analyzing his ontological theory of language and unraveling the metaphysics of his Science of Balance, the author reconstructs the doctrinal context of the Stones and expounds its central theme. He then presents an authoritative critical edition of a substantial selection of the text of the Stones, based on all available manuscripts. This critical edition has been translated in its entirety and is provided with exhaustive commentaries and textual notes -- another pioneering feature of this book: for this is the first English translation of a Jabirian text to emerge in print after a whole century. An outstanding contribution is that it announces and presents an exciting textual discovery: the author has found in the Stones a hitherto unknown Arabic translation of part of Aristotle's Categories. Given that we have so far known of only one other, and possibly later, classical Arabic translation of the Greek text, Haq's discovery gives this book an historical importance.