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  • Vital Question

    Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

    by Nick Lane ...
    “One of the deepest, most illuminating books about the history of life to have been published in recent years.” —The EconomistThe Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there’s a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Transformer

    The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

    by Nick Lane ...
    **From the renowned biochemist and author of The Vital Question, an illuminating inquiry into the Krebs cycle and the origins of life.“Nick Lane’s exploration of the building blocks that underlie life’s big fundamental questions—the origin of life itself, aging, and disease—have shaped my thinking since I first came across his work. He is one of my favorite science writers.”—Bill Gates**What ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Power, Sex, Suicide

    Mitochondria and the meaning of life

    by Nick Lane ...
    Series series Oxford Landmark Science
    Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that. Mitochondria have their own DNA, with their own small collection of genes, separate from those in the cell ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

    The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

    by Nick Lane ...
    “Original and awe-inspiring . . . an exhilarating tour of some of the most profound and important ideas in biology.”—New ScientistWhere does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution’s history by describing its ten greatest inventions—from sex and warmth to death—resulting in a ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Oxygen: The molecule that made the world

    The molecule that made the world

    by Nick Lane ...
    Series series Popular Science
    Oxygen has had extraordinary effects on life. Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with wingspans of nearly a metre. Researchers claim they could have flown only if the air had contained more oxygen than today - probably as much as 35 per cent. Giant spiders, tree-ferns, marine rock formations and fossil charcoals all tell the same story. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Oxygen

    The molecule that made the world

    by Nick Lane ...
    Series series Popular Science
    Oxygen has had extraordinary effects on life. Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with wingspans of nearly a metre. Researchers claim they could have flown only if the air had contained more oxygen than today - probably as much as 35 per cent. Giant spiders, tree-ferns, marine rock formations and fossil charcoals all tell the same story. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Transformer

    The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

    by Nick Lane ...
    Narrated by Richard Trinder ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 55 min

    For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from generation to generation, right back to the origin of life. In Transformer, biochemist Nick Lane reveals a scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight—how the same ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Power, Sex, Suicide

    Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

    by Nick Lane ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that.Mitochondria have their own DNA, with their own small collection of genes, separate from those in the cell ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Oxygen

    The molecule that made the world

    by Nick Lane ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 35 min

    Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with wingspans of nearly a meter. Researchers claim they could have flown only if the air had contained more oxygen than today—probably as much as thirty-five percent. Giant spiders, tree-ferns, marine rock formations, and fossil charcoals all tell the same story. High oxygen levels may also explain the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Hunt for Moriarty

    by Nick Lane ...
    "When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities"London, 1901. As the British Empire wages war in the name of a Queen whose health is failing, a series of mysterious events reveals a crack in the high corridors of power. A crack that threatens to destabilise monarchy, government and Empire. And at its ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sherlock Holmes - The Valley of Fear - Stage Adaptation

    by Nick Lane ...
    "It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn"Crammed full of adventure, mystery and of course one or two rather brilliant deductions, The Valley Of Fear is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's thrilling final Sherlock Holmes novel, brought to life in this spectacular new stage adaptation.A mysterious, coded message is received, a warning ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Deep of the Sound, The

    by Amy Lane ...
    Narrated by Nick J. Russo ...
    Series series Bluewater Bay

    Unabridged

    8 hours 13 min

    Cal McCorkle has lived in Bluewater Bay his whole life. He works two jobs to support a brother with a laundry list of psychiatric diagnoses and a great-uncle with Alzheimer’s, and his personal life amounts to impersonal hookups with his boss. He’s got no time, no ambition, and no hope. All he has is family, and they’re killing him one responsibility at a time.Avery Kennedy left Los Angeles, his ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus