Primordial Soup: The First Batch

Primordial Soup: The First Batch
Author: Christofer Nigro
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781735805429

Will the First Batch be just the Beginning... or the beginning of The End? Sadako Sōzō, the evil heiress of the powerful corporate empire Hidora Neo, inherits a secret buried in the Antarctic ice that will change the world. Four decades later, daikaiju have become a reality, thanks to the corrupt scientists of Hidora Neo using their secrets from the South Pole. Ivan Strand and his government-sanctioned rivals, Bionautics Inc., will rise to the challenge, striving to create their own giant monsters. An epic battle of the genetically modified organisms is imminent!Meanwhile, enigmatic doors opened at the bottom of the world will unleash an ancient evil older than time. Lives will be lost trying to drive it back to whatever Hell it came from.A savior in the form of an otherworldly force will awaken, ready to take them all on to save the Earth from an apocalypse.Rated Ex (Explicit) - Contains graphic violence, strong language, and other intense themes.

Primordial Soup 101

Primordial Soup 101
Author: Andy McDuffie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-06-30
Genre:
ISBN:

The primordial soup is a generic term that describes the aqueous solution of organic compounds that accumulated in primitive water bodies of the early Earth as a result of endogenous abiotic syntheses and the extraterrestrial delivery by cometary and meteoritic collisions, and from which some have assumed that the first living systems evolved. This book searching through time for the history and recipes of primordial soup, cruel gruel, and serving up historical appetizers from cave cuisine to today's tasty temples of temptation. It hits the ground punning with conjectures of cave cooks' sloppy experiments with low-tech cooking, continuing to follow the evolution of crude food to kings' cuisine.

Introduction To Primordial Soup

Introduction To Primordial Soup
Author: Kurtis Puulei
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-06-30
Genre:
ISBN:

The primordial soup is a generic term that describes the aqueous solution of organic compounds that accumulated in primitive water bodies of the early Earth as a result of endogenous abiotic syntheses and the extraterrestrial delivery by cometary and meteoritic collisions, and from which some have assumed that the first living systems evolved. This book searching through time for the history and recipes of primordial soup, cruel gruel, and serving up historical appetizers from cave cuisine to today's tasty temples of temptation. It hits the ground punning with conjectures of cave cooks' sloppy experiments with low-tech cooking, continuing to follow the evolution of crude food to kings' cuisine.

The Origin and Early Evolution of Life: Prebiotic Chemistry of Biomolecules

The Origin and Early Evolution of Life: Prebiotic Chemistry of Biomolecules
Author: Michele Fiore
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3039216066

Studying the origin of life is one of man’s greatest achievements over the last sixty years. The fields of interest encompassed by this quest are multiple and interdisciplinary: chemistry, physics, biology, biochemistry, mathematics, geology but also statistics, atmospheric science, meteorology, oceanography, and astrophysics. Recent scientific discoveries, such as water on Mars and the existence of super-Earths with atmospheres similar to primordial Earth, have pushed researchers to simulate prebiotic conditions in explaining the abiotic formation of molecules essential to life. This collection of articles offers an overview of recent discoveries in the field of prebiotic chemistry of biomolecules, their formation and selection, and the evolution of complex chemical systems.

Kim Jong Un and the Bomb

Kim Jong Un and the Bomb
Author: Ankit Panda
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2020-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190060360

In September 2017, North Korea shocked the world by exploding the most powerful nuclear device tested anywhere in 25 years. Months earlier, it had conducted the first test flight of a missile capable of ranging much of the United States. By the end of that year, Kim Jong Un, the reclusive state's ruler, declared that his nuclear deterrent was complete. Today, North Korea's nuclear weapons stockpile and ballistic missile arsenal continues to grow, presenting one of the most serious challenges to international security to date. Internal regime propaganda has called North Korea's nuclear forces the country's "treasured sword," underscoring the cherished place of these weapons in national strategy. Fiercely committed to self-reliance, Kim remains determined to avoid unilateral disarmament. Kim Jong Un and the Bomb tells the story of how North Korea-once derided in the 1970s as a "fourth-rate pipsqueak" of a country by President Richard Nixon-came to credibly threaten the American homeland by November 2017. Ankit Panda explores the contours of North Korea's nuclear capabilities, the developmental history of its weapons programs, and the prospects for disarming or constraining Kim's arsenal. With no signs that North Korea's total disarmament is imminent over the next years or even decade, Panda explores the consequences of a nuclear-armed North Korea for the United States, South Korea, and the world.

Got a Revolution!

Got a Revolution!
Author: Jeff Tamarkin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2024-05-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439117659

The most successful and influential rock band to emerge from San Francisco during the 1960s, Jefferson Airplane created the sound of a generation. Their smash hits "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" virtually invented the era's signature pulsating psychedelic music and, during one of the most tumultuous times in American history, came to personify the decade's radical counterculture. In this groundbreaking biography of the band, veteran music writer and historian Jeff Tamarkin produces a portrait of the band like none that has come before it. Having worked closely with Jefferson Airplane for more than a decade, Tamarkin had unprecedented access to the band members, their families, friends, lovers, crew members, fellow musicians, cultural luminaries, even the highest-ranking politicians of the time. More than just a definitive history, Got a Revolution! is a rock legend unto itself. Jann Wenner, editor-in-chief and publisher of Rolling Stone, wrote, "The classic [Jefferson] Airplane lineup were both architects and messengers of a psychedelic age, a liberation of mind and body that profoundly changed American art, politics, and spirituality. It was a renaissance that could only have been born in San Francisco, and the Airplane, more than any other band in town, spread the good news nationwide."

Parsing Schemata

Parsing Schemata
Author: Klaas Sikkel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642605419

Parsing, the syntactic analysis of language, has been studied extensively in computer science and computational linguistics. Computer programs and natural languages share an underlying theory of formal languages and require efficient parsing algorithms. This introduction reviews the theory of parsing from a novel perspective. It provides a formalism to capture the essential traits of a parser that abstracts from the fine detail and allows a uniform description and comparison of a variety of parsers, including Earley, Tomita, LR, Left-Corner, and Head-Corner parsers. The emphasis is on context-free phrase structure grammar and how these parsers can be extended to unification formalisms. The book combines mathematical rigor with high readability and is suitable as a graduate course text.

Astrochemistry

Astrochemistry
Author: Andrew M. Shaw
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2021-11-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1119114748

A fully revised new edition of an introductory text to the dynamic and fascinating subject of astrochemistry Since the first edition in 2006 of Astrochemistry, the Mars rovers have driven 31.18 miles, there has been fly-by of Pluto changing it from a 4-pixel world on the Hubble Space Telescope into a mysterious non-planet. There have been visits to asteroids, revisiting Mercury, discovery of the Higgs Boson, discovery of over 2000 extrasolar planets and landing on the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by Rosetta mission – hence the timely publication of this new edition. This core textbook now includes more detailed information on the kinetic modelling of chemistry in the interstellar medium, extending the same principles of physical chemistry to meteor ablation and finally atmospheres and oceans. The increase in density from near-emptiness to 1.35 x 1021 L of water in the world's oceans is used to take single collision kinetics into ensemble thermodynamics. A new introduction of thermodynamic using meteor ablation replaces traditional bomb calorimetry and per-biotic chemistry leads to spontaneous reactions. New to the second edition: An extended discussion on matter, dark or otherwise, interstellar and stellar chemistry and the origin of pre-biotic molecules Detailed chemical kinetic models for mechanisms of chemistry in the interstellar medium Origins of life in solution, enzyme kinetics and catalysis A review of Mars and Titan as habitats for life Fully referenced throughout to reflect the research frontier An introduction to the idea of analytical mathematical engines that can do all of the heavy mathematics and fostering the skill of setting up a model and testing it 200 problems with detailed solutions Written for undergraduate and postgraduate students in astrochemistry or more generally physical chemistry, the new edition of Astrochemistry is an important introductory text to the topic, the latest developments in the field and the ubiquity of physical chemistry.

Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology

Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology
Author: Eric Dunning
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1780933398

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book explores the interplay between the making of Elias as a sociologist and the development of his core ideas relating to figurations, interdependence, and civilising processes. Focusing on the relevance of Elias's work for current debates within sociology, the authors centrally consider his contributions to the sociology of knowledge and methodology. Dunning and Hughes locate the work of Elias within a discussion of the crisis of sociology as a subject, and compare his figurational approach with the approaches of three major figures in modern sociology: Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. This highly readable and engaging book will be essential reading for students and scholars of sociological theory and methods.