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  • Using Mass Spectrometry for Biochemical Studies on Enzymatic Domains from Polyketide Synthases

    by Matthew Jenner ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This thesis reports studies on the substrate specificity of crucial ketosynthase (KS) domains from trans-AT Polyketide Synthases (PKSs). Using a combination of electrospray ionisation-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) and simple N-acetyl cysteamine (SNAC) substrate mimics, the specificity of a range of KS domains from the bacillaene and psymberin PKSs have been succsessfully studied with regard to the ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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    A Million Years in a Day

    A Curious History of Everyday Life From the Stone Age to the Phone Age

    by Greg Jenner ...
    Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 25 min

    Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals that are millennia old.Structured around one ordinary day, A Million Years in a Day reveals the ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD

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    Unequal Gains

    American Growth and Inequality Since 1700

    by Peter H. Lindert, Jeffrey G. Williamson ...
    Narrated by Brian O'Neill ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 35 min

    Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson focus instead on income-and the result is a bold reassessment of the American economic experience. ... Read more

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    The Gods of Olympus

    A History

    by Barbara Graziosi ...
    Narrated by Anne Flosnik ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 43 min

    The gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly. Yet for all their foibles and flaws, they proved to be tough survivors, far outlasting classical Greece itself. In Egypt, the Olympian gods claimed to have given birth to pharaohs; in Rome, they led respectable citizens into orgiastic ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD

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    Ethics 101

    From Altruism and Utilitarianism to Bioethics and Political Ethics, an Exploration of the Concepts of Right and Wrong

    by Brian Boone ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...
    Series series Adams 101 Series

    Unabridged

    7 hours

    Explore the mysteries of morality and the concept of right and wrong with this accessible, engaging guide featuring basic facts along with an overview of modern-day issues ranging from business ethics and bioethics to political and social ethics.Ethics 101 offers an exciting look into the history of moral principles that dictate human behavior. Unlike traditional textbooks that overwhelm, this ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    Lusitania

    Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age

    by Greg King, Penny Wilson ...
    Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 48 min

    Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the twentieth century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old. Yet an encounter with a primitive German U-Boat sent her and her gilded passengers to their tragic deaths.A hundred years after her sinking, Lusitania remains an ... Read more

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    The Delusions Of Crowds

    Why People Go Mad in Groups

    by William J. Bernstein ...
    Narrated by Tom Parks ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 19 min

    Inspired by Charles Mackay's 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that explains the biological, evolutionary, and psychosocial roots of human irrationality. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial mania ... Read more

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    Invention and Innovation

    A Brief History of Hype and Failure

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Narrated by Tim Fannon ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 56 min

    The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of invention.Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises of new inventions ... Read more

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    Heretic Queen

    Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion

    by Susan Ronald ...
    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 35 min

    Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald delivers a stunning account of Elizabeth I that focuses on her role in the Wars of Religion—the battle between Protestantism and Catholicism that tore Europe apart in the sixteenth century.Elizabeth's 1558 coronation procession was met with an extravagant outpouring of love. Only twenty-five years old, the young queen saw herself as the nation's Protestant savior, ... Read more

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    Methuselah's Zoo

    What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives

    by Steven N. Austad ...
    Narrated by Tristan Morris ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    Opossums in the wild don't make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years. Whales, however, can live for two centuries and tubeworms for several millennia. Meanwhile, human life expectancy tops out around the mid-eighties, with some outliers living past 100 or even 110. Is there anything humans can learn from the exceptional longevity ... Read more

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    Fallen Glory

    The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings

    by James Crawford ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 30 min

    AN INVITING, FASCINATING COMPENDIUM OF TWENTY-ONE OF HISTORY’S MOST FAMOUS LOST PLACES, FROM THE TOWER OF BABEL TO THE TWIN TOWERSBuildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents—gods, kings and emperors, governments, visionaries and madmen—as well as friends and enemies. They have ... Read more

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    Miracles on the Water

    The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack

    by Tom Nagorski ...
    Narrated by Graeme Malcolm ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 33 min

    An unforgettable story of children in wartime, of heroism at sea, and--above all--of courage and the power of the human spirit.On September 17, 1940, at a little after ten at night, a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner S.S. City of Benares in the North Atlantic. There were 406 people on board, but the ship's prized passengers were 90 children whose parents had elected to send their ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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