Oxygen : the molecule that made the world (Record no. 8864)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01699nam a22001457a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780198607830 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lane, Nick |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Oxygen : the molecule that made the world |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Oxford University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2009 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | X, 374 p. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1. Introduction: Elixir of Life - and Death ; 2. In the Beginning there was no Oxygen: The Origins and Importance of Oxygen ; 3. Silence of the Aeons: Three Billion Years of Microbial Evolution ; 4. Fuse to the Cambrian Explosion: Snowball Earth, Environmental Change and the First Animals ; 5. The Bolsover Dragonfly: Oxygen and the Rise of the Giants ; 6. Treachery in the Air: Oxygen Poisoning and X-Irradiation: A Mechanism in Common ; 7. Green Planet: Radiation and the Beginnings of Photosynthesis ; 8. Looking for LUCA: Last Ancestor in the Age Before Oxygen ; 9. Portrait of a Paradox: Vitamin C and the Many Faces of an Antioxidant ; 10. The Antioxidant Machine: A Hundred and One Ways of Living with Oxygen ; 11. Sex and the Art of Bodily Maintenance: Trade-offs in the Evolution of Ageing ; 12. Eat! Or You'll Live Forever: The Triangle of Food, Sex, and Longevity ; 13. Gender Bender! The Rate of Living and the Need for Sexes ; 14. Beyond Genes and Destiny: The Double Agent Theory of Ageing and Disease ; 15. Life, Death and Oxygen: Lessons From Evolution on the Future of Ageing |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Oxygen is the engine of life and evolution. This book explores the impact that oxygen has had on Earth, tracing the history of life from the very beginning. It explains the rise of animals and plants, the origin of two sexes, and the evolution of ageing and death. |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Sauerstoff |
| -- | Oxygen |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | English Non-Fiction Adolescent-Adult | GESM Library | GESM Library | Main Library | 24/03/2015 | ENA/ 572 LAN | E0000473 | 24/03/2015 | 24/03/2015 | Books |