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Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World (Popular Science) | 
 enlarge | Author: Nick Lane
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 46622
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 0198607830
Dewey Decimal Number: 550
EAN: 9780198607830
ASIN: 0198607830
Publication Date: September 25, 2003
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 A must have for the inquiring mind. June 8, 2008
J. Carr (Bicester UK)
This is an extraordinary book. The breadth of coverage- from the Last Universal Common Ancestor to sex and death, via geology and biochemistry, means this is not for the faint-hearted.
If you want a book that will actually change the way you view the world then this is the one for you. An absolutely astonishing achievement.
Engaging and satisfying January 11, 2008
J. Codd (Sussex England)
The truly fascinating story of how oxygen shaped our world and ourselves. Without oxygen and the life it made possible, the Earth today would look like Mars; we need oxygen to survive, yet it causes our bodies to deteriorate and eventually succumb to disease. If nothing else kills you, just breathing will!
Writing objectively and entertainingly about science is a challenge that Nick Lane pulls off brilliantly in this book. Lay readers like me should be grateful that the author has resisted the temptation to over-simplify, for mass market consumption, such a richly complex subject area as this. Consequently one does need to concentrate in order to follow the plot, but Lane's way of connecting scientific ideas through their evolutionary history provides a sure thread - a thread strung with many pearls. Time after time, through painstaking research and brilliant insights, scientific notions arrive and have their day, only to be demolished by new evidence and replaced by a new paradigm. The chapters unfold like detective stories, with sub-plots, twists and turns in mankind's long struggle to understand. By the end one feels as well informed as anyone else on the planet and ready to explore the side-avenues of knowledge lying wait in the many literature sources cited.
So well written it was a pleasure to read. January 5, 2008
I. M. Mcdonald (Neath, South Wales)
I found myself really enjoying this book right from the start. It reignited my fascination with chemistry and biology which had lain dormant for many years. Thoroughly recommended.
 Tough Going August 3, 2006
brother-juniper
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book sets out the complex relationship between oxygen and life. In particular Lane discusses how organisms have adapted to using oxygen for respiration despite the inevitable production of damaging free radicals. These leads on to the role of anti-oxidants and ageing.
The concepts are introduced thick and fast. By the end you will be an expert on the differences between the Dispoable Soma and Antagonistic Pleitropy theories of ageing! However, the use of diagrams and illustrations is sparing and a general reader will find several chapters a struggle. Some sections read like a biochemistry text book and it is also unclear when he deviates from mainstream thinking into more controversial theories.
A readable account, but this belies the level of difficulty of some of the concepts and pushes it somewhat beyond the popular science genre.
Unforgettable June 15, 2006
Jose Miguel (Portugal)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recommend this book, top stuff as his latest book "Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life" a must read for all biologists,Biochemists,etc
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