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  • What Is It Like to be Alive?
    Chris Arthur
    In What is it Like to be Alive? Fourteen Attempts at an Answer, prize-winning essayist Chris Arthur looks into life’s mirror and offers an account of what can be seen in ordinary things. Each of the book’s fourteen essays is an exercise in seeing beyond the obvious, and finding hidden depth in the places and things we might otherwise take for granted. Arthur ranges over subject...
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    19,66 €

  • Hidden Cargoes
    Chris Arthur
    In this collection, prize-winning Irish essayist Chris Arthur ranges over subjects as various as a girl’s ear, a vulture’s egg, the letters in a Scrabble game, a sprig of witch-hazel, and the chasms of complexity contained in an ordinary moment. Whether he’s writing about owls, leaves, a street in his hometown, the symbiotic interrelationships in the stomach of a termite, a sou...
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    16,85 €

  • Hummingbirds Between the Pages
    Chris Arthur
    In his latest collection, Hummingbirds Between the Pages, prizewinning Irish essayist Chris Arthur muses on subjects ranging from Charles Darwin’s killing of a South American fox to the carnal music sounding in a statue of the Buddha, from how Egyptian seashells contain echoes of World War II to a child’s first encounter with death. Whether he’s looking at skipping stones, old ...
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    21,06 €

  • STRUCTURE AND ACTION OF MOLECULAR CHAPERONES
    ARTHUR L HORWICH / ARTHUR L HORWICH CHRIS LILA M GIERASCH / CHRISTINE SLINGSBY
    This unique volume reviews the beautiful architectures and varying mechanical actions of the set of specialized cellular proteins called molecular chaperones, which provide essential kinetic assistance to processes of protein folding and unfolding in the cell. Ranging from multisubunit ring-shaped chaperonin and Hsp100 machines that use their central cavities to bind and compar...
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    184,25 €

  • Irish Elegies
    Chris Arthur
    In this book, critically acclaimed author Chris Arthur continues his experiments with the mercurial literary genre of the essay, using it in innovative ways to explore aspects of family, place, memory, loss, and meaning. Through these unique prose meditations, readers are led to a dozen unexpected windows on Ireland. ...
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    65,40 €