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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780864603321

Autore

Loving Jerome <1941->

Titolo

Mark Twain [[electronic resource] ] : the adventures of Samuel L. Clemens / / Jerome Loving

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-55621-5

9786612556210

0-520-94549-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (549 p.)

Disciplina

818/.409

B

Soggetti

Authors, American - 19th century

Humorists, American - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of the Life and Works of Mark Twain -- Prologue -- Part I. Humorist in the West -- Part II. Writer in the East -- Part III. The Artist and the Businessman -- Part IV. The Mysterious Stranger -- Appendix A. Clemens Genealogy -- Appendix B. Books Published by Charles L. Webster & Company -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer's death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In brisk and compelling fashion, Loving follows Twain from Hannibal to Hawaii to the Holy Land, showing how the southerner transformed himself into a westerner and finally a New Englander. This re-examination of Twain's life is informed by newly discovered archival materials that provide the most complex view of the man and writer to date.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557434803321

Autore

Quesada Víctor

Titolo

Organelle Genetics in Plants

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Soggetti

Research & information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Chloroplasts in photosynthetic organisms and mitochondria in a vast majority of eukaryotes, contain part of the genetic material of a eukaryotic cell. The organisation and inheritance patterns of this organellar DNA are quite different to that of nuclear DNA. Present-day chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes contain only a few dozen genes. Nevertheless, these organelles harbor several thousand proteins, the vast majority of them encoded by the nucleus. As a result, the expression of nuclear and organelle genomes has to be very precisely coordinated. The selection of experimental and review papers of this book covers a wide range of topics related to chloroplasts and plant mitochondria research, illustrating recent advances and diverse insights into the field of organelle genetics in plants. These works represent some of the latest research on the genetics, genomics, and biotechnology of plant mitochondria and chloroplasts, and they are of significant broad interest for the community of plant scientists, especially for those working in the subjects related to organelle genetics