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UNINA9910452377703321 |
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Alan Ball : conversations / / edited by Thomas Fahy |
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Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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1-62103-973-0 |
1-61703-877-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (156 pages) |
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Collana |
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Television conversations series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Television writers - United States |
Screenwriters - United States |
Dramatists, American - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Introduction -- American beauty: an interview with Alan Ball / Peter N. Chumo II (2000) -- American beauty screenwriter Alan Ball conducts case study at the IFP/West Screenwriters Conference / Susan Royal (2000) -- Gaywatch: Alan Ball goes Six feet under / Christine Champagne (2001) -- Big mind, small screen: Six feet under's Alan Ball / Jeff Greenwald (2004) -- Alan Ball: Six feet under / Anna Carugati (2004) -- Considering Alan Ball: an interview / Thomas Fahy (2005) -- Fresh air interview with Alan Ball: a Six feet under postmortem / Terry Gross (2005) -- Sexual politics and awakenings in Towelhead / Cynthia Lucia (2008) -- A big messy place: Alan Ball on Towelhead / K. J. Doughton (2008) -- Fresh Air interview with Alan Ball: talking True blood and Towelhead / Terry Gross (2008) -- Life and death, drama and Humor, join hands / Kinney Littlefield (2011) -- Excerpt from interview with Alan Ball: True blood and Beyond / Nancy Harrington (2011) -- Alan Ball in Conversation with Alan Brough / Alan Brough. |
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UNINA9910975034703321 |
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Meinesz Alexandre |
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How life began : evolution's three geneses / / Alexandre Meinesz ; translated by Daniel Simberloff |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
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9786612537509 |
9781282537507 |
1282537504 |
9780226519333 |
0226519333 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (291 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Translated from the French. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-277) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Henri's Cave -- Chapter 2. On the Origin of Life on Earth -- Chapter 3. Papa, What's a Bacterium? -- Chapter 4. The Vampire Slug of the Killer Alga -- Chapter 5. Vermeer and Van Leeuwenhoek -- Chapter 6. The Densimeter -- Chapter 7. The Lego Game -- Chapter 8. Candide, Jurassic Park, andNoah -- Chapter 9. The End of the Evolutionary String -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
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The origin of life is a hotly debated topic. The Christian Bible states that God created the heavens and the Earth, all in about seven days roughly six thousand years ago. This episode in Genesis departs markedly from scientific theories developed over the last two centuries which hold that life appeared on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago in the form of bacteria, followed by unicellular organisms half a millennia later. It is this version of genesis that Alexandre Meinesz explores in this engaging tale of life's origins and evolution. How Life Began eluci |
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