Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life

Gerald Pollack

ISBN 10: 0962689513 / ISBN 13: 9780962689512

Published by Ebner and Sons Publishers, US, 2001

About this Item

An award-winning book that challenges the current wisdom of how cells work in a visionary, provocative, and accessible way. reads like a detective story. This highly praised book emphasises the role of cell water and the gel-like nature of the cell, building on these features to explore the mechanisms of communication, transport, contraction, division, and other essential cell functions. Lucidly written for the non-expert, the book is profound enough for biologists, chemists, physicists and engineers to devour.

Seller Inventory # LU-9780962689512

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life
• Publisher: Ebner and Sons Publishers, US
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962689513
• ISBN 13: 9780962689512
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 22.86W x 1.91H x 24.38D centimeters 22.86 centimeters width by 1.91 centimeters height by 24.38 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1070 grams

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Synopsis

This book describes how cells work. It challenges the current wisdom of cell function, and presents a new, simpler approach to fundamental processes such as movement, transport, division, and communication, based on sound physical principles. The book is profusely illustrated with many color figures. It is written for the non-expert in an accessible, often humorous style.

About the Author

Scientist, speaker, and author, Gerald H. Pollack (Jerry) is recognized worldwide for identifying water's fourth phase -- H3O2. He is known for his open-minded approach -- with ideas and with people.

His work with water earned him the inaugural Emoto Peace Prize, as well as the Prigogine Medal for Thermodynamics, and the NIH Director's Transformative R01 Award.

Pollack is the founding Editor-in-chief of the research journal WATER, founding Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science, and organizer of the annual International Conference on the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Water. Further, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ural State University in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and was more recently named Honorary Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Srpska Academy. Pollack is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of both the American Heart Association and the Biomedical Engineering Society. The University of Washington has bestowed on him their highest faculty distinction, the Faculty Lecturer Award.