Main description:

Stimulates readers to recognize holistic nature of cellular bioenergetics.
Encourages interdisciplinary approach to bioenergetics.
Changes paradigm from negative to positive meaning for entropy increase.
Connects biological to thermodynamic evolution.
Illustrates how beautiful structures contribute to evolution of universe.

Contents:

1. Mitchell's Chemiosmotic Theory: The Background 2. Membrane Bioenergetics in a Nutshell 3. Irreversible Thermodynamics and Coupled Biochemical Reactions 4. What is Life? 5. Some Answers to Schroedinger's Questions 6. Protonmotive Force 7. Membrane Proteins 8. The Maximum Entropy Production: Applications in the Bioenergetics of Bacterial Photosynthesis 9. Coupling Thermodynamics with Biological Evolution through Bioenergetics 10. Perfect Enzymes, According to Biochemists 11. ATP Synthase Molecular Motor 12. Bacteriorhodopsin: Light-harvesting Movie Star 13. The Protonmotive Force in Geochemistry and the Origin Question: Is the Origin of Bioenergetics Connected with the Origin of Life? 14. Integrating Glycolysis with Oxidative Phosphorylation by Hexokinases 15. Bioenergetics of the Brain, Aging, and Cancer Cells as Bridged by -synuclein 16. Retrospections, Contrasting Viewpoints, Incentives, Challenges, Prospects, and Conclusions