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83) Beyond UFOs: the search for extraterrestrial life and its astonishing implications for our future
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
xiv, 211 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the startling discoveries being made in the very real science of astrobiology, an intriguing new field that blends astronomy, biology, and geology to explore the possibility of life on other planets. Jeffrey Bennett takes readers beyond UFOs to discuss some of the tantalizing questions astrobiologists grapple with every day: What is life and how does it begin? What makes a planet or moon habitable? Is there life on Mars or elsewhere in the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Astrobiology, the study of life in space, is one of today's fastest growing fields of science. In this accessible and elegantly reasoned book, scholar and researcher Impey explores the foundations of this rapidly developing discipline, where it's going, and what it's likely to find. If Earth is not the only planet, it is so far the only living one that we know of. Impey reveals the incredible proliferation and variety of life on Earth, paying special...
Author
Publisher
Current
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How scientists are closer than ever to not only uncovering the mystery of how life was created, but to replicating that moment Within the first billion years after this planet formed, a spark of life spontaneously ignited, turning inanimate chemicals into what we now would recognize as a living thing: a cell. Four billion years later, science has catalogued more than a million species. Science writer Adam Rutherford shows how unprecedented advances...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author of This Is Your Brain on Music showcases his theory of how the brain evolved to play and listen to music in six fundamental forms--for knowledge, friendship, religion, joy, comfort, and love. Preserving the emotional history of our lives and of our species, from its very beginning music was also allied to dance, as the structure of the brain confirms; developing this neurological observation, Levitin shows how music and dance enabled the...
98) What is life?
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
xv, 288 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
100) The First Americans
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
183 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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