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What Does a Martian Look Like
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Ian Stewart,Jack Cohen |
"A fascinating and useful handbook to both the science and science fiction of extraterrestrial life. Cohen and Stewart are amusing, opinionated, and expert guides. I found it a terrific and informati… |
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The life of super-Earths
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Dimitar D. Sasselov |
"In the past year, we have witnessed unprecedented breakthroughs in the seemingly unrelated fields of synthetic biology and exoplanetary astronomy. Just recently, arsenic-based bacteria was discovere… |
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Life in Antarctic deserts and other cold dry environments
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Diane M. McKnight,Peter T. Doran,W. Berry Lyons |
"The McMurdo Dry Valleys form the largest relatively ice-free area on the Antarctic continent. The perennially ice-covered lakes, ephemeral streams and extensive areas of exposed soil are subject to … |
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Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life
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Horst Rauchfuss |
"Up to now, we do not have a generally accepted theory about the origin of life and about the process of development of life, we only have a great number of - to some extent even contradictory - hypo… |
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The crowded universe
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Alan Boss |
Astronomer Alan Boss argues that based on what we already know about planetary systems, in the coming years we will find abundant Earths, including many that are indisputably alive. Life is not only … |
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Signatures of life
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Edward Ashpole |
Life is the greatest of all mysteries. Did it begin from a chance event, one never to be repeated in time and space, or is life on Earth just one example of a universal phenomenon that evolves wherev… |
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Strangers in the night
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David E. Fisher |
This informative and entertaining book tells the story of humankind's attempts throughout history to discover extraterrestrial life. |
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Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems
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Terry D. Oswalt |
This is volume 3 of Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems, a six-volume compendium of modern astronomical research covering subjects of key interest to the main fields of contemporary astronomy. This vo… |
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Talking about life
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Chris Impey |
"With over 350 planets now known to exist beyond the Solar System, spacecraft heading for Mars, and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, this timely book explores current ideas about… |
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Life beyond Earth
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Athena Coustenis |
"What is life and where can it exist? What searches are being made to identify conditions for life on other worlds? If extraterrestrial inhabited worlds are found, how can we explore them? In this bo… |
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Worlds beyond our own
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Sujan Sengupta |
This is a book on planets: Solar system planets and dwarf planets. And planets outside our solar system? : exoplanets. How did they form? What types of planets are there and what do they have in comm… |
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Cosmosapiens
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John Hands |
"Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?… |
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Star Trek The Next Generation - The Battle of Betazed
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Susan Kearney,Charlotte Douglas |
In the darkest hours of the Dominion War, as the Federation's downfall seemed ever more certain, Jem'Hadar and Cardassian forces conquered Betazed, the homeworld of Deanna Troi. Their victory sent sh… |
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Ketos
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Philip Palmer |
Philip Palmer turns science fiction on its head in this breathtaking thrill ride through alien jungles filled with terrifying monsters and killer robots. Space marines and science heroes! Gryphons an… |
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