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"[Tyson] tackles a great range of subjects...with great humor, humility, and—most important—humanity." —Entertainment Weekly
Neil deGrasse Tyson has a talent for guiding readers through the mysteries of outer space with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favorite essays that he wrote for Natural History magazine across a myriad of cosmic topics, from astral life at the frontiers of
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Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we as humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth? John Hands' extraordinarily ambitious book merges scientific knowledge from multiple disciplines and evaluates without bias or preconception all the theories and evidence about the origin and evolution of matter, consciousness, and mankind. In the clearest...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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It’s a golden age for planet hunters: NASA's Kepler mission has identified more than 3,500 potential planets orbiting stars beyond our Sun. Some of them, like a planet called Kepler-22b, might even be able to harbor life. How did we come upon this distant planet? Combining startling animation with input from expert astrophysicists and astrobiologists, Alien Planets Revealed takes viewers on a journey along with the Kepler telescope. How does the...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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368 pages
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English
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"From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The time has come to abandon our fantasies of space invaders...
5) Beyond UFOs: the search for extraterrestrial life and its astonishing implications for our future
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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xiv, 211 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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English
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"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...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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First edition.
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x, 337 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Any reader of science fiction or viewer of Star Trek will be awake to the dream that there may be life elsewhere in our universe that isn't like life here on Earth. Maybe, like E.T., it has new letters in its genetic alphabet! Maybe it's made of silicon! Maybe it gets around on wheels! Or maybe it doesn't. In The Equations of Life, biologist Charles Cockell makes the surprising argument that the Universe constrains life, making its evolutionary outcomes...
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
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xvi, 393 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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"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...
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Raintree
Pub. Date
c2012
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Express ed.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm.
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English
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Looks at ways that human activity is affecting biodiversity and how that may play out in the future of life on Earth based on past instances of mass extinction, and also looks forward to the time when the Sun will no longer support life on the planet.
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Bloomsbury sigma volume 16
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St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2016
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288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Ultimately, we need to figure out what is next for humanity. Our logical move is to break free of the confines of the Earth and colonize another body in the Solar System, such as the Moon or Mars. How and when will we do this? Or is it all just science fiction? These questions, in a nutshell, make up the core of astrobiology--the study of the origins and evolution and biology of life elsewhere in the universe, and the search for it. This book is an...
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Custom House
Pub. Date
2021.
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467 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black & white), photographs, portraits ; 24 cm
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English
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"When scientists discovered the first ocean beyond Earth, they had two big questions: 'Is it habitable?' and 'How do we get there?' To answer the first, they had to solve the second, and so began a vivacious team's twenty-year odyssey to mount a mission to Europa, the ocean moon of Jupiter. Standing in their way: NASA, fanatically consumed with landing robots on Mars; the White House, which never saw a science budget it couldn't cut; Congress, fixated...
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2013]
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IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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76 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Considers the plausibility of alien life and what creatures living on extrasolar planets might be like, drawing on scientific sources to depict alien creatures who have adapted to the unique characteristics of their respective environments.
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