What Does a Martian Look Like?: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life - Rilegato

Cohen, Jack; Stewart, Ian

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ISBN 10: 0471268895 ISBN 13: 9780471268895

Casa editrice: Turner Pub Co, 2002

Riassunto

""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 informative piece of work-nothing else like it!""
-Greg Bear
""I loved it.""
-Larry Niven
""Ever wonder about what aliens could be like? The world authority is Jack Cohen, a professional biologist who has thought long and hard about the vast realm of possibilities. This is an engaging, swiftly moving study of alien biology, a subject with bounds and constraints these authors plumb with verve and intelligence.""
-Gregory Benford
""A celebration of life off Earth. A hearteningly optimistic book, giving a much-needed antidote to the pessimism of astrobiologists who maintain that we are alone in the universe-a stance based on a very narrow view of what could constitute life. A triumph of speculative nonfiction.""
-Dougal Dixon, author of
After Man: A Zoology of the Future

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Informazioni sugli autori

JACK COHEN is an internationally known reproductive biologist and the coauthor, with Ian Stewart, of The Collapse of Chaos and Figments of Reality.

IAN STEWART is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University in the United Kingdom. Among his sixty published books are The Magical Maze and Life's Other Secret, both from Wiley.

JACK COHEN is an internationally known reproductive biologist and the coauthor, with Ian Stewart, of The Collapse of Chaos and Figments of Reality.

IAN STEWART is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University in the United Kingdom. Among his sixty published books are The Magical Maze and Life's Other Secret, both from Wiley.

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""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 informative piece of work-nothing else like it!""
-Greg Bear

""I loved it.""
-Larry Niven

""Ever wonder about what aliens could be like? The world authority is Jack Cohen, a professional biologist who has thought long and hard about the vast realm of possibilities. This is an engaging, swiftly moving study of alien biology, a subject with bounds and constraints these authors plumb with verve and intelligence.""
-Gregory Benford

""A celebration of life off Earth. A hearteningly optimistic book, giving a much-needed antidote to the pessimism of astrobiologists who maintain that we are alone in the universe-a stance based on a very narrow view of what could constitute life. A triumph of speculative nonfiction.""
-Dougal Dixon, author of
After Man: A Zoology of the Future

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Turner Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0471268895
• ISBN 13: 9780471268895
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile