How to Find a Habitable Planet, James F. Kasting

Автор: Martin Beech
Название: Terraforming
ISBN: 0387097953 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780387097954
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Often used as the narrative premise in science fiction novels, terraforming is the process by which an uninhabitable planet might be converted into one capable of supporting life. This book proposes an exploration on the topic of terraforming. It presents what is physically possible and hints what might conceivably be put into practice.

Автор: Falkowski, Paul G.
Название: Life`s engines
ISBN: 0691155372 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691155371
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 21120.00 T
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Описание: For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life`s Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous creatures made life on Earth possible--and h

Автор: Arseli Dokumaci
Название: Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds
ISBN: 1478019247 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478019244
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes can be difficult if not impossible. In Activist Affordances, Arseli Dokumac? draws on ethnographic work with differently disabled people whose ingenuity, labor, and artfulness allow them to achieve these seemingly simple tasks. Dokumac? shows how they use improvisation to imagine and bring into being more habitable worlds through the smallest of actions and the most fleeting of movements---what she calls “activist affordances.” Even as an environment shrinks to a set of constraints rather than opportunities, the improvisatory space of performance opens up to allow disabled people to imagine that same environment otherwise. Dokumac? shows how disabled people’s activist affordances present the potential for a more liveable and accessible world for all of us.

Автор: Sengupta, Sujan
Название: Worlds beyond our own
ISBN: 3319098934 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319098937
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Описание: This is a book on planets: Solar system planets and dwarf planets. And planets outside our solar system - exoplanets. What are the conditions for life and on which planets may they be met? But in particular also on the link between planets and stars - brown dwarfs.

Автор: Falkowski, Paul G.
Название: Life`s engines
ISBN: 0691247684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691247687
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Автор: Jagadeesh, Madhu Kashyap Shekhar, Usha
Название: Extreme Habitable Environments
ISBN: 036725526X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367255268
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Extreme Habitable Environments is a book authored with the intention of providing introductory material suitable for those interested in learning about exoplanets. Focal point of this book is to expose its readers to the excitement in identifying exoplanets and exploring the possibility of life on them.

Автор: Charles H. Langmuir
Название: How to Build a Habitable Planet
ISBN: 0691140065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691140063
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Цена: 47520.00 T
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Описание: Interweaving physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, and biology, this book tells Earth`s complete story, from the synthesis of chemical elements in stars, to the formation of the Solar System, to the evolution of a habitable climate on Earth, to the origin of life and humankind.

Автор: Mendez Abel, Gonzalez-Espada Wilson
Название: Searching for Habitable Worlds: An Introduction
ISBN: 1681744007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681744001
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: What does it take to consider a planet potentially habitable? If a planet is suitable for life, could life be present? Is life on other planets inevitable? Searching for Habitable Worlds answers these questions and provides both the general public and astronomy enthusiasts with a richly illustrated discussion of the most current knowledge regarding the search for extrasolar planets. Nearly everyone wants to know if we are alone in the universe. This book might not have the answers, but shows where we should look.This book is a fun and accessible book for everyone from middle schoolers to amateur astronomers of all ages. The use of non-technical language and abundant illustrations make this a quick read to inform everyone about the latest movement in the search for other planets that we might be able to inhabit. After a brief discussion on why humans are hard-wired to be curious, and to explore the unknown, the book describes what extrasolar planets are, how to detect them, and how to pin down potential targets. In addition, a data-driven list of the best candidates for habitability is profiled and the next generation of exoplanet-hunting scientific instruments and probes are identified.

Автор: Lincoln
Название: The Habitable City in China
ISBN: 1137554703 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137554703
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 111790.00 T
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Описание: This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world’s most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which the quality of life can be improved. They focus on how cities have been made secure during times of instability, how their inhabitants have consumed everything from the simplest of foods to the most expensive luxuries, and how they have been planned as ideal spaces. Drawing examples from across the country, this book offers comparisons between different cities, highlights continuities across time and space—and in doing so may provide solutions to some of the problems that continue to affect Chinese cities today.

Автор: Falkowski Paul G.
Название: Life`s Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
ISBN: 0691173354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691173351
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Цена: 19000.00 T
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Описание: Looks at how ancient microorganisms in primordial oceans transformed the chemistry of the planet over billions of years, eventually allowing the development of more complex forms of life, and how they continue to make life on earth possible.

Автор: Martin Beech
Название: Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds
ISBN: 1493939149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493939145
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Описание: This fascinating book proposes a sound and realistic exploration on the topic of terraforming. The book presents what is physically possible today and hints what might conceivably be put into practice in the next several hundred years.

Автор: Vigdor, Steven E.
Название: Signatures of the Artist
ISBN: 0198814828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198814825
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This is a broad-ranging, non-mathematical introduction to recent and ongoing research that has illuminated the physical conditions necessary for our universe to support structure and life. The primary focus is on particle and nuclear physics and cosmology, which have exposed the fine-tuning and imperfections vital for a habitable universe.