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Strategies of Life Detection
Springer 2008; US$ 159.99The search for life outside the Earth has been one of the biggest quests of mankind. We have reached a level in technology that allows the first steps towards a scientific investigation. The aim of this workshop was to take an interdisciplinary look at the signatures that would be indicative for past or present life on another planet, to compare them... more...
The Search for Life Continued
Springer 2008; US$ 23.99Examines, scientifically, the methods for detecting planets around other stars, the possibility that they might support life, and speculates as to what aliens might look like. more...
How Likely is Extraterrestrial Life?
Springer 2012; US$ 39.99What does existing scientific knowledge about physics, chemistry, meteorology and biology tell us about the likelihood of extraterrestrial life and civilizations? And what does the fact that there is currently no credible scientific evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial biospheres or civilizations teach us? This book reviews the various scientific... more...
First Contact
Simon & Schuster 2011; US$ 16.00Are we alone in the universe? Almost certainly not. In First Contact, Marc Kaufman provides a gripping tour of the magnificent new science of astrobiology that is closing in on the discovery of extraterrestrial life. In recent decades, scientists generally held that the genesis of life was unique to Earth: It was too delicate a process, and the... more...
The Rock From Mars
Random House Publishing Group 2006; US$ 25.95In this riveting book, acclaimed journalist Kathy Sawyer reveals the deepest mysteries of space and some of the most disturbing truths on Earth. The Rock from Mars is the story of how two planets and the spheres of politics and science all collided at the end of the twentieth century. It began sixteen million years ago. An asteroid crashing into... more...
Lonely Minds in the Universe
Springer 2007; US$ 21.99The possibility that humans are not alone in the Universe and might in the future come in close contact with other intelligences is one of the most intriguing questions of human history. This book deals with this subject, giving the scientific and technological implications and discussing the philosophical and religious connotations. more...
The Search for Extraterrestrials
Springer 2009; US$ 23.99Explores the key problems in starting a search for extraterrestrial signals. This book includes the fundamental considerations and the physics of the necessary laser, UV, IR and RF technologies, as well as coding and information theory considerations. more...
Talking about Life
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 24.00Containing interviews with astronomers, geologists, biologists, and writers, this book will fascinate anyone who has ever wondered 'Are we alone?' more...
E.T. Talk
Springer 2010; US$ 27.99Will it be possible to communicate with intelligent extraterrestrial life forms if we find them? How could we establish this communication, where would we begin? What does it mean to say that mathematics is a universal language? How could math be used to communicate with ETs? This book summarizes the work of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence,... more...









