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Author:

Ward, Peter Douglas, 1949-

Title:

Life as we do not know it : the NASA search for (and synthesis of) alien life / Peter D. Ward.

Publisher:

Viking,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xxvii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Life on other planets.
Life--Origin.
Vie extraterrestre.
Exobiologie.
Vie--Origines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and index.

Contents:

A forest of life? What is earth life? -- Life as we do not know it -- A recipe book of life -- The artificial synthesis of life -- Are there aliens already on earth? -- Panspermia: why there may be aliens throughout the solar system -- Mercury and Venus -- Fossils on the moon -- Mars -- Europa -- Titan -- Implications, ethics, and dangers -- A manifesto: send paleontologists to Mars and biochemists to Titan -- A forest of life?

ISBN:

9780670034581
0670034584

LCCN:

2005056299

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)