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- List organized by publication year, with year group listings alphabetical by first author's last name.
- Items listed here do NOT include conference proceedings, journal articles, or journal supplement publications.
- Books were selected for their relationship to astrobiology, providing an introduction for a general audience. They are suitable for teachers and provide background support for scientists in astrobiology's various subjects.
- Many of these books include references to more technical, related literature.
- ** = Collection of content by various authors (with editor), though NOT a conference proceeding.
- Search this list using author last name OR by title word(s).
- If searching on > 1 word, Boolean operator AND is applied.
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| Title |
Introduction to Organic Geochemistry (2nd edition) |
| Author |
Stephen Killops, Vanessa Killops
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| Publisher |
Blackwell Publishers |
| Year |
2005 |
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| Title |
Astrobiology: A Multidisciplinary Approach |
| Author |
Jonathan I. Lunine
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| Publisher |
Pearson/Addison Wesley |
| Year |
2005 |
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| Title |
Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth |
| Author |
Ben Bova
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| Publisher |
Morrow |
| Year |
2004 |
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| Title |
The Living Universe: NASA and the Development of Astrobiology |
| Author |
Steven J. Dick, James E. Strick
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| Publisher |
Rutgers University Press |
| Year |
2004 |
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| Title |
**An Introduction to Astrobiology |
| Author |
Iain Gilmour, Mark A. Sephton (editors)
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year |
2004 |
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| Title |
Mars: A Warmer Wetter Planet |
| Author |
Jeffrey S. Kargel
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| Publisher |
Springer-Praxis |
| Year |
2004 |
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| Title |
Between Necessity and Probability: Searching for the Definition and Origin of Life |
| Author |
Radu Popa
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| Publisher |
Springer |
| Year |
2004 |
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| Title |
Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints |
| Author |
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
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| Publisher |
Springer |
| Year |
2004 |
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| Title |
**Origins: Genesis, Evolution and Diversity of Life |
| Author |
J. Seckbach
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| Publisher |
Springer/Kluwer |
| Year |
2004 |
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| Title |
Are We Alone? Finding Life in the Milky Way Galaxy |
| Author |
Gloria Skurzynski
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| Publisher |
National Geographic |
| Year |
2004 |
| Additional Information |
[Selected “Best Book” by National Science Teachers Association]
[Reading level: Grades 9-12]
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| Title |
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution |
| Author |
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
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| Publisher |
W.W. Norton & Company |
| Year |
2004 |
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| Title |
Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History |
| Author |
Peter Ward
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| Publisher |
Viking |
| Year |
2004 |
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| Title |
Life in the Universe |
| Author |
Jeffrey Bennett, Seth Shostak, Bruce Jakosky
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| Publisher |
Addison Wesley |
| Year |
2003 |
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| Title |
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time |
| Author |
Michael Benton
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| Publisher |
Thames & Hudson |
| Year |
2003 |
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| Title |
Impossible Extinction: Natural Catastrophes and the Supremacy of the Microbial World |
| Author |
Charles Cockell
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year |
2003 |
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| Title |
Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life |
| Author |
David Grinspoon
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| Publisher |
Ecco (Harper Collins) |
| Year |
2003 |
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| Title |
A Traveler's Guide to Mars: The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet |
| Author |
William K. Hartmann
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| Publisher |
Workman Publishing |
| Year |
2003 |
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| Title |
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth |
| Author |
Andrew H. Knoll
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| Publisher |
Princeton University Press |
| Year |
2003 |
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| Title |
Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe |
| Author |
Simon C. Morris
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year |
2003 |
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| Title |
Life in the Universe Activities Manual |
| Author |
Edward Prather, Erika Offerdahl, Tim Slater
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| Publisher |
Addison-Wesley |
| Year |
2003 |
| Additional Information |
[Student activities to accompany this text: Jeffrey Bennett, Seth Shostak, Bruce Jakosky. Life in the Universe. Addison Wesley (2003)] |
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| Title |
Cosmic Company: The Search for Life in the Universe |
| Author |
Seth Shostak
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year |
2003 |
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| Title |
Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It |
| Author |
Gabrielle Walker
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| Publisher |
Crown |
| Year |
2003 |
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| Title |
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe |
| Author |
Peter Ward, Donald Brownlee
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| Publisher |
Copernicus |
| Year |
2003 |
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| Title |
The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World |
| Author |
Peter Ward, Donald Brownlee
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| Publisher |
Henry Holt |
| Year |
2003 |
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| Title |
Molecular Biology of the Cell (4th edition) |
| Author |
Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts & Peter Walter
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| Publisher |
Garland Publishing |
| Year |
2002 |
| Additional Information |
Available FREE to all: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=mboc4.TOC&depth=10 |
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| Title |
Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning |
| Author |
Christian deDuve
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| Publisher |
Oxford University Press |
| Year |
2002 |
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| Title |
Origin and Early Evolution of Life |
| Author |
Tom Fenchel
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| Publisher |
Oxford University Press |
| Year |
2002 |
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| Title |
The Search for Life in the Universe (3rd edition) |
| Author |
Donald Goldsmith, Tobias Owen
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| Publisher |
University Science |
| Year |
2002 |
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| Title |
**Astrobiology: The Quest for the Conditions of Life |
| Author |
Gerda Horneck, Christa Baumstark-Khan (editors)
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| Publisher |
Springer |
| Year |
2002 |
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| Title |
The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex |
| Author |
Harold J. Morowitz
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| Publisher |
Oxford University Press |
| Year |
2002 |
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| Title |
Microbial Life |
| Author |
Jerome J. Perry, James T. Staley, Stephen Lory
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| Publisher |
Sinauer Associates |
| Year |
2002 |
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| Title |
**Life’s Origin: The Beginnings of Biological Evolution |
| Author |
J. William Schopf
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| Publisher |
University of California Press |
| Year |
2002 |
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| Title |
If the Universe is Teeming with Aliens -- Where is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life |
| Author |
Stephen Webb
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| Publisher |
Copernicus |
| Year |
2002 |
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| Title |
Paleobiology II |
| Author |
Derek E.G. Briggs, Peter R. Crowther
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| Publisher |
Blackwell Publishers |
| Year |
2001 |
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| Title |
The New Science of Astrobiology: From Genesis of the Living Cell to Evolution of Intelligence |
| Author |
Julian Chela-Flores
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| Publisher |
Springer |
| Year |
2001 |
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| Title |
Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology |
| Author |
David Darling
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| Publisher |
Basic Books |
| Year |
2001 |
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| Title |
Astrobiology |
| Author |
Monica Grady
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| Publisher |
Smithsonian |
| Year |
2001 |
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| Title |
Mysteries of Terra Firma: The Age and Evolution of the World |
| Author |
James Lawrence Powell
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| Publisher |
Free Press |
| Year |
2001 |
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| Title |
**Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Universe |
| Author |
Martin Rees (editor), Ian Ridpath (foreward)
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| Publisher |
Watson-Guptill Publications |
| Year |
2001 |
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| Title |
The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup |
| Author |
Christopher Wills, Jeffrey Bada
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| Publisher |
Perseus Publishing |
| Year |
2001 |
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| Title |
Life on Other Worlds and How to Find It |
| Author |
Stuart Clark
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| Publisher |
Springer-Praxis |
| Year |
2000 |
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| Title |
**The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: An Alphabetical Reference to All Life in the Universe |
| Author |
David Darling
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| Publisher |
Three Rivers |
| Year |
2000 |
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| Title |
Here be Dragons: The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life |
| Author |
David Koerner, Simon Levay
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| Publisher |
Oxford University Press |
| Year |
2000 |
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| Title |
Journey to Diverse Microbial Worlds: Adaptation to Exotic Environments |
| Author |
Joseph Seckbach
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| Publisher |
Kluwer Academic |
| Year |
2000 |
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| Title |
Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions |
| Author |
Peter Ward
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| Publisher |
Columbia |
| Year |
2000 |
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| Title |
Origins of Life on the Earth and in the Cosmos (2nd Edition) |
| Author |
Geoffrey L. Zubay
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| Publisher |
Harcourt |
| Year |
2000 |
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| Title |
Captured by Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe |
| Author |
Joel Achenbach
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| Publisher |
Simon & Schuster |
| Year |
1999 |
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| Title |
Aliens: Can We Make Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence? |
| Author |
Andrew J.H. Clark and David H. Clark
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| Publisher |
Fromm International |
| Year |
1999 |
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| Title |
The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life |
| Author |
Paul C.W. Davies
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| Publisher |
Simon & Schuster |
| Year |
1999 |
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| Title |
The Biological Universe: The Twentieth-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science |
| Author |
Steven J. Dick
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year |
1999 |
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| Title |
Origins of Life (2nd edition) |
| Author |
Freeman Dyson
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year |
1999 |
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| Title |
The End of the Dinosaurs: Chicxulub Crater and Mass Extinctions |
| Author |
Charles Frankel
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year |
1999 |
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| Title |
Earth: Evolution of a Habitable World |
| Author |
Jonathan I. Lunine
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year |
1999 |
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| Title |
Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth’s Oldest Fossils |
| Author |
J. William Schopf
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| Publisher |
Princeton University Press |
| Year |
1999 |
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| Title |
Planetary Dreams: The Quest to Discover Life Beyond Earth |
| Author |
Robert Shapiro
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| Publisher |
Wiley |
| Year |
1999 |
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| Title |
Dark Life: Martian Nanobacteria, Rock-Eating Cave Bugs, and Other Extreme Organisms of Inner Earth and Outer Space |
| Author |
Michael Ray Taylor
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| Publisher |
Scribner |
| Year |
1999 |
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| Title |
The Search for Life on Mars |
| Author |
Malcolm Walter
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| Publisher |
Perseus Books |
| Year |
1999 |
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| Title |
The Exploration of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life |
| Author |
Piers Bizony
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| Publisher |
Aurum Press |
| Year |
1998 |
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| Title |
Looking for Earths: The Race to Find New Solar Systems |
| Author |
Alan Boss
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| Publisher |
Wiley |
| Year |
1998 |
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| Title |
The Molecular Origins of Life: Assembling Pieces of the Puzzle |
| Author |
Andre Brack
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year |
1998 |
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| Title |
Life on Other Worlds: The 20th Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate |
| Author |
Steven J. Dick
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year |
1998 |
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| Title |
The Hunt for Life on Mars (Including New Epilogue) |
| Author |
Donald Goldsmith
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| Publisher |
Plume Books |
| Year |
1998 |
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| Title |
Life on the Edge: Amazing Creatures Thriving in Extreme Environments |
| Author |
Michael Gross
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| Publisher |
Plenum |
| Year |
1998 |
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| Title |
The Search for Life on Other Planets |
| Author |
Bruce Jakosky
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year |
1998 |
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| Title |
Alien Life: The Search for Extraterrestrials and Beyond |
| Author |
Barry Parker
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| Publisher |
Plenum |
| Year |
1998 |
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| Title |
Night Comes to the Cretaceous |
| Author |
James Lawrence Powell
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| Publisher |
Freeman |
| Year |
1998 |
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| Title |
Sharing the Universe: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life |
| Author |
Seth Shostak
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| Publisher |
Berkeley Hills |
| Year |
1998 |
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| Title |
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom |
| Author |
Walter Alvarez
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| Publisher |
Princeton University Press |
| Year |
1997 |
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| Title |
Planet Quest: The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems |
| Author |
Ken Croswell
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| Publisher |
Free Press Books |
| Year |
1997 |
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| Title |
Worlds Unnumbered: The Search for Extrasolar Planets |
| Author |
Donald Goldsmith
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| Publisher |
University Science Books |
| Year |
1997 |
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| Title |
Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2nd edition) |
| Author |
Jean Heidmann
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year |
1997 |
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| Title |
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors |
| Author |
Lynn Margulis, Dorian Sagan, Thomas Lewis
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| Publisher |
University of California Press |
| Year |
1997 |
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| Title |
Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life |
| Author |
Paul Thomas, Chris Chyba, Chris McKay (editors)
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| Publisher |
Springer |
| Year |
1997 |
| Additional Information |
(New edition pending) |
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| Title |
Are We Alone? Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life |
| Author |
Paul C.W. Davies
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| Publisher |
Basic Books |
| Year |
1995 |
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| Title |
Vital Dust: Life as a Cosmic Imperative |
| Author |
Christian deDuve
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| Publisher |
Basic Books |
| Year |
1995 |
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| Title |
At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity |
| Author |
Stuart Kauffman
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| Publisher |
Oxford University Press |
| Year |
1995 |
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Note: An alternative
list of astrobiology books (compiled by a University
of Maryland Professor of Astronomy, who teaches a university-level
bioastronomy course) is available. Books here include many
more SETI titles and have one-line descriptions, including
these categories: instructor use, student use, or personal
favorite.
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