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XTL: Life in Space and How to Find It

XTL: Life in Space and How to Find It

by John Gribbin (Author), Simon Goodwin (Author)

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    Hardcover 2001

    $3.25

  • Used

    Paperback 2002

    $3.25
Synopsis

Does evidence that there was once water on Mars mean that it could have been - and could still be now - a home for life? Does the existence of stars like our Sun mean that life could exist on the planets surrounding them? In this title, John Gribbin and Simon Goodwin show how the world's experts are searching for life in space, and why they could be just around the corner from finding it. Illustrated with a range of photographs and state-of-the-art graphics, this book is about life itself: under what conditions it can develop and survive, how it might evolve to be intelligent, where it may exist in the universe and how we could come to find it.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 192
 Edition: First Thus
 Publisher: W&N
Published: 16 Aug 2001
ISBN 10: 0304358975
ISBN 13: 9780304358977
Book Overview: Gribbin has a huge following and is widely known for books like Schrodinger's Kittens (8,000 HB copies sold), Companion to the Cosmos (11,000 HB copies sold) and Almost Everyone's Guide to Science (15,500 HB copies sold) Illustrated popular science is a boom area of publishing - note Full Moon, The Planets and Universe XTL is cutting-edge as well as beautifully illustrated.

Media Reviews
Simon Goodwin is on Xchange, Children's BBC TV Weds Sept 25th 6pm
Author Bio
John Gribbin has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Cambridge, and is now Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex and consultant to New Scientist. His books have been translated into many languages, and have won awards in both Britain and the United States. He also writes science fiction. John Gribbin was born in1946 in Maidstone, Kent. Having worked at Nature and The New Scientist since 1993 he has been a Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex, where he has worked on the problem of determining the age of the universe. He now lives in Newhaven. Simon Goodwin was born in Sheffield in 1971. After finishing his PhD in Astronomy he became a researcher at the University of Sussex and is now at the University of Cardiff where he works on the formation of stars. His first book was Hubble's Universe. Since then he has written three books with John Gribbin, the most recent being Deep Space.