James Lovelock : in search of Gaia /
In 1972, when James Lovelock first proposed the Gaia hypothesis--the idea that the Earth is a living organism that maintains conditions suitable for life--he was ridiculed by the scientific establishment. Today Lovelock's revolutionary insight, though still extremely controversial, is recognize...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The greenhouse before Gaia
- A child of his time
- Gaia before Gaia
- A medical man
- Inventing the future
- Green revolutions
- The revelation
- What doesn't kill you makes you strong
- New beginnings
- Coping with catastrophe
- Making an invention.