James Lovelock : : In Search of Gaia /

James Lovelock : : In Search of Gaia / / Mary Gribbin, John Gribbin.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Gribbin, John,
Gribbin, Mary,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2009
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 19 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Citation for the Wollaston Medal
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • ONE. The Greenhouse before Gaia
  • TWO. A Child of His Time
  • THREE. Gaia before Gaia
  • FOUR. A Medical Man
  • FIVE. Inventing the Future
  • SIX. Green Revolutions
  • SEVEN. The Revelation
  • EIGHT. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Strong
  • NINE. New Beginnings
  • TEN. Coping with Catastrophe
  • CODA. Making an Invention
  • Sources and Further Reading
  • Index

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