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The Copernicus Complex
Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
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Artikel-Nr:
9780374535575
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.11.2015
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Caleb Scharf
Gewicht:
255 g
Format:
208x141x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Caleb Scharf is the director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center. He writes the Life, Unbounded blog for Scientific American; has written for New Scientist, Science, and Nature, among other publications; and has served as a consultant for the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, The New York Times, and more. Scharf has served as a keynote speaker for the American Museum of Natural History and the Rubin Museum of Art, and is the author of Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology, winner of the 2011 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award from the American Astronomical Society. He lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.
Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardShort-listed for Physics World's Book of the YearThe Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff Pick
Prologue: From Microcosm to Cosmos1. The Copernicus Complex2. The Ten-Billion-Year Spree3. Neighbors4. A Grand Illusion5. Sugar and Spice6. Hunters of the Cosmic Plain7. There's Something About Here8. (In)Significance