mark yeomans (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 1985. First edition. 4to. Paperback with color, black and white illustrations and charts and graphs through-out, 175 pp. The reader of this fascinating book about the brightest of all the short-period comets will be taken on an exciting voyage that follows Comet Halley through one 7.6 billion mile circuit. Front cover slightly dog-eared on upper edge, but overall in very good condition with clean, crisp text block.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 678 pages. 6.00x1.49x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine DJ. Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Vii, 175 Pp. Blue Cloth. First Printing. Fine (Usual Foxing To Endpapers) In A Near Fine Dust Jacket. Inscribed By Yeomans To A Jpl Public Relations Staffer, "The Man In The Eye Of The Halley Storm.". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 678 pages. 6.00x1.63x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 175 pages; VG; bound in custom full brown leather, gilt lettering to spine and front board; marbled endpapers; Inscribed on title page by Mark Littmann to Ambassador Oliver Wright, British Ambassador to the United States, "Your countrymen have given us so much knowledge and Inspiration"; shelved case 10. 1319313. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One day in 1950, in the midst of lunch with colleagues, Italian/American physicist Enrico Fermi suddenly asked, 'Where is everybody 'Fermi wasn't referring to the lunch crowd. What Fermi was pondering was why-with so many Sun-like stars in our Galaxy, and the potential of so many Earth-like planets-our Galaxy wasn't awash with signs of extraterrestrial life. This apparent contradiction between the high probability of, but total lack of evidence for, extraterrestrial civilizations became known as Fermi's Paradox. One possibility is that ET exists, but we just haven't made contact yet. The book considers the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).The other possibility is that intelligent life is rarer than we would suppose. But with so many potential sites where it could arise, the question becomes Why hasn't it arisen Or, perhaps more pertinently, Why did it arise on Earth and not elsewhere This book sets out to answer that question: How do you start with rocks, gasses, and water, and end up with humans The approach is to describe how geology (e.g. plate tectonics) and astronomy (e.g. asteroid impacts) create habitat, and how changes to habitat influence biology. It begins with the formation of the Earth, and the origin of life from non-life. It ends with the evolution of humans from non-humans. In between it follows the trail of our ancestors: single-celled organisms, multicellular organisms, vertebrates, mammals, apes. When it finally revisits Fermi's question about the absence of extraterrestrial civilizations, it does so by demonstrating that it is, instead, the presence of intelligent life on Earth that we should consider so extraordinary. . .

Blue Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Vii, 175 Pp. Blue Cloth. First Printing. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Inscribed By Yeomans "To (Jpl Astronomer) Ray Newburn- Leader Of The Halley Watch, From One Of His Undisciplined Discipline Specialists. Don Yeomans 2-89". Inscribed by Author(s).