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Algae and Cyanobacteria in Extreme Environments

ALGAE AND CYANOBACTRIA IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS is a unique collection of essays, contributed by leading scientists from around ...

Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life : Caught in the Act of Formation

This book describes how the basic building blocks of life, the amino acids, formed. After a comprehensible introduction into ...

Astrobiology: Future Perspectives

Astrobiology, a new exciting interdisciplinary research field, seeks to unravel the origin and evolution of life wherever ...

Between Necessity and Probability: Searching for t

This study investigates the major theories of the origins of life in light of modern research with the aim of distinguishing ...

Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events

The biological effects of asteroid and comet impacts have been widely viewed as primarily destructive. The role of an impactor ...

Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life

Up to now, we do not have a generally accepted theory about the origin of life and about the process of development of life, ...

Cold Aqueous Planetary Geochemistry with FREZCHEM : From Modeling to the Search for Life at the Limits

At the core of the technical chapters is the FREZCHEM model, initially developed over many years by one of the authors to ...

Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life

Nine years after the publication of Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life, one of the pioneering books in Astrobiology, ...

Exoplanets : Detection, Formation, Properties, Habitability

This edited, multi-author volume will be an invaluable introduction and reference to all key aspects in the field of exoplanet ...

From Fossils to Astrobiology : Records of Life on Earth and Search for Extraterrestrial Biosignatures

From Fossils to Astrobiology reviews developments in paleontology and geobiology that relate to the rapidly-developing field ...

From Suns to Life

This review emerged from several interdisciplinary meetings and schools gathering a group of astronomers, geologists, biologists, ...

Fundamental Astronomy

Fundamental Astronomy gives a well-balanced and comprehensive introduction to the topics of classical and modern astronomy. ...

Intelligent Life in the Universe

This book addresses the possible origins, development and fate of intelligent life in the universe. The author presents a ...

Lectures in Astrobiology

This book is the first comprehensive textbook at the graduate level encompassing all aspects associated with the emerging ...

Lectures in Astrobiology

Based on material delivered at several summer schools, this book is the first comprehensive textbook at the graduate level ...

Life in the Universe : Expectations and Constraints

Energy, chemistry, solvents, and habitats -- the basic elements of living systems - define the opportunities and limitations ...

Lonely Minds in the Universe

This interdisciplinary book probes the subject of extraterrestrial intelligent life, offering scientific and technological ...

Magnetoreception and Magnetosomes in Bacteria

Recent developments in the research on magnetotactic bacteria are presented in this volume. Included are reviews on the formation ...

Micrometeorites and the Mysteries of Our Origins

This book relates an attempt to decrypt the still-obscure first billion years of history of the young Earth, during a cataclysmic ...

Optics of Biological Particles

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on “Optics of Biological Particles” met in Novosibirsk, Russia 3 – 6 October, 2005. ...

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