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Part of a series which introduces the reader to a wide variety of popular subjects, this book about the planets uses both "Question and Answer" and "Let's Look Up" panels, which refer the reader to illustrated fact-files at the back of the text. ... Read more

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Provides an excellent overview of the current state of knowledge of the geophysics of planets. The discussions cover several aspects of planetary composition, both surface and atmospheric, including planetary mechanics, circulation, origin, and modelling. Contributions include reviews of the literature and experimental results. The contributors to this book are all world-renowned experts who participated in the NATO Advanced Study Institute meeting from which the book takes its name. ... Read more

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Intense heat and drought in the summer of 1988...greenhouse warming...acid rain...the ozone hole...rain forest destruction...Hurricane Hugo: "The Endangered Earth" is making headlines around the world, and we are aware as never before of the fragility of the global environment and our own vulnerability to climate change. Yet, despite the technological advances of the last three decades, our knowledge of how the Earth's systems work and interact remains incomplete at best. To determine environmental policies for the future, we need more information and better global climate models.

In Planet Earth D. James Baker provides a concise, up-to-date overview of the ongoing international research efforts that will improve our ability to predict global climate change. In straightforward terms, Baker describes remote sensing from space. He reviews extant spacebased satellites and their instruments and describes the areas in which operational and research missions are gathering ever-increasing data--on Earth-sun interaction, land vegetation patterns, ocean color, temperature, the atmosphere, the ice sheets of the polar regions, the shape and motion of the Earth's crust, the Earth's gravity field--which fill in gaps in our knowledge even as they raise new questions about critical global processes. In view of these questions and the subsequent need for more accurate global models, the satellite networks being planned for the 1990s will require state-of-the-art instrumentation, a new generation of supercomputers, and a high level of international cooperation if they are to succeed. Baker focuses on the United States initiative, Mission to Planet Earth, a long range attempt to study the planet as a whole using polar-orbiting, geostationary, and special orbit satellites coupled with a network of ground stations. In the concluding chapter, the author looks to the next century and examines the difficult long-term problems-of national security, technology transfer, data dissemination, cost, international coordination--that could undermine the achievement of the global operational system he proposes.

Planet Earth is a timely, well-illustrated introduction to Earth-observing satellite technology for the nonspecialist and specialist alike. It distills complex information that is otherwise available only in the technical literature. For those who follow space research, it will prove an indispensable guide.

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Taken from a series which uses photographs and simple text to illustrate popular topics, this book looks at planets. It takes an explanatory look at the solar system and details various planets, both near and far, and looks at how they all differ. ... Read more

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Covers: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Whether you're driving to the majestic Victoria Falls, catching a bus to the natural wonderland of the Okavango Delta or strolling around cosmopolitan Cape Town, this Road Atlas will guide you through the fascinating countries of southern Africa. Thoroughly checked by our expert authors, this atlas is the perfect companion to your Lonely Planet guide.

• Lonely Planet's Southern Africa Road Atlas also features:
  
• climate charts
• distance tables
• comprehensive index

Customer Reviews (10)

A must have book!
While travelling in SA for 4 motnhs I found this book amazingly helpfull. It had the best advices on how to save money, it had the best maps...I acctually knew more than the buss drivers sometimes and ended up advising them...hostels recommandations were great too. I have been looking into other guides to SA and found this one to be the absolute best.

The Blind leading the Blind
This must be one of the worst researched books ever written. IT IS OUT OF DATE! Too many places mentioned have closed down 3 years or more before printing. An unacceptably high number of telephone numbers are wrong. Advice given is quite out of date - this can be costly in Africa! This guide is badly rated by just about anyone that have used it.Of an estimated 600 or more pax that i have met that have used this ancient "bible" about 5% said it was OK, the rest hated it. I cannot recall 1 person saying that they have found it useful. I would seriously recommend that anyone contemplating buying this online first compare this with other travel books available. Pick a couple of things that interests you and compare the different guide books. Not Recommended at all.

Atrocious - worst book in the series
This book is an absolute dud and rates/deserves zero stars. Not only is just about all the information 3 years old, but this pathetic attemp misinforms travellers about everything especially safety. It would seemthat this is just a reprint spiced up with one or two new details. I'vebeen in tourism in SA 8 years and was astounded while reading sections.Places gets recommended you wouldn't see me dead in like an all nightSteers fast food place in Durban centre for example - a definite/guaranteedredistribution of wealth waiting to happen. Then in Jo'burg 4 hostelsmentioned after each other have all been closed for 3 years or more. Iwouldn't even have picked up on that but the traveller who had the booktried them when arriving and he wasted about half an hour. He said he wasalso going to dump the book after i brought him up to speed on the Durbansection. To Jon Murrays' defense (though i haven't met him) i don't thinkhe is the guilty party. To my knowledge he hasn't even been in SA since1996. But Jeff Williams has - a whole 3 weeks since 1996 of which heapparently spend 5 days in Swaziland. His political views on SA is wellknown in the industry here as is his alcoholism and his unprofessionalism.Although he has been tolerated up to now he will not be in future - notafter this publication.

Lonely Planet South Africa
Instead of being a travel guide as I expected and paid for, I find this book to be more of a political "manifesto." Seems those Africaneers are only getting what they deserve according to the author. After reading this disappointing book I've decided to vacation elsewhere. If I should return to Australia I will not bother with another LonelyPlanet "guide" like I threw out after only two days the last timeI was there.

Lonely Planet South Africa
Instead of being a travel guide as I expected and paid for, I find this book to be more of a political "manifesto." Could Jon Murray only be a pen name for Karl Marx?Seems those Africaneers are only getting whatthey deserve according to the author.After reading this disappointingbook I've decided to vacation elsewhere.If I should return to Australia Iwill not bother with another Lonely Planet "guide" like I threwout after only two days the last time I was there. ... Read more

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One of a series which provides an introduction to popular subjects for young readers, this book examines planets. ... Read more

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More powerful than a fistful of euros, reaching further than a Eurail pass, this phrasebook is more entertaining than Eurovision! From Lisbon to Marseilles, Barcelona to Athens, this is your ticket to 10 languages, a whole continent of culture, and the ultimate European adventure.

Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages.Chat with the locals and discover their culture - a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience. ... Read more

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Perfect for a Mulit-Country Trip!
My husband and I used this book and the "Eastern Europe Phrasebook" during a 4-week, 7-country tour in Eastern Europe.They were perfect for our purposes - each country we visited spoke a different language, so we didn't have the ability to learn too much of each.The books had almost all of the essentials, and (both fortunately and unfortunately) we found plenty of help in English to fill in any blanks.Great (almost) pocket-size as well!

However, if you're only visiting places with one or two languages, I'd recommend getting the books for the individual languages instead.

Have a fantastic trip!;) ... Read more

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Based on the TV series Blue's Clues® created by Traci Paige Johnson, Todd Kessler, and Angela C. Santomero as seen on Nick Jr.® On Blue's Clues, Steve is played by Steven Burns.

Look for additional Blue's Clues books -- board books, sticker books, and more!

Note To Parents from Creators
Blue and Steve skidoo to the planets and need help identifying them! This book, like all Blue's Clues books, uses our cognitive-based thinking skills and science curricula. It introduces children to the planets and their places in the solar system. The Blue's Clues mission is to empower, challenge, and build the self-esteem of preschoolers. We hope this book helps you and your child realize these goals! ... Read more

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Maybe Later???
My four year old space nut was not interested in this book.We lost some of the colorforms too. :(I thought it was great, but he doesn't enjoy it.Not enough action maybe?I'm hoping he'll like it when he's a little older........

Blue Skidoos to the Planets! (Blue's Clues)
Very fun, educational book. We love it when Blue Skidoos! This book lets you learn about the Solar System in a fun way. Blue and Steve are so cute in their capes!

A great place to start
My father turned 51 this September, a month and a half before his first grandchild, my daughter, turned 2.When I was a child, he spent hours with my sister and I star-gazing, taking us to the planetarium, talking, thinking, breathing astronomy.I was 8 when the Right Stuff came out in theaters, and yet my 6 year old sister and I saw it on the big screen, even so young.So, this birthday, what better gift to give him than a copy of that movie on DVD and a not-so-subtle invitation for him to help make my daughter as starry-eyed as I am.

My daughter already loved Blues Clues, and this book is fantastic in its simplicity.She identifies easily with the characters, the text is simple enough for her to remember and it may even be among the first books she actually reads herself, plus my father gets so much joy from reading it with her, helping her to pronounce the planets' names.It IS simple, and might, if it weren't for the Colorforms stickers, but TOO simple for a 3 or 4 year old, but it is absolutely perfect for my 2 year old.She and my father give it a two thumbs up.

Also, for the record, as near as I can tell, Colorforms have never been out of production.I could be wrong, but I'm sure that colorforms were available all through the 80's, since many popular 80's cartoons have special Colorforms sets.There may have been a dryspell in the 90's, but I also know that as long ago as 1999 or 2000 new character sets of colorforms were popping up all over the place, and dozens are now available.

Anyone remember Colorforms (tm)
I avoided this book for some time. I wasn't interested in anything with "stickers" for my young son. (I could just see them being attached to the wood furniture.) At some point we ended up with the book. I was shocked that the "stickers" were actually "colorforms", something that I had been looking for. The "stickers" are made of a thin plastic with the pictures printed on them. The "pages" of the book are made of a stiff board material.

Ironically I was looking for colorforms for my son. When I inquired at the local toy stores they all told me that Colorforms were no longer in production.

good intro. to the planets
This is a simple, not too many details book about the planets.It is a good place to get kids wondering what is up there with a catchy little song from the Steve era of the show. ... Read more

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Examines the physical characteristics and conditions of Jupiter, describing its position in relation to the sun and other planets and surveying humanity's attempts to penetrate its mysteries. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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City Maps cover the world's great cities in a full-colour, easy-to-use format. Downtown and metropolitan maps are provided for each city as well as public transport routes, walking tours and a complete index of streets and sights. Plastic-coated for extra durability.

1. Around Buenos Aires
2. Centro Buenos Aires
3. La Boca
4. Palermo
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7. Unique Lonely Planet Walking Tour
8. Index of all Streets & Sights
9. Essential Information & Glossary

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Lonely Planet Buenos Aires
It is a very helpful tool to make your own tours in Buenos Aires.

Good Guide, but you needa better Buenos Airesmap
I bought this guide two months before my travel to Buenos Aires. I studied it and marked all interesting places in the city. Later in the Hotel I asked for a map (It was free)and marked all the interesting places.

The guide shows wonderfull places to go, beautifull monuments, good restaurants and coffee shops.

Don?t pay attention to prices in the guide, devaluation has changed everthing, You must know 1 US Dollar is equivalent to 3 or 3 Pesos. Also you can change Brasilian Reales, Euros, and Pounds. Example A Water Bottle is worth about 1.20 Pesos, a gooood and juicy Steak is worth 16 pesos. A Taxi is worth about 6 or 10 pesos. The guide say you could spent almost 60 US $ Day, I think it?s abou 45 US $ day.

Try central hotels, near "Teatro Colon" or Galerias Pacifico Shoping Center.

Conclusion: It?s a nice guide, but you will need better maps.

Worthless
I am an American studying abroad in Buenos Aires and I wanted to advise anyone who is considering buying this book to save their money. I had been using the Time Out guide in the city, which is infinitely better, but I brought this guide on a trip to Colonia and Montevideo because it had much more information. As it turned out, nothing the guide recommended for Montevideo was true or even open. It listed two vegetarian restaurants, one with three locations throughout the city. I spent the better part of a day walking around the city only to find that not a single one of those four was still in existence. I then found a Lebanese restaurant in the guide and walked there, only to find that it wasn't open either. I thought maybe some shopping would improve my mood... but few of the places listed still exist. We couldn't find the reccomended Baar Fun Fun or the Cafe Brasilero. At this point, I tossed the guidebook in the nearest trashcan. At least for Buenos Aires and Uruguay, its much wiser to stick with time out.

Worst travel book that I have ever read
OK, Buenos Aires is a spanish speaking city; but when every other word of a sentence in this book is full of spanish, it makes the book very very hard to read!!!! "Facts about Buenos Aires" is nothing but that, a list of useless facts emblished with unnecessary adjatives: "...something that differentiates Buenos Aires' people from their North American or European cousins - a striving melancholy and a desire for something greater." HM??? What we travelers want is an easy to read book, not a trash compactor, TOO much information one after another in a paragraph with vague english + foreign words is a waste. The few pictures in this book don't do justice to the city, take a look at any "paris" book out there, your response is usually "WOW, I would like to go there." after reading this book, it's like "hm... why do I want to go there?" Choose a different book; don't waste your time and money.

Severely Outdated& Worthless
The book was written before the peso devaluation and subsequent crisis and is utterly useless unless you need a paperweight.This 3rd Edition is dated March 2002, and all hotel and restaurant pricing is from pre-devaluation. I spent November 2004 in Buenoes Aires and am headed back January 19, 2005.Buy Time Out Buenos Aires instead: Second Edition 2004.It is perfect! ... Read more

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To Pack for East Africa

--binoculars for spotting zebu
--down jacket for the climb up Kilimanjaro
--mosquito net for camping on the multi-day safari
--this phrasebook for everything else.

Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals and discover their culture - a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience.
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Awesome.
The book was delivered to me quickly and it's very helpful. I'm definitely proud of this purchase and was a good price.

Swahili
The book is good.It help with talking to the ugandan people that I meet.

excellent resource
Fun to read; we are trying to use it w/ our kids aged 7 & 11 & it's pretty well organized. Good buy-may want to re-review after our trip to Kenya.

Pronunciation key is wrong.
There are many things in life I don't understand.

This is one of them.

On page 11, it says:
"There are no diphthongs in Swahili (i.e. vowel sound combinations, like in English 'day'.)"

Then, in chart below (paraphrasing), book instructs:
"Symbol 'ay' will be pronounced like 'may,' so 'wewe' will be pronounced 'wayway.'"

BUT WAIT, you just said there were NO DIPHTHONGS as in "day."

Now you're going to have us pronounce EVERY "E" as an incorrect DIPHTHONG?

("Wewe" is pronounced like "e" in English "leg." It rhymes with "heh heh," not "hey-hey". Why? Because it's not a diphthong!)

This might not be a big deal, except every time I read, I now have to "auto-correct" myself for the book's mistake ("ay" is pronounced "e" as in "leg"), every time.

And readers who don't catch the book's error will be pronouncing with an unmistakable accent.

Seems like someone there just turned off their thinking cap for a moment, and steered the whole book in a decidedly less useful direction.

Jambo!
Easy to use and a perfect size for travel, this is a top-notch learning device.It is well arranged, concise, and covers any eventuality.




an excellent little dictionary! ... Read more

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Smoother than capoeira, fresher than a caipirinha, tastier than an empada. Make the most of your travels with Brazilian Portuguese.

*super social section for getting to know people.
*communication tips and cultural information.
*culinary reader offers the wonders of Brazilian cuisine. ... Read more

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Very good book!
The book arrived and is in excellent condition. It is very useful for those who want practical expressions in Brazilian Portuguese - and it has a very good pronunciation guide.

Lonely Planet Brazilian Portuguese
Wonderfully compact. Lots of good info. Take a bit to familiarized yourself with the format of the book before you get to Brazil.

Helpful resource
This handy book was very helpful in dealing with language situations while traveling in Brazil.I added to tabs to the pages so that I could easier find certain sections--like what to say when meeting people, numbers, things like that.

Very good language book for traveling.
I thought this book was very good.It gave each phrase in portuguese, english and written out the way that you would pronounce it.I bought another portuguese book that did not have the pronunciations, and will never do so again if I can help it.In my opinion the english/portuguese dictionaries did not contain enough words in them.There were quite a few times where I didn't have access to the words I was looking for.Overall I think this is a good book and would definately stick with Lonely Plane Phrasebook in the future.

A Good Pocket Guide
Just got back from Rio and found this version of the guide book very helpful. I would have loved if there was an audio companion to this book. That would have been extremely helpful in getting the right pronunciations. Overall, a great pocket guide. ... Read more

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For many years the federal government funded the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), later popularised by Carl Sagan's novel "Contact" and the movie starring Jodie Foster. Though in actuality SETI never did make contact with signals from an alien civilisation, the search continues to this day through privately funded endeavours. How likely is it that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe? This is the intriguing question that has prompted William Burger's illuminating and absorbing exploration of the unusual circumstances surrounding life on earth. Burger's enlightening evaluation of evolutionary and cosmic history, full of fascinating details, shows that the human achievement may be unique in our galaxy. ... Read more

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Really outstanding book with one major flaw
This is an outstanding recapitulation of who we are and how we got that way written by a wise and learned man.William Burger, who is Curator Emeritus at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, begins with our sun and its place in the universe and ends with reflections on human beings and how rare we might be.Along the way he demonstrates that he is well-grounded in a variety of disciplines, including most especially evolutionary biology.I found his insights into the discoveries of science most interesting and edifying.I especially liked his clear prose and forthright statements shorn of humbug and euphemism.

Strange to say, however, I am not in agreement with the spirit of his central thesis.While it is true that we human beings are unique in the most technical sense of the term, just as every fingerprint is unique, it is questionable whether the essence of who and what we are as intelligent beings is unique in this unimaginably vast universe.Indeed, I am amazed that Burger, who is so objective about our savage tenancies as well as our incredible ability to manipulate our environment to our perceived advantage, can be so, shall we say, myopic in his inability to see the possibilities in the wider scheme of things.

Near the end of the book he recalls the famous Drake Equation, and as others have done, examines each of the factors and comes to the conclusion that it may very well be that we are the only intelligence species extant in the galaxy.

I have pointed out the fallacies inherent in such an endeavor elsewhere, but let me note here that at least 90% of the matter in the universe is still a complete mystery to us. While it is technically feasible to say that intelligent life as we know it; that is, carbon-based life dependent upon liquid water, etc, may very well be rare in our galaxy, it is a mistake to suppose that any convincing argument against the existence of intelligence life itself has been made.

There is also a peculiar fallacy in the argument (sustained throughout the book) that there is something marvelous or probabilistically rare in the unique series of events that have characterized the odyssey (as Burger calls it) of our planet's "perfect" history, leading to our rise.This argument can be seen as a sidebar to the "anthropic cosmological principle," which I like to call the "anthropic cosmological fallacy," in the sense that we are here only because of a miraculous series of events, when in fact we are here precisely because of those events.The fallacy can be seen in being dealt the following hand at poker: the nine of hearts, the five of clubs, the king spades, the eight of spades, and the trey of diamonds.This is quite an amazing hand.The odds against it being dealt are 2,598,959 to 1! (same as the odds against being dealt a royal flush in, say, diamonds).It is only our perspective that makes the one hand seem commonplace and the other miraculous.

Burger writes, "However unlikely our odyssey, the incontrovertible fact is that our planet, our solar system, and our star are ideally configured for the development of intelligent life..." (p. 290)

This is not only ex-post facto reasoning, it is misleading since beings living near (or even on, for all we know) a brown dwarf may make a similar observation, citing the congenial warmth of their star and the lack of "visible" radiation as part of the unique factors that make their life possible.They might even point to how "lucky" they are at being particularly good at sensing the surfaces of things, a talent that would not have developed in a "sighted" world, a talent that has allowed an intelligence of a particularly high order to evolve.

Earlier in the book, Burger argues convincingly that it was the stresses and demands of inter-group war (a biological arms race within our species) that promoted the rapid grown of our brains.This is a fine insight.However on page 280 Burger writes that without our stabilizing moon, "a badly wobbling planet...[would] put huge stresses on terrestrial vegetation and the animals it supports."His conclusion is that without the "accident" of our precisely perfect moon, intelligent life is unlikely to have evolved.But, to recall his own reasoning, is it not possible that the "stresses" of a "wobbling planet" could lead to compensations by life forms, perhaps even serving as a factor in the growth of intelligence?

Burger concedes that bacterial life may be common in the universe and that there may even be life under the surface of frozen worlds, as on Jupiter's moon, Europa.However he writes that "Such an environment...won't give rise to complex life-forms that are hungry for energy."He adds, as though in explanation, that "there's not a lot of energy available." (p. 277)But, it is hard to see how such an explanation explains anything.When there is a scarcity, perhaps it is the other way around: creatures then become even cleverer at finding what they need.

I wish I had more space to talk about the rest of this excellent book and to point to the many fine observations made by Burger and to celebrate the 99% of his book which is wonderful and a delight to read.I have cited his idea that war is what has swelled our brains (see p. 211).That argument alone is worth the price of the book, but there are many others, including a devastating critique of the possibility of interstellar travel to colonize the galaxy beginning on page 272.I also liked the many sharp and candid statements that sparkle the text.Here's one to think about:

"Killing members of our own group is murder, but killing members of other groups is the fastest way for a male to gain social prestige." (p. 215)

Wonderful Survey, Dubious Conclusion
This book may provide the most balanced and readable non-technical overview in print of how life and intelligence developed on the Earth.Burger covers an amazingly wide variety of scientific issues, ranging from the probability of planetary systems around other stars to the evolution of our basic technologies.Unfortunately, Burger's balanced presentation falls apart in the last chapter when he turns to his primary purpose, which is to discredit the idea that intelligent life and technological civilizations may exist elsewhere.Suddenly we find ourselves reading opinions based on unproven assumptions, personal beliefs, and politically correct ideology.Burger introduces values into the Drake equation that are as arbitrary as those used by scientists who are optimistic about the existence of other civilizations.He tells us that finding another planet as good as ours is "close to impossible," a truly odd statement given the recentsuccesses in finding other planetary systems.Interstellar travel is described as a "near-impossibility," though no law of physics or engineering makes it so.

Burger argues that, since our own evolutionary path is extremely unlikely to berepeated because of unique circumstances and chance developments, intelligence is unlikely to evolve elsewhere.He fails to consider the possibility that there may be many other possible evolutionary paths in other environments, also driven by both chance and necessity, that could lead to intelligences very different from our own.Physical and cultural evolutions elsewhere do not have to duplicate ours to produce intelligence and civilization.

Burger shows his cultural pessimism when he writes that "the present drama unfolding on planet Earth makes it seem highly likely that energy-guzzling technological societies have a short life span," clearly anunproven assumption.He repeats this conclusion on the last page when he writes that "it seems highly likely that creatures with higher cognitive intelligence...come into being from time to time, then quickly fade away."How can he possibly draw such a conclusionfrom one example?This is opinion, not science.

Since Copernicus, scientists have discredited the assumption of human centrality again and again.Yet many biologists still seem to cling to anthropocentrism.The history of science suggests that, in the long run, they are riding for a fall.

A renaissance scholar�s take on the totality of biology
The hackneyed term "interdisciplinary science" is often bandied about in academia (mostly by clueless administrators), so it is a real pleasure when a true interdisciplinary work appears.Botanist William C. Burger's new book "Perfect Planet, Clever Species" is one of those rare exceptions: a thought-provoking synthesis of biology, geology, astronomy, history, and sociology.

It is a truly interdisciplinary look at nothing less than life on earth: How it began, how it diversified, and the chances for "life" originating again anywhere at all in the universe.Further, Burger looks at the scale of earth's biological complexity, and the road that one species, humans, have taken to attain their present complex technological society.

What impressed me most about the book is Burger's interest in the "backstory" of life - its astronomical context.In my experience most of my fellow biologists are unfortunately "astrophobic" and shrink from any consideration of how extraterrestrial events (such as gamma ray bursts, Jupiter, the moon, or the sun's galactic orbit) may have influenced evolution and indeed made us possible.In this regard, "Perfect Planet, Clever Species" is a useful companion volume stressing the biological side of the "Rare Earth" hypothesis of astronomers Ward and Brownlee.

Highly recommended; the distillation of a lifetime's worth of research, reading, and thought by a renaissance scholar. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more