The Search for Aliens: A Rough Guide to Life on Other Worlds

Description

A guide to the most exciting field of modern science: the search for extraterrestrial life. It identifies, locates, and describes the research projects; everything from radio dishes searching for intelligent alien signals to deep oceanic research, seeking links between terrestrial organisms and the broader cosmos.

Author description

Piers Bizony is a full-time popular science writer. He won NASA's Eugene Emme Ward award for Astronautical writing for his book, The Rivers of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life, chronicling the Mars Viking hunt for life in the 1970s.

Stock Information

General Fields

• ISBN : 9781405383240
• Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint : Rough Guides Ltd
• Publication date : January 2012
• Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 16mm
• Produced in : United Kingdom
• Availability date : February 2012
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Pages : 272
• Dewey classification : 576.839
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Piers Bizony