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Автор: James Lovelock
Название: The Revenge of Gaia
ISBN: 0141025972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141025971
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: For thousands of years, humans have exploited the planet without counting the cost. Now Gaia, the living Earth, is fighting back. As the polar icecaps shrink and the global temperature rises, we approach the point of no return. This title offers a dire warning against the unchecked growth of civilization.

Автор: Lovelock, James
Название: Novacene
ISBN: 0141990791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141990798
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Описание: SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of life on Earth. James Lovelock argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after three centuries, coming to an end. A new age - the novacene - has already begun.

New beings will emerge from existing artificial intelligence systems. They will think 10,000 times faster than we do and will regard us as we now regard plants. The cruel, violent machine takeover imagined by sci-fi writers will not happen: these hyper-intelligent beings will be as dependent on the health of the planet as we are.

They will need the planetary cooling system of Gaia to defend from the increasing heat of the sun. Gaia depends on organic life. We will be partners in this project.

It is crucial, Lovelock argues, that the intelligence of Earth survives and prospers. We are at present the only beings capable of understanding the cosmos, but he speculates that the novacene could be the beginning of a process that will see intelligence suffusing the entire cosmos. At the age 100, Lovelock has produced the most compelling work of his life.

Автор: Sally Sutton; Brian Lovelock
Название: Dig, Dump, Roll
ISBN: 1406385034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781406385038
Издательство: Walker Books
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Описание: Wham-a-hammer, bam-a-slamma! The construction crew is back - but what are they building this time?Crash-a-rumble!Smash-a-grumble!What's at work? Here's a clue:It will clear the ground for you. Bulldozer! Coming through!Diggers, dump trucks, rollers, and more - it takes a lot of big, noisy machines to build a school! Every young child who has ever been fascinated by a building site will gravitate to this exciting new title in the Construction Crew series.

Автор: James Lovelock
Название: The Revenge of Gaia
ISBN: 0713999144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780713999143
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Illustrated with examples drawn from his experiences around the world, the author draws conclusions, an advocacy of nuclear energy. He argues that a way for humankind to come to terms with Gaia, and have a chance of surviving, is to embrace science and technology, not reject them.

Автор: James Lovelock
Название: The Revenge of Gaia
ISBN: 0141029900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141029900
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Lovelock James
Название: The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
ISBN: 0465019072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780465019076
Издательство: Little Brown
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The global temperature is rising, the ice caps are melting, and levels of pollution across the world have reached unprecedented heights. According to eminent scientist James Lovelock, in order to survive an assault from her dependents, the Earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent "hot state." Within the next century, we will almost certainly be forced to give up many of the comforts of western living as supplies are threatened. Only the fittest--and the smartest--will survive.

A reluctant jeremiad from one of the environmental movement's elder statesmen, The Vanishing Face of Gaia offers an essential wake-up call for the human race.

Автор: John Gribbin,Mary Gribbin
Название: He Knew He Was Right
ISBN: 0141031611 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141031613
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Jim Lovelock is an iconic figure in British science, a prophet whose prophecies are coming true. He is best known as the `father` of Gaia theory, which is established as the most useful way of understanding the dramatic changes happening to the environment of the Earth. This biography reveals his independent, original and inspiring life.

Автор: Lovelock, James,
Название: Of Strangers and Bees
ISBN: 1911284363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911284369
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: In the latest thrilling multi-stranded epic from the award-winning author of The Devils` Dance, an Uzbek writer in exile traces the fate of the medieval polymath Avicenna, who shaped Islamic thought and science for centuries. The novel follows Avicenna across the ages from Ottoman Turkey to medieval Germany and Renaissance Italy.

Автор: Paul, Debra Lovelock, Christina
Название: Delivering business analysis
ISBN: 1780174683 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780174686
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Описание: This book takes you through the creation and management of a BA service, from setting strategy to recruiting business analysts, to continuous improvement, through to useful supporting tools and technology. Top tips, case studies and worked examples are included throughout.

Автор: Lovelock J. a.
Название: Let Me Tell You Something
ISBN: 1913289060 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781913289065
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Let Me Tell You Something is a compilation of J.A. Lovelock's oftentimes satirical and always engaging columns where her musings and observations on modern life and the big issues of the day are seasoned with her signature humour and wit. They are applicable to a wide range of readers because they are just so timely, pertinent and funny as hell.
She is not afraid to go where other columnists fear to tread and tell it like it is on varied and diverse subjects including crime and punishment, politics, religion, scam artists, love cheats, flying pigs and free samples, weaving in deep truths that jump out at readers and have them nodding along in agreement.
This book with its lively, current, questioning and wide-ranging topics will inform (including step by step instructions on how to bag a billionaire) provoke, entertain in equal measure and even make the reader laugh out loud. Or pigs will fly

Автор: Lovelock, James
Название: Homage to gaia
ISBN: 1788164601 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788164603
Издательство: Profile
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Описание: A new edition of the celebrated thinker James Lovelock`s autobiography to celebrate his 100th birthday.

Автор: Lovelock Frank
Название: Lenore: The Last Narrative of Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 1733179410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733179416
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Since the beginning, The Imp of the Perverse has haunted his life and art. Now Edgar Allan Poe, relentlessly shadowed by this destructive force, finds himself on the brink of extinction. Comatose in a Baltimore hospital, he creates the fiction of his own demise, which seeks to reclaim every soul ever quickened by his imagination. "The Raven" compels all inexorably toward implosion, a unified culmination of the creator's mind, an enactment of the cataclysm told in Eureka, Poe's vision of the great cosmic collapse. There is one who resists, the dark and lovely Lenore. With her lover, Danton Reynolds, she finds herself fleeing not only from the shackles of slavery but also from the powerful will of the master, who would have her once again by his side - his darling, his darling, his life and his bride.

Unlikely allies aide the desperate fugitives in their flight: C. Auguste Dupin, the famous detective, created as the rational avatar of Poe's own mind, is on a mission to find and save his creator from imminent dissolution and thereby save himself. Through decoding a series of encrypted messages left by Poe to guide and, at the same time, deceive the detective, Dupin has found himself always one step behind the elusive master. Also swept up in this cosmic drama is the distraught and lonely servant, resurrected from the dead, and given the overwhelming task of restoring moral balance to the soul of the great writer. It is these two who convince Lenore and Danton that the only hope for salvation lies in the medium of the lovers' own legend. If they are not to be subsumed as characters in Poe's tale, they must absorb him into theirs. The stage is set for the Armageddon, but it takes the dark, evil, and perverse thing, which has been pursuing all of them since they left Richmond, to force the ultimate showdown. A terrifying finale is played out in the maelstrom of Poe's imagination; from it can emerge only one survivor in this, the last narrative of Edgar Allan Poe.