Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
ISBN-10
0192862189
ISBN-13
9780192862181
Series
Gaia
Category
Political Science
Pages
148
Language
English
Published
2000-09-28
Publisher
Oxford Paperbacks
Authors
James Lovelock, J. E. Lovelock

Description

This classic work is now reissued in new covers with a new Preface by the author. Written for non-scientists, this is an original work in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational idea that life on earth functions as a single organism.

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