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There is much more than science in this book....This is ultimately an uplifting book about the way life ought to be, both at a personal and at a global level. --Sunday Times (London)<br>

There is much more than science in this book....This is ultimately an uplifting book about the way life ought to be, both at a personal and at a global level. --Sunday Times (London) There is much more than science in this book....This is ultimately an uplifting book about the way life ought to be, both at a personal and at a global level. --Sunday Times (London) There is much more than science in this book....This is ultimately an uplifting book about the way life ought to be, both at a personal and at a global level. --Sunday Times (London) There is much more than science in this book....This is ultimately an uplifting book about the way life ought to be, both at a personal and at a global level. --Sunday Times (London)

Lovelock is one of the most influential scientists of the modern age, and this eloquent book is a testament to his astonishing range of achievement and influence. Often hailed as the inventor of the microwave oven, Lovelock's most famous achievements include the invention of a device for detecting CFC's in the atmosphere and thereby creating the Green movement. But it is his concept of Gaia that is generally considered to be one of the most resonant theories for understanding our planet as it enters the new millennium. Lovelock's theory identifies the Earth as a self-regulating planet with the organic relationship between the ability of life forms to reproduce themselves ensuring the overall well-being of the planet. Needless to say, the theory is highly controversial, (evolutionary biologists take great exception to it), but this completely unputdownable manuscript lays out the dramatic steps by which Lovelock arrived at his views as well as his creation of the computer model called Daisyworld. The latter explains the Earth's self-regulating process utilizing black and white daisies in its data: a concept which, like so much in Lovelock's work, manages to combine the poetic and the scientific. Following the author on this remarkable journey also takes the reader through his experiences working for Nasa in the 1960s and 70s on lunar and planetary science programmes, as well as his significant work on the ozone layer issue (some consider the letter to be his most important contribution to scientific theory). A quite fascinating journey through a remarkable mind. (Kirkus UK)

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James Lovelock is an independent scientist, inventor, and author.

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