THE AGES OF GAIA: A BIOGRAPHY OF OUR LIVING EARTH
Book ID/图书代码： 0600012B59233
English Summary/英文概要： The Earth, James Lovelock proposes, behaves as if it were a superorganism, made up from all the living things and from their material environment. When he first sketched out his brilliant Gaia theory in the 1970s, people around the world embraced it; within a short time Gaia has moved from the margins of scientific research to the mainstream. James Lovelock argues that such things as the level of oxygen, the formation of clouds, and the saltiness of the oceans may all be controlled by interacting physical, chemical, and biological processes. He believes that "the self-regulation of climate and chemical composition is a process that emerges from the tightly coupled evolution of rocks, air, and ocean - in addition to that of organisms. Such interlocking self-regulation, while rarely optimal - consider the cold and hot places of the earth, the wet and the dry - nevertheless keeps the Earth a fit place for life." The New York Times Book Review has called his arguments in favor of Gaia "plausible and above all illuminating." Now, in an updated paperback edition, fully revised, the author amplifies his account of how Gaia works with descriptions of new fields of research that have been opened by this pathbreaking concept.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： James Lovelock 认为地球就像一个由所有活着的生物和其物质环境构成的超级有机体。世界各地的人民都拥护Lovelock在20实际70年首次提出的伟大的“地球女神”的理论。在很短的时间内，该理论已从边缘成为科学研究的主流。Lovelock认为像氧气量，云的形成以及海水的盐度是可以在物理、化学和生物相互作用的过程中被控制的。他认为，“自我调节气候和化学成分，既是一个有机体，更是一个从紧密结合的岩石，空气和海洋逐步发展的过程。这种环环相扣的自我调节，虽然很少却是最好的 ： 地球虽有寒冷、燥热、潮湿和干燥的不同区域，还是因此得以成为一个适合生活的地方。纽约时报书评说他的理论“很有道理及启发性。” 在这本经过全面更新修订的平装版中，作者拓展了“地球女神”理论如何在新的研究领域的运用。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：这本书描述了一组关于地球生命的观察,有一天,可能被当作人类思想断裂的主要方面。如果Lovelock看问题的观点最终是正确的，我们将会看作是生命的连续系统，自我调节和自我改变,一种强大的生物。——刘易斯•托马斯 This book describes a set of observations about the life of our planet which may, one day, be recognized as one of the major discontinuities in human thought. If Lovelock turns out to be as right in his view of things as I believe he is, we will be viewing the Earth as a coherent system of life, self-regulating and self-changing, a sort of immense living organism.--Lewis Thomas
About the Author/作者介绍： James Lovelock 既是一个科学家，发明家，更是一个作家。 1974年，他被当选为英国皇家学会院士；1990年，他获得首届阿姆斯特丹的荷兰皇家艺术与科学学院环境奖，对提高环保意识有着重要作用的电子捕获检测器就是他的发明之一， 该探测器是人类第一个能发现残留农药。他还与NASA 合作，且他的一些发明被NASA采用以发展他们的行星探索计划。 James Lovelock is an independent scientist, inventor, and author. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974 and in 1990 was awarded the first Amsterdam Prize for the Environment by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. One of his inventions is the electron capture detector, which was important in the development of environmental awareness. It revealed for the first time the ubiquitous distribution of pesticide residues. He co-operated with NASA and some of his inventions were adopted in their program of planetary exploration.
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