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-Title: Dead Mars, Dying Earth.
-Authors:
John E. Brandenburg, Monica Rix Paxon.
-Publisher:
The Crossing Press.
-Pages:
24 + 312
-Illustrations:
B&W graphics and photos.
-Language:
English.
-Publication Date:
1999.
-ISBN: 1580910661

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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Dead Mars, Dying Earth is the remarkable true story of scientific discoveries that have consequences for the entire human race, present and future. Detailing three decades of Martian exploration - from the first pictures sent back by Mariner 9 to the discovery of Martian microfossils - the authors show how the facts about Mars expose the danger that own planet is in. We are on course for global disaster; unless we take inmediate action our planet may sufer a similar fate to Mars. Through global warming, the thinning of the ozone layer and our continued use of fossil fuels, we are reversing the process that first made human life possible on Earth and that once nurtured life on Mars. We have set ourselves on course for extintion, but we can certainly slow the process down. And we may even be able to reverse it completely by adhering to the suggested strategy outlined in this book. Blending scientific reason with human passion, Dead Mars, Dying Earth calls us to take inmediate responsability for the world in which we live.

(Extracted from the press release).

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.
-Plate Illustrations.
-Acknowledments.
-Foreword by John E. Brandenburg.
-Foreword by Monica Rix Paxon.
-Introduction.
-1. Between Fire and Ice.
-2. The Airless Sphere.
-3. A Whole New Universe.
-4. From Dust to Dust.
-5. Bolder and Boulder.
-6. Virtual Unreality.
-7. Life Rules.
-8. The Vortex.
-9. Lost and Gone Forever.
-10. Dead Mars.
-11. Dying Earth.
-12. The Enterprise.
-Epilogue: Tea With Sophia on the Great Sand Sea.
-Appendix A: OID as a Global Concern.
-Appendix B: Peak Flow Meter Test.
-Notes.
-Glossary of Acronyms.
-Recommended Reading and Resources.
-Bibliography.
-Index.

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