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Anthropocene
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Autobiography
biodiversity
biology
carbon cycle
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Climate change
climate science
connection
Earth
Ecology
Ecoystems
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extinction rebellion
Feedback
Gaia
green
Greens
habitat
Homage to Gaia
humanity
James Lovelock
living earth
London
Lovelock
Marine Biological Association
Memoir
NASA
Natural Science
natural world
nitrogen cycle
oxygen
ozone
pollution
Professor Lovelock
scientist
Shall
system
water cycle
Product details
- ISBN 9781788164603
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jul 2019
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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With over fifty patents to his name and innumerable awards and accolades, James Lovelock was a distinguished and original thinker, widely recognized by the international scientific community.
In this inspiring book, republished in the year of his 100th birthday, Lovelock tells his life story, from his first steps as a scientist to his work with organisations as diverse as NASA, Shell and the Marine Biological Association. Homage to Gaia describes the years of travel and work that led to his crucial scientific breakthroughs in environmental awareness, uncovering how CFCs impact on the ozone layer and creating the concept of Gaia, the theory that the Earth is a self-regulating system.
Written in a sharp and energetic style, James Lovelock's book will entertain and inspire anyone interested in science or the creative spirit beyond his legacy.
James Lovelock, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, was the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). His many books on the subject include Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979), The Revenge of Gaia (2006), The Vanishing Face of Gaia (2009) and A Rough Ride to the Future (2014). In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour by Her Majesty the Queen, in 2005 Prospect magazine named him one of the world's top 100 public intellectuals, and in 2006 he received the Wollaston Medal, the highest Award of the UK Geological Society. He died on the day of his 103rd birthday in July 2022.
