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 | Pathways to the Origin and Evolution of Meanings in the Universe Edited by Alexei Sharov and George Mikhailovsky Copyright: 2024 | Status: Published | Hardcover The book explains why meaning is a part of the universe populated by life, and how organisms generate meanings and then use them for creative transformation of the environment and themselves. |
 | Origin of Life via Archaea Shaped Droplets to Archaea First with a Compendium of Archaea Micrographs By Richard Gordon Copyright: 2024 | Status: Published | Hardcover This book surveys the models for the origin of life and presents a new model starting with shaped droplets and ending with life as polygonal Archaea; it collects the most published micrographs of Archaea (discovered only in 1977), which support this conclusion, and thus provides the first visual survey of Archaea. |
 | Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life Edited by Stoyan K. Smoukov, Joseph Seckbach, Richard Gordon Copyright: 2023 | Status: Published | Hardcover Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life provides a forum to compare and contrast the many hypotheses that have been put forward to explain the origin of life. |
 | Terraforming Mars Edited by Martin Beech, Joseph Seckbach and Richard Gordon Copyright: 2022 | Status: Published | Hardcover This book provides a thorough scientific review of how Mars might eventually be colonized, industrialized, and transformed into a world better suited to human habitation. |
 | Technosignatures for Detecting Intelligent Life in Our Universe A Research Companion Edited by Anamaria Berea Copyright: 2022 | Status: Published | Hardcover This book shows the current state of the research in the field of technosignatures, presenting novel ideas from economics, forecasting, and data sciences, making it an ideal research compendium for scientists. |
 | Extremophiles as Astrobiological Models Edited by Joseph Seckbach and Helga Stan-Lotter Copyright: 2021 | Status: Published | Hardcover The search for extraterrestrial life is concentrating on extremophiles because of their unusual properties; this book presents new data of microorganisms tolerating harsh living conditions which enlarge the knowledge of living beings. |
 | Planet Formation and Panspermia New Prospects for the Movement of Life through Space Edited by Branislav Vukotic, Joseph Seckbach and Richard Gordon Copyright: 2021 | Status: Published | Hardcover An in-depth view of the panspermia hypothesis examined against the latest knowledge of planetary formation and related processes. |
 | Astrobiology Science, Ethics, and Public Policy Edited by Octavio A. Chon Torres, Ted Peters, Joseph Seckbach and Richard Gordon Copyright: 2021 | Status: Published | Hardcover This unique book advances the frontier discussion of a wide spectrum of astrobiological issues on scientific advances, space ethics, social impact, religious meaning, and public policy formulation. |