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21%OFFPaul Davies - The Eerie Silence: Searching for Ourselves in the Universe - 9780141037783 - V9780141037783
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The Eerie Silence: Searching for Ourselves in the Universe

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Description for The Eerie Silence: Searching for Ourselves in the Universe Paperback. Why isn't the universe teeming with alien life? This book is a guide to the 'Fermi Paradox'. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 24. Weight in Grams: 200.

Paul Davies' The Eerie Silence: Searching For Ourselves in the Universe is an engaging and lucid guide to the 'Fermi Paradox' - why isn't the universe teeming with alien life?

If aliens ever contact us, it will be the single most significant event in human history. And Paul Davies will be responsible for saying something back.

For fifty years the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the skies. Now Davies, head of SETI's Post-Detection Task Group, with 'a rare talent for making physics mind-bogglingly vivid and exciting' (Times Higher Education), explores what the ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141037783
SKU
V9780141037783
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About Paul Davies
Paul Davies has achieved an international reputation for his ability to explain the significance of advanced scientific ideas in simple language. He is the author of some twenty books and has written and presented a number of TV and radio programmes. He has also won the prestigious Templeton Prize, the world's largest award for intellectual endeavour, and a Glaxo Science ... Read more

Reviews for The Eerie Silence: Searching for Ourselves in the Universe
In an area more given to fabulation than fact, [Paul Davies'] level-headedness is positively refreshing. If you ever start worrying about why no one is talking to us, this is the book to calm you down
David Papineau
Observer
Davies is the most engaging of writers
Clive Cookson
FT
An immensely readable investigation of ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Eerie Silence: Searching for Ourselves in the Universe


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