The New Science of Astrobiology: From Genesis of the Living Cell to Evolution of Intelligent Behaviour in the Universe.

Proceedings of the Sixth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution, Trieste, Italy 18-22 September, 2000. Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004, cm.16,5x24,5, pp.XX,428, legatura editoriale cartonata, copertina figurata a colori. The general topic of this volume concerns the origin, evolution, distribution, and destiny of life in the Universe. Firstly, it discusses the transition from inert matter to cellular life and its evolution to fully developed intelligent beings, and also the possibility of life occurring elsewhere, particularly in other environments in our own and other solar systems. Secondly, the book explores the role that space missions may play in obtaining further insight into the question of the origin of life. Reviews are included of the research for microorganisms in the solar system and the well-established project for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The present work is much broader in its scope than in previous conferences: over one hundred leading scientists have reviewed the entire range of subjects dealt with in these sixty-nine papers. Audience: This book is aimed at advanced students, as well as researchers, in the many areas of basic, earth, and life sciences that contribute to the study of the first steps in the origin of life..

italiana. Giornata di Studio del 15/7/1991. Firenze, Accad.dei Georgofili 1991, cm.20x29,5, pp.42, brossura Collana Quaderni,6.

Milano, SugarCo Edizioni 1978, cm.13,5x21, pp.279, brossura, cop.fig.a colori. Collana Nuova Biblioteca Storica,24.

Part I:The linnean arrangement in which nearly 30.000 species are enumerated with the systematic name and authority, accentuation, derivation of generic names, literal english of specific names, synonymes systematic and english of both genra and species, habit, habitation in the garden, indigenous habitation, popular caracter, height, time of flowering, colour of the flower, mode of propagation, soil, native country, year of introduction, and reference to figures. Precede by an introduction to the linnean System. PART II:The Jussieuean arrangement, of nearly 4000 genera with an introduction to the naturale System , and a genrral description and history of each order. A new edition with supplements including all the new plants down to march 1839 and with a new general index to the whole work. London, Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-R 1832, cm.15x23, pp.XXIV,742, 32, Publisher's green cloth boards.