Life Stories: World-Renowned Scientists Reflect on Their Lives and the Future of Life on Earth

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Summary: Scientific Shakers and Makers
Review: Heather Newbold has done the high priesthood of scientists and laypersons a huge favor in compiling first-person accounts of how science is individually done. It's great to hear from James Lovelock himself who and what Gaia is and from Max Nicholson the political background of the Nature Conservancy. These very personal sixteen essays by notable scientists cover mostly environmental research projects, but physicist John Firor makes clear that nuclear power and military policy makers are the real culprits when it comes to finger pointing of who's responsible for the trashing of our own habitat.

Rating:
Summary: Scientific Shakers and Makers
Review: Heather Newbold has done the high priesthood of scientists and laypersons a huge favor in compiling first-person accounts of how science is individually done. It's great to hear from James Lovelock himself who and what Gaia is and from Max Nicholson the political background of the Nature Conservancy. These very personal sixteen essays by notable scientists cover mostly environmental research projects, but physicist John Firor makes clear that nuclear power and military policy makers are the real culprits when it comes to finger pointing of who's responsible for the trashing of our own habitat.

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Summary: A book that belongs in your millennium library
Review: If you want to comprehend the environmental challenges that face the human family, read to the personal, emotionally moving, and scientifically potent words of the men and women whose lives have been devoted to the cause. Powerful and brilliant.