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This book explores the questions of What, Why, When, How and Where might we might find extra-Terrestrials (a.k.a. Aliens) and their habitats throughout the Universe- and Who might they be?
List of contents
Chapter 1: A Question; Just WHY are We Looking for Other Living Entities and Other Planets? Chapter 2: Setting the Scene. Chapter 3: Exoplanets (#1). Chapter 4: Exoplanets (#2). Chapter 5: 22nd January 1992 - The FIRST Exoplanet? Chapter 6: 1st November 1995 - The FIRST NORMAL Exoplanet. Chapter 7: Après Moi, le Déluge. Chapter 8: Exoplanets; The Devil is in the Details. Chapter 9: World(s) Enough, and Time. Chapter 10: Evolution. Chapter 11: The Left-Hand of Darkness and The Right-Hand of Light. Chapter 12: The Extreme Limits. Chapter 13: ETs and (perhaps) ETIs. Chapter 14: The Current Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligences (SETI); Should We be Doing Them? Chapter 15: SETI. Chapter 16: That MHoQs again; A.K.A. ‘The Fermi Paradox’. Chapter 17: Signatures - Catching ETs and ETIs Unaware. Chapter 18: The Wilder Speculations. From; the Almost-Sane, through the Three-Quarters-Crazy to the ‘You Really Must Be Totally Out of Your Mind’ Level. Epilogue. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.
About the author
Chris Kitchin is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Hertfordshire and a freelance writer of astrophysics books. From 1987 to 2001, he was director of the University's Observatory and from 1996 to 2001, he was also head of the Division of Physics and Astronomy. He took early retirement in 2001 in order to concentrate on his writing. Kitchin has written 14 single-author books, with several being translated into Chinese, German, Japanese and Polish and some having multiple editions. He has also contributed to another dozen or so books, and he has written hundreds of articles ranging from popular astronomy to specialist research. In 1997, he was awarded the title of Professor of the Public Understanding of Astronomy.
Summary
This book explores the questions of What, Why, When, How and Where might we might find extra-Terrestrials (a.k.a. Aliens) and their habitats throughout the Universe– and Who might they be?
