Under a Green Sky
by Peter D. Ward | 
Out of Thin Air
by Peter D. Ward | 
The Medea Hypothesis
by Peter D. Ward | 
Human Universe
by Brian Cox | 
Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space
by Isaac Asimov | 
The Life and Death of Planet Earth
by Peter D. Ward | 
Asimov On Astronomy
by Isaac Asimov | 
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
by Neil deGrasse Tyson |
The Cosmic Connection
by Carl Sagan | 
Extraterrestrial Civilizations
by Isaac Asimov |
The Fifth Miracle
by Paul Davies | 
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
by Richard Dawkins |
Intelligent Life in the Universe
by I. S. Shklovskii | 
Undeniable
by Bill Nye | 
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
by Carl Sagan | 
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
by Richard Dawkins |
Genesis
by Robert M. Hazen | 
The Mind's Sky
by Timothy Ferris | 
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Physics of the Impossible
by Michio Kaku |
What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, and apply it to what we know about the rise of life on Earth and to what could possibly happen elsewhere in the universe. Everyone who has been thrilled by the recent discoveries of extrasolar planets and the indications of life on Mars and the Jovian moon Europa will be fascinated by Rare Earth, and its implications for those who look to the heavens for companionship.