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Title:
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The human experiment : two years and twenty minutes inside Biosphere 2
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Authors:
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Jane Poynter
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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New York : Basic Books, 2006
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-1-56025-775-2
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Size:
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viii, 368 p. / 22 cm
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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QH541.15
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Subjects:
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Biosphere 2 (Project)
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Crops, agricultural--Growth & development
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Ecological systems, closed--Personal narratives
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Ecology--Research
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Human adaptation
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Human beings--Effect of environment on
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Life support systems (Space environment)--Instrumentation
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Poynter, Jane
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Social Isolation--Personal narratives
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Description:
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Contents : Prologue --; ch. 1.; Oxygen dilemma --; ch. 2. A; rarified atmosphere --; ch. 3.; Ecopreneur --; ch. 4.; Sea change --; ch. 5.; Extreme training --; ch. 6.; Building a new world --; ch. 7.; Vertebrate X, Y, and Z --; ch. 8. The; tallest nail gets hammered down --; ch. 9.; Closure --; ch. 10.; What honeymoon? --; ch. 11. The; long dark winter --; ch. 12.; Cabin fever --; ch. 13.; It takes four months to make a pizza --; ch. 14.; Gold or lead --; ch. 15.; Lines drawn in desert sand --; ch. 16.; Starving, suffocating, and going quite mad --; ch. 17.; I dreamed of wild horses --; ch. 18.; Dysfunctional family --; ch. 19.; Window-shopping --; ch. 20.; Are we there yet? --; ch. 21.; Reentry --; ch. 22.; Thirty-seven brands of ketchup --; ch. 23.; April fools --; ch. 24.; And now what? --; Epilogue --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Photo permissions --; Index.
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