Living with the stars
Subtitle: how the human body is connected to the life cycles of the Earth, the planets, and the stars
By: Karel Schrijver and Iris Schrijver
Contributors: Schrijver, Iris, author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780198727439
Subjects: Origin; Life; Exobiology; Life cycles (Biology); Chemical elements; Cosmology
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The illusion of permanence; title: 2. Dying to live; title: 3. Countering wear and tear; title: 4. Food for thought; title: 5. Basking in solar energy; title: 6. The human elements; title: 7. Cycles of change; title: 8. Infant atoms; title: 9. The origin of elements; title: 10. Cosmic rays and galactic ecology; title: 11. Tails in the wind; title: 12. A magnetic heartbeat; title: 13. Building a home; title: 14. Stardust in flux.