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Author Poynter, Jane.

Title The human experiment : two years and twenty minutes inside Biosphere 2 / Jane Poynter.

Imprint New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  577.0724 P877h 2006    ---  Available
Description viii, 368 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-351) and index.
Contents Oxygen dilemma -- A rarified atmosphere -- Ecopreneur -- Sea change -- Extreme training -- Building a new world -- Vertebrate X, Y, and Z -- The tallest nail gets hammered down -- Closure -- What honeymoon? -- The long dark winter -- Cabin fever -- It takes four months to make a pizza -- Gold or lead -- Lines drawn in desert sand -- Starving, suffocating, and going quite mad -- I dreamed of wild horses -- Dysfunctional family -- Window-shopping -- Are we there yet? -- Reentry -- Thirty-seven brands of ketchup -- April fools -- And now what?
Subject Biosphere 2 (Project)
Ecology -- Research.
Poynter, Jane.
Poynter, Jane.
Biosphere 2 (Project)
Ecological Systems, Closed -- Personal Narratives.
Crops, Agricultural -- growth & development.
Life Support Systems -- instrumentation.
Social Isolation -- Personal Narratives.
ISBN 156025775X : $27.00
9781560257752
Standard No. YDXCP 2385937
NLM 101287317
NZ1 10974409

 
    
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