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  The Deep Hot Biosphere
  

  by Thomas Gold , Freeman Dyson

  ISBN 0387985468 (0-387-98546-8)
  Hardcover, Springer Verlag

  
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  Suppose someone claimed that we are not running out of petroleum? Or that life on Earth began below the surface of our planet? Or that oil and gas are not "fossil fuels"? Or that if we find extraterrestrial life it is likely to be within, not on, other planets? You might expect to hear statements like these from an author of science fiction. But what if they came from a renowned physicist, an indisputably brilliant scientist who has been called "one of the world's most original minds"? In the The Deep Hot Biosphere, Thomas Gold sets forth truly controversial and astonishing theories about where oil and gas come from, and how they acquire their organic "signatures." The conclusions he reaches in this book might be at first difficult to believe, but they are supported by a growing body of evidence, and by the indisputabel stature and seriousness Gold brings to any scientific enterprise. In this book we see a brilliant and boldly orginal thinker, increasingly a rarity in modern science, as he developes a revolutionary new view about the fundamental workings of our planet. Thomas Gold is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and an Emertius Professor at Cornell University. Regarded as one of the most creative and wide-ranging scientists of his generation, he has taughtat Cambridge University and Harvard, and for 20 years was the Director of the Cornell Center for Radiophysics and Space Research. [via]

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  The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels
  

  by Thomas Gold , Freeman Dyson

  ISBN 0387952535 (0-387-95253-5)
  Softcover, Springer Verlag

  
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  This book sets forth a set of truly controversial and astonishing theories: First, it proposes that below the surface of the earth is a biosphere of greater mass and volume than the biosphere the total sum of living things on our planet's continents and in its oceans. Second, it proposes that the inhabitants of this subterranean biosphere are not plants or animals as we know them, but heat-loving bacteria that survive on a diet consisting solely of hydrocarbons that is, natural gas and petroleum. And third and perhaps most heretically, the book advances the stunning idea that most hydrocarbons on Earth are not the byproduct of biological debris ("fossil fuels"), but were a common constituent of the materials from which the earth itself was formed some 4.5 billion years ago. The implications are astounding. The theory proposes answers to often-asked questions: Is the deep hot biosphere where life originated, and do Mars and other seemingly barren planets contain deep biospheres? Even more provocatively, is it possible that there is an enormous store of hydrocarbons upwelling from deep within the earth that can provide us with abundant supplies of gas and petroleum? However far-fetched these ideas seem, they are supported by a growing body of evidence, and by the indisputable stature and seriousness Gold brings to any scientific debate. In this book we see a brilliant and boldly original thinker, increasingly a rarity in modern science, as he develops potentially revolutionary ideas about how our world works. [via]

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  The Lega Nord and Contemporary Politics in Italy
  

  by Thomas Gold

  ISBN 0312296312 (0-312-29631-2)
  Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan

  
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  Remaking Taiwan
  

  by Thomas Gold

  ISBN 0521530288 (0-521-53028-8)
  Softcover, Cambridge University Press

  
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  • Remaking Taiwan: ISBN 0521823374 (0-521-82337-4)
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  Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi
  

  by David L. Wank, Thomas Gold , Doug Guthrie

  ISBN 0521530318 (0-521-53031-8)
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  Social Connections in China : Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi
  

  by Thomas Gold , Doug Guthrie, David L. Wank

  ISBN 052181233X (0-521-81233-X)
  Hardcover, Cambridge University Press

  
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