Peter Ward, Author . Viking $25.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-670-03458-1
Ward's Rare Earth
(coauthored with Donald Brownlee) suggested the unlikelihood of our finding an alien race as complex and evolved as humankind; if such beings exist, they're too far away for us to make contact with. But what about more...
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Peter Ward, Author National Academy Press $27.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-309-10061-8
University of Washington paleontologist Ward (Rare Earth) clearly sets forth the premise of his provocative book: ""changing atmospheric oxygen levels over the last 600 million years have caused significant evolutionary change in animals."" He...
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Peter Ward, Author, Donald Brownlee, Author, Donald Brownlee, Joint Author . Times $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6781-1
According to the authors—who argued in their previous book, Rare Earth, that the complex life found on earth is probably unique in the vast expanses of the universe—our planet has a pretty bleak future ahead of it, one that is a mirror
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Peter Ward. Diversion, $14.99 trade paper (212p) ISBN 978-1-68230-064-0
Ward follows Time Rep with an equally tongue-in-cheek time-travel adventure that thrusts Time Rep Geoff Stamp headlong into a paradox of alternate time lines and corporate espionage. It's been two years since Geoff took a job as a Time Rep for Time...
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Peter Ward. Bloomsbury, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-1-63286-615-8
The main question posed by this frustrating book is whether the acquired characteristics of one generation can be reliably passed on to future generations. In other words, was 18th-century naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in fact correct that...
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Peter Ward. Melville House, $27.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-61219-800-2
Technology journalist Ward’s fascinating exploration of the possibilities of privatizing interplanetary activities comes at the perfect moment, with the once wholly government-led, taxpayer-funded space race seemingly on the cusp of major...
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Peter Ward. Melville House, $28.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-612-19952-8
Journalist Ward (The Consequential Frontier) explores in this primer the idea that there is a time in the not-too-distant future when biotechnology will be able to keep people alive indefinitely. Obsession with longevity is nothing new, Ward notes,...
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