David Toomey: 3 books

Book cover of Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own
by David Toomey
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013

“Weird indeed, and not a little wonderful.”—Nature In the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single-celled algae in...
Book cover of The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics
by David Toomey
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011

The story of physicists' quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time? Since H. G. Wells' 1895 classic The Time Machine, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the paradoxes of time travel. What would happen if a time traveler tried to change history? Would...
Book cover of Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet
by David Toomey
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2003

Fifty years after Isaac's Storm, a riveting story of the first Hurricane Hunters, and the one crew who paid the ultimate price. "In a virtual age when tempests are monitored by global positioning and The Weather Channel, Stormchasers reminds us that our first understanding of hurricanes...
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