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Author Poynter, Jane.

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

Publication Info. New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.?] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2006]
©2006

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  574 P877    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  577 POY    Check Shelf
Description viii, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-351) and index.
Contents Prologue -- ch. 1. Oxygen dilemma -- ch. 2. A rarified atmosphere -- ch. 3. Ecopreneur -- ch. 4. Sea change -- ch. 5. Extreme training -- ch. 6. Building a new world -- ch. 7. Vertebrate X, Y, and Z -- ch. 8. The tallest nail gets hammered down -- ch. 9. Closure -- ch. 10. What honeymoon? -- ch. 11. The long dark winter -- ch. 12. Cabin fever -- ch. 13. It takes four months to make a pizza -- ch. 14. Gold or lead -- ch. 15. Lines drawn in desert sand -- ch. 16. Starving, suffocating, and going quite mad -- ch. 17. I dreamed of wild horses -- ch. 18. Dysfunctional family -- ch. 19. Window-shopping -- ch. 20. Are we there yet? -- ch. 21. Reentry -- ch. 22. Thirty-seven brands of ketchup -- ch. 23. April fools -- ch. 24. And now what? -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Photo permissions -- Index.
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
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