TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davies,P.C.W.
TI  - The eerie silence: renewing our search for alien intelligence 
SN  - 9780547133249 
AV  - QB54 .D383 2010
U1  - 576.8/39 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Life on other planets
KW  - Extraterrestrial beings
KW  - Unidentified flying objects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-230) and index; Is anybody out there? -- Life : freak side-show or cosmic imperative? -- A shadow biosphere -- How much intelligence is out there? -- New SETI : widening the search -- Evidence for a galactic diaspora -- Alien magic -- Post-biological intelligence -- First contact -- Who speaks for Earth? -- Appendix. A brief history of SETI
N2  - In this mind-expanding book, Paul Davies, astrobiologist and chairman of the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup and, refocuses the search, challenging existing ideas of what form an alien intelligence might take, how it might try to communicate with us, and how we should respond if it does
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1011/2010003088-d.html
ER  -