Biospheric Books
Bibliography of Books on the Biosphere 2 Project
  • Allen, J. 2009. Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2, Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Memoir, 2010
  • Allen, J. 1991. Biosphere 2: The Human Experiment. Viking/Penguin.
  • Allen, J. and M. Nelson. 1989. Space Biospheres. Synergetic Press, Inc.
 
  • Alling, A., M. Nelson, S. Silverstone. 1993. Life Under Glass: The Inside Story of Biosphere 2. Synergetic Press
 
  • Finch, Professor 1993. Illus. Mary Beath. 1993. A, B,C of the Biosphere. The Biosphere Press.
  • Gentry, L. and Karne Liptak. 1991. The Glass Ark: The Story of Biosphere 2. The Biosphere Press.
  • Gentry, L. 1993. Inside Biosphere 2: The Ocean and Its Reef. The Biosphere Press.
  • Lapo, A. 1987. Traces of Bygone Biospheres. Synergetic Press.
  • Liptak, K. 1994. Inside Biosphere 2: The Rainforest. The Biosphere Press.
  • Nelson, M. and G. Soffen (editors). 1990. Biological Life Support Systems, Synergetic Press/Space Biospheres Ventures.
  • Silverstone, S. 1993. Eating In: From the Field to the Kitchen in Biosphere 2. Synergetic Press.
  
  • Snyder, Tango Parrish (editor). 1985. The Biosphere Catalogue. Synergetic Press.
  • Vernadsky, V.I. 1986. The Biosphere. Synergetic Press, Inc.
  • Geochemistry & The Biosphere : Essays by Vladimir Vernadsky. Edited by Frank B. Salisbury, Professor Emeritus of Plant Physiology, Utah State University, Salt Lake City. Introduction by Alexander Yanshin, V.P. Emeritus, Russian Academy of Sciences, translated by Olga Barash. Synergetic Press, 2007.

Bibliography of Books on Biospherics

  • Allen, J. 1991. Biosphere 2: The Human Experiment. Viking/Penguin.
  • Allen, J. and M. Nelson. 1987. Space Biospheres. Orbit Book Company, Inc.
  • Allen, J. and M. Nelson. 1989. Space Biospheres. Synergetic Press, Inc.
  • Allen, J. and M. Nelson. 1991. Space Biospheres. (Mir publishers Russian translation). Synergetic Press, Inc.
  • Allen, T. F. H. and Thomas Hoekstra. 1992. Toward a Unified Ecology. Columbia University Press, NY.
  • Alling, A., M. Nelson, S. Silverstone. 1993. Life Under Glass: The Inside Story of Biosphere 2. Synergetic Press
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  • Attenborough, David. 1985. The Living Planet. Little Brown.
  • Barlow, Connie. 1997. Green Space, Geen Time: The Way of Science. Springer-Verlag, NY.
  • Beyers, R. and Howard Odum. 1993. Ecological Microcosms. Springer-Verlag, NY.
  • Biosphere. A Scientific American book. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1970. call #: BIOS 50009.
  • Brand, Stewart (ed.). 1977. Space Colonies. Penguin.
  • Broecker, Wallace. 1985. How to Build a Habitable Planet. Eldigo Press.
  • Carson, Rachel. 1987. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin & Co.
  • Darwin, Charles. 1986. The Origin of Species. New American Library.
  • Delbeck, C. and Julian Sprung. 1994. The Reef Aquarium. Ricordea Publishing.
  • Dennet, D. 1995. Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Simon & Schuster.
  • Dubos, Renee & B. Ward. 1972. Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet. W.W. Norton & Co.
  • Eldridge, Niles. 1992. Systematics, Ecology, and the Biodiversity Crisis. Columbia University Press.
  • Folsome, Clair. 1979. The Origin of Life: A Warm Little Pond. W.H. Freeman.
  • Fuller, Buckminster. 1983. Synergetics. Macmillan & Co.
  • Fuller, Buckminster. 1989. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Simon & Schuster.
  • Hall, Charles A.S., editor. 1977. Ecosystem modeling in theory and practice. New York: John Wiley. UofA call #: QH 541.5 E45 E26.
  • Heppenheimer, T. 1977. Colonies in Space. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole.
  • Hutchinson, G.E., 1970. The Biosphere. Scientific American. W.H. Freeman & Co.
  • Kamshilov, M.M. 1976. The Evolution of the Biosphere. Mir Publishers, Moscow. .
  • Lapo, A. 1987. Traces of Bygone Biospheres. Synergetic Press.
  • Levine, J.S., 1989. Global Ecology. Academic Press.
  • Lorenz, Konrad. 1971. Studies in Animal and Human Behavior. Harvard University Press.
  • Lorenz, Konrad, 1977. Behind the Mirror. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
  • Lovelock, J. 1979. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford University Press.
  • Lovelock,J. 1988. The Ages of Gaia. W.W. Norton & Co.
  • Margulis, L. 1990. Early Life. Jones and Bartlett.
  • Margulis, L. and D. Sagan. 1986. Micro-Cosmos: 4 Billion Years of Microbial Evolution from our Bacterial Ancestors. Summit Books.
  • Margulis, L. & D. Sagan. 1989. Biopheres from Earth to Space. Enslow Publishers.
  • Margulis, L. & K. Schwartz. 1982. Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth. W.H. Freeman.
  • Milne, D. & D. Raup, J. Billingham, K. Niklaus, K. Padian (editors). 1985. Summary of the proceedings of the ECHO Science Workshops prepared at NASA Ames Research Center. The Evolution of Complex and Higher Organisms.
  • Morowitz, H. 1968. Energy Flow in Biology. OxBow Press.
  • Mumford, Lewis. 1963. Technics and Civilization. Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich. .
  • Myers, Norman (general editor). 1984. Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management. Gaie Books. Anchor Press/ Doubleday & Co.
  • Nelson, M. and G. Soffen (editors). 1990. Biological Life Support Systems, Synergetic Press/Space Biospheres Ventures.
  • O'Neill, Gerard. 1978. The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. Bantam..
  • Oberg, James E. 1983. New Earths. New American Library.
  • Odum, EP. 1971.1997. Ecology. Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass.
  • Odum, EP. 1989. Ecology and Our Endangered Life-support System. Sinauer Associates.
  • Odum, HT. 1983. Systems Ecology: an introduction. John Wiley, New York.
  • Pearce, Peter. 1990. Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design. MIT Press.
  • Pioneering the Space Frontier. 1986. Report of the National Commission on Space. Bantam.
  • Rambler, Mitchell, L. Margullis & Rene Fester (editors). 1989. Global Ecology: Towards a Science of the Biosphere. Academic Press.
  • Remote Sensing of the Biosphere. 1986. National Academy Press.
  • Sagan, Carl. 1985. Cosmos. Ballantine Books.
  • Sagan, Dorian. 1990. Biospheres. McGraw-Hill.
  • Schmidt, S & Zubrin, R. 1996. Islands in the Sky. Wiley Popular Science, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. NY. pp. 266.
  • Scholtens, B. 1993. Biosphere 2: Mini-aarde onder glas. Aramith Uitgevers Bloemendaal.
  • Schultes, R.E. 1988. Where the Gods Reign: Plants and Peoples of the Colombian Amazon. Synergetic Press, Inc.
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  • Schultes, R. & R. Raffauf. 1990. The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia. Dioscorides Press.
  • Schultes, R.E. & R. Raffauf. 1992. Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia. Synergetic Press. See more about this book
  • Sevastyonov, Ursul and Shkolenko. 1981. The Universe and Civilization. Progress Publishers, Moscow.
  • Snyder, Tango Parrish (editor). 1985. The Biosphere Catalogue. Synergetic Press.
  • Tsiolkovsky, K.S. 1979. Selected Writings. Mir, Moscow.
  • Vernadsky, V.I. 1986. The Biosphere. Synergetic Press, Inc.
  • Vernadsky, Vladimir. 1997. The Biosphere: Complete Annotated Edition. Translated by David Langmuir. Springer-Verlag, NY.
  • Volk, Tyler. 1997. Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth. Springer-Verlag, NY.
  • Wilson, E.O. 1984. Biophilia. Harvard University Press.
  • Wilson, E.O. 1992. The Diversity of Life. Belknap Press of Harvard University.
  • Yungjohann, John C. 1989. White Gold: The diary of a rubber cutter in the Amazon 1906-1916. Edited by G.T. Prance. Synergetic Press, Inc.
  • Zubrin, Robert. 1996. The Case for Mars. The Free Press.