{"product_id":"the-many-lives-of-james-lovelock-science-secrets-spycraft-and-gaia-theory-hardcover","title":"The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets, Spycraft and Gaia Theory - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Watts\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Utterly fascinating--a beautifully braided account of the life of a maverick, prophetic genius.\"--Robert MacFarlane \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on in-depth interviews with James Lovelock and unprecedented access to his personal archive, \u003ci\u003eThe Many Lives of James Lovelock\u003c\/i\u003e is a definitive, revelatory biography of a fascinating, sometimes contradictory man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Lovelock is best known as the father of Gaia Theory, the idea that life on Earth is a self-sustaining system in which organisms interact with their environments to maintain a habitable ecosystem. But he also made many other profound discoveries, and led a life as exciting and unusual as any other major figure of the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLovelock's life was a chronicle of twentieth-century science, and somehow he seemed to have a hand in much of it. During the Second World War he worked at the National Medical Research Institute, where his life-long interest in chemical tracing began. In the 1960s he worked at NASA. He worked for MI5 and MI6 during the Cold War. He was a science advisor to the oil giant Shell, who he warned as early as 1966 that fossil fuels were causing serious harm to the environment. He invented the technology that found the hole in the Ozone layer. And all of this shaped Gaia Theory--a theory that could not have been developed without the collaboration of two important women in his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing together the many influences which shaped his life and thinking, \u003ci\u003eThe Many Lives of James Lovelock\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique biography of one of the most fascinating scientists of the modern age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Watts\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning journalist based in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. He is global environment editor at the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e and founder of the Rainforest Journalism Fund and the Amazon-centered news website sumauma.com. Watts is the leader of a team of writers who completed the unfinished work of environmental journalist Dom Phillips, who was murdered in the Amazon in 2022 while researching for a new book. The work was released as \u003ci\u003eHow to Save the Amazon\u003c\/i\u003e in 2025. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47343411069113,"sku":"9781778402487","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/4309\/4713\/files\/Lm8i4L4aZI9781778402487.webp?v=1780512634","url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/the-many-lives-of-james-lovelock-science-secrets-spycraft-and-gaia-theory-hardcover","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}