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050 00 $aQP 82$bA75 2000
100 1 $aAshcroft, Frances M.
245 10 $aLife at the extremes /$cFrances Ashcroft.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2000.
300 $axxi, 326 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-317) and index.
505 0 $aClimbing Kilimanjaro -- Life at the Top -- Early Accounts of Mountain Sickness -- The Ascent of Everest -- A Digression on Barometric Pressure -- The Perils of Sudden Depressurization -- Acute Mountain Sickness -- Into Thin Air -- Flying High -- Acclimatization -- Haemoglobin -- Lessons from High Altitude Studies -- High Life -- Taking The Plunge -- Life under Pressure -- The Physics of Pressure -- The Earliest Divers -- Bubbles in the Blood -- Why Don't Sperm Whales Get the Bends? -- The Importance of a Slow Ascent -- Skin-diving and the Bends -- On Entering the Water -- Ama: the Fisherwomen of Japan -- Imploding and Exploding Organs -- Holding Your Breath -- Buoyancy -- Scuba-diving -- The Rapture of the Deep -- Too Much of a Good Thing -- Blackouts and Bravery -- How Far Can You Go? -- Living at Depth -- Underwater Challenges -- Long-term Dangers -- Into the Abyss -- The World's First Submarine -- Life Under Pressure -- Getting into Hot Water -- Life in the Hot Zone -- Body Heat -- Feeling the Heat -- The Development of the Thermometer -- Firewalking and All That -- Creatures of Fire -- Hot Stuff -- Chilling Out -- Sweating it Out -- The Physics of Heat Transfer -- Keeping a Cool Head -- The Importance of Size and Shape -- Heatstroke -- Quivering Pigs and Shivering Humans -- Fever! -- Life without Water -- Salt of the Earth -- A Hot Cradle for Mankind -- Cold Water Blues -- Life in the Cold -- Fighting Cold -- How Cold Can You Go? Coping with Cold -- Frozen to Death -- In Arctic Waters -- Losing the Balance -- Life After 'Death' -- On Chapped Hands and Cold Feet -- Frostbite -- Eskimos and Explorers -- The Benefits of Cold -- On Penguins and Polar Bears -- Life at the Poles -- Life in the Fast Lane -- A Question of Energy -- Oxygen Demands -- You Are What You Eat -- Speed versus Stamina -- How Muscle Contracts -- Fast Forward -- Staying the Distance -- Running Down -- Working Out -- The Ultimate Limits -- Gender Issues -- Making a Splash -- Enhancing Performance -- The Olympic Ideal -- Animal Magic -- Size Matters -- Beyond the Limits -- Taking the Strain -- The Final Frontier -- A Brief History of Space Flight -- Eyeballs in and Eyeballs Out -- The Human Yo-yo -- Taking Off -- Life Support -- Free Fall -- Weightlessness -- Sleep -- Infection -- Living in Microgravity -- Space Sickness -- Paying the Price -- Balance Points -- Cosmic Radiation -- Venturing into the Void -- Re-entry -- Coming Down to Earth -- Whither Next? -- The Outer Limits -- The Tree of Life -- Some Like It Hot -- Acid Heads -- Helicobacter pylorii, the Bacterium that Causes Stomach Ulcers -- Basic Needs -- A Salty Tale -- Life in the Rocks -- Troglodytes -- Life Without Oxygen -- Cool Characters -- Life in the Freezer -- Suspended Animation -- Making Millions from Microbes -- Life Beyond Earth?.
650 0 $aAdaptation (Physiology)
650 0 $aExtreme environments.
948 $a03/30/2001$b04/13/2001
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