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- 00028672 contributor B18461.
- 00028672 created "c2000.".
- 00028672 date "2000".
- 00028672 date "c2000.".
- 00028672 dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- 00028672 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-317) and index.".
- 00028672 description "Machine generated contents note: Climbing Kilimanjaro 1 -- 1. LIFE AT THE TOP 5 -- 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 43 -- 2. LIFE UNDER PRESSURE 47 -- 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 99 -- 3. LIFE IN THE HOT ZONE 103 -- 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 143 -- 4. LIFE IN THE COLD 147 -- 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. -- 5. LIFE IN THE FAST LANE 185 -- 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. -- 6. THE FINAL FRONTIER 229 -- 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? -- 7. THE OUTER LIMITS 271 -- 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?.".
- 00028672 extent "xxi, 326 p. :".
- 00028672 identifier "0520222342 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- 00028672 identifier 00028672.html.
- 00028672 identifier 00028672.html.
- 00028672 identifier 00028672.html.
- 00028672 issued "2000".
- 00028672 issued "c2000.".
- 00028672 language "eng".
- 00028672 publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- 00028672 subject "612/.014 21".
- 00028672 subject "Adaptation (Physiology)".
- 00028672 subject "Extreme environments.".
- 00028672 subject "QP82 .A75 2000".
- 00028672 tableOfContents "Machine generated contents note: Climbing Kilimanjaro 1 -- 1. LIFE AT THE TOP 5 -- 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 43 -- 2. LIFE UNDER PRESSURE 47 -- 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 99 -- 3. LIFE IN THE HOT ZONE 103 -- 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 143 -- 4. LIFE IN THE COLD 147 -- 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. -- 5. LIFE IN THE FAST LANE 185 -- 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. -- 6. THE FINAL FRONTIER 229 -- 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? -- 7. THE OUTER LIMITS 271 -- 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?.".
- 00028672 title "Life at the extremes / Frances Ashcroft.".
- 00028672 type "text".