Michael Allaby
John Michael Allaby is an Aventis Junior prize-winning author. He was born on 18 September 1933 in Belper, Derbyshire in England.He was a police cadet from 1949 to 1951. After that he served in the RAF from 1951 to 1954, becoming a pilot. After leaving the RAF, he worked as an actor from 1954 to 1964, including "The Keys of Marinus" ''Doctor Who'' storyline. He married Marthe McGregor on 3 January 1957.
From 1964 to 1972, he a worked as an editor for the Soil Association in Suffolk, England, editing ''Span'' magazine from 1967 to 1972. He was a member of the board of directors for Ecosystems Ltd. in Wadebridge, Cornwall, England and was an associate editor of ''Ecologist'' from 1970 to 1972. He became a managing editor in 1972. In 1973, he became a freelance writer.
He has written widely about science, particularly about ecology and weather. He edits and writes dictionaries and encyclopaedias for Macmillan Publishers and Oxford University Press. He co-authored James Lovelock's first two books: ''The Greening of Mars'' (1984, Warner Books, ) and ''Great Extinction'' (1983, Doubleday, ). His book, ''The Food Chain'' (André Deutsch, ) was runner-up for the Times Educational Supplement Information Book Award in 1984. The New York Public Library chose ''Dangerous Weather: Hurricanes'' as one of its books for the teenage in 1998. He won the Aventis Junior Prize for Science Books in 2001 for ''How the Weather Works''. He is a member of the Society for the History of Natural History, the Planetary Society, the Society of Authors, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Association of British Science Writers. Provided by Wikipedia
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The politics of self-sufficiency / by Allaby, Michael
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The great extinction, the solution to one of the great mysteries of science : the disappearance of the dinosaurs / by Allaby, Michael
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A guide to Gaia : a survey of the new science of our living earth / by Allaby, Michael
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The environment / by Allaby, Michael
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Basics of environmental science / by Allaby, Michael
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Basics of environmental science / by Allaby, Michael
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The Survival handbook : self-sufficiency for everyone /
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The Oxford dictionary of natural history /
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The new encyclopedia of science.
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A dictionary of plant sciences /
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A dictionary of ecology /
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A dictionary of zoology /
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