Geoscience for Non-Scientists

Updated July 29, 2024
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A short history of nearly everything
Bryson, Bill
Paper Book
This new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson’s exciting, informative journey into the world of science. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, beloved author Bill Bryson confronts his greatest challenge yet: to...
The story of Earth the first 4.5 billion years, from stardust to living planet
Hazen, Robert M., 1948-
Paper Book
Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. In this radical new approach to Earth's biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national bestselling author Robert M. Hazen...
A crack in the edge of the world America and the great California earthquake of 1906
Winchester, Simon.
Paper Book
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at...
The prize : the epic quest for oil, money & power
Yergin, Daniel
Paper Book
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week, Daniel Yergin's "spellbinding...irresistible" (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now...

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