Geoscience for Non-Scientists

Updated July 29, 2024
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A short history of nearly everything
Bryson, Bill.
Paper Book
One of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey--into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill...
Cadillac desert the American West and its disappearing water
Reisner, Marc.
Paper Book
"I've been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remainĀ in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the...
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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