Geoscience for Non-Scientists

Updated July 29, 2024
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A short history of nearly everything
Bryson, Bill.
Audiobook
Coal a human history
Freese, Barbara (Barbara E.)
Paper Book
"Engrossing . . . Coal, to borrow a phrase, is king." -- New York Times Book Review In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Prized as "the best stone in Britain" by...
Annals of the former world
McPhee, John, 1931-
Paper Book
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the...
A crack in the edge of the world America and the great California earthquake of 1906
Winchester, Simon.
Ebook
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...
The prize the epic quest for oil, money, and 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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