American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
10 best books like American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World (David Baron): First Ladies, Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women, The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story, Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World, Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE, Why Dinosaurs Matter, Prophets and Moguls, Rangers and Rogues, Bison and Bears: 100 Years of the National Park Service, The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels, Resurrecting the Shark: A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil, Seeing in the Dark: How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe
| Author | National Public Radio |
While the role of the first lady has changed dramatically over the course of the nation's history, one thing remains constant: American's have always been fascinated by the wives of the President. Insights into their formative years, their daily routines within the White House, their influence...
| Author | Roseanne Montillo |
| ISBN | 1101906154 |
The inspiring and irresistible true story of the women who broke barriers and finish-line ribbons in pursuit of Olympic Gold
When Betty Robinson assumed the starting position at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, she was participating in what was only her fourth-ever organized track meet....
| Author | Dimitra Papagianni |
| ISBN | 0500292043 |
In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals’ behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in...
| Author | Gillen D'Arcy Wood |
| ISBN | 0691150540 |
When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years....
| Author | Gordon Thomas |
| ISBN | 1613730861 |
In a dramatically different tale of espionage and conspiracy in World War II, Shadow Warriors of World War II unveils the history of the courageous women who volunteered to work behind enemy lines. Sent into Nazi-occupied Europe by the United States’ Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Britain’s...
| Author | Kenneth Lacovara |
| ISBN | 1501120107 |
What can long-dead dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth.
By tapping into the ubiquitous wonder that dinosaurs inspire, Lacovara weaves together the stories of...
| Author | Heather Hansen |
| ISBN | 9781594858 |
Anyone who has stood beneath a redwood, neck craned to see its top rising far above; or who has heard ghostly whispers of residents long-past among the burnt-red cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde; or who has climbed the stairs to gaze out from the Statue of Liberty’s crown, would agree that our National...
The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels
| Author | Brian M. Fagan |
| ISBN | 1608196925 |
The past fifteen thousand years--the entire span of human civilization--have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when sea levels were more than 700 feet below modern levels. Over the next eleven millennia, the oceans climbed in fits...
| Author | Susan Ewing |
| ISBN | 1681773430 |
In 1993, Alaskan artist and paleo-shark enthusiast Ray Troll stumbled upon the weirdest fossil he had ever seen—a platter-sized spiral of tightly wound shark teeth. This chance encounter in the basement of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County sparked Troll’s obsession with Helicoprion,...
Seeing in the Dark: How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe
| Author | Timothy Ferris |
| ISBN | 0684865807 |
In Seeing in the Dark, a poetic love letter to science and to the skies, Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers. He recounts his own experiences as an enthralled lifelong amateur astronomer and reports from around the globe -- from England and Italy to the Florida Keys and the Chilean Andes...
| Author | John Dvorak |
| ISBN | 1681773309 |
What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein’s General Theory Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the first...
| Author | Andrea Wulf |
| ISBN | 0307700178 |
The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor—the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus and measure the solar system.
On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe...
| Author | Jeffrey A. Lockwood |
| ISBN | 0465041671 |
In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust “the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country between Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains.” Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the American continent, turning noon into dusk, devastating...
Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery
| Author | Stephen J. Pyne |
| ISBN | 0670021830 |
A brilliant new account of the Voyager space program-its history, scientific impact, and cultural legacy
Launched in 1977, the two unmanned Voyager spacecraft have completed their Grand Tour to the four outer planets, and they are now on course to become the first man-made objects to exit...
| Author | James Mahaffey |
| ISBN | 1681774216 |
Whether you are a scientist or a poet, pro-nuclear energy or staunch opponent, conspiracy theorist or pragmatist, James Mahaffey's books have served to open up the world of nuclear science like never before. With clear explanations of some of the most complex scientific endeavors in history, Mahaffey's...
| Author | Bob Berman |
| ISBN | 0316311308 |
How much do you know about the radiation all around you?
Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see, hear,...
| Author | Mark Bowen |
| ISBN | 1137280085 |
**One of Forbes' 10 Best Astronomy, Physics And Mathematics Books of 2017**
"Richly intimate, drawing on Mr. Bowen's long involvement with the IceCube project and its participants...Human emotions are palpable in the author's you-are-there framing." --The Wall Street Journal
Alan...
A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes
| Author | Zeeya Merali |
| ISBN | 0465065910 |
An award-winning science writer takes us into the lab to answer some of life’s biggest questions: How was the universe created? And could we create our own?
What if you could become God, with the ability to build a whole new universe? As startling as it sounds, modern physics suggests that...
| Author | Vince Beiser |
| ISBN | 0399576428 |
The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives.
After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer...
How to Read the Solar System: A Guide to the Stars and Planets
| Author | Paul Abel |
| ISBN | 1605986712 |
What exactly is the solar system? We've all learned the basics at school but do we really understand what we are seeing in the night sky? Expert astronomers Chris North and Paul Abel, provide a fascinating guided tour of our Solar System and explain its many wonders.
They look at all the major...
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way
| Author | John Edward Huth |
| ISBN | 0674072820 |
Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy,...
| Author | Lee Sandlin |
| ISBN | 0307378527 |
Isaac's Storm meets The Age of Wonder in Lee Sandlin's Storm Kings, a riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster-the super cell tornado-that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.
While tornadoes...
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
The pioneer astronauts who took America into space tell their personal stories about the challenges they faced, their fears, joys, friendships & successes. Chosen from hundreds of crackerjack pilots for their fitness, intelligence & courage, the original Mercury Seven astronauts risked...
| Author | National Audubon Society |
| ISBN | 0679408525 |
The most comprehensive field guide available to the fabulous mysteries above--a must-have for any enthusiast's day pack or home library--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers.
The National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky provides a concise guided...
