Life's Engines: How Microbes made the Earth Habitable

6 best books like Life's Engines: How Microbes made the Earth Habitable (Paul G. Falkowski): Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, Velocity Weapon, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English, The Epigenetics Revolution, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0393346617
“Science writing as detective story at its best.” —Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless...
Velocity Weapon
AuthorMegan E. O'Keefe
Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in Velocity Weapon, the first book in this epic space opera by award-winning author Megan O'Keefe.

Sanda and Biran Greeve were siblings destined for greatness. A high-flying sergeant, Sanda has the skills to take down...
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
AuthorJohn McWhorter
ISBN1592403956
A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar

Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics...
The Epigenetics Revolution
AuthorNessa Carey
At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling us that we still...
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN1476776628
Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.

In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences...
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
AuthorNeil Shubin
ISBN0307378438
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**

From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded...
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