Origins
6 best books like Origins (Richard E. Leakey): Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal, Red Moon, When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time, Lucy: the beginnings of humankind, Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History, Einstein's Universe
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
| Author | Ben Macintyre |
| ISBN | 0307353400 |
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona...
| Author | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| ISBN | 0316262374 |
American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding.
It is also the first visit for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts...
Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe that took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: 90 percent of life was destroyed,...
| Author | Donald C. Johanson |
| ISBN | 0671724991 |
“A glorious success…The science manages to be as exciting and spellbinding as the juiciest gossip” (San Franscisco Chronicle) in the story of the discovery of “Lucy”—the oldest, best-preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ancestor ever found.
When Donald Johanson...
| Author | Dorothy H. Crawford |
| ISBN | 0192807196 |
Combining tales of devastating epidemics with accessible science and fascinating history, Deadly Companions reveals how closely microbes have evolved with us over the millennia, shaping human civilization through infection, disease, and deadly pandemic. Beginning with a dramatic account...
| Author | Nigel Calder |
| ISBN | 0517385708 |
This has, in effect, redefined the way I look at the world. Calder goes through both the special and general theories or relativity, strips out all the math, and explains everything in plain English with clear analogies. I think this was published somewhere around 1979, so much has transpired in the...
