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Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth

8 best books like Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (Marcia Bjornerud): The Road to Serfdom, Capitalism and Freedom, The Persian Boy, Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World, Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived, The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

The Road to Serfdom
AuthorFriedrich A. Hayek
ISBN0226320618
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the...
Capitalism and Freedom
AuthorMilton Friedman
ISBN0226264211
Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war"

How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his...
The Persian Boy
AuthorMary Renault
ISBN0394751019
“It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”–The Atlantic Monthly

The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was...
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
AuthorMark Miodownik
ISBN0544236041
A New York Times Bestseller

An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science

Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave...
Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
AuthorChip Walter
Over the past 150 years scientists have discovered evidence that at least twenty-seven species of humans evolved on planet Earth. These weren't simply variations on apes, but upright-walking humans who lived side by side, competing, cooperating, sometimes even mating with our direct ancestors....
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
AuthorDavid Beerling
ISBN0192806025
Global warming is contentious and difficult to measure, even among the majority of scientists who agree that it is taking place. Will temperatures rise by 2 C or 8 C over the next hundred years? Will sea levels rise by 2 or 30 feet? The only way that we can accurately answer questions like these is by looking...
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 Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
AuthorBrian M. Fagan
ISBN0465022723
The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate affected historical events, and what it means for today's global warming. Building on research that has only recently confirmed that the world endured...
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