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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It

10 best books like Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It (Gabrielle Walker): My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, Why Evolution Is True, Girl, Woman, Other, In an Absent Dream, The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali, Desert Solitaire, When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time, The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?, Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet, How the Mind Works

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
AuthorJill Bolte Taylor
ISBN1430300612
Jill Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes of a curious scientist, she watched her mind deteriorate whereby she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Because of her understanding of the brain, her...
Why Evolution Is True
AuthorJerry A. Coyne
ISBN0670020532
Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact.

In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the "evidence," the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection....
Girl, Woman, Other
AuthorBernardine Evaristo
ISBN0241364906
Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019

Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood

Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...
In an Absent Dream
AuthorSeanan McGuire
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.

When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles...
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali
AuthorSabina Khan
ISBN1338227017
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that harder and harder to do. She rolls her eyes instead of screaming when they blatantly favor her brother and she dresses conservatively at home, saving...
Desert Solitaire
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0345326490
First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey’s most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man’s...
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time
AuthorMichael J. Benton
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,...
The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
AuthorJan Zalasiewicz
ISBN0199214972
Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz takes the reader on a fascinating trip one hundred million years into the future--long after the human race becomes extinct--to explore what will remain of our brief but dramatic sojourn on Earth. He describes how geologists in the far future might piece together the history...
Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet
AuthorTed Nield
ISBN0674026594
To understand continental drift and plate tectonics, the shifting and collisions that make and unmake continents, requires a long view. The Earth, after all, is 4.6 billion years old. This book extends our vision to take in the greatest geological cycle of all--one so vast that our species will probably...
How the Mind Works
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0393318486
In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy...
The Naked Mountain
AuthorReinhold Messner

* Did Reinhold Messner sacrifice his brother to his ambition?
* Publication of this book in Germany stirred controversy across Europe
* The most personal book Messner has ever written
* More than 45,000 copies sold of the German edition
Reinhold Messner is famous for many firsts:...
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...
Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy
AuthorKatsuki Sekida
ISBN0834801140
I don't pretend to understand most of this book. It was a heavy read, at times plodding - and yet I'm glad to have had the chance to read it. Certain passages struck me:

Someday you will have this kind of experience. And one day, when you emerge from it, rising from your seat, stepping across the doorsill,...
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
AuthorDaniel Chamovitz
ISBN0374288739
How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can an orchid get jet lag? Does a tomato plant feel pain when you pluck a fruit from its vines? And does your favourite fern care whether you play Bach or the Beatles? Combining cutting-edge research with lively storytelling, biologist Daniel Chamovitz...
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