The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?

9 best books like The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? (Jan Zalasiewicz): Desert Solitaire, Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It, Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet, How the Mind Works, The Naked Mountain, A Family Apart, Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Recovery Classics Edition), Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy, Orthopedic Physical Assessment

Desert Solitaire

Author	Edward Abbey
ISBN	0345326490

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...

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

Author	Gabrielle Walker
ISBN	0609609734

Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet from the poles to the equator? In Snowball Earth, gifted writer Gabrielle Walker has crafted an intriguing global adventure story, following maverick scientist Paul Hoffman’s quest to prove a theory so audacious and profound...

Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet

Author	Ted Nield
ISBN	0674026594

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

Author	Steven Pinker
ISBN	0393318486

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

Author

Reinhold 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:...

A Family Apart

Author	Joan Lowery Nixon
ISBN	0440226767

FOR LOVERS OF HISTORICAL ADVENTURE, A FAMILY APART IS THE MIDDLE-GRADE ANSWER TO CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE'S NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ORPHAN TRAIN.
 
Imagine being taken from your home. Imagine your mother is the one who lets it happen.
 
This is the fate that befalls the Kelly children....

Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Recovery Classics Edition)

Author	Charles L. Whitfield
ISBN	0932194400

Dr. Whitfield provides a clear and effective introduction to the basic principles of recovery. This book is a modern classic, as fresh and useful today as it was more than a decade ago when first published. Here, frontline physician and therapist Charles Whitfield describes the process of wounding...

Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy

Author	Katsuki Sekida
ISBN	0834801140

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,...

Orthopedic Physical Assessment

Author	David J. Magee
ISBN	0721605710

Newly updated, this full-color resource offers a systematic approach to performing a neuromusculoskeletal assessment with rationales for various aspects of the assessment. This comprehensive text covers every joint of the body, head and face, gait, posture, emergency care, the principles of...