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The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History

10 best books like The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History (David Beerling): Why Evolution Is True, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter, Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World, Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It, Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, Soulsmith, Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom, Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

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....
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter
AuthorColin Tudge
ISBN1400050367
There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field.

From the tallest to the...
Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World
AuthorNick Lane
ISBN0198607830
In Oxygen, Nick Lane takes the reader on an enthralling journey as he unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death. He shows how oxygen underpins the origin of biological complexity, the birth of photosynthesis, the sudden evolution of animals, the need for two...
Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
AuthorGabrielle Walker
ISBN0609609734
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...
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
AuthorMarcia Bjornerud
ISBN0465006841
To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand, granite, and garnet schists, the planet has kept a rich and...
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
AuthorSimon Singh
ISBN0385495323
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo...
Soulsmith
AuthorWill Wight
Outside Sacred Valley, ancient ruins rise from the earth, drawing sacred artists from miles around to fight for the treasures within.

Lindon has reached Copper, taking the first step on the road to power, but the warriors of the outside world are still far beyond him.

To advance, he...
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
AuthorSean B. Carroll
ISBN0393327795
Dnf'd. Not because it is a bad book, boring or not well-written, but because it turns out that my appetite for evolutionary biology does not extend as far as embryology. I just cannot summon up the interest to concentrate and have to keep rereading and looking (again and again) at the illustrations. Maybe...
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
AuthorRichard Fortey
ISBN0307263614
From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms...
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
AuthorRichard Fortey
ISBN0375706216
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.

Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five...
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...
The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer
AuthorCharles Graeber
ISBN1455568503
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Nurse comes an empowering and accessible story of the discoveries of the tricks cancer uses to avoid the immune system, and the important new therapies already unleashing the immune system to fight -- and beat -- the disease.
Four years in the...
The Solar War
AuthorA.G. Riddle
We thought the war was over.
We were wrong.

They decimated Earth during the Long Winter.
Now the grid has returned, and they won't stop until the human race is extinct.
On a ruined world, humanity's last survivors fight against impossible odds.
In their darkest hour, they...
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