The Sun's Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet
10 best books like The Sun's Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet (Bob Berman): Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything, Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine, Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World, The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, How the Mistakes Were Made, The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People, Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Mans Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science, The Stardust Revolution: The New Story of Our Origin in the Stars, The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet, How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe
Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
| Author | Doug Macdougall |
| ISBN | 0520249755 |
"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the...
Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine
| Author | Barbara Griggs |
| ISBN | 0892817275 |
Including the latest developments in the field of herbal medicine, this classic bestseller presents a fascinating account of the ideas, personalities, advances, and vicissitudes that have shaped the course of medicine and pharmacology in the Western world. The author provides an eloquent and...
| Author | Richard Conniff |
| ISBN | 0805055312 |
Natural history writer Richard Conniff's journalistic assignments have brought him in contact with invertebrates for more than 20 years--tarantulas of the upper Amazon, dragonflies in Arizona, squid in Florida, and flies on the rim of his beer glass. Here Conniff details his often hilarious encounters...
Where do you find Nabokov's butterflies, George Washington's pheasants, and the only stuffed bird remaining from the Lewis and Clark expedition? The vast collections of animals, minerals, and plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are among the oldest in the country, dating back to the 1700s....
How the Mistakes Were Made
| Author | Tyler Mcmahon |
| ISBN | 0312658540 |
Laura Loss came of age in the hardcore punk scene of the early 1980s. The jailbait bass player in her brother Anthony’s band, she grew up traveling the country, playing her heart out in a tight network of show venues to crowds soaked in blood and sweat. The band became notorious, the stars of a shadow music...
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
| Author | Neil Shubin |
| ISBN | 0307378438 |
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded...
| Author | Curtis Ebbesmeyer |
| ISBN | 0061558419 |
“Ebbesmeyer’s goal is noble and fresh: to show how the flow of ocean debris around the world reveals ‘the music’ of the world’s oceans.”
—New York Times Book Review
Through the fascinating stories of flotsam, one of the Earth’s greatest secrets is revealed....
| Author | Jacob Berkowitz |
| ISBN | 1616145498 |
Three great scientific revolutions have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and our relationship to it. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed the Copernican Revolution, which bodychecked the Earth as the pivot point of creation and joined us with the rest of the cosmos as one planet...
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus fomented a revolution when he debunked the geocentric view of the universe, proving instead that our planet wasn’t central to the universe. Almost five hundred years later, the revolution he set in motion is nearly complete. Just as earth is not the center of things,...
| Author | Chris Impey |
| ISBN | 0393080021 |
A majestic account of the most fascinating phenomena in our universe-and the science behind them.
In this vibrant, eye-opening tour of milestones in the history of our universe, Chris Impey guides us through space and time, leading us from the familiar sights of the night sky to the dazzlingly...
Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos
| Author | Caleb Scharf |
| ISBN | 0374114129 |
One of The Barnes and Noble Review Editors' Picks: Best Nonfiction of 2012
Selected by The Christian Science Monitor as one of "21 smart nonfiction titles we think you'll enjoy this summer"
Selected by The New Scientist as one of 10 books to look out for in 2012
We've long understood...
| Author | David Wootton |
| ISBN | 0192803557 |
The material is interesting but the 'I'm going against the grain! Look at me! Against the grain! Here is my against the grain thesis statement once more!' tone made me kind of wary. I'm also not sure what he says about ancient medicine and its influence is entirely correct. I just didn't really get a sense...
The bronze fragments of an ancient Greek device have puzzled scholars for more than a century after they were recovered from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, where they had lain since about 80 BC. Now, using advanced imaging technology, scientists have solved the mystery of its intricate workings....
She doesn’t trust cops . . .
Veronica Osborne has had enough problems with the police, thanks to her volatile father. So when tall, strapping Sergeant Zach McKnight shows up at her door, she’s prepared for anything—except the news that her beloved missing brother, Max, has been dead...
The three volume "Burnham's Celestial Handbook" series provides a constellation based, detailed and comprehensive guide to tens of thousands of celestial objects outside our solar system. The information presented includes: definitions, names, historical background, coordinates, classifications,...
Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry
At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth, world-famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates the history of the emergence of this remarkable area of study. Stewart introduces us to such characters...
| Author | Douglas Nelson |
| ISBN | 1848191529 |
Why does scratching an itch feel so good? Why is pain from a mosquito bite preferable to the same pain from an unidentified source?
Douglas Nelson provides the reader with a comprehensive, practical and highly accessible guide to the scientific understanding of pain. The book explores the...
| Author | Brian Clegg |
| ISBN | 1848315163 |
For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine – with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn’t like that. But only, they argued, because we didn’t have enough data to be certain.
Then the cracks began to appear....
| Author | Richard C. Lewontin |
| ISBN | 0940322951 |
Maybe it is
This book is a collection of nine essays from The New York Review of Books, beginning in 1981, mostly on genetics, the genome and the Darwinian pantheon. The essays are presented with new footnotes and cross references followed by an Exchange and/or an Epilogue in which the material...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0380018136 |
From astronomy to rainbows to God
The astonishing story of the planet Vulcan, an astronomical oddity that intrigued scientists for over a century, is the jummping off point for Isaac Asimov in the scintillating, easy to understand explorations of everything from ecology and space colonies...
| Author | Lewis Wolpert |
| ISBN | 0393072215 |
Biologist Lewis Wolpert eloquently narrates the basics of human life through the lens of its smallest component—the cell.
Everything about our existence—movement and memory, imagination and reproduction, birth and, ultimately, death—is governed by our cells. They are the basis...
| Author | Richard Cohen |
| ISBN | 1400068754 |
From BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week:
"Once upon a time we thought that we were the centre of the universe and that even the sun revolved around us...
Thousands of years later we know that our earliest, most basic idea about our place in the cosmos was false, and that that cosmos is vastly larger than...
| Author | Ray Jayawardhana |
| ISBN | 0691142548 |
Soon astronomers expect to find alien Earths by the dozens in orbit around distant suns. Before the decade is out, telltale signs that they harbor life may be found. If they are, the ramifications for all areas of human thought and endeavor--from religion and philosophy to art and biology--will be breathtaking....
Science and Islam: A History
| Author | Ehsan Masood |
| ISBN | 1848310404 |
Ehsan Masood (Twitter) produced a BBC documentary on Islam and science. This book is its companion. It's excellent as a survey introduction to this topic in the history of science. It discusses multiple causes of historical phenomenon and the predominant historiography and its dissenters.
As...
| Author | Anne E. Maczulak |
| ISBN | 0137015461 |
Bacteria are invisible, mysterious, deadly, self-sufficient...and absolutely essential for all life, including yours. No other living things combine their elegant simplicity with their incredibly complex role: Bacteria keep us alive, supply our food, and regulate our biosphere. We can't live...
