The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth

6 best books like The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth (Hugh Aldersey-Williams): Underland, The Night Swimmers, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, Period Piece, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence, Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

Underland

Author	Robert Macfarlane
ISBN	0393242145

An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...

The Night Swimmers

Author

Peter Rock

“Swimming at night, to compare its slipperiness to that of a dream would be to ignore the work of staying afloat, the mesmerism brought on by the rhythm, the repetition of the strokes.”
 
Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems: crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs,...

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

Author	David Quammen
ISBN	1476776628

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...

Period Piece

Author	Gwen Raverat
ISBN	0472064754

At the close of 1952, Bettrand Russell wrote to Gwen Raverat that he had been reading Period Piece “with the very greatest delight.” Raverat’s memories of childhood and coming of age during the final years of Victoria’s reign capture a young woman’s impressions of dons, eccentrics, and...

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

Author

James Lovelock

James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an...

Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

Author	Jim Al-Khalili
ISBN	0307986799

A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes.

   Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense.  These we call paradoxes.  The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent...