Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything

– --. The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man and an Idea . New York: Random House, 1984.

– --. Einstein: The Life and Times . New York: World Publishing, 1971.

Coe, Michael, Dean Snow, and Elizabeth Benson. Atlas of Ancient America . New York: Equinox/Facts of File, 1986.

Colbert, Edwin H. The Great Dinosaur Hunters and Their Discoveries . New York: Dover Publications, 1984.

Cole, K. C. First You Build a Cloud: And Other Reflections on Physics As a Way of Life . San Diego: Harvest/Harcourt Brace, 1999.

Conard, Henry S. How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown Co., 1956.

Conniff, Richard. Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World . New York: Henry Holt, 1996.

Corfield, Richard. Architects of Eternity: The New Science of Fossils . London: Headline, 2001.

Coveney, Peter, and Roger Highfield. The Arrow of Time: The Quest to Solve Science’s Greatest Mystery . London: Flamingo, 1991.

Cowles, Virginia. The Rothschilds: A Family of Fortune . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.

Crick, Francis. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.

– --. What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery . New York: Basic Books, 1988.

Cropper, William H. Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking . New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Crowther, J. G. Scientists of the Industrial Revolution . London: Cresset Press, 1962.

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (facsimile edition). New York: Random House/Gramercy Books, 1979.

Davies, Paul. The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin of Life . London: Penguin Books, 1999.

Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker . London: Penguin Books, 1988.

– --. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life . London: Phoenix, 1996.

– --. Climbing Mount Improbable . New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.

Dean, Dennis R. James Hutton and the History of Geology . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

de Duve, Christian. A Guided Tour of the Living Cell. 2 vols. New York: Scientific American/Rockefeller University Press, 1984.

Dennett, Daniel C. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life . London: Penguin, 1996.

Dennis, Jerry. The Bird in the Waterfall: A Natural History of Oceans, Rivers and Lakes . New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

Desmond, Adrian, and James Moore. Darwin . London: Penguin Books, 1992.

Dewar, Elaine. Bones: Discovering the First Americans . Toronto: Random House Canada, 2001.

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies . New York: Norton, 1997.

Dickinson, Matt. The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm . New York: Times Books, 1997.

Drury, Stephen. Stepping Stones: The Making of Our Home World . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Durant, Will, and Ariel Durant. The Age of Louis XIV . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963.

Dyson, Freeman. Disturbing the Universe . New York: Harper amp; Row, 1979.

Easterbrook, Gregg. A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism . London: Penguin, 1995.

Ebbing, Darrell D. General Chemistry . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Elliott, Charles. The Potting-Shed Papers: On Gardens, Gardeners and Garden History . Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2001.

Engel, Leonard. The Sea . New York: Time-Life Books, 1969.

Erickson, Jon. Plate Tectonics: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Earth . New York: Facts on File, 1992.

Fagan, Brian M. The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America . London: Thames amp; Hudson, 1987.

Fell, Barry. America B.C.: Ancient Settlers in the New World . New York: Quadrangle/New York Times, 1977.

– --. Bronze Age America . Boston: Little, Brown amp; Co., 1982.

Ferguson, Kitty. Measuring the Universe: The Historical Quest to Quantify Space . London: Headline, 1999.

Ferris, Timothy. The Mind’s Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context . New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

– --. The Whole Shebang: A State of the Universe(s) Report . New York: Simon amp; Schuster, 1997.

– --. Coming of Age in the Milky Way . New York: William Morrow, 1998.

– --. Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril . New York: Simon amp; Schuster, 2002.

Feynman, Richard P. Six Easy Pieces . London: Penguin Books, 1998.

Fisher, Richard V., Grant Heiken, and Jeffrey B. Hulen. Volcanoes: Crucibles of Change . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Flannery, Timothy. The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People . Sydney: Reed New Holland, 1997.

– --. The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples . London: William Heinemann, 2001.

Flannery, Timothy and Peter Schouten. A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World’s Extinct Animals . Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2001.

Fortey, Richard. Life: An Unauthorised Biography . London: Flamingo/HarperCollins, 1998.

– --. Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution . London: HarperCollins, 2000.

Frayn, Michael. Copenhagen . New York: Anchor Books, 2000.

Gamow, George, and Russell Stannard. The New World of Mr Tompkins . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Gawande, Atul. Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science . New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2002.

Giancola, Douglas C. Physics: Principles with Applications . Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Gjertsen, Derek. The Classics of Science: A Study of Twelve Enduring Scientific Works . New York: Lilian Barber Press, 1984.

Godfrey, Laurie R., ed. Scientists Confront Creationism . New York: W. W. Norton, 1983.

Goldsmith, Donald. The Astronomers . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.

“Mrs. Gordon.” The Life and Correspondence of William Buckland, D.D., F.R.S. London: John Murray, 1894.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History . New York: W.W. Norton, 1977.

– --. The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History . New York: W.W. Norton, 1980.

– --. Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes . New York: W.W. Norton, 1983.

– --. The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History . New York: W.W. Norton, 1985.

– --. Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.

– --. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History . New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.

– --. Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History . London: Hutchinson Radius, 1991.

– --, ed. The Book of Life . New York: W.W. Norton, 1993.

– --. Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History . London: Penguin, 1994.

– --. Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History . New York: Harmony Books, 1995.

– --. Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History . New York: Harmony Books, 1998.