Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything

– --. The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History . New York: Harmony Books, 2000.

Green, Bill. Water, Ice and Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes . New York: Harmony Books, 1995.

Gribbin, John. In the Beginning: The Birth of the Living Universe . London: Penguin, 1994.

– --. Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science: The Universe, Life and Everything . London: Phoenix, 1998.

Gribbin, John, and Jeremy Cherfas. The First Chimpanzee: In Search of Human Origins . London: Penguin, 2001.

Gribbin, John, and Mary Gribbin. Being Human: Putting People in an Evolutionary Perspective . London: Phoenix/Orion, 1993.

– --. Fire on Earth: Doomsday, Dinosaurs and Humankind . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

– --. Ice Age . London: Allen Lane, 2001.

Grinspoon, David Harry. Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet . Reading, Mass.: Helix/Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Guth, Alan. The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins . Reading, Mass.: Helix/Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Haldane, J. B. S. Adventures of a Biologist . New York: Harper amp; Brothers, 1937.

– --. What is Life? New York: Boni and Gaer, 1947.

Hallam, A. Great Geological Controversies, 2 nded. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Hamblyn, Richard. The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies . London: Picador, 2001.

Hamilton-Paterson, James. The Great Deep: The Sea and Its Thresholds . New York: Random House, 1992.

Hapgood, Charles H. Earth’s Shifting Crust: A Key to Some Basic Problems of Earth Science . New York: Pantheon Books, 1958.

Harrington, John W. Dance of the Continents: Adventures with Rocks and Time , Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, 1983.

Harrison, Edward. Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Hartmann, William K. The History of Earth: An Illustrated Chronicle of an Evolving Planet . New York: Workman Publishing, 1991.

Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes . London: Bantam Books, 1988.

– --. The Universe in a Nutshell . London: Bantam Press, 2001.

Hazen, Robert M., and James Trefil. Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy . New York: Doubleday, 1991.

Heiserman, David L. Exploring Chemical Elements and Their Compounds . Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books/McGraw-Hill, 1992.

Hitchcock, A. S. Manual of the Grasses of the United States, 2 nded. New York: Dover Publications, 1971.

Holmes, Hannah. The Secret Life of Dust . New York: John Wiley amp; Sons, 2001.

Holmyard, E. J. Makers of Chemistry . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.

Horwitz, Tony. Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before . New York: Henry Holt, 2002.

Hough, Richard. Captain James Cook . New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.

Jardine, Lisa. Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution . New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1999.

Johanson, Donald, and Blake Edgar. From Lucy to Language . New York: Simon amp; Schuster, 1996.

Jolly, Alison. Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Jones, Steve. Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species Updated . London: Doubleday, 1999.

Judson, Horace Freeland. The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology . London: Penguin 1995.

Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea . New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

Jungnickel, Christa, and Russell McCormmach. Cavendish: The Experimental Life . Bucknell, Pa.: Bucknell Press, 1999.

Kaku, Michio. Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension . New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Kastner, Joseph. A Species of Eternity . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

Keller, Evelyn Fox. The Century of the Gene . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Kemp, Peter. The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea . London: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Kevles, Daniel J. The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.

Kitcher, Philip. Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982.

Kolata, Gina. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It . London: Pan Books, 2001.

Krebs, Robert E. The History and Use of Our Earth’s Chemical Elements . Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Kunzig, Robert. The Restless Sea: Exploring the World Beneath the Waves . New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.

Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World . London: Vintage, 1999.

Leakey, Richard. The Origin of Humankind . New York: Basic Books/HarperCollins, 1994.

Leakey, Richard, and Roger Lewin. Origins . New York: E. P. Dutton, 1977.

– --. The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind . New York: Doubleday, 1995.

Leicester, Henry M. The Historical Background of Chemistry . New York: Dover Publications, 1971.

Lemmon, Kenneth. The Golden Age of Plant Hunters . London: Phoenix House, 1968.

Lewis, Cherry. The Dating Game: One Man’s Search for the Age of the Earth . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Lewis, John S. Rain of Iron and Ice: The Very Real Threat of Comet and Asteroid Bombardment . Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1996.

Lewin, Roger. Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins, 2 nded. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Lewontin, Richard. It Ain’t Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions . London: Granta Books, 2001.

Little, Charles E. The Dying of the Trees: The Pandemic in America’s Forests . New York: Viking, 1995.

Lynch, John. The Weather . Toronto: Firefly Books, 2002.

Maddox, Brenda. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA . New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

Margulis, Lynn, and Dorion Sagan. Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors . New York: Summit Books, 1986.

Marshall, Nina L. Mosses and Lichens . New York: Doubleday, Page amp; Co., 1908.

Matthiessen, Peter. Wildlife in America . London: Penguin Books, 1995.

McGhee, George R., Jr. The Late Devonian Mass Extinction: The Frasnian/Famennian Crisis . New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World . New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.

McGuire, Bill. A Guide to the End of the World: Everything You Never Wanted to Know . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature . New York: Random House, 1989.

McPhee, John. Basin and Range . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.

– --. In Suspect Terrain . New York: Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.

– --. Rising from the Plains . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986.

– --. Assembling California . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993.

McSween, Harry Y., Jr. Stardust to Planets: A Geological Tour of the Solar System . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.