Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything

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Moorehead, Alan. Darwin and the Beagle. New York: Harper and Row, 1969.

Morowitz, Harold J. The Thermodynamics of Pizza . New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

Musgrave, Toby, Chris Gardner, and Will Musgrave. The Plant Hunters: Two Hundred Years of Adventure and Discovery Around the World . London: Ward Lock, 1999.

Norton, Trevor. Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving . London: Arrow Books, 2000.

Novacek, Michael. Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

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Oldstone, Michael B. A. Viruses, Plagues and History . New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Parker, Ronald B. Inscrutable Earth: Explorations in the Science of Earth . New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1984.

Pearson, John. The Serpent and the Stag . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983.

Peebles, Curtis. Asteroids: A History . Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

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Pollack, Robert. Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

Powell, James Lawrence. Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology . New York: W. H. Freeman amp; Co., 1998.

– --. Mysteries of Terra Firma: The Age and Evolution of the Earth . New York: Free Press/Simon amp; Schuster, 2001.

Psihoyos, Louie, with John Knoebber. Hunting Dinosaurs . New York: Random House, 1994.

Putnam, William Lowell. The Worst Weather on Earth . Gorham, N.H.: Mount Washington Observatory/American Alpine Club, 1991.

Quammen, David. The Song of the Dodo . London: Hutchinson, 1996.

– --. The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder . New York: Touchstone/Simon amp; Schuster, 2000.

– --. Monster of God . New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

Rees, Martin. Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe . London: Phoenix/Orion, 2000.

Ridley, Matt. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species . London: Fourth Estate, 1999.

– --. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature . London: Penguin, 1994.

Ritchie, David. Superquake! Why Earthquakes Occur and When the Big One Will Hit Southern California . New York: Crown Publishers, 1988.

Rose, Steven. Lifelines: Biology, Freedom, Determinism . London: Penguin, 1997.

Rudwick, Martin J. S. The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge Among Gentlemanly Specialists . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Sacks, Oliver. An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

– --. Oaxaca Journal . Washington: National Geographic, 2002.

Sagan, Carl. Cosmos . New York: Ballantine Books, 1980.

Sagan, Carl, and Ann Druyan. Comet . New York: Random House, 1985.

Sagan, Dorion, and Lynn Margulis. Garden of Microbial Delights: A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World . Boston: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.

Sayre, Anne. Rosalind Franklin and DNA . New York: W.W. Norton, 1975.

Schneer, Cecil J., ed. Toward a History of Geology . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1969.

Schopf, J. William. Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth’s Earliest Fossils . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Schultz, Gwen. Ice Age Lost . Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1974.

Schwartz, Jeffrey H. Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes and the Emergence of Species . New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1999.

Semonin, Paul. American Monster: How the Nation’s First Prehistoric Creature Became a Symbol of National Identity . New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Shore, William H., ed. Mysteries of Life and the Universe . San Diego: Harvest/Harcourt Brace amp; Co., 1992.

Silver, Brian. The Ascent of Science . New York: Solomon/Oxford University Press, 1998.

Simpson, George Gaylord. Fossils and the History of Life . New York: Scientific American, 1983.

Smith, Anthony. The Weather: The Truth About the Health of Our Planet . London: Hutchinson, 2000.

Smith, Robert B., and Lee J. Siegel. Windows into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks . New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Snow, C.P. Variety of Men . New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1966.

– --. The Physicists . London: House of Stratus, 1979.

Snyder, Carl H. The Extraordinary Chemistry of Ordinary Things . New York: John Wiley amp; Sons, 1995.

Stalcup, Brenda, ed. Endangered Species: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1996.

Stanley, Steven M. Extinction . New York: Scientific American, 1987.

Stark, Peter. Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance . New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sir Sidney Lee, eds. Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Stevens, William K. The Change in the Weather: People, Weather, and the Science of Climate . New York: Delacorte Press, 1999.

Stewart, Ian. Nature’s Numbers: Discovering Order and Pattern in the Universe . London: Phoenix, 1995.

Strathern, Paul. Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements . London: Penguin Books, 2001.

Sullivan, Walter. Landprints . New York: Times Books, 1984.

Sulston, John, and Georgina Ferry. The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome . London: Bantam Press, 2002.

Swisher, Carl C., III, Garniss H. Curtis, and Roger Lewin. Java Man: How Two Geologists’ Dramatic Discoveries Changed Our Understanding of the Evolutionary Path to Modern Humans . New York: Scribner, New York, 2000.

Sykes, Bryan. The Seven Daughters of Eve . London: Bantam Press, 2001.

Tattersall, Ian. The Human Odyssey: Four Million Years of Human Evolution . New York: Prentice Hall, 1993.

– --. The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human . New York: Harcourt, 2002.

Tattersall, Ian, and Jeffrey Schwartz. Extinct Humans . Boulder, Colorado: Westview/Perseus, 2001.

Thackray, John, and Bob Press. The Natural History Museum: Nature’s Treasurehouse . London: Natural History Museum, 2001.

Thomas, Gordon, and Max Morgan Witts. The San Francisco Earthquake . New York: Stein and Day, 1971.

Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800 . New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.