Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything

Thompson, Dick. Volcano Cowboys: The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

Thorne, Kip S. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy . New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.

Tortora, Gerard J., and Sandra Reynolds Grabowski. Principles of Anatomy and Physiology . Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley, 1996.

Trepil, James. The Unexpected Vista: A Physicist’s View of Nature . New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1983.

– --. Meditations at Sunset: A Scientist Looks at the Sky . New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1987.

– --. Meditations at 10,000 Feet: A Scientist in the Mountains . New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1987.

– --. 101 Things You Don’t Know About Science and No One Else Does Either . Boston: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Trinkaus, Erik, and Pat Shipman. The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind . London: Pimlico, 1994.

Tudge, Colin. The Time Before History: Five Million Years of Human Impact . New York: Touchstone/Simon amp; Schuster, 1996.

– --. The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Vernon, Ron. Beneath Our Feet: The Rocks of Planet Earth . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Vogel, Shawna. Naked Earth: The New Geophysics . New York: Dutton, 1995.

Walker, Alan, and Pat Shipman. The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Wallace, Robert A., Jack L. King, and Gerald P. Sanders. Biology: The Science of Life, 2 nded. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1986.

Ward, Peter D., and Donald Brownlee. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe . New York: Copernicus, 1999.

Watson, James D. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA . London: Penguin Books, 1999.

Weinberg, Samantha. A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth . London: Fourth Estate, 1999.

Weinberg, Steven. The Discovery of Subatomic Particles . New York: Scientific American, 1983.

– --. Dreams of a Final Theory . New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.

Whitaker, Richard, ed. Weather . Sydney: Nature Company/Time-Life Books, 1996.

White, Michael. Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer . Reading, Mass.: Helix Books/Addison-Wesley, 1997.

– --. Rivals: Conflict As the Fuel of Science . London: Vintage, 2001.

Wilford, John Noble. The Mapmakers . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

– --. The Riddle of the Dinosaur . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

Williams, E. T., and C. S. Nicholls, eds. Dictionary of National Biography, 1961-1970 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Williams, Stanley, and Fen Montaigne. Surviving Galeras . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Wilson, David. Rutherford: Simple Genius . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983.

Wilson, Edward O. The Diversity of Life . Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1992.

Winchester, Simon. The Map That Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science . London: Viking, 2001.

Woolfson, Adrian. Life Without Genes: The History and Future of Genomes . London: Flamingo, 2000.

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ABC of Relativity, The (Russell)

adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

Agassiz, Louis

Agassiz’s theory

Ager, Derek V.

Aharanov, Yakir

AIDS; HIV virus

albedo (reflectiveness)

alchemy

All Species Foundation

Alpha Centauri

aluminum

Alvarez, Walter and Luis

America (New World): Ashfall Fossil Beds, Nebraska; asteroid craters; Buffon’s assertion of inferiority of; dinosaur bones, tracks, locations; dinosaurs, discovery of; human-caused extinctions; as land of opportunity; Lewis and Clark expedition; mammoth bones in; Sierra Nevada mountains; volcanoes

American Museum of Natural History

American Ornithology (Peale)

amino acids

Anderson, Ray

anesthesia

animal world: categories; unknown or new species. See also extinction of species; life; specific places and species

Annals of the Old Testament (Ussher)

Anning, Mary

Antarctica: collapse of West, ice sheet; crab-eater seals; penguins; planet’s ice, percentage of; Weddel seals

anthrax

Anthropologist on Mars, An (Sacks)

antibiotics

Antic Hay (Huxley)

Arambourg, Camille

archaebacteria

Armageddon (film)

Armstrong, Richard

Asaro, Frank

Ashcroft, Frances

Asimov, Isaac

asteroids; Chicxulub crater; close passes of Earth; cratering rates, Moon; crater research; detection; devastation of impact; discovery of; extinctions and; identifying; iridium; Manson, Iowa. See also meteorite

astronomy: constant; cosmological constant; interpretation in; parsec; red shift. See also Einstein, Albert; Hubble, Erwin; solar system; stars; universe; specific astronomers

Atkins, P. W.

atmosphere; balloon ascents; carbon dioxide in; clouds; convection and; Coriolis effect; Death Zone; early; Earth’s rotation and; Hadley cells; higher elevations, mountaineers, health effects; jet streams; layers, names; limit of human tolerance; oxygen in; ozone in; space ship reentry; Sun, heat from; sunlight and; temperature, upper atmosphere; tropopause; turbulence in; warm air, and moisture; weight of air. See also weather

atom; Avogadro’s Principle; behavior of; bombs and; chemical identity, protons and; durability of; existence of; fission; half-life; image, created by Nagaoka; isotope; matrix mechanics; quantum leap; quantum mechanics; size and weight of; strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force; structure of; thermodynamics and; Uncertainty Principle; wave mechanics

Attenborough, David

Australia: ANU, Canberra, rock dating at; human-caused extinctions; human skeletons, early, found at Mungo; orange roughy, depletion of; sea life, lack of; Shark Bay, stromatolites at

Avery, Oswald

Avogadro, Lorenzo

Avogardro’s Principle

Baade, Walter

Bachman’s warbler

bacteria; adaptive changes; antiquity of; below the Earth’s crust (SLiME); classification; culturing, difficulty of; discovery of; DNA, irradiated; durability; environments, extreme, as hosts to; epidemics; gangrene; harmful or infectious; identification of; in or on human body; mosquitoes and spread of; mutations; nitrogen conversion of; number of types; percentage of life; proliferation of; resistant to antibiotics; survival of, extraordinary

bacteriophages

Baldwin, Ralph B.

Ball, Philip

Banks, Sir Joseph

Barton, Otis

Basin and Ridge (McPhee)

Bastin, Edson

bathyscaphe

bathysphere

bdelloid rotifers

Beagle, voyage of

Becher, Johann

Becker, George

Becquerel, Henri

bed mites

Beebe, Charles William,

Bell, Alexander Graham

Bennett, Victoria

Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology

Bergstralh, Jay

Berners-Lee, Tim

Berzelius, J. J.

Betelgeuse

Bethe, Hans

Biddle, Wayne

Big Bang

Big Birth

Biology: The Science of Life (Wallace, King, amp; Sanders)

birds. See also extinction of species; specific species