Nancy R. Curtis
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The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
Readers with some background in physical sciences, philosophers of science, and anyone wondering what to read after Brian Greene’s Until the End of Time will relish this blend of wit and deep thought.
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
Western (especially American) history or history of technology buffs should appreciate Ramirez’s efforts to raise the attention of issues impacting scientists, engineers, and technologists.
Future Minds: The Rise of Intelligence, from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe
Futurists and sf readers may be interested in portrayals of a universe yet to come, while humanities or social science instructors could use this theoretical book as the basis for classroom discussion about the potential consequences of technological progress.
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Imagined Life: A Speculative Scientific Journey Among the Exoplanets in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Creatures, and Supergravity Animals
Both popular science and sf readers will enjoy this extrapolative natural history.
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Supernavigators: The Astounding New Science of How Animals Find Their Way
Readers interested in natural history or biology will find this stimulating.
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Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe
Readers seeking an atypical beach read for their vacations may enjoy this playful work.
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Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe
Beyond Berman's fan base, popular science readers who don't mind frequently interspersed unrelated commentary will appreciate the otherwise straightforward narrative of the physics underlying a variety of astronomical catastrophes. For more concentrated popular works on cosmology, see Brian Cox's Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos and Stuart Clark's The Unknown Universe: A New Exploration of Time, Space, and Cosmology.
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End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
Though the narrative can be somewhat repetitive, it still offers an accessible overview of evidence supporting and contradicting popular scientific theories, and Schouten's (A Gap in Nature) detailed color illustrations of an earlier world will captivate readers.
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Geneticists, archaeologists, and linguists will appreciate this detailed work, but most readers will find Adam Rutherford's A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes more appealing.
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