GlobeEarth, Our Environment

An Introduction to Physical Geology


Looking for some good science reading?

Here are some suggestions, mostly from the Earth Sciences


Allegre, C. J. 1988. The Behaviour of the Earth: Continental and Seafloor Mobility . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Allegre, C. J. 1992. From Stone to Star: A View of Modern Geology . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bronowski, J. 1965. Science and Human Values . New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

Crick, F. 1988. What Mad Pursuit . Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series. New York, NY: Harper Collins.

Darwin, C. 1859. The Origin of Species .

Darwin, C. 1859. The Voyage of the Beagle .

Davies, P. C. W. 1992. The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis fo a Rational World . New York, NY: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster Inc.

Dunham, W. 1990. Journey Through Genius . New York, NY: Penguin Books.

Ferris, T. 1988. Coming of Age in the Milky Way . New York, NY: Anchor Books, Doubleday.

Ferris, T. 1991. The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics . Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company.

Gould, S. J. 1979. Ever Since Darwin . New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Gould, S. J. 1980. The Panda's Thumb . New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Gould, S. J. 1981. The Mismeasure of Man . New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Gould, S. J. 1983. Hen's Teeth and Horse's toes . New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Gould, S. J. 1987. Time's arrow, time's cycle . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Gould, S. J. 1987. An Urchin in the Storm . New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Gould, S. J. 1989. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History . New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Gould, S. J. 1993. Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History . New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Hawking, S. W. 1988. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes . New York, NY: Bantam Books.

McPhee, J. 1981. Basin and Range . New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

McPhee, J. 1983. In Suspect Terrain . New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

McPhee, J. 1986. Rising From the Plains . New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

McPhee, J. 1993. Assembling California . New York, NY: The Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Officer, C., and J. Page. 1993. Tales of the earth: paroxysms and perturbations of the Blue Planet . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc.

Raup, D. M. 1991. Exttinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Sagan, C. 1979. Broca's Brain . New York, NY: Random House.

Sobel, D. 1995. Longitude . New York, NY: Penguin Books.

Sullivan, W. 1991. Continents in Motion: The New Earth Debate - 2nd Edition . New York, NY: American Institute of Physics.

Trefil, J. 1984. Meditations at the Seashore . New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company.

Trefil, J. 1986. Meditations at 10,000 Feet . New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company.

Trefil, J. 1987. Meditations at Sunset . New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company.

Trefil, J. 1989. Reading the Mind of God . New York, NY: Doubleday.

Unklesbay, A. G., and J. D. Vineyard. 1992. Missouri Geology: Three Billion Years of Volcanoes, Seas, Sediments, and Erosion . Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.

Vogel, S. 1995. Naked Earth: The New Geophysics . New York, NY: Penguin Books.

Weiner, J. 1994. The Beak of the Finch . New York, NY: Vintage Books.


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Prepared by: Chuck Ammon
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January 1997